The training will cover five hundred beneficiaries in all based on a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the agency by the Special Adviser of the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General PAUL BOROH.
A statement released by WABIYE IDONIBOYEOBU, who is the Media Consultant to Amnesty Coordinator, disclosed that the training is in line with the Green Alternative of the Federal Government to diversify the economy from oil dependency to agriculture.
The statement noted that the participants would be trained in five batches of one hundred each for a period of one month at the Bio-Resource Development Centre, Odi, Bayelsa State.
The training covers fresh water fish production, macro propagation of elite plants, snail farming, grass cutter farming and household production.
The first batch of one hundred delegates resumed since 24th of November, with a screening exercise to determine the suitable courses for them before the commencement of the training.
