Kano trains 832 youths on agro-based businesses
The Kano State Government has empowered another set of 832 youths, on different agro-based businesses.
They were trained in different skills at the state Agricultural Institute.
At the closing ceremony, Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso said the state has established six capacity building institutes aimed at training its youths on various youth empowerment schemes, such as poultry, livestock, fisheries, farm mechanisation, irrigation and horticulture, adding that of the 832 youths, 600 graduated in poultry, 100 from farm mechanisation, while 132 are from the livestock training institutes.
Each of them would be provided with 100 day-old chicks, antibiotics, six bags of chick mash, 100 bags of grower mash drinkers and feeders each, amounting to N73,400 for each trainee, bringing the total to N44.40 million.
The governor explained that the 100 trainees from the farm mechanised institute would be given post-training package, comprising tool box, knap sack and a sprayer chemical starter, worth N50,000 for each trainee.
Also, trainees of the livestock institute would be provided with 10 set of high bred rabbits, concentrate feed drugs and motivate, cage and smoking klin, valued at N63,200 for each trainee on rabbit production, while those trained on ram fattening would receive two rams, concentrate feeds, salt lick, drugs, all valued at N66,300 each. He those trained on bull fattening would receive one bull, feeds, drugs, transport and handling package as their post-training packages, amounting to N1,360,000 each.
The Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Baraka Sani said the ministry has so far succeeded in fulfilling the governor's pledge to provide jobs, as well as enhance food security and promote commercial agriculture in the state.
Baraka explained that over 6,000 youths, comprising men and women have been trained and empowered in different agricultural skills from the six agricultural institutes established by the Kwankwaso-led administration.