Project Description:

Entrepreneurship/employment opportunities for 800 youths through training and business operation

Development Goal and Key Outcomes:

Provide entrepreneurship/employment opportunities for 800 youths (and women) by linking outgrowers/farmers to processors and linking processors to market; youths as target beneficiaries to be incorporated within various sectors of the agricultural value chain through the Agro-industrial Growth Centre.

Deliverables:

• Skills training in agro-business and agro-processing through the growth centres for direct linkages to market demand.
• Create jobs for youth through agro-business and complete agro processing chain in the primary production of agricultural produce in improved farming techniques, which are more attractive to youths than pure labour based farming techniques.
• Create farming jobs that provide income and attract the resettlement and reintegration of youths in rural areas.