Revamp Michael Okpara farm settlements, Ohanaeze begs Buhari, S’East govs
The OYC in a statement signed by the President General , Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro and the General Secretary, Mazi Okwu Nnabuife Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said the group had made moves to revamp the farm settlements built by the late Premier of the Old Eastern Region, Dr.
“The OYC through her partner had secured approval from President Muhammadu Buhari in the recent past but will engage the South East governors on the establishment of regional mechanized farm settlements which will be a private-public business venture, with expectations of a Green House and a dairy farm capable of producing 1.5m litres of Israeli cow milk annually.
“The government trained about 4,000 youths in various agricultural skills in partnership with National Roots Research Corp Institute, Umudike, Ikwuano Abia and Federal Ministry of Agriculture. The government also approved to pay the counterpart funds of N50million which was passed into law by Abia State House of Assembly to the Bank of Agriculture for the assessment of soft loans of N250,000Naira capital investment for each youth that participated in the agricultural training with Bank of Agriculture.
We have confirmed that about 4,000 youths will benefit from the agricultural soft loan from Bank of Agriculture. We expect that 4,000 youths will employ 10 youths each and that will create additional 4,0000 jobs as we urge the government to do the needful ahead of April 2020 farming season.”
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