AGRO AND CULUTURE ARTS VILLAGE
The need for an effective development of our Cultural heritage calls for an effective promotion, presentation and preservation of the desired aspect of our past and contemporary Arts and Culture.
The AGRO AND CULUTURE ARTS VILLAGE is a project that will revive the formidable contribution of the village on agricultural production like in the 1950s’ to 1960’ when agriculture provided a good source of income, especially during the days of the old western region.
Agri-entertainment and -tourism—new, highly consumer-focused types of agriculture—may offer addi-tional options for diversification and adding stability to farm incomes. Farmers have invented a wide variety of “entertainment farming” options.
The Director
Small Farm Program
University of California as at September 2004 Desmond Jolly, once said and I quote;
“Diversification into … such opportunities as agricultural or educational tours, u-pick operations, farm stores, pumpkin patches, agricultural festivals, and farm stands is not a substitute for a pro family farm agenda.… [However,] one of my fears is that if farmers and ranchers are too tardy in their response to this emerging opportunity, theme park operators will develop simulated farms and operate them as agri-tourism attractions.”
What we do
Promotion, preservation and presentation; of our cultural heritage in the areas of Agriculture and Art.
Our industry
Agricultural industry( Farming)
Art and entertainment industry (the Art-village, Entertainment-farming)
Tourism industry( hosting art festivals, agricultural festival, Ram fighting competition)
Examples:
Abuja art and craft village
A rural theme park according to the 2004 review
Smiling Hills Farm, Westport, Maine, converted from a dairy farm into an agri-tourism business in the 1980s. The farm now draws 100,000 people a year and employs 100. Attractions include ice cream and sandwich sales, a petting zoo, a retreat center specializing in one-day mini-retreats, and activities for the 700 school children per day that may visit. Kids can climb in, on, and over a wooden train, a fire truck, and a small barn with a loft and places for cute photo opportunities. They can dig sand with kid-powered backhoes and steam shovels. Children mingle with animals in the petting barn area. Ducks and rabbits have the run of their own doll-house-like “Duck House” and “Rabbit House.” Group activities include tours, birthday parties, summer farm programs, wagon and sleigh rides, Halloween and maple season events, and cross-country skiing and skating in the winter.
How we intend to add value to the society, economy, labour market;
Judging from the examples we have above we can tell that if this project gets the necessary support we will be able to provide employment for people in industries such as Agriculture Engineering, Art and craft, Entertainment, Education, Transportation(drivers within the village) Hospitality E.T.C
This is a novel ideal in the country, however this project was initialy launched in the year 2004 with Late Saliu Abiodun Oso as the project manager and with the full support of the Ogun state government under the then Governor of the state Otunba Gbenga Daniel and some relevant organisations like International Center for the Arts, Lagos (ICAL), under the then Chairman Late Ambassador Segun Olusola and Artistic Directorship of Mr. Gbenga Sonuga now Oba Gbenga Gbadebo Sonuga the Fadesewa of Simawa; and The Citizen Development Foundation in Africa (ACDF). But the project was terminated when Mr. Saliu Oso died March of that year. Then the proposed site of the village is a 300 acres land situated at Ado village (Ewu Ado) near Sagamu along Benin Expressway in Ogun State, Nigeria. The village was initially established by Late Pa. Shittu Asaye Oso Akejosifila to foster development in Agricultural plantation and crops such as Palm trees, Cocoa, Kolanut, Orange trees and Citrus etc. were cultivated. This later developed into a farmers’ hamlet with farmlands and about sixteen (16) buildings erected of which are now desolated except the concrete reservoir, a 10fts by 10fts deep structure that remain in the center of the village. This abandonment was caused by the unhealthy result of the oil boom that made our people to drift away from the farm. “Ara Oko Wale” i.e. the return of the villagers to urban city.
The need for an effective development of our Cultural heritage calls for an effective promotion, presentation and preservation of the desired aspect of our past and contemporary Arts and Culture.
The AGRO AND CULUTURE ARTS VILLAGE is a project that will revive the formidable contribution of the village on agricultural production like in the 1950s’ to 1960’ when agriculture provided a good source of income, especially during the days of the old western region.
Agri-entertainment and -tourism—new, highly consumer-focused types of agriculture—may offer addi-tional options for diversification and adding stability to farm incomes. Farmers have invented a wide variety of “entertainment farming” options.
The Director
Small Farm Program
University of California as at September 2004 Desmond Jolly, once said and I quote;
“Diversification into … such opportunities as agricultural or educational tours, u-pick operations, farm stores, pumpkin patches, agricultural festivals, and farm stands is not a substitute for a pro family farm agenda.… [However,] one of my fears is that if farmers and ranchers are too tardy in their response to this emerging opportunity, theme park operators will develop simulated farms and operate them as agri-tourism attractions.”
What we do
Promotion, preservation and presentation; of our cultural heritage in the areas of Agriculture and Art.
Our industry
Agricultural industry( Farming)
Art and entertainment industry (the Art-village, Entertainment-farming)
Tourism industry( hosting art festivals, agricultural festival, Ram fighting competition)
Examples:
Abuja art and craft village
A rural theme park according to the 2004 review
Smiling Hills Farm, Westport, Maine, converted from a dairy farm into an agri-tourism business in the 1980s. The farm now draws 100,000 people a year and employs 100. Attractions include ice cream and sandwich sales, a petting zoo, a retreat center specializing in one-day mini-retreats, and activities for the 700 school children per day that may visit. Kids can climb in, on, and over a wooden train, a fire truck, and a small barn with a loft and places for cute photo opportunities. They can dig sand with kid-powered backhoes and steam shovels. Children mingle with animals in the petting barn area. Ducks and rabbits have the run of their own doll-house-like “Duck House” and “Rabbit House.” Group activities include tours, birthday parties, summer farm programs, wagon and sleigh rides, Halloween and maple season events, and cross-country skiing and skating in the winter.
How we intend to add value to the society, economy, labour market;
Judging from the examples we have above we can tell that if this project gets the necessary support we will be able to provide employment for people in industries such as Agriculture Engineering, Art and craft, Entertainment, Education, Transportation(drivers within the village) Hospitality E.T.C
This is a novel ideal in the country, however this project was initialy launched in the year 2004 with Late Saliu Abiodun Oso as the project manager and with the full support of the Ogun state government under the then Governor of the state Otunba Gbenga Daniel and some relevant organisations like International Center for the Arts, Lagos (ICAL), under the then Chairman Late Ambassador Segun Olusola and Artistic Directorship of Mr. Gbenga Sonuga now Oba Gbenga Gbadebo Sonuga the Fadesewa of Simawa; and The Citizen Development Foundation in Africa (ACDF). But the project was terminated when Mr. Saliu Oso died March of that year. Then the proposed site of the village is a 300 acres land situated at Ado village (Ewu Ado) near Sagamu along Benin Expressway in Ogun State, Nigeria. The village was initially established by Late Pa. Shittu Asaye Oso Akejosifila to foster development in Agricultural plantation and crops such as Palm trees, Cocoa, Kolanut, Orange trees and Citrus etc. were cultivated. This later developed into a farmers’ hamlet with farmlands and about sixteen (16) buildings erected of which are now desolated except the concrete reservoir, a 10fts by 10fts deep structure that remain in the center of the village. This abandonment was caused by the unhealthy result of the oil boom that made our people to drift away from the farm. “Ara Oko Wale” i.e. the return of the villagers to urban city.
