1. Through capacity is good start for the youths in agriculture sector. It will act as a motivation to them in the field of agriculture but when it comes to implementation from the capacity building the results will be very low. This could be due to lack of capital to support them in starting up the agriculture projects although they have the desire to do so. Another reason could be due to lack of support that they need in implementation their agriculture projects. From the workshop they will gain knowledge but there will be nobody to follow them to ensure implementation has been achieved.
2. From Kenya we have an initiative whereby we first educate youths on the value of agriculture and the one we are currently dealing with is the importance of youths in coffee farming. In this initiative we educate the parents first on why they should start nurturing their children when they are still young on the importance of coffee farming. Once that has been done the children will grow up understanding the coffee industry and when they are old enough they can be given some coffee trees to start taking care of. For the youths who we encourage them to participate in coffee industry we first do a follow up at farm level to ensure the parent have given them some of the trees to start with. This will help in implementation of the coffee farming agenda. For those who have farms we follow them at their farms to offer them some inputs support and agronomy extension. The youths can also start their own group and from what they obtain after coffee payment they can use it as a contribution for their group savings.
3. Post capacity building that the youths can be given is supporting them to start sustainable initiatives like chicken rearing or dairy or any activity which will have long term effect on their initiatives.
In addition doing a follow up on the implementation of their projects plus offering them extension support.
4. The kind of environment youths need to be in a position to sustain themselves is to ensure they have a mentor and follow up.
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