11,000 Farmers Empowered As NNPC Foundation Expands Training To North-East

In a determination to continue  strengthening Nigeria’s cultivation assemblage and heighten nutrient security, the NNPC Foundation Ltd/Gte has extended its Vulnerable Farmers Training Programme to the North-East geopolitical zone.

The programme has already successfully trained and supported implicit 11,000 farmers, successful the different 5 geopolitical zones successful the country

Speaking astatine the emblem disconnected of the North-East programme successful Potiskum, connected Thursday, the managing manager of NNPC Foundation, Emmanuella Arukwe, said this marks a important enlargement of the foundation’s nationalist inaugural aimed astatine empowering susceptible farmers, peculiarly women and youth, with the tools and cognition indispensable for sustainable farming and improved livelihoods.

Represented by the NNPC Foundation’s enforcement manager of Programme Development, Bala T. David, Arukwe, successful her keynote address, emphasised the foundation’s unwavering committedness to nationalist improvement “that goes beyond energy.”

She stated that the grooming programme is an embodiment of this commitment, designed to supply applicable interventions that beforehand accrued cultivation productivity, minimise post-harvest losses, and broaden marketplace entree for susceptible farming communities.

She highlighted that the programme has already traversed 5 geopolitical zones crossed Nigeria—the South-East, South-South, South-West, North-Central, and the North-West—where it has successfully trained and supported implicit 11,000 farmers. “This is simply a testament to lives transformed, communities strengthened, and anticipation renewed,” she remarked.The North-East signifier of the grooming aims to equip participants with indispensable skills successful climate-smart agriculture, ungraded management, effectual post-harvest handling, fiscal literacy, cooperative development, and the exertion of integer tools to entree markets much efficiently.

Recognising the linguistic diverseness successful the North-East, the instauration has arranged for translators proficient successful Hausa and different section languages to guarantee the inclusiveness and effectiveness of the training.

The programme’s operation is purposely hands-on, combining adept lectures with applicable demonstrations, radical work, and regular Q&A sessions. Participants volition person session sessions and opportunities to prosecute profoundly with peers and facilitators, fostering cooperative linkages captious for the corporate maturation and sustainability of their farming efforts.

Arukwe called connected the farmers to actively enactment successful the sessions, urging them to inquire questions, experimentation with caller techniques, and instrumentality ownership of their learning.

“The aboriginal of Nigeria’s agriculture depends not lone connected what we thatch but connected what you signifier and stock wrong your cooperatives and communities,” she said.

“The existent occurrence of this programme volition beryllium reflected successful higher yields, less losses aft harvest, stronger cooperatives, and yet amended livelihoods for all.”

Government partners, accepted leaders, facilitators, and improvement partners contiguous reaffirmed their committedness to supporting the initiative, acknowledging its pivotal relation successful agrarian empowerment and nationalist nutrient security. Their backing underscores the collaborative effort needed to guarantee the sustainability and measurable interaction of the programme.

As this signifier for the North-East begins, the NNPC Foundation reaffirms its ngo to make resilient farming communities that lend meaningfully to Nigeria’s nutrient system. The instauration sees this effort arsenic a beacon of advancement not lone for the North-East but for the state arsenic a whole.

Speaking with LEADERSHIP, 1 of the beneficiaries, Musa Audu Bala, commended the NNPC Foundation for its foresight and stressed that the inaugural volition trim the unemployment complaint successful the portion owed to the insurgents activities.

“This inaugural represents a bold measurement towards achieving nutrient security, tackling unemployment, and addressing climate-related challenges crossed the region.

He called connected the subordinate astir particularly Youths to usage the juncture arsenic a instrumentality of learning to beforehand farming successful their respective areas.

The flag-off ceremonial attracted a distinguished gathering including His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Yobe State, the Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture, the Chairman of Potiskum Local Government Council, His Royal Highness the Emir of Fika, elder executives of the NNPC Foundation, authorities representatives, accepted leaders, improvement partners, facilitators, and the farmers themselves.