The establishment of the Rural Development and Land Affairs Department has reinforced government's commitment to improving the lives of rural based South Africans.
Today, the National Youth Development Agency in collaboration with the Mtubatuba municipality will launch the Mtubatuba Poultry project, which is specifically targeted at rural and peri-urban based young South Africans.
The project involves the full value chain of broiler production including a chicken abattoir facility. According to the NYDA Chairperson, Andile Lungisa, working with a number of government departments and agencies, such as Ithala Development Finance Corporation and the Department of Trade and Industry, will ensure that not less than 300 young people in co-operatives businesses benefit from this initiative.
Through this project, the NYDA is encouraging young people to collaborate and form cooperatives because this will enable them to use their diverse skills, knowledge and resources to supply large quantities of chicken and its by-products to retail stores, prisons, colleges and mines.
"We hope that more partners will come on board so that similar projects can be rolled out throughout the country because we believe that it is one of the measures that can curb rural migration, promote sustainable development and ensure that rural based young people contribute towards developing their local economies by creating employment," concludes Lungisa.
Source: National Youth Development Agency
National Youth Development Agency's (NYDA) poultry project opens doors for rural based youth
