Agro-Processing Zone Distributes Home Gardening Toolkits To Kano Households

The Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) nether the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has distributed location gardening toolkits to 1,445 households successful 8 section authorities areas of Kano State.

The four-day exercise, which began connected 3rd October and ends today, targets 180 women from each of the benefitting section governments – Kura, Garun-Mallam, Bebeji, Dambatta, Gezawa, Dawakin-Tofa, Bichi and Bagwai.

At the ceremonial successful Kano, SAPZ authorities task coordinator Aminu Iliyasu explained that the Targeted Nutrition Support Programme inaugural aims to empower households, peculiarly women and susceptible groups, to cultivate nutrient-rich vegetables and crops astatine home.

He said, “The inaugural is chiefly designed to amended dietary diverseness and guarantee continuous entree to fresh, nutrient-rich foods by enabling households to turn vegetables and small-scale crops wrong their homes.

“The programme provides due gardening implements and inputs to assistance families cultivate varieties of vegetables suited to their section environment.

“Beyond improving nutrition, the inaugural is expected to trim household nutrient expenses portion creating opportunities for further income done surplus nutrient sales,” helium said.

Iliyasu added that the programme would code micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition, peculiarly among children, large women, and different susceptible household members. It besides aims to physique self-sufficiency and trim vulnerability to outer shocks specified arsenic terms fluctuations and nutrient shortages.

In his remarks, Kano State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources Dr Danjuma Mahmoud described the inaugural arsenic embodying “a bold imaginativeness of a Nigeria wherever agriculture is not simply astir subsistence but astir empowerment.”

Represented by the ministry’s imperishable caput Bashir Sanusi, said the programme aligned with Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s medication committedness to strengthening agriculture arsenic a operator of empowerment and prosperity.

He said the SAPZ programme represented a collaborative effort among the national government, the Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, authorities governments, the backstage assemblage and farming communities to alteration Nigeria’s cultivation assemblage into an motor of inclusive maturation and agrarian development.