Kaduna trains 2,265 youths for post-Coronavirus agric program.

Kaduna trains 2,265 youths for post-Coronavirus Agric program.

Kaduna State Government has trained 2,265 youths who are to benefit from an African Union Development Agency-sponsored post-Covid-19 agriculture programme.

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“The program will last for 10 years. So, what we expect from these youths is that, they should be self-employed and even employ other youths that are not opportune to be here.

“After the training, they will be given starter packs and cash. For example, those that are into poultry, will be given 150 birds either broilers or layers depending on the choice of the farmer and those for rice, maize, ginger will be given one hectare package respectively.”

Speaking on security threats to farmers in the state, the Agricultural Services Director said, security has improved across the rural farming communities of the state, as the numbers of hectares cultivated this year is a great improvement over the previous farming season.

He however assured that, measures have been put in place to ensure that, the beneficiaries make judicious use of the training and the starter packs to be given to them. One of such measures is what he described as use of participants’ Village Heads as their guarantors.

Chairman, National Youth Council of Nigeria in Kaduna State, Bagudu Nathaniel said, the overall aim of the program is to improve food sufficiency, and nutritional value and grow the gross domestic product of the state and country at large.

While urging the youth to comply and take advantage of the training to impact their lives, Nathaniel said, with the innovative strategies and new technics the farmers will be equipped as smallholder farmers to boost their production.