The economic destiny of Anambra state is hinged on the development of the state’s agro-allied business. This was the view expressed  by the country’s immediate past Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah while addressing agricultural stakeholders in the state.
She identified robust entrepreneurship buoyed by investment in agriculture as the surest way to lift communities in Anambra out of poverty. In Oduah’s words, “Our people have innate skills in aspects of agriculture like crop farming, fishery, agro-allied business and education, but it is regrettable that these skills and potentials remain largely untapped”. The former Minister  stressed the need for an alignment of factors to help trigger the much anticipated agricultural transformation in the state, “we need good people, policies and programmes to help us tap these potentials,” she noted.
Still on the issue, Oduah added  that the entire Anambra-North senatorial zone should have farm settlements and storage/collection centres with power plants to provide energy to the storage facilities. She however praised  the Federal Government for approving cargo terminals in airports and export processing zones across the country, noting that with the approval of cargo terminals in Asaba and Owerri, the zone will begin the export of perishable agricultural goods to different parts of the world. “These facilities will make it easier for those in agriculture and agro-allied business to get their produce and products to the international market”.