Management of Stored Commodities

One of the major statutory functions of SGR department is to procure, safeguard and release grains/food commodities to government in times of emergency and the Engr Adewoye led department justified the confidence reposed in it as it lived up to expectations in 2015 in the following ways:

Grain Procurement

To ensure availability of grains, a proposal has been send to Permanent Secretary to procure thousands of metric tonnes of assorted food commodities and Paddy Rice from dry season farmers under Guaranteed Minimum Price (GMP) programme for 2014 procurement season.