Entrepreneurship Skills in Mini-livestock Production for Empowering Unemployed Youths in North-Central, Nigeria

Abstract

In an era where youths’ unemployment is high and characterized with various crimes, effort to boost entrepreneurial opportunities as strategies for youths’ empowerment for meaningful livelihood become necessary. Thus, several forms of entrepreneurial skills and activities have been suggested to empower unemployed youths except in the direction of mini-livestock production. Therefore, this study aimed at identifying the mini-livestock entrepreneurial skills required to empower unemployed youths in planning, maintenance practices, breeding and marketing. This study adopted a Fuzzy Delphi survey research design implemented on a panel of 50 experts. It was found that idle youths required all the entrepreneurial skills identified in the mini-livestock agri-business of planning, maintenance practices, breeding and marketing. The finding of the test of hypotheses showed no significant difference (p>0.05) in the experts’ mean responses on the entrepreneurial skills in mini-livestock agribusiness in planning, maintenance practices, breeding and marketing for youths’ economic empowerment. From these findings, it was therefore recommended that all the identified mini-livestock entrepreneurial skills be applied in the training of unemployed youths for meaningful livelihood.