The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that it would soon start posting of corps members to farms as Place of Primary Assignment (PPA).
The Director General, NYSC, Suleiman Kazaure, said made this declaration on Monday in an interview with journalists during his official visit to the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Sagamu, Ogun State.
According to the DG, the NYSC has concluded preparations to begin the posting at the conclusion of the three-week orientation exercise.
“It should interest you to know that the NYSC will soon begin its agricultural development scheme where corps members will be posted to farms for their primary assignments.
“Already the NYSC has acquired active farmlands across the nation’s geopolitical zones with four already fully operational in Kwali, Bauchi, Oyo and Kebbi.
“After this orientation programme for the Batch ‘A’ corps members, we will begin posting some of them to these farms as a pilot phase.
“Though we are starting with four states for now, we will integrate the other states as time goes, the project is ongoing,” Mr. Kazaure said.
Kazaure tasked the corps members not to seek white-collar jobs which were non-existent but rather develop their potentials for entrepreneurship excellence.
