Secondary School pupils exposed to agro business at RMRDC

Secondary School pupils

As part of catching them young, youths from secondary schools in Abuja and other elders from the NYSC were gathered yesterday to a lecture about how to make career from agricbusiness.

The one day workshop organized by Concerned Youth Empowerment Association in partnership with Raw Material Research Development Council (RMRDC) was to expose the youths into opportunities and potentials in the sector that would make them self employed after leaving schools without recourse to looking for government employment from anywhere.

In his speech, the President of the Association, Comrade Noble Adaelu pointed that for the high food importation in the country to become a thing of the past, every hands must be on deck with all readiness to participate in the all the value chains of the agricultural production saying there are lot of untapped potential in the sector awaiting the youths to harness as wealth and job creation.

According to Comrade Noble “to cut down the high importation of food items and other products into the country and increased productivity in the agro processing entrepreneurship sector which now depend largely on the youths who comprises about 65-70 percent of Nigeria’s active population with their energies and numbers are tremendous opportunity for Nigeria to advance for industrial growth through indigenous technology”.