By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
National Directorate of Employment (NDE) Borno State under under its Rural Employment Promotion (REP) has trained 50 youths including women and beneficiaries of Post Sustainable Agricultural Development Scheme (Posr SADTS), Agric Business and Small Stock Goats Production Scheme (ABSSGPS) using the Revolving Model Empowerment (RME).
The Director General, NDE, Alhaji Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said during the one week training workshop held in Maiduguri over weekend.
Alhaji Fikpo said the objective of the training was to identify Value Chain Addition of the agricultural sector and prepare the beneficiaries to key into the scheme which is aimed at empowering the beneficiaries of the scheme to establish, grow and expand agric enterprises of their choice on a sustainable basis.
The DG who was represented by the State Coordinator, NDE, Borno State, Alhaji Zakari Kashim added that SADTS consists of various agricultural interventions that provides jobs opportunities to teaming youths on one hand and provides adequate food for the teeming population.
Fikpo further explained that goats production is an economically viable business venture in Nigeria that is a value chain for commercial production and has great employment potentials
He stressed that the production enjoys a very wide market share with high demands in the open markets
The DG also said that the great inherent in goats production business include meat production, milk, hide, skin and manure and they can be used to earn income, increase livelihood of the farmers, create employments, reduce rural-urban migration and poverty.
The State Coordinator, however, noted that the engagement of unemployed youths in goats production business along its value chain plays an important role in the socio-economic spheres of the society.
