By Tukur Muntari
Wudil (Kano State) – The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kano State has commenced training of 50 school leavers and graduates in agricultural production to enable them to become self reliant.
The NDE state Coordinator, Alhaji Iliyasu Ahmad, disclosed this while inaugurating the programme on Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme (SADTS) held in Wudil on Monday.
Ahmad said the programme was organised for those with passion for agriculture as an enterprise.
He said for over three decades, the agency had accepted the mandate to fight the scourge of unemployment in the country through entrepreneurship as a key element in the crusade to wipe out unemployment and its attendant consequences.
According to him, the training has been envisaged to provide an avenue for self reliance and acquaint the participants with the ability to put their potential into practice and proper use with a view to curbing the growing rate of unemployment among youths.
He said that the beneficiaries would be trained on various aspects of modern agricultural produce for a period of three months with two weeks of experimental training in both livestock and crops in addition to using the remaining period for the production exercise on the adaptive experience on farm.
Also speaking, the Village Head of Tsibiri, Alhaji Ibrahim , advised the unemployed school leavers and graduates to avail themselves of the opportunity provided by the agency to embrace fully the agricultural scheme for self reliance.
Ibrahim said the training was designed to ginger their confidence and inspire them to have a clear sense of belonging as youth whose potential must be tapped, harnessed and exploited in order to contribute their quota to the economic development of the country.
(NAN)