The Federal Government, in partnership with African Development Bank, is set to launch a Youth-In-Scheme worth N59.7 billion in September. The Director-General, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Nteranya Sanginga, who made this known in a chat, noted that the IITA would train those enrolled in the scheme, adding that beneficiaries would be trained on how to make agriculture a business with good networking. “The programme tagged ‘Enable Youth Empowerment Agribusiness’, will engage youths in agribusiness for 18 months to enable them learn how to make agric business plan. Each will be given between $25,000 and $300,000 as loan to start a business. The programme started by IITA in 2012, was taken over by the federal government and AFDB to create employment in agric sector. “To support this objective, the programme will be extended to 36 states and Abuja in September. After the programme, we expect the youth to become chief executive officers of factories, companies and creators of jobs rather than job seekers,” Sanginga added. The IITA boss urged the youth to develop positive mindset in agriculture and be serious with the training. He further advised that they should be serious with the training because at the end of it only those who do well would be rewarded.
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