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ARAC Boss Counsels YEAP Beneficiaries On Challenges
The Director-Incharge of
the Africa Regional Aqua Culture Centre, Aluu (ARAC), Rivers State, Dr. Stephine Joe Ansa, has disclosed that the centre was involved in organizing programmes aimed at enabling the youth become agric entrepreneurs.
Ansa who spoke during the inauguration of the Youth Employment In Agriculture Programme (YEAP) that was organized by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with its Rivers State Counterpart acknowledged the challenges the youth were facing in their quest to become agro-business people .
She explained that such challenges were not peculiar to the youth alone as they can be surmounted as they progress.
“We are organizing programmes that will enable you stand on both feet and also employ others”, she said.
The ARAC boss urged them to strive to be employers of labour in their chosen agric fields of endeavours.
She appealed to the participants not to regard the programme as political even as she claimed the programme was devoid of political undertones.
“I will like to appeal that this programme be taken not as a political programme because the undertone I am getting is as if this is another government show.
“It is not, I can tell you that it is not, if it were, we will have known from the beginning,” she said.
According to her, the programme did not start overnight as it was a well-thought-out project.
She reminded the beneficiaries that they are not being employed by the government, rather the government was only encouraging them to be self reliant and engage others in the future.
While also acknowledging the possibility of being victims of fraudsters along the line of their business, she however urged them to be focused and cautious.
She further called on them to discard the idea of waiting for government to enable them actualize their dreams.
In addition, she said the field was wide for agrio business to include and not limited to cat fish. Others include fresh water sprawn, marine shrimp and oyster, amongst others.
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