Three million women and youths nationwide will benefit from an agro-business programme of the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises (LIFE) scheme of the Federal Government, an official said on Tuesday. Dr. Chinyere Ikechukwu-Eneh, Assistant Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said in Enugu that 24 states would be captured under the pilot phase of […]
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has said that the $280 million approved by the bank would be used to encourage Nigerian youths to go into agro-business. Adesina, represented by Dr Chiji Ojukwu, a Director in AfDB, stated this on Tuesday in Ibadan at the African Youth Agripreneurs (AYA) Forum […]
The Federal College of Agriculture, Akure (FECA) has trained and empowered no fewer than 7,500 categories of entrepreneurs on profitable agro-business ventures from September 2008 till date. Dr Samson Odedina, the provost of the institution, disclosed these to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Akure. Odedina said that the college was able […]