Iye in Guma local government in Benue state, Nigeria.
Mrs Sewuese Imandeh 35, harvesting rice from her first dry season farming with youths of community members
Mrs Sewuese Imandeh 35 is civil servant and farmer. My major source of income is from agriculture as she cultivates, yam, maize, rice and breed fish.She got into dry season farming of rice on a 3 hectare of land after her mother introduce the practice to her.The experience has been remarking for her knowing that hundreds hectares of her community land that are unused in the dry season can now be potentially put into use with irrigation farming system.With the successful outcome from her first dry season farming she believes there will be bounty harvests for her and her community in the next years.She is grateful to IFAD for providing them with improved rice seedlings and access roads to the farmlands but face some the challenges including invasion of their farmlands by cattle and destroying their crops. Also the high cost of fuel to power the irrigation machines has made it difficult for her to get adequate water supply for the dry season farming. Unfortunately this has cause the poor growth of some rice crops in the farm.She hopes to become the female version of Aliko Dangote (Africa’s richest man with stake in Agriculture business).Through IFAD Value Chain Development Programme she learnt how to grow improved seedlings as aspect of agriculture that is underexplored and she hope to take advantage of that and be major supplier of improved seed from the Middle belt of Nigeria.
Iye in Guma local government in Benue state, Nigeria is one of the beneficiary communities of the IFAD Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP). This programme takes a holistic and demand-driven approach to addressing constraints along the cassava and rice value chains. It does this by:• Developing agricultural markets and increasing market access for smallholder farmers and small to medium-scale agro-processors• Enhancing smallho
Targeting youths for farming
Since 2017, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has been harping on the upward swing in the number of youths that are not in employment, education or training (NEET). It said there were 259 million young people classified as NEET – a number that rose to an estimated 267 million in 2019, and is projected to continue climbing to around 273 million this year.
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“Not enough jobs are being created for these young people,” said Chief of the Employment and Labour Market Policies of the ILO Employment Policy Department, Sukti Dasgupta.
In Africa, organisations are deploying agribusiness to provide jobs for young people and help countries achieve development goals. Trainings that link young people to climate-smart agricultural practices and profitable new agribusinesses are underway in several countries. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture’s (IITA)) and the African Development Bank are through ENABLE Youth Programme helping 200 youths from 30 African countries to learn about agribusiness, new agricultural skills and technologies, climate change, mechanisation and agricultural value chain approaches. In Nigeria, British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) launched the Farmers for the Future (F4F) grant aimed at giving young people the opportunity to access funds for viable agricultural enterprises.
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