Dr. John Kayode Fayemi’s efforts at employment generation and industrialisation will receiveaa big lift on Tuesday next week as the Ekiti State Governor commissions an ultra modern 5 Billion Naira Snail project with stocking capacity of 2 million snails per cycle first of its kind in Ekiti State, Nigeria and second biggest snail farms in Africa.
This Agric project will attract 3000 employment. The Egbeja snail village is planned to house 100 units of 1000 square meters snail breeding Penns. The farm utilizes the curtain breeding technology under franchise from Touchstone technology Limited Lamaica Cyprus.
The phase one of the project will concentrate on far before growing into integration of manufacturing, tourism and infrastructure development.