Youth employment & economic empowerment across Edo State as priority.
Job Centre Offices to direct job seekers to centres for skills acquisition & Employment.
Massive Agricultural Revolution Programme to combat hunger, poverty and unemployment. Paradigm shift in farming methods to attract youth to farming.
Reduce unemployment by more than 70% in two to three years by engaging youth in the Agricultural facilities and opportunities around the state.
Invest & facilitate agro-allied industry, and make farming modern and attractive.
Subsidise food production as it is done worldwide.
Make Edo the food basket of Nigeria by creating several industries around food production and processing, value addition, and marketing.
Facilitate farm loans through Diaspora investments scheme. The scheme will be guaranteed by govt bonds. Fluctuations in exchange rates will be guaranteed too.
Rent land from villages across Edo state, plough & apportion to youths in acres & half acre portions. Give seedlings and loans with expertise and training. Create research facilities near farms to improve crop & animal quality & reduce disease outbreaks.
Clear and till the land. Set-up specialised area farming. Create co-operatives to facilitate sale & buying of produce. Exporting BIO & natural foods.
Set-up co-operatives to buy products from farms for processing and value additions.
Turn around farm produce e.g. cassava to garri, pineapple to fruit juice, tomato to paste etc. These processing facilities will create huge employment opportunities.
Animal husbandry facilities, cow ranching, chicken poultries, piggeries, fish & snail farming, and processing of dairy products e.g. milk & cheese.
Set up production zones to add value and create the much needed employment.
Set up sales and marketing divisions to distribute processed goods & to employ.
Refuse to give out lucrative contracts worth hundreds of millions and billions. Train young graduates with the money, rent equipments and use trained Edolites to do jobs, if expertise is needed, consult and engage an expert to support the workforce.
