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29.05.25
The IITA Youth in Agribusiness (YAS) project has supported trained participants in Oyo State with input and various equipment to facilitate business start-up and expansion in agriculture. The event continues with similar exercises held in Abuja, Kano, and Ogun.
The support items include a solar irrigation system, rotary slashers, a de-feathering machine, improved cassava stems, fertilizers, Garri fryers, water tanks, vegetable seeds, fish and poultry feed, seedling trays, coco peat, packs of improved maize varieties, generator, irrigation drips, knapsack sprayers, and Garri pressers.
Speaking at the event, Head of IITA Genetic Resources Center (IITA-GRC), Professor Michael Abberton, who represented the Senior Management Team, congratulated the participants for being courageous and dedicated during the training. He advised them to leverage the support network created by the project to move their businesses forward.
He stated, “Engagement of youths in agribusiness has been the IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) focus over the last decade, so this initiative is very important to IITA. In return, your businesses will be able to scale up, in addition to the people you bring into employment by your expansion and the businesses you create. So, congratulations for being part of this. We appreciate the sponsor, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, for supporting young agripreneurs.