Resolved to empower youths and women across
Imo State, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Emeka
Ihedioha will next week hold a three-day intensive training programme for 700
candidates selected from the 305 wards in the state on micro-agricultural extension
programmes.
The training which commences on
Thursday at Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education Owerri is organized in
collaboration with the National Roots Crops Institute in Umudike, Abia State.
This is the first time an empowerment
programme of this great scale and realistic in nature is being organized in the
state; targeting the most vulnerable groups.
The programme is designed to offer
the beneficiaries an opportunity to be trained in micro agricultural
enterprises. The major aim is to boost food crop production in the state;
creation of wealth and employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed
youths.
Participants would at the end of the
programme be provided with seedlings, some other basic materials and stipends
to put the programme into practice in their various communities. Effective
monitoring arrangement would also be put in place to ensure enhanced success.
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