Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on May 23, 2014 20:07:29 GMT 1
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMA&RD) has commenced an intensive training programme for youths in snail and grass cutter farming.
This is just as a total number of 11, 219 co-operatives were so far encoded in the national data base as eligible farmer co-operatives to participate in stocking the national silos and grain reserves.
FMA&RD, in a statement from its press and publication unit, explained that exercise was in collaboration with the Ministry and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), as part of strategies towards achieving MDG 1 goal of reducing by poverty half by 2015.
The three-day training session, which kicked off last week at Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, is aimed at the generating employment and creating wealth through agriculture.
According to the statement, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Ibukun Odusote, who was represented by the Deputy Director Women and Gender in the Ministry, Mrs. Karima Ibrahim Babangida, said the ultimate goal of this training is to equip the trainees with the necessary skills to enable them start an agribusiness in snail and grass cutter farming.
This according to her would improve people’s welfare as well as create employment opportunity for youths in the future as their ventures prosper.
Odusote however urged all the participants to show high level of commitment, involvement and seriousness in all the activities associated with the training.
In a related development, the ministry has organised a one-day Workshop for Directors of Co-operatives and Cooperative Data Analysis System (CODAS) Desk Officers from the 36 States of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to create the needed synergy for fast-tracking .
Odusote who was represented at the workshop by the Director Federal Department of Co-operatives, Dr. thingyson Okoro, said the Cooperative Data Analysis System (CODAS) was launched in 2011 to help in monitoring and analyzing the status and contributions of all registered co-operatives to grow the economy.
She explained that CODAS would assist the ministry to generate reliable data on the performance of cooperatives in Nigeria, which in turn enables the ministry to plan for support.
Odusote added that the training exercise affords FMA&RD to facilitate the training of their enumerators and data entry officers, adding that some States have reached an advanced stage of implementation of this programme while others were yet to start.
Source: www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-train-youths-on-snail-and-grass-cutter-farming/173959/
This is just as a total number of 11, 219 co-operatives were so far encoded in the national data base as eligible farmer co-operatives to participate in stocking the national silos and grain reserves.
FMA&RD, in a statement from its press and publication unit, explained that exercise was in collaboration with the Ministry and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), as part of strategies towards achieving MDG 1 goal of reducing by poverty half by 2015.
The three-day training session, which kicked off last week at Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, is aimed at the generating employment and creating wealth through agriculture.
According to the statement, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Ibukun Odusote, who was represented by the Deputy Director Women and Gender in the Ministry, Mrs. Karima Ibrahim Babangida, said the ultimate goal of this training is to equip the trainees with the necessary skills to enable them start an agribusiness in snail and grass cutter farming.
This according to her would improve people’s welfare as well as create employment opportunity for youths in the future as their ventures prosper.
Odusote however urged all the participants to show high level of commitment, involvement and seriousness in all the activities associated with the training.
In a related development, the ministry has organised a one-day Workshop for Directors of Co-operatives and Cooperative Data Analysis System (CODAS) Desk Officers from the 36 States of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to create the needed synergy for fast-tracking .
Odusote who was represented at the workshop by the Director Federal Department of Co-operatives, Dr. thingyson Okoro, said the Cooperative Data Analysis System (CODAS) was launched in 2011 to help in monitoring and analyzing the status and contributions of all registered co-operatives to grow the economy.
She explained that CODAS would assist the ministry to generate reliable data on the performance of cooperatives in Nigeria, which in turn enables the ministry to plan for support.
Odusote added that the training exercise affords FMA&RD to facilitate the training of their enumerators and data entry officers, adding that some States have reached an advanced stage of implementation of this programme while others were yet to start.
Source: www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-train-youths-on-snail-and-grass-cutter-farming/173959/