REQUEST FOR COURTESY VISIT ovia north east chairman

The Chairman

Ovia North-East Local Government Area

Okada.

            Sir,

REQUEST FOR COURTESY VISIT

                        Having successfully inaugurated the Ovia North-East Local Government Area farmers multi-purpose co-operative Union, in the main hall of the council secretariat on Wednesday 22^nd of June 2011, we deem it fit to officially pay courtesy visit to your office to familiarize the relationship between the farmers Union and the local government authority.

            We want to thank you for the fatherly role you played during the inauguration of the Union, as this facilitated the success of the program. Despite the fact that you were not present physically, we know your presence was with us in the form of representation by your secretary.

The purpose of this august visit is outline thereof:-

1. it will afford us the opportunity to decide together as one family, the future of farmers in your local government area. As is true in other areas of endeavor, farmers are beset with some challenges which we very much hope that meeting you to reason together, will afford us the opportunity to discuss and proffer solution to these problems.
2. The Union wants to develop and sustain mutual collaboration with your local government. It is clear that this will translate to poverty alleviation among the rural dwellers.
3. It is necessary to present our work plans to reposition agriculture in Ovia North-East Local Government Area as a union, to your humble office. The Union strongly believes that the current echelon and practice of agriculture can be given a boost with high productivity and efficiency as the end result.
4. Finally sir, the Union wishes to seek your unflinching support towards the attainment of our unique goals (bringing all farmers in the local government area together) for enhanced production, and improved well being. We clearly understand that there is strength in unity.

We have scheduled this meeting for Tuesday 2^nd August 2011 (Tentative Date).

Thanks

Yours Faithfully

For Ovia North-East Local Government Area Farmers Multi-purpose Co-operative Union

INCESSANT GRAZING OF CATTLE ON FARMLAND AND INDISCRIMINATE BURNING BY CATTLE REARERS.

	20TH January, 2012

 

The Transition Chairman,

Ovia North-east Local Government Area,

Okada.

Sir,

INCESSANT GRAZING OF CATTLE ON FARMLAND AND INDISCRIMINATE BURNING BY CATTLE REARERS.

We wish to intimate you of the problems our farmer as a result of cattle rearers taking their herds to graze on our farm lands. As a result of this, these animals have destroyed various produce of our affiliate farmers. Among the crops destroyed are cassava, yam and plantain. And as you know, these are these are the main crops our farmers depend on for their livelihood. The continuous destruction of these crops by the animals has brought untold hardship to the farmers which in turn, results to poverty. Most painful is that most of these farmers uses loan to develop their farms. Repayment will pose a problem if the trend is not stopped.

            Secondly, the cattle rearers at the peak of dry season burn the bushes indiscriminately with a view to stimulate new and succulent grass to feed their animal. This fire escalates by harmattan wind to destroy crop and forest resources. This indiscriminate bush burning according to research, have multidimensional effect on the farms, forest land and the nation at large. Such that farmers life time investment on farm can be destroyed by fire without compensation. forest resources that are also destroyed expose soil to leaching and erosion.

            Efforts to address this issue with the cattle rearers have not yielded the desired result as most of them turn out to be aggressive and some time, ready to attack the farmers either with dagger or guns. We have proof to this fact.

Against this background we humbly request the chairman to as matter of urgency, call the cattle rearers to order and to ask them to remove their cattle from our farm lands to avoid breakdown of peace and order and to be made to pay compensation for crops destroyed. They should also be made to guarantee the Farmers Union in Ovia North East that henceforth, they will stop indiscriminate bush burning as this have caused great loss to farmers.

            It is our hope that your intervention will help to put an end to this menace of the cattle rearers.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.

RE: REQUEST FOR FARMLAND to commisioner of environment and utilities

The Commissioner for Environment and Utilities

ATTENTION: Director of Conservative and Regulations.

Edo State Secretariat,

Benin City.

          Sir,

RE: REQUEST FOR FARMLAND

                   As a follow up to the letter submitted in your office on the 19^th of September 2011, with reference number, ONEFU/019-RFL/03/CE-BEN. We the executives of the Ovia North-East Local Government Area farmers’ multi-purpose co-operative union Limited, (the apex co-operative group) representing all farmers/co-operative societies in Ovia North East local government area. Requested for a piece of land measuring about One square Mile, from your ministry which we hope will serve as Tuangya Farming System for this Union to help support the drive for repositioning agriculture in the state, as embark upon by the State Governor, the people’s governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

As this is expected to help the management of this union achieve their aims of  bringing all farmers together as Organized Co-operative Farmers (OCF). Where every farmer’s co-operative societies (FCS) will have a stake. We believe this will help us to congregate the farmers for better produce.

            To achieve this aim therefore, we request from your office sir, to please allot available forest area in any part of the Ovia North-East Local Government Area to this Union, for the said purpose.

