Osun SUBEB Encourages Farming In Basic Schools

OSUN State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has inaugurated the Young Farmer’s Club in basic schools as means of encouraging farming among young learners.

The programme was put together by Osun SUBEB and Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, under the 2022 Agricultural Education Training program (AETP) UBE Intervention for selected primary and Junior Secondary Schools across the three Senatorial Districts of Osun State.

Speaking while performing the inauguration, the Executive Secretary, SUBEB, Mr Yahaya Bakare, encouraged young learners to develop interest in farming and other activities relating to agriculture at an early stage.

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Bakare expressed gratitude and commended UBEC and Governor Ademola Adeleke’s led Administration on their support on provision of Agricultural materials and creating enabling environment to making agricultural practices strive in basic schools across the State for food sufficiency.

He implored both learners and Agric teachers to embrace the program with love and take it seriously, saying that farming has become a source of income and employment.

He therefore urged the participants and other Nigerians to make use of the rare opportunities that God has blessed the nation with. 

In his address, the representative of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr Murtala Jimoh, who was represented by the Director of Basic Schools, Mr Oyetunji Mayowa, stressed on the advantages of investing in agriculture.

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