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KWARA GOVT DOLES OUT N50m TO100 FARMERS |
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The Kwara State
government has approved the release of N50 million to 100 graduate trainees in
commercial farming.
The
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Prince Ayo Fagbemi,
disclosed this on Wednesday in Ilorin in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He
said each of the 100 trainee farmers, who were the beneficiaries of its
newly established Youth Farm Training Scheme, would receive N500,000.
Fagbemi
said each of them would also be allocated five hectares ofland at
Oke-Oyiin, in Ilorin East Local Government Area to start his own farm.
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