NGO Trains 1,554 Women On Vegetables Farming In Jigawa
By: Ahmed Aminu, Dutse
No fewer than 1, 554 women have been trained on vegetables farming in Jigawa state to encourage more women to embrace agriculture.
The intervention is also to strengthen access to nutritional food and linkage between small holders farmers in the state.
The intervention is under the Cascade Nigeria project, funded by CARE International.
The Syndicate reports that the women were also provided with seedlings for planting in their farms, and within their homes and backyards.
Those trained were drawn from five out of the 27 local government areas of the state.
Speaking while distributing the seedlings in Dutse, the project manager, Mr Isaac Ishaya said local production of healthy foods would insulate the women from price and climate change-ralated shocks and stresses.
“To enhance women participation in agriculture, the Cascade Nigeria deemed it necessary to come up with this intervention as a strategy to break barriers particularly around access to quality inputs”.
“So far here in Jigawa state, we have a target of 1,554 small holder women farmers to benefit from assorted vegetable seeds,” he said.
According to him, three to four seeds varieties of vegetable, including potato seeds will be given to the women.
“Our main focus is to complement and contribute to accessing efficient and sufficient foods at household level for women, with intentions to mitigate issues such as malnutrition among their children,” Isaac said.
He explained that supporting women of reproductive age would strengthen nutrition services for children, especially those under five.
One of the beneficiaries, Maryam Abubakar, a mother of seven that got potato seedling, expressed gratitude to the organization for the gesture.
Maryam said she has already cleared a space in her backyard, with the support of her children, to plant the seeds.
