Under the Big Four Agenda, cotton farming has been assigned a role of creating 50,000 jobs and generating hard currencies worth Sh20 billion in apparel export earnings this year.
Collaboration between the NMC and NYS also geared towards playing a bigger role in the expansion of Standard Gauge Railway and Lappset.
The National Youth Service (NYS) has been allocated 100,000 acres of the Galana-Kulalu Complex as part of the State’s efforts towards reviving the ailing textile industry.
Speaking Friday in Gilgil during the passing out parade of 15,461 NYS recruits, president Uhuru Kenyatta said the NYS project at Galana- Kulalu was in line with his Big Four Agenda aimed at steering the economy to double digit growth.
Under the ambitious plan, cotton farming has been assigned the role of creating 50,000 jobs and generating hard currencies worth Sh20 billion in apparel export earnings this year.
“As part of the plan to revive the cotton sector, NYS will be allocated 100,000 acres of the Galana Kulalu Complex, and the model National Irrigation farm in the Tana Delta,” said the president Friday.
“The pillars of the Big Four are held up by our youth: in every area of endeavour, our young people are called to distinguish themselves. Indeed, the National Youth Service must play a critical role in the attainment of the Big Four Agenda.”
Mr Kenyatta, who spoke alongside the newly Sworn-in Public Service Youth and Gender Affairs Cabinet Secretary Prof Margaret Kobia, also directed the Numerical Machining Complex (NMC) and the NYS Mechanical and Transport Training School to collaborate in skills sharing and expansion of products in order to tap into the expanding construction market.
The collaboration between the NMC and NYS is also geared towards playing a bigger role in the expansion of Standard Gauge Railway and Lappset, among other projects.
“Often, we speak of public-private partnerships as vehicles of economic growth. Whereas these are important, I would like to encourage more public-public partnerships,” he said.
