Director Food and Strategic Reserve Department (Engr. M. O. Adewoye) briefed the Hon. Minister of Agriculture

Chief Audu Ogbe

Monday 23^rd November 2015, Director Food and Strategic Reserve (Engr. M. O. Adewoye) briefed the Hon. Minister of Agriculture and Rural  Development (Chief Audu Ogbe) on activities of the Department at Minister's Conference Room. In responses the Minister pledged to add two mandate crops to the National Reserves. 

Director Food and Strategic Reserve Department (Engr. M. O. Adewoye) briefed the Hon. Minister of Agriculture 

The Department was formerly known as Strategic Grains Reserve Department, it was re designated as Food and Strategic Reserve Department in 2014 due to the reorganisation in the ministry. Its main function is the construction, rehabilitation, maintenance of food storage facilities and equipment, management of national / regional food security reserve. It presently has 33 Silo Complexes and 48 Warehouses with a combined storage capacity of 1.3 million MT.