The County Government of Nakuru has come up with a strategy to make farming appealing to the youth.
According to County Executive for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Leonard Bor, the devolved unit has trained 350 agri-preneurs as part of a programme to ensure more youth take up farming as an income-generating venture to improve food nutrition and security.
Bor indicated that the agri-preneurs had been retooled to empower smallholder farmers across the 11 sub-counties into the formal economy and link them with other actors in the agricultural value chain to bring about a movement on a mass scale.
Speaking in Nakuru when he graced the training of over 200 agri-preneurs drawn from Molo, Kuresoi North, and Kuresoi South Subcounties, the county executive stated that the trainees had been taught to incorporate technology, new ideas, innovative approaches, basic education and technical capacity building to demonstrate practical ways to grow more produce, create processing capacity and impact market share on a grand scale. "They have acquired skills that will help them guide farmers on best agricultural practices, pest management, and irrigation techniques.
