The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has empowered 11 young people from the small rural settlement of Tsumkwe with agribusiness skills.
FAO said that the training covered key themes such as egg production, meat production, bio-security, poultry health and diseases, feed production, marketing and processing and composting.
The training of the youths is expected to help them secure income opportunities.
‘The training emanated from a recent donation by @FAO towards the #Tsumkwe State Clinic’s Soup Kitchen initiative that includes: a functional poultry structure, poultry feed stuff, vaccines,100 Lohmann Brown layers’, the UN agency tweeted.
‘Close to 50 HIV patients on ARV treatment and those being treated for TB are expected to benefit from the protein-rich eggs produced through the project.
‘Furthermore, the project is expected to create income opportunities for unemployed youth in [Tsumkwe]’.
World Bank data for the year 2020 shows that youth unemployment in Namibia was at 40.2 percent.
According to the International Trade Administration (ITA), agriculture is one of Namibia’s most important sectors, providing livelihoods for a majority of Namibia’s population directly or indirectly.
ITA also noted that livestock farming comprises approximately two-thirds of agricultural production in the southern African nation.
Photo source: FAO Namibia
