Job Creation

It is impossible to sustain a safe and secure society unless poverty and want are conquered or reduced to the barest minimum and a higher level or prosperity ensured across the board. Our party intends to achieve this through the massive creation of jobs.

Objectives

Our objective in this regard is to create full and gainful employment for those willing and able to work, by creating 500,000 new entrepreneurs every year who will be able to employ an average of four persons each.

Agriculture and Integrated Rural Development

Agricultural production has experienced a sharp decline in the last few decades. Not only are we now net importers of some agricultural products that used to be major foreign exchange earners, we also import a significant amount of food that should be produced locally.
Some of the reasons for the decline in agricultural production are:

1. The rural areas have been neglected by successive administrations, leading to a drift of population away from the farm into the cities, as the villages become more and more unattractive.
2. The remaining people available for farming are either too old, too few or too young to be adequately productive, and their major implements are still the hoe and the cutlass.
3. Because of the absence of even the most basic amenities, enterprising and virile young men are not encouraged to settle in the rural areas and engage in modern agriculture.
4. The need to improve agriculture is therefore inseparably linked with the need to develop rural areas and improve the quality of life of the rural folk, so that rural communities can become more attractive to live and do business in.

Objectives

The objectives of the Integrated Rural Development Programme are as follows:

1. To provide critical infrastructure and social services in the rural areas
2. To increase rapidly the output of food and export crops and aggressively find export markets for them
3. To improve the quality of life and of the habitat in the rural areas and reverse the tide of rural-urban migration.

Filed Under: ACN Manifesto