No fewer than 50 youths in Kano State are to benefit from the National Directorate of Employment’s Post-Sustainable Agricultural Development Scheme training.
The Director General, NDE, Abubakar Nuhu-Fikpo disclosed this recently in Kano while addressing the beneficiaries.
Fikpo, who was represented by the Acting State Coordinator, Malam Idris Sani Yakasai, said that the aim of the training was to promote the federal government’s policy thrust of diversifying the economy through boosting agricultural production in the country.
He added that the 50 unemployed youths, comprising males and females, would be trained in Modern Agricultural Production, Marketing and Agri-preneurial under its Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme (SADTS).
According to him, the NDE would assist some of the beneficiaries with loans and link others with loan granting institutions.
Earlier, the representative of the Director, Rural Employment Promotion (REP) Department of the NDE, Fatima Abubakar Ajuji, enjoined the participants to listen attentively to the resource persons that would take them through the different topics and to comply with the COVID-19 protocols during the training.
One of the participants, Buhari Abdullahi, thanked the NDE for giving them the opportunity to participate in the programme, promising to put what they would learn into practice.
