NAREI helps Linden youths set up demonstration plots

Feb 15, 2019 News

NAREI is helping a group of young people in Linden to set up a demonstration plot with the aim of promoting agriculture among youths.
The Linden Quality Production Cooperative Society Limited (LQPCSL) was formed in September 2018. It has seven members, three of whom are females.

Dr. Homenauth receiving the certificate of appreciation from one of the group members.

The group is setting up a shade house which they intend to officially launch in less than two months. Once fully operationalized the members of the LQPCSL will provide training to young people in that community.
NAREI’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Oudho Homenauth donated a number of farming tools and seeds and promised to donate seedlings once their shade house is completed.
The CEO said “These are the kinds of initiatives we are looking for among young people and we are happy to support you because you are teaching young people to be self-sufficient”. He encouraged the group to visit farms in other areas to get ideas that can be implemented on their farms.
In thanking NAREI for its contributions, Stephen Francis, chairman of the LQPCSL presented a certificate of appreciation to Dr. Homenauth. Francis said they would have approached several persons for contributions, but NAREI was the first to respond.

The shade house that is currently being constructed by the group.

According to Francis, training will be offered, however, one of the criteria to be part of the training is that you must have a piece of land and you must create two 10 feet beds. So what we would do is train you at our demonstration plot and then we would give you planting materials to take to your farm.
Francis further explained that the youths will have the opportunity to sell their crops to the LQPCSL. Members of the LQPCSL intend to establish the first fresh cut commercial industry enabling young farmers who would have received training to package and sell their crops to supermarkets and restaurants.
The group aims to offer training in agriculture to school students. All the group members are in fact students of McKenzie High School. Students now have the opportunity observe and be involved in actual farming for a longer period than perhaps the courses being offered in schools, where they are forced to remember everything in a day.

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