The Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, says the Federal Government has designed a scheme, Commercial Farmers Training Project, CFTP, to make youths embrace farming, thereby tackling unemployment.
Mohammed, who was represented at the inauguration of the scheme in Ogun State by the state Coordinator, NDE, Mr. Femi Oyenekan, explained that the CFTP would afford youths to embrace farming as a means of livelihood after acquiring skills at the NDE agriculture training centres nationwide.
He added that the youths would form a cooperative group after training and run the project for a year.
He said the 100 beneficiaries in Ogun State, who included school leavers, would undergo a month experiential training in poultry and market garden crop production at the NDE training centre in Odomefi, in the Ijebu East Local Government Area.
Mohammed said, “The commercial farmers training project will afford our youths the opportunity to embrace farming as a means of livelihood. They will get modern farming skills and techniques at the NDE agriculture training centres nationwide and thereafter, form a cooperative group in 12 selected states.
“The trainee farmers will run the viable project for a year to enhance sustainable employment and linkage with a collaborating bank for start-up capital.”
The head of the state Rural Employment Promotion, Dr. Olusegun Akinremi, said the trainee farmers would be opened to ways of accessing start-up capital with ease from any bank, an insurance back-up from the Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Cooperation and other benefits from agencies of government.
Source: Punch.com.ng
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