Agro Jobs in Anambra State

Anambra state government has vowed to revitalize Agricultural production in the state in order to create employment to its teeming populace.

The Anambra state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Ndubuisi Menakaya disclosed this recently at the end of Agricultural empowerment programme organized for unemployed youths from Ihiala local government area of the state, by a-Lawmaker representing the Constituency (Ihiala 1.) in Anambra state House of Assembly, Hon. Tokas Ohazuluike, noting that over four thousand job seeking Anambrarians will get immediate employment in Agricultural sector this season.

According to Mr. Menakaya, Governor Peter Obi of the state has already approved fifty hectares of land for mechanized farming to thrive this planting season and encourage more people to venture into Agricultural production as a way of increasing food production and reducing unemployment to the barest minimum.
While commending the lawmaker for initiating the free Agricultural training, the Agricultural Commissioner called for a collaborative effort with private individuals and organizations in transforming Anambra to status of food basket of the nation.
Speaking earlier, Hon. Tokas Ohazuluike, sponsor of the training and Chairman House Committee on Agriculture averred that the training was meant to help in curbing the menace of unemployment, hunger, crime and youths restiveness in the country even as he enjoined it’s participants to utilize the opportunity rather than roaming round the streets in search of non-existent jobs.
Hon Ohazuluike who enumerated the training to include industrial production tie and die, computer appreciation, tailoring, fishery, animal husbandry, food production, fashion and designing, regretted that over seventy five percent graduates in his constituency were with no means of livelihood hitherto.
Similarly, a Guest lecturer at the workshop and Secretary, Citizen Foundation for Agricultural Development in Africa, Barr. Gozie Okolie stated that his non-governmental organization has commenced introduction and distribution of yellow cassava in Anambra state hoping to extend it to other states in the South East soonest, and added that over five thousand Nigerians have benefitted from its kind gesture as well.