The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has begun the training of 50 unemployed youths in Anambra State in agriculture.
The Anambra State Coordinator of NDE, Mrs. Ufele Chika, disclosed this yesterday during the inauguration of “Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme, SADTDS 2019,” organised by Rural Employment Promotion (REP) Department at Awka South Local Government headquarters, Amawbia.
She said the beneficiaries comprising school leavers and graduates of tertiary institutions, were drawn from the three senatorial zones in the state.
Ufele said the exercise was targeted at providing more profitable farm income, promote environmental stewardship and equally enhance quality of life for farmers in tandem with the Federal Government’s policy on agriculture for employment and wealth creation.
According to her, the SADTDS was being replicated in all the 36 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), disclosing that the participants would be trained for three months in modern agricultural practices.
She said: “Two weeks out of the three months is for tutorial, while the rest period is for adaptive experiential farm with livestock/crop production training unit.
“The training also includes marketing and entrepreneurial training and life skills lectures, while each participant will receive a stipend of #6000 for the duration of the training (ie #2000 per month) for the three months.”
“Though we are in collaboration with Bank of Industry, Bank of Agriculture and Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on easy linkage of our participants to secure soft loans to start up but federal government may have something to do later.”
NDE Director General, Nasiru Mohammed, said the Department of Rural Employment Promotion in NDE was designed for rural populace to gain employment and enhance their rural income via agricultural production.
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