NDE engages 50 Gombe youths to boost food security

<p>No fewer than 50 youths have been engaged by the National Directorate of Employment under the Rural Employment Promotion Department in Post-Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme to boost food security in Gombe State.</p>, <p>The Director-General of NDE, Abubakar Fikpo, while speaking during the</p>, <p>three-day SADTS workshop described it as apt and timely.</p>, <p>He added that agriculture as an indigenous occupation in Nigeria is considered a catalyst for the development of any nation.</p>, <p>Represented by NDE North-East Zonal Director, Alao Babatunde, Fikpo said agriculture holds the ace for reducing unemployment.</p>, <p>He stressed that the agency’s activities had gone through different developmental stages as a result of government policies and intervention programmes.</p>, <p>He said, “Considering the fact that it will seek to remove the drudgery in processing agricultural enterprises and identifies agricultural sector employment, provide every necessary information needed to source for start-up capital from Federal Government intervention initiatives and policies.</p>