The Director, Agricultural Media Resources and Extension Centre (AMREC), Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Prof. Olalekan Olaoye, has disclosed that AMREC is doing a lot in providing extension services by training farmers in order to develop their farm work. He made this disclosure while featuring on FUNAAB Radio 89.5FM programme, ‘Agbedotun’.
He said AMREC has been carrying out one of core mandates of FUNAAB by training and providing solutions to local farmers in different part of Ogun State through research and some specialised training. The Director said they are doing some lectures and training for farmers, who are into poultry and fishery at their branch in Eleweran in Abeokuta on how to take care of their farm products and link them up with buyers, who would buy their products at good price and also solve their problems financially. Prof. Olaoye also said that they train agricultural officers at the local government level and they associate with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and many other stakeholders in the agriculture industry to make food available for Nigerians.
He said AMREC has five sectors, namely: Extension and Adaptive Research, Gender Issues and Youth Development, Media Resources and Farm Broadcast, Training and Farm Demonstration and Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (Quality Assurance Sector). He said they have specialists, who knew how to solve farmers’ problems and had helped many community farmers, adding that apart from farming, they do climate research and land research, among others.