Curbing Unemployment: FG Engages 130,000 Graduates As Extension Workers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 9, 2019
The Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, says 130, 000 graduate youthshave been employed to offer extension services to farmers across the country.
The Minister statedthis during  the 24th Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria AnnualNational Conference in Abuja.
Ogbeh, who wasrepresented by the Director of Extension Service Department in the ministry,Karima Babangida said that the youths were engaged under the Social InvestmentProgramme of the Federal Government.
According to theMinister, extension service needs to be revamped to strengthen the government’sagricultural development process, especially in the commodity value-chains.
On his part, theDirector-General, Raw Material Research and Development Council, Hussaini Ibrahim,said that there had been a decline in the extension services in the country,leading to low productivity.