The Lagos State Government on Wednesday inaugurated a new food hub in Agege as part of efforts to reduce post-harvest losses, improve food distribution, and bring more organised trading to the state’s sprawling food economy.
The Lagos Fresh Food Hub, located at Pen Cinema, is designed to accommodate between 350 and 400 vendors and provide storage and trading facilities for farmers, aggregators, wholesalers, retailers and other participants in the food supply chain.
Inaugurating the facility, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the project was part of a broader strategy to address the structural problems affecting food supply in Lagos rather than relying solely on increased food production.
Sanwo-Olu said more than 70 per cent of the food consumed in Lagos was produced outside the state, meaning that it travelled through long, fragmented supply chains before reaching consumers.
According to him, the arrangement exposed residents to high transportation costs, post-harvest losses, inadequate storage, supply disruptions and price volatility.
