MDGs office establishes 60 community farms
The office of the Millennium Development Goals has established 60 community farms in the Federal Capital Territory.
Nancy Narthen, the
MDGs Task Manager, Women and Youth Empowerment in the FCT, said in
Abuja on Sunday that 10 farms were established in each of the six area
councils in the territory.
“We know that most
of the youth in the rural areas cannot access vocational training in
the city centres. And because of the absence of these vocational
centres and with the support of the MDGs, we decided to start the
community farms.
“Since their main occupation is farming, we decided to find a way of
making it attractive for the youth so that they can come back to
farming,” she said.
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