The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has trained 35 women and youths in Niger State on catfish farming.
The five-day training, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, was held at the Tagwai Fish Farming Institute in Tagwai Dam, Minna.
State UNDP Coordinator Baba Wachiko Yahaya said the training is aimed to mobilise women and youths to create employment opportunities. He added that UNDP wants to contribute to youth empowerment by providing them with vocational skills which would help them become employers of labor.
Wachiko said at the end of the exercise, participants would be certificated to enable them access loans from micro-finance banks, with UNDP’s help.
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammadu Danlami Ibrahim, said fish farming has a huge potential in the sustainable development of the state.