Future of agriculture sector lies in our youths


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  • Wednesday, 19 Oct 2022

Although food security received considerable emphasis in Budget 2023, it made no specific mention of connecting youth with agriculture.

The Young Agropreneur Programme (Program Agropreneur Muda, or PAM for short), launched in 2014 to supplement the National Agrofood Policy 2011-2020 (NAP1.0) in closing the gap of youth participation in the agro sector, appears to be another programme that could have been worked better towards achieving the desired outcomes and impacts for the nation.

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