To produce 2.6m kilo of snail annually generates 5000 jobs
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has inaugurated a snail farm worth N5 billion at Okemesi in Ekiti West Council of the state. x
The farm, owned by Dem Eli Farms and Farmkonnect, a consortium of agricultural firms, has been described as the second-largest snail farm in the world, second to Cyprus, and biggest in Africa.
Unveiling the Egbeja Snail Village yesterday, Fayemi said the farm would create 5,000 jobs when fully operational.
Fayemi assured that the state government was determined to make Ekiti a commercial hub for agribusiness, saying he had demonstrated this by attracting over $100m public-private driven agro-allied investments to the state within two years.