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February 26, 2020
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,Sabo Nanono, has restated Federal Government’s commitment to train more than50,000 agricultural extension workers to boost agricultural production in Nigeria.
The minister said this during a 3-day AnnualNational Stakeholders Review and Planning Workshop today in Zaria.
Represented by Director of Extension of theministry, Frank Satumari, Nanono said Nigeria was faced with the issue of agingin agricultural extension services.
He noted that the young officers were not beingtrained to take over from the senior officers that were retiring.
The minister said there was Youth and GenderDivision in the Department of Agricultural Extension where the ministry used totrain women and youth in the agriculture as part of the activities to revamp extensionservices.