Makinde's Remarkable Achievements: Restoring, Transforming, and Repositioning Oyo State's Agricultural Sector for Sustainable Food Security By Kehinde Gbadeyanka, a Member of the GSM Advocates
The economy of Oyo state is based chiefly on agriculture and handicrafts. Oyo state takes lead in the production of yams, corn, cassava (manioc), beans, millet, plantains, tobacco, cacao, palm oil and palm kernels, cotton, kola nuts, indigo, and fruits. The state is also noted for its cottage industries, consisting of cotton spinning, weaving, dyeing, leatherworking (sheep and goat skins), wood carving, and mat making. Industries in Ibadan, the second largest city in Nigeria, include a cannery, a brewery, a publishing industry, a tobacco-processing factory, wood- and steel-furniture factory, and a motor-vehicle assembly plant. For the sustainability of this, Governor Makinde's administration has continued to priotise growing the economy of the state since the inception of his administration to move the people from poverty to prosperity via agriculture. This is in a bid for the state to be able to produce foods to herself, empower people and boost the economy. Governor Makinde ha