Lagos UBEC Agricultural Initiative Boosts Poultry Production

The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LASUBEB’s) Agricultural Education Training Programme (AETP) initiative has produced four poultry pens to boost production.
The four poultry pens under the Lagos State Agriculture Education Programme (LASAEP) in public primary schools were recently commissioned simultaneously at four primary schools.
The schools are Obele Primary School, Itire; Community Primary School 11 Egan, Alimosho; Roman Catholic Primary School, Ipakodo; and Methodist Primary School, Gberigbe.
Speaking at the event at Obele Primary School, Ilitre, Surulere, the Executive Chairman of LASUBEB, Wahab Alawiye-King, explained that the UBEC Agricultural Education Training Programme (AETP) initiative to 51 schools has been vibrant and attractive to learners in 11 Local Government Education Authorities, with different enterprises such as crop farming, fishery, animal husbandry and poultry.
“I encourage the learners to take full advantage of this programme and build lifelong skills that will be useful to them in the near future. I also urge the school manager and teachers to see to it that the pen is well utilized and supervised,” the Executive Chairman said.
Also speaking, the poultry pen consultant, Abidemi Iwajomo, testified that the positive interest showed by the pupils has projected a greener pasture in farming, urging the pupils not to rest on their oars in acquiring farming skills.
According to him, it is a profession that is contributing majorly to the development of the nation.
He revealed that six schools benefitted from the construction of the pens with the supply of birds encapsulated under the mantra “catch them young”
While four pens have been completed and being commissioned, the poultry pen at Christ Central Primary School, Mushin, LGA, is still under construction.
The construction of the poultry pens in schools is aimed at inculcating farming in young ones.