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NDE said the empowerment is mostly in small-scale fish and poultry farming as well as crop production. Photo: Chris Nyamtu/ Radio Nigeria
Over Six hundred youths from twelve states across the country have benefitted from the National Directorate of Employment NDE Agricultural Scheme.
At the orientation ceremony for the beneficiaries in Lafia the Nasarawa State capital, Director General NDE, Abubakar Fikpo stated that the programme was in furtherance to President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda through food sufficiency.
The beneficiaries of the scheme advocated the establishment of a Youth in Agriculture Trust Fund to reduce the high rate of unemployment and insecurity in the country.
The empowerment is mostly in small-scale fish and poultry farming as well as crop production.
The Director General represented by the Nasarawa State Coordinator of the National Directorate of Employment Mr Christopher Bamsida said beneficiaries got training in the agricultural value chains including production, storage, processing, and technological-driven skills.
Two of the beneficiaries Mr Tsaku Usman and Miss Zuwaira Mohammed who expressed happiness said the gesture will spur them to commit more to the idea of National food security.
They appealed to government to establish a Trust Fund to engage more young people in the agricultural value chain.
Writing by Chris Nyamtu; Editing by Tijjani Ibrahim