Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Mar 15, 2013 7:59:19 GMT 1
A group of Nigerian returnees from Libya have unveiled a plan that will engage about 500 youths on a 17, 663 hectares of farmland in Edo State.
The returnees have, however, sought the government aid to farm the land.
Organised and registered under a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Initiative for Youth Awareness on Migration, Immigration, Development and Re-integration (IYAMIDR) under the leadership of an Executive Director, Mr. Solomon Okoduwa, said the group had approached and secured the partnership of the owner of the land at Ugbogui village in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Egiemamwen Omoruyi, for the project.
Speaking during an inspection of the farmland, Okoduwa said members of the group were determined to invest their energy in the production of food.
Okoduwa, who expressed gratitude to both the federal and Edo State governments for creating the enabling environments for employment, creativity and productivity, said the objectives of the group include to create employment for the returnees as a means of re-integration, to build an enhanced capacity in the agro-food chain with products of the farm, to ensure market oriented agrarian enterprises, to increase agricultural production processes ranging from production to packaging and to provide exemplary standard of deterrent factor for Nigerian migrants as well as to enhance Nigeria’s food security through agrarian enterprises such as palm oil production, poultry, fish farming, horticulture, feed milling, piggery, snail farming and grass cutter farming.
Source: nationalmirroronline.net/new/youths-seek-govts-aid-to-farm-17-663-hectares-of-land/
Learn more about snail farming in Nigeria @ THE THY SNAIL & GRASSCUTTER FARMS snailriches2.tripod.com
The returnees have, however, sought the government aid to farm the land.
Organised and registered under a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Initiative for Youth Awareness on Migration, Immigration, Development and Re-integration (IYAMIDR) under the leadership of an Executive Director, Mr. Solomon Okoduwa, said the group had approached and secured the partnership of the owner of the land at Ugbogui village in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Egiemamwen Omoruyi, for the project.
Speaking during an inspection of the farmland, Okoduwa said members of the group were determined to invest their energy in the production of food.
Okoduwa, who expressed gratitude to both the federal and Edo State governments for creating the enabling environments for employment, creativity and productivity, said the objectives of the group include to create employment for the returnees as a means of re-integration, to build an enhanced capacity in the agro-food chain with products of the farm, to ensure market oriented agrarian enterprises, to increase agricultural production processes ranging from production to packaging and to provide exemplary standard of deterrent factor for Nigerian migrants as well as to enhance Nigeria’s food security through agrarian enterprises such as palm oil production, poultry, fish farming, horticulture, feed milling, piggery, snail farming and grass cutter farming.
Source: nationalmirroronline.net/new/youths-seek-govts-aid-to-farm-17-663-hectares-of-land/
Learn more about snail farming in Nigeria @ THE THY SNAIL & GRASSCUTTER FARMS snailriches2.tripod.com
