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The purpose of writing this document is to
use it as a means to establish a relationship between the various ministries
and the Association. We also wish to use this write up as a vehicle to present
an overview of the challenges and opportunities for Co-operative Societies in
the state, most particularly, the cooperative Farmers group.
This farmers coordinating unit mainly comprise
youths who have chosen to venture into agriculture in their various local
government area. This document is also to help the Association package and
present the various identified opportunities in Cooperative and Agriculture,
and to make recommendations that will result in encouraging other graduate
youths who may have reasons to embrace agriculture.
We in ACFA are sure
that with our findings so far, it will make us to be part of the great change
going on in the agricultural sector around the world today.
THE
IDEA BEHIND THE PROGRAM
The
proposed program is developed to enhance residual source of income for
communities with productive land for agriculture, rather than relying on the
discovery of oil alone or on government’s allocation. The other side is aimed
towards preparing the young people, women and the unemployed among us to have
access to their own means of employment through agricultural development;
instead of the youth, and the unemployed from the council area invading the Big
Cities to waste their productive years or to constitute nuisance. It is
possible that the chance of getting a white collar job is very minimal.
With
reasonable number of youths and well determined persons in the farming
business, ACFA believes they have set the ball-rolling for the transformation
of our locally made product into finished products and hereby, make for food
security.
Structure Of The Program
This
program is expected to serve as a platform to bring all determined and serious
minded farmers in the LGA together in a way that they will be able to
complement themselves in a convenient and suitable environment. It will also
help to settle young school leavers in
a specified area
of land, making
farming their career thereby
preventing them from moving to the urban areas in search of white
collar jobs, they may never find. These settled farmers will be able to design
and develop a model in good farming systems. The type that will attract other
farmers residing in nearby villages.
The Program Proper:
The All Co-operative Farmers Association (ACFA)
Youth Economic Opportunity Programming (YECOP) has increasingly been designed to
reach young people in rural areas, so as to stem the tides of migration, and to
reduce rural poverty. We expect this gesture to spur the youths up to embrace
this agricultural development program.
While there is already growing mass of research and
practitioner experiences, there is much to learn. Practitioners, policymakers,
funders, researchers, and educators will eventually be encouraged to recognize
that the characteristics, assets and needs of young people in urban and remote
areas are distinct. Therefore, this Association is working on ways to expand on
their field-tested tools, and innovative approaches that can inform the
development of higher impact and more scalable initiatives which will lead to
more jobs and business opportunities for the youths, women and other unemployed
in the rural areas.
The main objective of this scheme is actually to
make for food sufficiency and also to supplement the unemployment situations
being faced by the various governments. It is also expected to address the
rampant insecurity problems being faced by the citizens of the states
respectively and the nation in general.
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