Youths in agriculture would benefit from the 2016 empowerment programme, which is starting soon, an official in the Lagos State office of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Mrs. Abiodun James, has said.
Speaking on Wednesday in Lagos, on the sideline of the election of executives of the Association of Youth for Unity in Agriculture (AYUA), she said some of the members of the association had benefited from the FMARD’s empowerment and promised that with an updated data, other members would be contacted in the future.
“They are part of the FMARD. Whenever the Federal Government has anything for the farmers, we will contact them because we have their data. Some of them have benefited from the ministry over the years, especially under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA),” Mrs. James said.
She recalled that there was a time they were given fertilisers, feeds, seeds, while people in aquaculture were given juveniles and feeds and those in the poultry business sector were given feeds also. “They have shown that they are serious and they will benefit more. When the 2016 empowerment starts soon, they will be contacted,’’ the FMARD official said.
Source: The Nation
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