ogun youth awarded 71million naira fadama guys scheme

The FADAMA Graduate Unemployed Youth & Women Support (GUYS)  in Agriculture is a world bank project supported by Ogun State government to train Youth in Agriculture and provide fund for them to start up. 

In May 2017, a newspaper publication requesting for applicants to partake in the scheme was made by FADAMA, where interested applicants were directed to apply through a very transparent web platform. 

The application process was followed by series of screening and selection of beneficiaries evenly across the three senatorial districts in Ogun state.  The beneficiaries thereafter received international standard agricultural enterprise training on crop production, livestock,  poultry, processing, extension services and value chain production.

Earlier this year, in June, the disbursement of the first tranche of funding was made by the World Bank to enable beneficiaries set up the recommended assets for their projects. To further strengthen them, the State Government donated another amount of Seventy One million naira to the beneficiaries across the three senatorial districts. 

Receiving the cheque on behalf of the FADAMA GUYS, the State President of the group, Mr. Daniel Adebanjo, expressed his satisfaction in the support received from the government while requesting that the group should be approved as the Youth body of FADAMA in the state for their regular engagement in the industrialization of Ogun State through the agricultural sector. 

While addressing the Youth Leaders of different Local Governments in Ogun State at the presentation of the financial donation, the State Chairman of Ogun State Youth Council, Com. (Prince) Adeleke Adebajo urged the beneficiaries to remain focused, disciplined, and prudent with the resources already made available to them, to ensure that other Youth are given the opportunity to benefit from future programmes.

The presentation was held on August 29, 2019, at the State Secretariat, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.