MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Tree Crop Production:

  • Large-scale production of tree crops: oil palm, cocoa, rubber, coconut, and African pear.

  • Manufacture of craft goods from agricultural raw material piassava, raffia fibre, palm fronds, coconut shell and husks.

  • Processing of crop product into industrial raw materials: fronds and seed oils, starch, rubber crumbs, cocoa beans, palm wine, copra etc. Down stream products could be vegetable oils, soap/detergents, livestock feeds, beverages, tyres/tubes, shoes, carpets, etc.

 Livestock production/Veterinary Services:

  • Intensive production of poultry and pigs for the meat market.

  • Processing and packaging of meat, especially pork for export.

  • Conversion of slaughterhouse raw materials e.g. bone, blood, ingesta into commercial products e.g. animal food, drugs, cleansing agents.

Fisheries: Commercial production of crayfish (shrimps, prawns), bonga, shark skin/fin, tuna, catfish etc. through trawl fishing

Achievements:

 

  DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

·         Distribution of 1,260,000 oil palm seedlings;

·         Planting of 5,000 pineapple suckers;

·         Planting  of 400 Platain/Banan suckers;

·         Planting of 1,000 citrus root stock;

·         Establishments of 10 ha. Rubber nursery;

·         Distribution of 60,000 cocoa seedlings.

 

  DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY SERVICES

 

·         Conducting routine diagnostic test/sero-monitoring;

·         Treatment of 451,300 animals;

·         Revenue generation: N2,079, 420

·         Inoculating cattle, goats, sheep, dogs/cats, pigs and poultry.

 

   FERTILIZER UNIT

 

·          Procures and distributes 74,400 bags of various brands of

           fertilizer warehouses.

·          Renovations of Fertilizer Warehouses.

 

   PLANNING, RESEARCH AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT

 

·          Resuscitation of State Agricultural Show;

·          Attendance of Natural Council on Agriculture meeting;

·          Computer Installations/Networking for storage and retrieval of

            information.

 

   AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING SERVICES

 

·          Repairing and servicing of vehicles/trucks of the Ministry;

·          Professional assistance to other departments of the Ministry

 

   ON-GOING PROJECTS

   Animal traction and Hand Tool Technology

   Perimeter fencing of grain storage at Idu-Uruan.

 

   DEPARTMENT OF LAND RESOURCES

 

·          Payment of compensation for 17 No. Agric Lands;

·          Acquiring 3No. Basin Land to Ministry of Agriculture;

·          Acquiring land for Ibom Rice Project.

 

   RICE PROJECT

 

·          Planting of 5 hectares of rice

 

   ON-GOING PROJECT

·          Multiplication of 10 hectares of rice

 

DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES

·       Rehabilitation of the  fish hatchery at Ikot Abasi

·       Distribution of fishing inputs, gears/assistance to farmers

·       Identification/development of water bodies

·       Provision/Installation of computer system.

 

DEPARTMENT OF LIVESTOCK 

 

·       Rearing of 1,260 parent birds

·       Completion of 4No. labour quarters

·       Construction of paddock at livestock investigation and Breeding

        Centre,     Adadia, Uruan Government Area

·       Distribution of 76 young pigs and 76 breeding animals to farmers.

 

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Together we Shall Prosper

His Excellency, Barr. Godswill Obot Akpabio

The Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State

 It is with utmost gratitude to God and immeasurable joy that I stand before you today as your Executive Governor. On behalf of my wife, your first lady; my entire family, my deputy and his dear wife, I thank you, my people, for voting en masse for PDP in the general elections of April 14 and 21/26/2007. I salute your maturity, courage and peaceful disposition during and after the elections. I salute you for reposing your confidence in me right from the primaries of December 14, 2006 and bringing it to a climax on April 14, 2007. I assure you that your decision shall never be in vain. Today, we celebrate our self-worth as a people and our ability to strengthen democratic ideals by voting according to our conscience. We have taken the right step in our march towards a glorious future.

 

Fellow citizens, this is a new era signifying a renewal and symbolizing an end as well as a beginning. Above all, we are witnessing, not just the beginning of another chapter of history but beholding the actualization of God’s will in Akwa Ibom State. 

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