Nigeria’s leading agribusiness and essential commodity trading company, Silvex International has created 1,500 direct jobs for youth across various agricultural value chains in Kano, Jigawa, Gombe, Bauchi and Katsina states this year.
The Managing Director of the company, Abubakar Karfi made this known while anchoring a presentation during a webinar to celebrate the International Youth Day 2021 as contained in communique issued in Kano and signed by the moderator of the Webinar, Dr. Adnan Adnan.
The presentation titled, “Youth Engagement in Agriculture: The Silvex Solution to Insecurity and Climate”, is part of the activities to mark the International Day of Youth celebrated on 12th of August every year, with a theme: “Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health”.
According to Karfi, “as the world population grows, Nigerian falls under the countries suffering from dwindling economy and abject poverty with significant percentage of its youth unemployed, which directly contribute to the current security challenges bedeviling the country.”
The managing director added that “the 1,500 direct jobs were created in the agribusiness sector of the economy via agricultural foods production to secure the needed grains for food security, raw material development for industries, production of improved seeds (for grains, pulses and vegetables), organic food production for healthy consumption and environmental preservation.
“Apart from the direct jobs, we also facilitated over ten thousand indirect jobs across the value chains through farm labour especially for rural youth such as drivers, handlers, loaders, processing factory workers and buying agents, while in the direct jobs aspect, youth were engaged as crop producers, aggregators, trainers/extension agents, processors, distributors and marketers,” he confirmed
Silvex is a Nigerian company that is championing the climate resilient agriculture in partnership with foreign and common wealth development office of the British government through Systems of Rice Intensification (SRI), which reduces the green house emission from paddy rice fields and also the Regenerative Agriculture to promote carbon sequestration.
