Ondo State Government in collaboration with the Federal Government has concluded plans to commence one week Capacity Empowerment Training Programme for 150 would be beneficiaries of Life Improvement Family Empowerment – Niger Delta Poverty Alleviation Project (LIFE-ND) in the State.
The programme which is an implementation training for incubatees and incubators will commence next week Monday.
Bolu Ajijo, press officer in the ministry of agriculture in a statement said the programme would hold at the SWAN International Hotel, along Akure -Ilesha Express Road by 9am.
According to the State Programme Coordinator of the project, Ademola Olawale, the training which is for the first batch of series of four training modules to come is designed to take care of 125 incubatees and 25 incubators.
Olawale further explained that after the one week training, five incubatees (trainees) each will be attached to an incubator, a trainer which could be a farm or an institution that is well established in a particular agricultural sector already chosen for Ondo State- poultry, casava, fish or cocoa production and would be trained for a period of time between four weeks to one year depending commodity they chosen by them.
At the end of the capacity training each incubates will be provided a land, inputs and even stater pack to commence the commodity he has acquired the knowledge. In addition to that each incubates will earn N9,000 every month as stipend while undergoing the training and the incubators will receive N95,000 as service charge and N85,000 each monthly to support their enterprises for the period of the training.
The IFAD/LIFE -ND Project which has since commenced in the state is an empowerment project funded by International Food and Agricultural Development Project and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is designed to take youth under 35 years and women who are household heads in rural areas out of poverty.
At the end of the first six years being the first stanza of 12 years program not not less that 40,000 direct beneficiaries are expected to Benedict from the project in all the nine states making up the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria.
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