We will be most grateful if our request is looked into with your complimentary judgment. Remember sir that ….. “NO FARMERS’ NO FOOD” Support Ovia North-East Local Government Area Farmers Multi-purpose co-operative Union Today, so that we in turn can support others.

Thanks.

For Ovia North-East Local Government Area Farmers Multi-purpose co-operative Union Limited.

REQUEST FOR ATTENDANCE FOR CERTIFICATE PRESENTATION

Supervisor for Education, Youth Sport & Culture

Ovia North East Local Government Area.

Okada

            Sir,

REQUEST FOR ATTENDANCE FOR CERTIFICATE PRESENTATION

                   Having successfully inaugurated the Ovia North-East Local Government Area farmers multi-purpose co-operative Union, in the main hall of the council secretariat on Wednesday 22^nd of June 2011, we consider it necessary to officially pay a courtesy visit to the office of the Local Government Chairman to familiarize the relationship between the farmers Union and the local government authority, and also to present to the Local Government Boss the Certificate of the Farmers Union, for authentication purpose..

          On this note, we want to humbly request for your presence in that occasion. As this will create opportunity for you to be on familiar terms, with the management of the farmers Apex Body, representing Ovia North-East Local Government Area Farmers Multi-purpose Co-operative Union Limited.

The meeting has been scheduled for 6^th of September 2011. And the Time; is 12.00 noon prompt. It will give us great joy if you are present in the occasion.

Thanks

Yours Faithfully

For Ovia North-East Local Government Area Farmers Multi-purpose Co-operative Union Limited.

APPRECIATION to Okada Legislator

The Legislators,

C/o The Leader of the Legislative Arms,

Ovia North East Local Government Area,

Okada.

APPRECIATION

We want to thank you sir for being with us during the Certificate presentation to the Chairman of O.N.E.L.G.A which took place on the 6^th of September 2011 in the main hall of the council secretariat.

We are your children, your fathers, your brothers, your husbands, your wives, and you co-worker in the field. We want to humble ourselves to thank all members of the Legislative arms of the council for their timely involvement towards the affairs of the farmers Union.

Another reason we intend to write this letter is to officially inform you of the existence of the Ovia North East Local Government Farmers Multi-purpose co-operative union limited. As the Apex co-operative group in the Local Government Area. Also the regulatory body for all co-operatives in Ovia North-East. With our objectives as stated below;

i.                    To organize thrift and credit operations

ii.                  To provide credit for labour and consumption finance

iii.                To disseminate the knowledge of modern farming to our affiliate members by having the services of agric extension officers and production/processing professionals.

iv.               To handle other measures designed towards uplifting the lifestyles of our registered members, and also to encourage them to apply the principles which teach oneness and cooperation among our affiliates.

v.                 To market the produce of our members for better price, and also to provide storage facilities for inputs, farm products, machinery, etc.

In this write up, the Union has put down some primary requirements which is expected to help in the actualization of the above stated aims.

We have a vision; and in the book “to make it work! Make it real” presented to the Amiable Chairman of the council through `the secretary who represented him in the presentation program, page 5 of that book section ‘A’ read thus;

“Apportion to us a reasonable size of farmland where the union will be able to oversee the affairs of all farmers in the area affiliated to her. In order to guard them through the process of cultivation and also working towards adding value to their products  in order to meet export standard”.

We made it very clear in that write up that in this farmer’s community, all farmers will have the opportunity and ability to share ideas together on ways to themselves in the mass production of food stuff for our people and for export.

We also pleaded with our father (the council chairman) to support Fadama co-operative group in the area who are not able to meet up with their counterpart fund, in order for all farmers to benefit. As extracted from section ‘B’ page 3 of the book.  ‘To make it work! Make it real’ It read thus….

“We humbly implore you sir, to assist all the co-operatives in your L.G. Area to offset their own part of the FADAMA III counterpart fund in order for all your farmers to benefit from this program. As their benefit will help project the kind of lifestyles they intends to live”. Supporting farmers in this regard is very compulsory and important because if the farmers loose the 70% grant because they could not afford their 30% counterpart response, the negative impact to the local government area could amount to about 87%.

Recently, Governor Adams Oshiomhole has declared that agriculture is a credible factor that can be used to address unemployment and to transform the state. In his speech, the governor said what has been causing delay in identifying this sector, was the rot in civil service especially in the agricultural sector. But now he (The Governor) is willing to address the inhumanity faced in that sector. This assurance was given in the retreat which has as its theme “Sustaining reforms, Expletive from a Development Partner” held in AGANE-BODE

Base on this statistics, we plead with the honorable members of the house to intervene in this regard. The executives of the farmers’ union promise to make sure that the assistance when given will not be abused by farmers. We are in haste to be given the required assistance now in order not to fall victim of the Prophecy of the United Nation that in 2015, there is going to be colossal food shortage in Africa.