Ogun Government Boost Agricultural Education in Public Schools

By Olusegun Folarin

80 Public Schools across the three senatorial districts of Ogun State have benefited from Agricultural Education Training Programme, AETP, interventions aimed at providing learners with requisite skills to stimulate self-employment.

The Executive Chairman, Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Dr. Femi Majekodunmi made this known during the monitoring exercise and supervision of the Agricultural and Education Training Programme, AETP, at Ogun -Oshun River Basin Development Authority Nursery and Primary School, Alabata in Odeda Local Government Area of the state.

Dr Majekodunmi who explained that the programme was initiated by the Universal Basic Education Board, UBEC, in collaboration with state government, said the initiative was to make Agricultural Science more practical oriented and hands-on at basic education level.

The SUBEB Executive chairman listed mixed cropping, fisheries, plantain and banana, poultry, egg production, broilers as well as animal husbandry, as some of the intervention areas, adding that the programme was also to expose learners to be familiar with biological process.

He appreciated both the Federal and State governments for making the programme a huge success, urging the school teachers to take it seriously.

In their separate remarks, the State Chairman, Parents Teachers Association, PTA, the Reverend Samson Folorunso and the Head teacher, Baptist Nursery and Primary School 1, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Mrs. Christiana Olufemi expressed gratitude to the governments for the initiative, noting that the learners had been practicing the fish ponds in their various homes.

Speaking on behalf of other learners, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim of Salawu Abiola Comprehensive High School, Junior, Osiele, Odeda, appreciated the governments for the programme, promising to continue learning.

Other school visited included Imo Methodist Primary School, Oke-Yeke, in Abeokuta South Local Government.

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