NNPCL Foundation Flags Off Farmers Training In Kano

Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Foundation has kicked disconnected the North-West signifier of its Vulnerable Farmers Training Programme successful Kano. The oli steadfast reaffirmed its committedness to strengthening nutrient information and lifting agrarian communities.

At the flag-off ceremonial yesterday astatine the Rumfa College successful Kano, the managing manager of NNPC Foundation, Mrs. Emmanuella Arukwe, said the inaugural was designed to equip susceptible farmers – peculiarly women and younker – with modern cultivation techniques, fiscal literacy, and entree to markets.

According to her, “This programme is not conscionable astir training. It is astir transforming households from subsistence farming to sustainable income and resilience.

“The programme reflects our committedness to nationalist improvement that goes beyond energy” she stated.
The MD, represented by the Foundation’s manager of finance, Eugenia Dominion, said the task has truthful acold been implemented successful 4 zones—South-East, South-South, South-West, and North-Central—engaging 7,119 registered farmers, with 7,063 actively participating.

She explained that the grooming volition diagnostic modules connected climate-smart agriculture, ungraded management, post-harvest handling, cooperative formation, and integer tools for agronomy and marketing.

Mrs. Arukwe emphasised that the sessions would beryllium practical, combining lectures, demonstrations, and interactive radical work. Translators would beryllium connected manus to guarantee inclusivity.

In his goodwill message, the Kano State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Danjuma Mahmoud, represented by the ministry’s imperishable secretary, Dr. Bashir Sanusi, hailed the programme arsenic timely.

He commended the NNPC Foundation for its foresight and stressed that the inaugural aligns with Governor Abba Yusuf’s cultivation translation agenda.

He said nether the governor’s leadership, Kano has revitalised irrigation schemes, subsidised farming inputs, promoted mechanisation, and empowered thousands of smallholder farmers, peculiarly women and youth.

“This inaugural represents a bold measurement towards achieving nutrient security, tackling unemployment, and addressing climate-related challenges,” Mahmoud stated, assuring the Foundation of the authorities government’s afloat support.