Planned Salesian Agricultural Training to Benefit Thousands of Nigeria’s Youth, Widows

“The region’s rich vegetation and large masses of unoccupied or unused land continue to attract people to develop an interest in agriculture,” SDB members say in the March 10 statement.  

However, they say that Sagamu has “high rates of unemployment and underemployment, as well as a low rate of formal education.”

In the March 10 statement, the Director of Salesian Missions, the U.S development arm of the SDB, Fr. Gus Baek says that young farmers at St. Joseph’s farm will be “able to practice their techniques and become better at what they do, which increases their employment opportunities.”

Fr. Baek adds, “Better employment and stable income will also help to curb migration and provide stable support for vulnerable people in the community.”

In the next few years, SDB members in Sagamu are expected to concentrate on the promotion of food production at St. Joseph’s farm. 

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Some of the crops to be produced at the farm, SDB members say, include lettuce, cabbage, cucumber, maize, soybeans, cassavas, and yams among others.

“The farm is also developing a greenhouse,” SDB members say in the March 10 statement.

Magdalene Kahiu is a Kenyan journalist with passion in Church communication. She holds a Degree in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Currently, she works as a journalist for ACI Africa.