 Fish farmers in Ogun State have been assured of government support and the provision of soft loans, dredging of ponds, and access to good road networks in the state. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the tour, to some fish farm clusters in Ijebu, Ikenne and Ileshe, all in Ogun State, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Honourable Bolu O'Utomo said the government is genuinely engaging fish farmers in order to address food security in the state. He said the state government is committed to increasing the production capacity of fish farmers while looking critically at some of their challenges. The Commissioner for the State said under his Watch the Fish Farming Sector will help open up the economy for job creation, as well as address the challenge of hunger and unemployment. The issue with most fish farmers is the way they have built their ponds. Some of them have built their ponds in areas that are prone to flood, and we are trying to address this issue by involving our Ministry of Environment so that they can perhaps look at ways of dredging those rivers close to the fish clusters, who will also be working with them in decongesting the gutters and the channels in those areas. In the immediate we have been showing that we do trainings for them so that they can follow standard practices and procedures. We have also just recently given a soft loan to a fish cluster, which is a cluster of about 600 fish farmers. The state government, led by a prince, has probably on a gaseous level proved a soft loan of 0% interest rate of 50 million to that particular cluster. We will be looking at replicating such guests in other clusters in weeks or more. Also speaking, some fish farm clusters said some of the challenges confronting fish farmers include access to soft loans, bad road, network amongst others. It is at the visit of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, it is an indication that the government is committed to fixing their challenges. We are very happy to hear that the government is coming to our aid at this time. Although right from time the government has been trying, but this initiative now, we believe that it will go along with us, so we appreciate it. We have a lot of challenges, but few of these challenges, one is that this is our stream, so it is used to overflow during the rainy season and we have been on it for quite a long time now. The government should come to our aid to help us clear the stream so that the overflow of the river during the rainy season would not occur because that will affect us right from time. Firstly, what the major challenges with the farmers are, we are using our money to do the business and we want the security, not to hesitate in terms of the major river that is where you are, that connected us together here, the way they are doing it in a way that we want them to be doing it for ourselves, and this is very bad, even if we don't get anything from government, if we don't have challenges where we can get lost and at the same time we have good road for our marketers to come, so I think we are okay with that. You get notified about fresh news updates.