The 300 beneficiaries of a fully sponsored programme in agriculture by the Abia State Government have arrived at the CSS Global farms, Nasarawa for a two-week training. The State Government had recently organised a capacity-building seminar for the first batch of the 300 candidates selected for the training.
A statement by Nwahiwe Cleverson Chinonyerem, Information Officer at the government house said the founder of CSS Global Integrated farms, Prof. John-Kennedy Opara, had in a presentation titled: ‘Agricultural Development and Food Security – the Path to Human and Capital Resources Development’, said that God had destined Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, to lay a solid foundation in Abia, upon which those after him will build.
In a brief admonition to the beneficiaries before their departure from Umuahia, the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Pastor Caleb Ajagba, charged the trainees to take the programme seriously, reminding them that they are going to Nasarawa to learn and not on a jamboree or site seeing.
“The Government has paid for each of the 300 beneficiaries going to CSS farms, and you would be exposed to all forms of mechanised farming and the entire value chain of Agriculture. “You are going there to learn, not on a Jamboree, not on a site-seeing, not just to make up the number of those who are going there,” Pastor Ajagba said. He reminded the beneficiaries that they are representing Abia State, having gone through a thorough screening process from the Ward to State levels.
The Chief of Staff explained that the training was in line with the vision of the governor to make sure that every Abian is taken care of, especially the youth population. He described the training programme as a lifetime opportunity for those of them that understand the reason why they are going there.