The State Coordinator of Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises, Niger Delta, LIFE-ND, Uchenna Rowland Onyeizu, Ph.D, CEnv, has lauded Governor Alex Otti for stimulating agriculture in the state, prioritising it as a major source of job creation, sustainable income and food security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onyeizu said this while addressing over 350 youths and women-headed households at LIFE-ND orientation ceremony held in Umuahia, Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He compared Otti\u2019s interest in agriculture with the objectives of International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, implementing policy frameworks directed at addressing nutrition, hidden hunger, food security and combating criminality through investing in agic-related enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\nState Project Coordinator,\n\n\n\n
He said Otti\u2019s prompt payment of Abia LIFE-ND Project\u2019s counterpart fund last year, was a genuine testament of his drive for food surplus and job creation in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also of note that for any of you to be directly involved in this project is the partnership of the governor with IFAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDr Alex Otti graciously supported this project by funding last year\u2019s counterpart fund that has made this activity possible today. Let\u2019s thank him for the promises he has made in supporting LIFE-ND in Abia State, \u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onyeizu explained the process of the Project\u2019s incubation model of apprenticeship, mentorship and empowerment, a model adopted by international community from Igbo tribe of Nigeria, where youths are economically made independent through strict tutelage by an established entrepreneur before empowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Examining the success of the incubation model, Onyeizu hinted that the summit of the Project\u2019s achievement was to see incubatees whose communities earlier rejected the project, now graduating to employers of labour in their various agribusinesses, advising new intakes to conform with ethical standards of the project, else risking underlined disciplinary measures laid down in the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Otti\u2019s vision on agriculture manifested in the payment of N<\/s>500m counterpart fund to energize an arrangement with New Partnership for African\u2019s Development Agency and West African Department Agency, a commitment to prioritize agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\nthe National Admin and Logistics Officer\n\n\n\n
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Representing the National Project Coordinator, Engr, Dr Sanni Abiodun, Mrs Ngozi Ohaechesi attributed the huge turnout of participants at the venue as an indication of the project successes over the years, leading to IFAD\u2019s Additional Financing.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEnvironment and Climate Change Specialist of Country Programme Advisory Team, CPAT\n\n\n\n
Mr Ufoma Umolo, the Environment and Climate Change Specialist of Country Programme Advisory Team, CPAT, addressed climate change mitigation and adaptation plans focus on agriculture and food security through climate-smart agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\nat the orientation\n\n\n\n
Different agriculture specialists had turns to emphasis the need for record keeping, business plan, nutrition and financial inclusion matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\nrepresenting State Director NDDC, Dr. Anderson Uken\n\n\n\n
Mr John Okechukwu, representing State Director NDDC, Dr. Anderson Uken<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Abia State Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Anderson Uken was represented by John Okechukwu at orientation ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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