Rotary Club, LASCODA partner Lagos Free Zone on coconut planting Folashade Adeniran April 21, 2023 4 min read

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Rotary Club, LASCODA partner Lagos Free Zone on coconut planting Folashade Adeniran April 21, 2023 4 min read

Presentation of Coconut seedlings to eight communities in the Lagos Free Zone by Rotary Club of Eko Atlantic in collaboration with Lagos State Coconut Development Authority (LASCODA), on Friday in Lagos.

By Olayinka Olawale

The Rotary Club of Eko Atlantic and Lagos State Coconut Development Authority (LASCODA) in collaboration with Toleram Group have donated coconut seedlings to eight communities within the Lagos Free Zone.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the eight communities are Idotun Lekuru, Lujagba, Oke-Segun, Magbin- Segun, Itoke, Okunraye and Alasia.

The communities located around the Lagos Free Zone in Ibeju-Lekki Local Council Development Area received 25 seedlings each at the premises of the Lekki Deep Sea Ports on Friday in Lagos.

Rotarian Gboyega Bada, President, Rotary Club of Eko Atlantic, said that the club embraced coconut planting because of its importance to the environment and Lagos state.

Bada said the exercise was part of the club’s effort to replant coconut along the sea shores and coastal areas, schools and gardens in the state.

He said that coconut aside from the aesthetics beauty, also protect the environment from the effect of climate change.

He added that coconut protects the shoreline and communities alone the costal area from ocean surge and erosion.

According to him, the crop has high economic value due to its usefulness.

“We decided to go back to these communities to encourage them to replant coconut to bring back its beauty and importance along the shoreline.

“Coconut is the only crop that can survive in sea and that is why we are here to give seedlings to the communities in the free zone to plant, increase production and protect the costal areas.

In her remarks, Ms Abisola Olasanya, Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, said that as custodian of the coconut tree along the coastal lines, it was important to replant the old trees in the host communities.

Olusanya, who was represented by Mr Gbolabo Olaniwun, Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, said that the benefits of coconut cannot be overemphasised.

She commended Rotary Club for adopting coconut one of its project in Lagos.

Olusanya added that the seedlings would replace the already old trees in the communities to prevent ocean vagaries and sea shores from erosion that might arise.

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Source:NAN

https://www.Nanannews.ng/2023/04/21/rotary-club-lascoda-partner-lagos-free-zone-on-coconut-planting/

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