NDE trains 50 Ogun youth in post-sustainable agricultural development 

Not less than fifty youth have been engaged in Post-Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme (SADTS) by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Ogun state.

The one- week specialised training is to keep the beneficiaries abreast of the practical application of government policies and harnessing such opportunities to further create employment and promote high productivity.

Speaking at the flag off in Abeokuta, the director general of NDE, Mallam  Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, noted that the programme will also identify value addition in the agricultural sector and prepare beneficiaries to key into it.

Represented by the Ogun state coordinator, Alao Babatunde Ismail, the DG pointed out that the Post SADTS will afford unemployed youth to embrace farming as a means of livelihood.

“Analysing the successful implementation of the SADTS across the states of the federation over the years and the subsequent empowerment of some of the graduated trainees with Rural Employment and Promotion (REP) loan port folios, it was discovered that the benefiting participants did wonderfully well in investing the loan profitably.

“The scheme will provide agricultural skills, provide more food, create employment, reduce poverty, remove drudgery from the practice of agriculture, encourage the youth to accept agriculture as means of livelihood, expand the scope of sources of funding for agricultural projects, and enhance the quality of life for farmers and society as a whole,” he added.