Federal Government engages 17,000 youths in rabbit farming.
The Federal Government has announced plans to engage over 17,000 youths in rabbit farming across the country.
The Executive Secretary, National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA), Paul Ikonne, who mentioned this at a media parley in Abuja on Wednesday, 2nd of December, 2020 explained that the Government would provide animal, cage, vaccines, training and every other important items for them.
According to him; “We are engaging our youths into rabbit farming, NALDA has designed a program to take in 17,000 rabbit farmers or more especially in the south and we have commenced the engagement in some states. All our programs are in phases. In this first phase, Imo, Abia, Cross-River, Oyo states have received rabbits and young farmers have been engaged into rabbit farming.
From the meat, the hide, which is the skin, the dungs and the urine, they are all money-making machine.
The program is very simple, from the first day the farmer starts rearing rabbits, they start making money. From the collection of the urine to the collection of the dungs, which will be used as fertilizer, their money will keep accumulating. At the end of the month, we will pay them based on the liters and kilogram of what they have submitted to NALDA office at their various before the off-takers take it.
At least someone will make an average of N100,000 a month from rearing rabbits, and you can see the level it will get to cater for families and homes, so it is something we have engaged in, and we will keep expanding”.
