Delta State Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurial Programme Trainees Begin Harvest On Rice Farm

    A batch of 37 trainees under the Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurial Programme, YAGEP, of the Delta State Government yesterday began the harvest of their rice farm at Amoji in Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the state.

    Disclosing the development in an interview in Asaba, the YAGEP trainer and off-taker of the programme,  Raymos Guanah, said that each of the young farmers had two hectares.
   He disclosed that under the aegis of the programme, a total of 185 metric tonnes of rice was expected to be harveste at an average of 2.5 metric tonnes per hectare.Chief Executive Officer of Raymos Guanah Farms Limited, Raymos Guanah, lauded the Governor Okowa administration for its active and consistent support for farmers, especially the rice

    farmers, stressing that if sustained; the development would greatly encourage existing and potential farmers to be more productive to ensure food sufficiency in the state.