The Ondo State Commissioner for Agriculture, Olayato Aribo, has stated that no fewer than 4,563 youths have been trained in modern agriculture through various youth development programmes of the state.
The commissioner also disclosed that the government, under the immediate past administration of the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, sold all the tractors owned by the state to private companies and individuals at subsidised rates.
Aribo stated these while speaking on the activities of his ministry at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Akure, the state capital.state.”The
He said some youths have been empowered because it was discovered that there was a gap between old farmers and young farmers; the youths are not interested in farming. So they want to encourage them.