The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has commenced a five-day capacity training for 50 unemployment youth and women in Kogi on sustainable agriculture.
The Director General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, represented by the Kogi State Coordinator, Abubakar Zakari, who declared the training open, Wednesday in Lokoja, said the training is under the post sustainable agricultural development scheme of the NDE.
He said the empowerment scheme is aimed at equipping participants with advanced technological know-how on rural employment promotion.
According to him, the post sustainable agricultural development initiative is an intervention policy of the federal government that has to do with livestock production, food processing and packaging as well as digital marketing of agricultural products.
In his welcome address, the head of rural employment promotion department of Kogi NDE office, Shaibu Omeiza, urged the participants to take the advantage of the training to improve their standard of living.
Omeiza, who stated that the programme was geared towards creating wealth and employment for the downtrodden youth and women in Kogi state, enjoined the beneficiaries to see the opportunity as an advantage to ensure food security and self reliance in agriculture.
Responding on behalf of other beneficiaries, Jacob Abiodun, commended the federal government for its social investment programmes since assumption of office.
He assured that the training would promote attitudinal change in their lives with a view to contributing their quota to ending the menace of unemployment in Nigeria.
NDE trains 50 Kogi youth, women on sustainable agriculture
