Agriculture
THE Chairman, Poultry Farmers Association, Anambra State, Ugochukwu Okpalaeke, has called on youths to explore the enormous opportunities that abound in agriculture.
They can take to agriculture instead of searching for unavailable white-collar jobs.
“It is irritating to hear that young school leavers do not have jobs because the government has not offered them paid employment.
“Palm nuts get wasted on palm trees these days because there is nobody to harvest them.
“Palm wine trees are wasted everywhere in Igboland because young men are no longer able to tap wine.
“The wine we use during traditional functions today are mainly adulterated, yet young people move about claiming that they do not have job opportunities,’’ he said.
He made the observation while interacting with Information officers at the Eagle Food Processing Industry, Ozalla Akokwa, Umuchu, on May 29.
Okpalaeke, who is also the chief executive of Eagle Food Processing Industry, said: “We as parents ought to work on our children, inculcate in them the spirit of hard work.
“I have engaged workers in my farm lately, who are paid N4,000 each in a day.
“I do not know the level of government workers that get as much as N4,000 in a day as wages.”
According to him, young people are no longer being trained in handicrafts. for services in blacksmithing, bricklaying, carpentry, iron fittings, mechanics, and that these classes of crafts are needed and shall always be needed in society.
“It is not wrong for a school leaver to learn a trade or crafts and become self-reliant.
“Livestock farming is cheap and easy. Get a male and female goat, sheep, and fowl, nurture them with attention; in about a year, they are doubled.
Okpalaeke lamented the spate of arson and malicious damages to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, facilities across the country and wondered why people should destroy their own property in the name of agitation or anger.
“The Nigerian economy is not good, yet property is being destroyed. Is it not that same bad economy that will be relied upon to replace these facilities?
“There is no sense destroying your own property because you are angry,” he said.
– May 31, 2021 @ 13:38 GMT /
Tags: Youths urged to embrace farming instead of waiting for elusive white collar jobs
