It made the announcement through its National Agricultural Land Development Authority, noting that the programme had already commenced in some states, as it would engage more participants in the southern part of Nigeria -- yes we already saw it in Imo.
The Federal
Government on Wednesday announced the commencement of its programme on rabbit
farming that would engage 17,000 youths across the country.
The Executive
Secretary, NALDA, Paul Ikonne, told journalists in Abuja that the agency would
provide the rabbits, cage, vaccine and training for participants free of
charge.
He said the
first set of beneficiaries would be required to bring back the kitten from the
rabbits they train so as to be used in the empowerment of other youths.
Ikonne said,
“The President had inaugurated the national young farmers’ scheme, and we
intend to take in 774,000 young Nigerians into the entire agribusiness. This
programme has started implementing the first leg, which is our animal
husbandry.
“In this segment,
we are doing goat and rabbit rearing. A lot of people do not know the
potentials, the benefits and the money they can make from rearing rabbits.
Rabbit has an entire value chain, nothing is a waste farming rabbit.”
He added, “So
we are engaging our youths into rabbit farming, NALDA has designed a programme
to take in 17,000 rabbit farmers especially in the South, and we have commenced
the engagement in some states.”
Ikonne said
the first phase of the programme had commenced in Imo, Abia, Cross River and
Oyo states, as selected youths in the states had received rabbits and had
commenced farming.
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