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Anglican Church goes into massive agriculture to fight hunger

 
 

By Madu Obi


The Nnewi Diocese of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has gone into massive agriculture to ensure availability of food, as well as boost the finances of the Diocese.


The Bishop of the Diocese, Rt Rev Ndubuisi Obi said large expanse of land has been acquired in various parts of the South East for agricultural activities.


Among the places where the Diocese has set up farms are Okija, Ozubulu, Anaku, Igbariam, while arrangements have been concluded to acquire more land in Akpugoeze in Enugu State and Ufuma before the end of this year.


The Bishop said that large quantities of cucumber, water melon, pineapple, green pepper, cassava, yam, among others, have already been been harvested at Okija, while in Ozubulu, the Diocese has 40 large fish ponds, a piggery section, a poultry and a snail section.


He said: "We have been harvesting different types of vegetables as we used irrigation system to provide constant water to the farm. We have a large number of palm trees in both Okija and Ozubulu, thus inspiring us to establish palm oil mills in both farms through which we sell our DONAC Palm Oil.


We also have garri processing machines in both Okija and Ozubulu wherein we process our cassava into garri, thus our DONAC Garri in the market. The Plantain plantations in both farms gave birth to our DONAC Plantain Flour.


We have established a full Rice Mill in Anaku, from where we roll out our DONAC Parboiled Rice which dominates the market presently because of our reduced prices. We planted 50 hectares of rice in our farm at Igbariam and from start to finish to packaging, will be done in our Rice Mill.


In Akpugoeze, we have purchased 5,000 plots of land for farming and agricultural purposes. If you are interested you can partner with us and we’ll help you to invest your money into agriculture as a plot of land goes for 400k only and it’s free hold, though you can only be allowed to buy from ten plots".


The Bishop recalled that the Diocese has established the first full blown Artificial Intelligence/ Robotics/Coding Hub inside Bishop Uzodike Memorial Seminary, Nnewi, adding that the World Bank is partnering with the Diocese to train 1,000 youths in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

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