The Kwara State Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (KWACReSAL) has on Monday visited Ipetu-Igbomina in Irepodun local government to continue its preliminary mechanism for the establishment of nurseries in the community.
Ipetu-Igbomina is one of the six communities in Kwara that have been designated to benefit from ACReSAL’s nursery project.
The nursery project is aimed at addressing climate issues as it relates to boosting the socio-economic livelihoods of community members as well as focused on planting different seedlings and economic trees in the nurseries for the benefit of the community.
The project aligns with the vision and agenda of His Excellency Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to tackle climate change, boost food security, and improve the socioeconomic conditions of the people.
The Kwara State Project Management Unit (SPMU) of ACReSAL led by the State Project Coordinator, Alhaji Shamsideen Aregbe, had previously visited Ipetu-Igbomina on different occasions for stakeholders’ engagement, site inspection, delineation, and community sensitisation.
The latest visit to the community is in continuation of the process for the prompt execution of the nursery project, involving land pegging layout and land clearing to effectively secure and mark out the boundaries of the five hectares nursery site in the community.
Part of the exercise also involved the use of the electromagnetic method to explore groundwater at the site, as conducted by the Water Resources Officer, Mrs Olajumoke Yusuf with the support of Geologist Fikayo Ayilara of Kwara State Ministry of Water Resources, a process that yielded positive outcomes.
The Kwara ACReSAL’s nursery project has been widely accepted and commended by Ipetu-Igbomina community. It has also received the royal blessing of the monarch, Onipetu of Ipetu, Oba Samuel Olabanji Olanrewaju Erinfolami.
