The Ondo State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Olayato Aribo, has stated that no fewer than 4,563 youths have been trained in modern agriculture through various youth development programmes of the state.
The commissioner also disclosed that the government, under the immediate past administration of the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, sold all the tractors owned by the state to private companies and individuals at subsidised rates.
Aribo stated these while speaking on the activities of his ministry at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Akure, the state capital, on Thursday.
He said, “Some of our youths have been empowered because we discovered that there is a gap between our old farmers and young farmers; the youths are not interested in farming. So we want to encourage them.
“We are training them and also empowering them. Currently, we encourage young…