NYSC to adopt agriculture for job creation

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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it will adopt agriculture as the major job creator for corps members.

Mr. Salawu Abdulrazak, the NYSC FCT Coordinator, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday.

Abdulrazak explained the scheme was concluding plans with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to achieve this target.

He said the NYSC was having talks with the ministry to see how its farms in some parts of the country could be prepared to enable corps members to learn the methods and skills of agriculture.

Abdulrazak said this would also help the scheme address the problem of corps members’ rejection by employers who were posted to their establishments for their primary assignments.

“We all know that agriculture is the way to go in this country; we are therefore talking with the ministry of agriculture to see how they can prepare our farms for us so that a large set of corps…

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