IFAD to give agric. equipment to 54 youths in Jigawa
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Empowerment
By Abdullahi Shugaba
Dutse, March 28 2017 (NAN) The Jigawa Coordinator of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Alhaji Umar Danzomo, says that the agency will provide agricultural equipment for 54 youths in the state.
Danzomo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Tuesday that the beneficiaries comprised 27 males and 27 females drawn from nine local government areas having partnership with IFAD
He said that the men would be provided with rice threshers, combined harvesters parboiling and wheat processing machines while the women would get ground oil processing, milling and cake-making machines.
He said that the gesture was part of IFAD’s corporate social responsibility to the benefiting communities.
According to Danzomo, the benefitting Jigawa communities are Dutse, Buji, Garki, Taura , Gwiwa, Guri, Auyo Birniwa and Birninkudu. (NAN)
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(Edited by Shittu Obassa / Wale Ojetimi)
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