THE Head of the Capacity Development Office of Support Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood Sector in Nigeria (SWEAN) Sougrynoma Sore, is a French government implemented project, said 300 women in Oyo and Kaduna state have been trained on Agri-food processing in the project.
She said the training was also targeted at enhancing the skills in business, marketing branding, food standard certification of the selected women.
During an interaction with journalists at the French Embassy in Abuja, Sore said there was a collaboration with National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) and many others in the course of the training.
“The SWEAN project has trained about 300 women in Kaduna and Oyo state relating to Agri-food processing in Nigeria based on the crops and commodities that they produce and how to improve their processing, and also enhance the skills in business, marketing branding, food standard certification and so on.
“We have done that in collaboration with local partners like National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) and many others.
“We’ve been here for two days so that we can move to a higher level where all the training modules that were developed in this project that was done in local languages will be understood by the women.”
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