Kwara State government has said that its commercial farming initiative has aided stability of the prices of food stuff and other agricultural produce in the state.

The governor’s Special Adviseron Agriculture, Dr. Abubakar Kannike, made the assertion while speaking with journalists in Ilorin on the contribution of the New Nigerian Farms at Shonga to food security in the state.

He said the grains being produced by the farms have been, to a large extent, able to meet domestic and industrial demand of the people within and outside the state.

“We are aware of the fact that the grains required by the local industries and the consumers who need them for producing pap and preparation of food are in high demand, but the Shonga farms have been able to assist as the manufacturers to to the farms to buy in large quantity and even those mop-up from the market are easily replaced and such make the prices of the grains to remain stable in the state”, the governor’s aide said.

“What we are now producing at Shonga if you take a trailer load of it to Ago market there will be no storage facilities to keep them. It was a result of this that the government is making effort to ensure that the grains are kept to ensure that they do not spoil”, he added.

Kannike said the government had directed the state ministry of agriculture to assist in ensuring that produce harvested at the Malete Farms are packaged and sold at 25 per cent les than normal market price to assist the people of the state.

He said agriculture is a very long term investment and that posterity will judge the state government positively future for its initiative in investment on agriculture.