NALDA Program Registration 2021

NALDA Program Registration 2021 – Apply Now for NALDA NYFS 2021/2022

National Agricultural Land Development Authority(NALDA) was relaunched in 2020 to encourage the back to farm initiative which is a call to all Nigerians to look at farming as the new oil.

NALDA is saddled with the mandate of harnessing the full potentials of the vast arable lands in Nigeria, empowering small Holder and Large Scale Farmers and mechanize, support the drive for Food and Fiber security while assisting in diversifying the nation’s economy, improving household incomes and enhancing revenue mobilization and generation nationwide.

In other to achieve the above mandate, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority(NALDA) has come up with the following program structure;

Women In Agriculture
Back to Farm Initiative
Agro Input Intervention and
National young farmers scheme(NYFS)

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Women In Agriculture Program

NALDA believes that women are an integral part of the workforce, and so they empower women in agriculture. NALDA plans to profile, engage and train women to take part in fish farming and aquaculture. They will provide the feeds, the medicines, and access to clean water to ensure optimal production. Processors are also empowered to help process the outputs according to domestic and international standards.

Back to Farm Initiative

Under this initiative, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority(NALDA) intends to increase awareness in the populace, highlighting the importance of going back to the farm, as farming the NALDA way has been made attractive by incorporating new and innovative methods of farming. NALDA will be in partnerships with various paramilitary outfits in the country, along with the NYSC, and various professionals and associations. In line with this initiative, NALDA recently signed an MoU with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to establish a rice farm in Ebonyi state to boost food security in the country.

Agro Input Intervention

This intervention is geared towards active farmers to help them expand. NALDA intends to provide subsidies in collaboration with the Agricultural Development Project, Value Chain Actors, State Ministries of Agriculture, and Co-operative bodies.

National young farmers scheme(NYFS)

Under this program, NALDA’s focus is on encouraging the Nigerian youths to participate in agriculture. The goal is to attract, encourage and empower 1000 farmers from each of the 774 LGAs in Nigeria annually, cutting across the entire Agricultural Value Chain. The Pilot Phase of the NYFS program has already started empowering young farmers in Animal Husbandry (Rabbit and Goat Rearing) and Fishery.

Animal Husbandry

This Pilot Program will empower 100 young farmers from 3 LGAs in 18 States of the country including the FCT. It will be executed in Cycles, following a Revolving Model, broken down below:

Farmers are Identified and Sorted into Goat Farmers and Rabbit Farmers and trained accordingly.
Three goats (One Male, Two Females) are given to the Goat Farmers and Five Rabbits (One Male, Four Females) are given to the Rabbit Farmers to nurture to maturity.
After a period of 3 months, 10 Rabbits will be collected from each Rabbit Farmer, and 1 Goat will be collected from each Goat Farmer; and after 6 months.
The collected animals will be pooled, and a new batch of Farmers will be identified, trained, and given animals to nurture to maturity, and hence a new cycle commences.
A Farmer who participates in the Cycle above for 30 months (2.5 years), owns his animals and whatever proceeds they may give him, the Farmer can also sell his animals and proceeds back to NALDA. Using this system, our projected Farmer growth will be exponential as seen in the charts below, after three cycles:

Fishery/Aquaculture

The economic importance of Fishery as a viable source of Income, Food, and Fibre cannot be overlooked, hence NALDA has kickstarted its Fishery/Aquaculture. This Pilot Programme is empowering 2,000 young Fish Farmers and 40 Fish Processors from Borno and Katsina States and the Fishery operation will be run in clusters.

NALDA will provide the necessary training, irrigation, Feeds, and Medicine to young farmers. We believe that this will bring us closer to our goal of producing what we eat.

NALDA Soil Doctors

Under this initiative, NALDA is set to train and engage 37,000 youth as soil doctors across the 36 states including FCT. The long-term goal of the program centers on engaging young Nigerians in the scientific method of farming to aid better crop yields and food security across the Nation.

The core essence of this engagement program is geared towards creating a pool of qualified Nigerian youth who will carry out soil tests, soil management, and extension services for farmers across the nation at a very subsidized rate.

The program is targeted at young Nigerian graduates who have a background in agriculture or sciences, the potential graduate must be passionate about agric business and food security in Nigeria. At the end of a 14-day training on soil testing, soil management, and extension services, NALDA will equip each graduate with soil test kits to practice. The general objective of this program is to train and equip young Nigerian graduates with soil tests, soil management, and extension services skills. The young doctors will assist farmers to evaluate their soil, identify soil nutrients and prescribe fertilizers and crops suitable for their farmlands for a better yield.

How to Apply for NALDA National young farmers scheme – NALDA Program Registration 2021

Interested youths who wish to apply for NYFS can do so by visiting the NALDA office in their state or local government to obtain the application form, complete the form accordingly stating their choice program and wait to be selected to participate as stated above.

You can also email NALDA at [email protected] or call 0913 239 0560

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NALDA Program Registration 2021 – Apply Now for NALDA NYFS 2021/2022