The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) says it is currently training about 100 youths from Gombe State on dry season farming to check youth restiveness and rural-urban migration.
The Director General of the NDE, Dr Nasir Ladan Argungu, disclosed this in Kashere, Gombe state during an orientation programme for the trainees under the NDE Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme.
Represented by the state NDE coordinator, Malam Ibrahim Faisal Audu, Argungu said the directorate conceived the scheme to train school leavers and other youths drawn from the 11 LGAs of the state on dry season farming techniques and poultry production.
He said that during the four-month training, the beneficiaries would undergo field training in crops and livestock, after which they would be linked with micro finance banks and the Bank of Industry (BOI) to obtain loan which they would pay back after sale of farm produce at the end of harvest.
