The Post Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme (SADTS), according to the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), has empowered 1900 youth across the nation.
Israel Adekitan, director of the information department and public relations, said in a statement that the empowerment program was implemented in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory to improve food supply and improve agricultural performance skills.
According to him, some of the participants have received loans totaling N100,000 with the intention of increasing their farm input productivity and alleviating poverty.
The statement noted that at the commencement of the training event in the Agric Skill Centre, Bwari, Abuja, NDE’s director-general, Mallam Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo said that the post SADTS training was a specialized one week intensive agric-coaching exercise with structured interventions in agricultural practices to improve seeds, seedlings and productivity for better harvest”.
