The Chairman, Poultry Farmers Association, Anambra State, Chief Ugochukwu Okpalaeke has called on youths to explore enormous opportunities that abound in Agriculture.
He made the observation while interacting with Information officers, at the Eagle Food Processing Industry, Ozalla Akokwa, Umuchu over the weekend. Okpalaeke, said: “we as parents ought to work on our children, inculcate in them the spirit of hard work’. He noted that they can take to agriculture instead of searching for unavailable white collar jobs.
“It is irritating to hear that young school leavers do not have jobs because the government has not offered them paid employment. Palm nuts get wasted on palm trees these days because there is nobody to harvest them”.
The Chief Executive of Eagle Food Processing Industry said, “young people are no longer training in hand crafts, especially in blacksmithing, bricklaying, carpentry, iron fitters, mechanics, adding that these classes of crafts are needed and shall always be needed in the society.
Okpalaeke frowned at the arson and malicious damages to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) facilities across the country, wondering why people would destroy their own property in the name of agitation or anger. “The Nigerian economy is not good, yet property is destroyed. Is it not that same bad economy that will be relied upon to replace these facilities”, he queried.
