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Vision for Industrialization:
An Akwa Ibom State with an empowered populace and a private sector-driven
economy, acting as a catalyst to Nigeria's Industrial Revolution.
Creating a dynamic prosperous, and productive
populace...
Vision Goals
Community empowerment - for industrialisation and
business ownership
Community entrepreneurship - logical
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Sustainable development of
rural communities through provision of facilities and rural engagement of the
people to eradicate poverty and promote sustainable livelihood in a vibrant
rural economy and grassroots based entrepreneurship with opportunities to
support community and individual efforts for subsistence from emolument, fees,
payments, salary, stipend, wages.
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Rural Development in Akwa Ibom State
To develop Akwa Ibom’s industrial potentials and at the same time attract
potential investors the government has put in place an industrialisation blueprint to
enable such investors examine and leverage inward looking, import-substitution,
and export-led industrialisation strategies being adopted by the state
government. The rapid industrial development of the state, therefore, involves investment
promotion, and public private partnership.
Government has vigorously enabled the environment for the development of
industrial estates and cottage industries whether by the state or with private
interests, such that each of our 31 local government areas will
have at least one industrial estate to employ the citizens and process available
raw materials into finished products.
As an empowerment strategy, government supports and sponsors its citizens to embark on commercial ventures. Support includes identification of market
opportunities, participation in domestic and international trade fairs,
provision of infrastructures, periodic material subsidies, and patronage of
local entreprises.
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Raw
Materials
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Food Crops |
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Arable Crops |
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Fruit Crops |
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Vegetable Crops |
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Tree Crops |
Palm Trees, cocoa, rubber |
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Livestock |
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Poultry |
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Fisheries |
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Aggressive agricultural sector reforms have enabled us adopt proactive measures
and best practices to assure of lessening dependence on oil derivation through
massive agricultural development and massive statewide agricultural schemes
which include Mechanised agriculture to leverage technology, aggressive
environmental security policies, In
AKS government guards against the effects of malnutrition by nutritionally
ensuring adequate food intake in children to prevent stunted growth and
eradicate extreme poverty to improve food consumption levels. We have elevated
rural development, including sustainable agricultural, fishery and forestry
production and management of natural resources. Helping people improve their
farms and productivity and ensure that farmlands are secured from pollution with
top priority of government to guarantee an increase in current levels of
production for future food needs.
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The present administration has been very passionate about the development of rural communities in the State. Accordingly several measures have been put in place for the transformation of the rural areas. These include:
- Complete take-over of rural electrification projects from the local governments to ensure that rural communities are linked to the national grid on or before 2011
- Extend electricity to 450 communities under awarded contracts for the electrification of over 860 villages, out of which 450 were being connected under phase 1 and 11 rural electrification programme
- On-going implementation of the tripartite Japanese, Federal and State Governments electrification aid grant at Nsit Atai
- Provision of relief sub-station and changing of sub-standard Lt cables at Hajia Turai Yar’Adua Reform Centre
- Restoration and improvement of electrification supply in Ukana Ikot Akpabio, Essien Udim local government area
- Grading of Ikot Akpasia – Ikot Otu - Ibakang – Ikot Nkpene – Okoro Atai – Okoro, a – 23 kilometer farm road
- Reconstruction of the collapsed concrete bridge at Ikot Abia Enye at the cost of N65,052,240.00
- Construction, reconstruction and renovation of Rev. Sisters’ quarters, staff quarters, fence/gate house as well as installation of security fence wire at Loreto Girls Secondary School, Eriam Afaha Obong, Abak local government area
- Renovation of classroom blocks, construction of physiotherapy block with walk way, construction of demolished fence and installation of security fence wire all at St Joseph Rehabilitation Centre, Ukana Iba, Essien Udim Local Government Area.
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