 The role of food as one of the basic human needs cannot be overemphasized. Agriculture remains the foundation of the Nigerian economy, despite the presence of oil, which is the main source of livelihood for most Nigerians. But agriculture sector suffers because of low output, as a result it is getting harder to feed the increasing population. In contributing its quota, Lagos government hosted its third Nigerian food fair 2021 to unlock market opportunities to promote Nigerian foods, create employment and ensure healthy food consumption. The four-day food fair was especially for the small-scale farmers who constitute the largest percentage of the farm in population in Nigeria. I love farming. There's always been one of my I would say gifts because I didn't, apart from secondary and primary school, go through agriculture. I always had the passion for farming. Everybody knows that agriculture is the bedroom of every nation. We have to eat. So I actually went into this business during the pandemic. I'm actually into industrial cleaning, but I just thought to another way to end money and I looked around and I did a research and I found out that no matter how broke we are or how much we have, we have to eat. We have to buy foodstuff. I like our going with the source and I'm someone who is very particular about what I eat and you know I just got the inspiration as in what kind of package you know this thing in a way that can be easily accessible to everybody, but you know those who are you know in the high class, medium class, low class and all that. This is mushroom. I grow it myself. It's highly nutritious, it's good for the health and it's reduced the blood pressure and it's full of fiber and it's rich in vitamin D. We farm and sell organic foods, vegetables, fruits and we have some spices. Everything is from our farm in just so we planted everything and we bring them to Lagos. Activities at the fair included a seminar and a free capacity building workshop where as part of training the farmers on tax issues, cooking gas resources and alternative means of food preservation. Solar energy, both it can be converted, I mean like I said it's free, it can be converted either into heat or electrical for agricultural purposes and statistically for drying, for preservation and also in making production either at the primary level or the secondary level make it efficient. We want to leave healthy cooking with firewood, chacune, six of these to our heads. It's not healthy. I'm going to start training on how we can do our emergency and also do it in the better way that's not okay and same for us also as family that we are going to do business. Let's not tell us the farmers express some of the challenges and expectations from the government for preservation you know first of all you need space to be able to keep these products and then insecticides because those are one of the biggest problem farmers are having. Motto is our problem to carry our rice from farm to farm. It's really challenging especially for us who sell fresh vegetables and a lot of other stuff a lot of time before some of these vegetables that come from the north before it gets to us is already halfway gone so if you don't sell off that day or the next day you're already making a loss but I'm sure that if we have things like chillers if governments can give people who sell fresh food all these chillers that we can put they're chillers that chill vegetables if you go to where they sell all these vegetables you see that they put open chillers if we can get some of those kind of stuff we'll be able to preserve our vegetables for longer time. The state project coordinator of the world bank assisted Fadema project in Lagos state Jonathan Obayemi was of the opinion that agriculture is the solution to Yurt's unemployment. We are not doing more production because we are important dependent so the only way around the economy as it is is for all of us to get involved the more and the better in agriculture because we are blessed we are in rural we have the ecology we have the resources we have the land there are a lot of potential and what we keep telling people now is that agriculture beyond production. The elated farmers said food fair was beneficial as their businesses have a new turn. Then give me some inputs to help me to do my farm because this year I do 23 hectares of land. It's helping me because when I come here people used to patronize me they buy for me some people who I have their content they can call me next time they can do anything the one that want to do sauce fish sauce that fish sauce they can call me for it. What I decided to come for this fair is because I know that it's in conjunction with the Lagos state government they have an air they will listen some of the seminars that we attended they have taught us a lot for us more businesses how to pay our taxes how um I think NAVDAC people were here to to tell us how to get NAVDAC for our products because for people like us who don't have NAVDAC yet you can sell your products very big supermarket. The thrust here is that government agricultural organizations and institutions are expected to ensure sustained and efficient production of food a resource of critical importance to the security and integrity of Nigeria.