A legal practitioner, and Chief Executive Officer of Fresh
and Young Brains Development Initiative, Barrister Nkiru Nnaemego, has said
that her organization is targeting about 10,000 farms which will be managed by youths,
reports NaijaAgroNet.
Speaking to NaijaAgroNet, she stated that there is huge
potential in agriculture especially considering the fact that research has
shown that 2030 will mark the beginning of global decline in oil and that British Council’s Next Generation Report 2010
indicated that Nigerian youths will be the greatest resource of Nigerian
economy.
As one of those who benefitted from Fund for Agricultural
Financing in Nigeria(FAFIN),a federal government financial assistance to
farmers, she intends to invest massively in programmes whose targets are the
youths.
“I am honoured to be among the 27 Nagropreneurs that
received the initial grant from the presidency through the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) under the Youth Employment in
Agriculture Programme (YEAP),” she said.
Nnaemego disclosed
her plans to invest the funds in the Youth Farm (YFarm) Incubation (One Stop)
Centre for African Youth in Agribusiness.
“This centre will provide online and onsite certificate
courses in agribusiness, host a culinary school, agro-processing/packaging
plant and an integrated farm for livestock, aqua-culture and crop production,” she
said.
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