American global agro companies have hinted of plans to partner with the Kwara State government on the proposed agric mega city.

Renowned international plant breeder, Prof Ronnie Coffman announced this while  participating at the inauguration of the Committee on Kwara Agric-City Masterplan recently.

Coffman, an international professor of plant breeding and Director of International Programs, Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, New York, said, Kwara has productive and livable land to produce food for the West African sub-region.

The varsity don expressed confidence that Kwara  state has what it takes to develop the agriculture sub-sector and ultimately lead the global fight against hunger and rural poverty.

To achieve this, he said the state needs the collaboration of global agro businesses ready to invest in new and emerging markets, adding that as a proposed agric hub for West Africa, Kwara stands to enjoy the support of world class investors.

While responding, the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, said the government is determined to ensure that the people of the state move out of poverty and live a meaningful life.

According to him, the agric city masterplan is aimed at achieving better and sustainable results in economic growth and ultimately reducing poverty.

He said the government is determined to transforme the state into a modern economy and modernization of agriculture is central in the process of transformation.

In the state government's determination to strengthen the state's capacity for agriculture-driven development, the governor inaugurated an eight-man Kwara Agriculture Modernisation Plan Team made up of three professors of agriculture from Cornell University, New York and their counterparts from the Universities of Ilorin and Kwara State University, KWASU, as well as Abayomi Ogunshola, Senior Special Assistant on Investment Promotion, Policy and Strategy to the Governor.