Bauchi State Government has promised to engage youths in agriculture to tackle food insecurity, unemployment and poverty.
Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed made the promise when he distributed 3,085 Knapsack Sprayers to Youths selected from the 323 wards in the state at Bauchi State Agricultural Development Programme headquarters in Bauchi.He said that engaging unemployed school leavers and other youths in the agricultural sector would reduce youth restiveness and poverty.
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