NDE Trains 50 Imo Youths On Goat Production

About 50 unemployed youths in Imo State have been earmarked for a one-week intensive training on goat production value chain.
Director-General, National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Mallam Abubakar Nuhu-Fikpo, disclosed this while declaring the training open in Owerri.
Nuhu-Fikpo said the programme was organised by the agency’s Department of Rural Employment Promotion (REP).
He said the choice of goat production was informed by the consideration for the great potentials associated with goat business.
The NDE boss, represented by the Imo Coordinator of the agency, Mrs Chisara Egwim-Chima, listed the potentials to include production of meat, milk, hide, skin and manure.
Others are the generation of income to improve the livelihood of rural dwellers, job creation, reduction in rural-urban migration and enhanced people’s protein intake.
He said the trainees would be trained in modern goat production technology, using the revolving model of empowerment.
According to him, the Federal Government was interested in poverty reduction through job creation, socio-economic and environmental benefits, using the Small Stock (Goat) Production training scheme.
“I want you, dear trainees to note that the NDE has other job creation programmes that youths can take advantage of and become gainfully employed,” Nuhu-Fikpo said.
Also, the Director of the REP Department, Mr Edem Duke, advised the beneficiaries to use the training to improve their livelihood.

Duke, represented by a senior official of the department, Mrs Chikaodi Okereke, also said the beneficiaries would be exposed to the best breed of goats and their available markets.

He further said the beneficiaries would receive start-up grants at the end of the training and urged them to make judicious use of the empowerment grant.