Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Mar 13, 2014 8:18:05 GMT 1
In an effort to address unemployment problem in the country and create wealth through agriculture, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has commenced a training programme for youths on snail and grass cutter farming.
The training exercise, which is a collaborative effort between the ministry and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), comes as part of strategies to achieve MDG 1 of reducing by half by 2015, the number of people exposed to hunger and extreme poverty. Another goal of the ministry is the creation of wealth for smallholder farmers, especially rural farmers, women and youths through agriculture.
This was disclosed at a three-day training exercise at the Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Moor Plantation, Apata, Ibadan by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Ibukun Odusote, who was represented by Deputy Director, Women and Gender Affairs in the ministry, Mrs. Karima Babangida. She urged the participants to show a high level of commitment, involvement and seriousness in all the activities associated with the training.
Odusote further stated that the ultimate goal of the training was to equip the trainees with the necessary skills to enable them start an agribusiness in the snail and grass cutter farming enterprises to improve their welfare as well as create employment opportunity for other youths in the future as their ventures prosper.
In his address, the state Director of Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), Oyo State, Adebayo Lasisi, implored the participants to take maximum advantage of the training to set up their viable and profitable enterprises, while assuring them of the state government’s support through the ministry.
The three-day training programme consisted of theoretical and practical sessions in the ratios of 35 to 65 per cent. The trainees were also given starter packs for snail farming, comprising snail feedstock, cage, feeds, drugs and disinfectants. Those in grass cutter farming got a cage for housing colony of cat and rat (one male and four females and feed) that will promote technology adoption and economic engagement in the enterprises of snail and grass cutter farming.
Source: THE SUN.
The training exercise, which is a collaborative effort between the ministry and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), comes as part of strategies to achieve MDG 1 of reducing by half by 2015, the number of people exposed to hunger and extreme poverty. Another goal of the ministry is the creation of wealth for smallholder farmers, especially rural farmers, women and youths through agriculture.
This was disclosed at a three-day training exercise at the Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Moor Plantation, Apata, Ibadan by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs. Ibukun Odusote, who was represented by Deputy Director, Women and Gender Affairs in the ministry, Mrs. Karima Babangida. She urged the participants to show a high level of commitment, involvement and seriousness in all the activities associated with the training.
Odusote further stated that the ultimate goal of the training was to equip the trainees with the necessary skills to enable them start an agribusiness in the snail and grass cutter farming enterprises to improve their welfare as well as create employment opportunity for other youths in the future as their ventures prosper.
In his address, the state Director of Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), Oyo State, Adebayo Lasisi, implored the participants to take maximum advantage of the training to set up their viable and profitable enterprises, while assuring them of the state government’s support through the ministry.
The three-day training programme consisted of theoretical and practical sessions in the ratios of 35 to 65 per cent. The trainees were also given starter packs for snail farming, comprising snail feedstock, cage, feeds, drugs and disinfectants. Those in grass cutter farming got a cage for housing colony of cat and rat (one male and four females and feed) that will promote technology adoption and economic engagement in the enterprises of snail and grass cutter farming.
Source: THE SUN.
