Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu has stated that the state has the dream of exporting goats, rice and other agricultural products from indigenous farmers to Japan and New York in the United States.

Bagudu disclosed this on Wednesday while hosting professionals in agriculture from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA), Ibadan at the Government House in Birnin-Kebbi.

He said: “The aim of this administration is to make rice produced in Kebbi State to be serve in restaurants in New York City, United States of America and livestock reared in the state to be on the menu list in restaurants in Tokyo, Japan,” Bagudu said.

Expressing joy over the successes so far recorded by his administration in agriculture, the Governor appealed to the IITA to establish its outlets in the state as varieties of crops like groundnuts, cowpea, soya beans, cocoyam, millet, guinea corn, cassava, ginger among others, were produced in large quantities in the state.

Reacting, leader of the IITA team, Dr. Kenton Dashiell explained that the institute which has been recognised worldwide, was on a collaborative research mission to the state to ascertain the viability of producing some selected crops especially soya beans in commercial quantities in the state.