By Bisola Adeyemo
The Minister of agriculture and rural development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, has announced plans to empower women and youth across the six geopolitical zones through poultry farming in 2022.
The minister confirmed this in a report, stressing that the new plans will strengthen and solidify its wobbling agricultural sector in 2022 through the enhanced provision of agricultural incentives and maintenance of existing agricultural institutions across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
The minister revealed that the federal government made the plans for food security and to elevate self-economic reliance among women and youths in the country, farmers review Africa reports.
Iwuchukwu Onyema, a director in the Imo State Ministry of Agriculture, emphasised that jobs emanate from poultry farming are very lucrative for many youths in the country to benefit.
Onyema said the importance of the two facilities, saying that rubber is an essential raw material that is used in the creation of more than 40,000 products, including medical devices, surgical gloves, aircraft, and car tires, as well as pacifiers, clothes, and toys, but poultry farming, which contributes to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), increases domestic income.
“The natural rubber produced from plants is classified as a polymer, which is a chemical compound with large molecules made of many smaller molecules of the same kind,” he said.
He, therefore, encouraged women particularly the youths to venture into agribusiness as a mean to fight poverty and hunger in the country.