Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has launched a seven hundred- and fifty-million-naira intervention for market men and women called Lagos Market Trader Money.
He announced this at the inauguration of a middle-level Fresh Food Hub in Idi Oro, Mushin as part of the five-year Food System Transformation Agenda to ensure food security in the state.
Governor Sanwo-Olu said the intervention would give fifty thousand naira to fifteen thousand traders including those in police and military barracks to boost their businesses.
He said the Fresh Food Hub would be replicated in Agege, Ajah and Abule Ado areas of the state.
Speaking on the essence of the food hub, the Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Ms. Abisola Olusanya said the hub would reduce post-harvest losses, and ensure the availability of fresh food at affordable prices
Governor Sanwo-Olu said that the Central Food Processing Hub in Ketu-Ereyun in Epe Council Area will be ready for inauguration next year.