LASG TRAINS, EMPOWERS RURAL COMMUNITY YOUTHS ON APICULTURE, PURE HONEY PRODUCTION
Lagos State Government, through the Centre for Rural Development (CERUD), has trained and empowered 50 youths and farmers in the rural communities of the state on Apiculture and pure honey production.
Welcoming participants to the one-day workshop held at the CERUD office complex in Igbodu, Epe, the Director of the Agency, Mr. Musibau Balogun, said that the programme was put together to promote the productive engagement of the youths and to explore sustainable alternative sources of income for the beneficiaries.
Expressing gratitude to the Governor, Mr Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, through the Special Adviser on Rural Development, Dr. Nurudeen Yekinni Lanre-Agbaje, for his passionate and unambiguous interest in the welfare of the youths and farmers in the State, Balogun advised the participants to align their energies and interests with the vision of the Governor to be self reliant, financially stable, contribute to the State’s growing GDP and the rapid transformation of the State in line with the current administration’s desire to make Lagos a 21st Century Economy.
Also speaking at the event, the Chairman, All Farmers Association (AFAN), Lagos State Chapter, Otunba Olufemi Oke charged the participants to make good use of the opportunity of the new skills acquired during the training to enhance their production and marketing capabilities to tap into the vast economic potentials that is available in the production of Pure Honey.
The facilitator of the training programme, Dr. Saba Gbolahan Adekunle, stressed the therapeutic and cosmetic importance of pure honey, which makes it in high demand both locally and internationally.
He also explained that Apiculture is relatively cost-effective because of the little space that is required for its cultivation.
The participants were supplied with empowerment materials such as wooden beehives, protective clothes, head covers, smokers, hand gloves, etc, for the take off of their business.
The visibly elated beneficiaries thanked Mr. Governor and the Special Adviser on Rural Development for their magnanimous gestures, promising to make good use of the materials given to them.