He said that after working as Minister of Trade and Investment in the past administration, he foresaw that Nigeria would face some challenges in revenue generation.
Ortom said that when he declared for the governorship of the state, he decided to make promotion of agriculture a major campaign programme.
He said: “we are going to take on the entire value chain; we will look at seedling; we will look at the way we do our cropping, planting, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing.
“An average farmer is not making anything out of his produce for now.