Her Excellency, Senator Oluremi Tinubu inaugurates Bayelsa State Young Farmers Club, with the motto: ‘Growing the Food I Eat, Starts with Me’.
The programme which took place on Tuesday 11th March, 2025 at the DSP Alamieyeseigha Memorial Banquet Hall, captured the Renewed Hope Initiative of the Federal Government, to reintroduce farmers club in secondary schools across the nation.
Her Excellency, Dr Gloria Diri who inaugurated the programme in the stead of the first lady of the federation stated that objectives of the Young Farmers Club amongst others include: to imbibe the culture of farming at an early age, to promote agricultural education and practical farming skills among pupils in public upper primary schools and junior secondary school students.
High points of the event include lectures basics on livestock and crops, presentation of farming equipment and seedlings to the first batch of ten representative students of twenty government schools. Individual farmers cutting across the eight LGAs also received live stock of 3-day old chic and feed’s for birds, feeds for fish and also live goats and cash gifts to boost their agricultural interest.
