Special Adviser to the Nasarawa State governor  on Food Security, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, has said inconsistent government policies and laziness on the part of the youths, are the reasons there is a high rate of unemployment in the country.

Mohammed stated this on Tuesday, in an  interview with the Nigerian Tribune in Lafia, at the kick-off of this year’s fertilizer distribution in Awe Local Government Area of the state by Governor Al-makura.

The Special Adviser, however, said the state government had prepared to encourage the teeming youths in the state to engage them in farming and other agricultural practices.

“There is no crop that can grow anywhere in this country that cannot grow in Nasarawa State. Therefore, we don’t have any reason to record such a staggering rate of unemployment in the state.”

He further stated that the government had set up machineries to avert this year’s hitches that delayed the supply of fertilizer in good condition to farmers.

According to Mohammed, “budgetary allocation has been made to be given out as incentives to youths who demonstrate readiness to go into farming,” adding that the state was blessed with vast areas of arable land but it had not been properly utilised for the overall development of the state.

“Instead of involving themselves in meaningful ventures that dignify them and make them responsible members of the society the youths have taken to besieging public offices and harassing public office holders,” he stated.

Worried by this trend, as according to him, the state government had undertaken measures to reinvigorate extension service in the state in addition to subsidising all agricultural inputs, ranging from seedlings, fertilizer and herbicides.

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