NatnudO Meals, the meals processing arm of Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Restricted, stated it has donated 1,000 broiler chicks, feeds, and drugs to the Division of Agriculture of the Federal College of Agriculture Abeokuta as a part of its ‘Natnupreneur College Programme.’
In line with an announcement, the Natnupreneur College Programme is about empowering younger minds with the abilities and information to grow to be profitable agribusiness entrepreneurs.
The initiative, the agency stated, supplied a useful platform for college kids to achieve hands-on expertise whereas contributing to their improvement and the college’s well-being.
Underneath the programme, college students will rear the donated chicks to maturity, studying the processes and intricacies of correct air flow and biosecurity, feeding optimisation and meticulous record-keeping.
In line with the agency, agribusiness specialists and seasoned professionals personally guided 1,600 college students by way of the technical elements.
Natnupreneur Operations Supervisor at NatnudO Meals, Abodunrin Adeyemi, expressed optimism that the abilities garnered by way of the initiative would empower graduates to pursue their poultry companies, contributing to elevated protein availability and financial progress in Nigeria.
He stated, “This initiative is about catching them younger, coaching them as entrepreneurs with the basics of elevating broilers and promoting them again, making a prepared marketplace for their produce.”
Whereas receiving the 1,000 broiler birds, the Vice Chancellor of FUNAAB, Prof Olusola Kehinde, counseled NatnudO Meals for the partnership and the college’s selection for the Natnupreneur initiative, which he stated would enhance its agricultural potential.
He added that the information of poultry farming and entrepreneurship imparted to the scholars will additional improve their expertise and equip them for the long run, after commencement.
