Over 60 young people from South Kivu have been trained in agricultural and agribusiness entrepreneurship by IITA-CGIAR as part of the Projet d'Entrepreneuriat de Jeunes dans l'Agriculture et l'Agrobusiness (PEJAB) project.

The closing ceremony and the presentation of business plans were organized on 23 February during a business morning in Bukavu.

According to IITA-Kalambo Administrator Julie Lunzihirwa, these young people received technical and entrepreneurial training on several cross-cutting modules, mentoring and coaching, and visits to exchange experiences and learn from each other to promote the young graduates the spirit of creating profitable businesses, integrated into promising agropastoral sectors.

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