FUNAAB PARTNERS CHINESE FIRM IN OGUN STATE

The vice-chancellor,
Federal University of Agriculture,
Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has
disclosed that the agro-allied
university is partnering Ogun-
Guangdong Free Trade Zone on
agro-allied investment in the key
agro-economic areas such as
agricultural mechanisation
training, trade, cassava
production, processing and
exports.
Oyewole, who was represented
by Akin Omotayo, director of the
university – Institute for Food
Security, Environmental
Resources and Agricultural
Research (IFSERAR), when the
team of Chinese investors
operating in Ogun-Guangdong
FTZ undertook a working visit,
weekend, to the university, said
the university had also received
order from China to supply
cassava chips.
The vice-chancellor revealed that
the agro-allied investment
partnership with Ogun-based
Chinese FTZ was perfected as a
result of tripartite nine
memoranda of understanding
signed at the recently held
Nigeria-China Investment Forum
in Beijing among the Chinese
investors, Nigeria government
and private sector operators.