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The
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), Dr Precious Gbeneol has
called on youths to take advantage of the various policies of the government
especially in agriculture and embrace it as a means of viable employment.
Dr
Gbeneol gave the charge on the occasion of World Poverty Day, and said that the
most sustainable way to eradicate poverty is to engage more people to work and
called on the private sector to come up with more creative ways of creating
employment as a means of alleviating poverty.
NaijaAgroNet noted
from presidential adviser to MDGs that the country has made meaningful progress
in trying to eradicate extreme poverty since it adopted the MDGs in 2000
alongside other countries.
She
explained that the country has partially accomplished goal one by reducing the
proportion of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger by 50 per cent
ahead of the target date of 2015 and stressed that the country was honoured
earlier in the year for the feat at the week-long 38th session of the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) event in Rome.
The
Ministry of Agriculture, she said had been able to train 5,000 youths in 10
different value chains, provided start-up packages for 6,000 youths, as well as
access to credit and other inputs through the Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES);
trained 2,500 women in poultry, bull fattening, sheep and goat production, bee
keeping, crop value chains and extension, among others in the past three years.
NaijaAgroNet learnt that FAO
gave the award to Nigeria for being able to reduce the number of its citizens suffering from
hunger from 19.31 million in 1990 and 1992 to 13.38 million in 2010 and
2012.
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