The Lagos State Agricultural Inputs Supply Authority (LAISA) has trained its Farm Service Officers in order to enhance service delivery to all the clients and stakeholders of the Agency.
Speaking at the commencement of the training session themed “Driving Sales in the Pandemic Era”, the State Commissioner for Agriculture and the lead resource person, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, acknowledged the past efforts and hard work of the participants but stressed the need to retrain the officers for empowerment.
Olusanya emphasised that the training programme was needed to update the knowledge of officers for improved statutory performance as well as extended knowledge to tutor others.
She averred that the participants need modern marketing techniques to drive up sales in all the farm service centres, in addition to being passionate and disciplined in their various duties, urging them to set targets for self-motivation to exceed their goals and the benchmark set by the Agency.
In her words: “The only way you can reciprocate the huge investment of the present administration in capacity development, especially in training agricultural officers, is in the area of marketing to ensure that you deliver on the agency’s set goals and objectives”.
Olusanya also challenged the General Manager and management of LAISA to put in place an effective package that will encourage and motivate the officers to meet up and surpass the agencies set sales target.
Earlier, the General Manager of the Agency, Mr. Bolaji Balogun, restated the commitment of the agency’s personnel to support the Ministry’s vision of boosting food production in the State by providing indigenous farmers with high-quality agricultural inputs such as Seedlings, Fertilizers, Agro Chemicals, Fishing Nets and fish feeds among others.
Balogun also implored the Farm Service Officers to make good use of the training in order to enhance their productivity on the job and improve sales across the various Farm Service Centres.
