LifeSupport Network offers tutelage to Nigerians on cottage farming

LIFESUPPORT Network (LSN), Nigeria has offered free training to some agriculture-inclined Nigerians on skill acquisition in cottage farming and food production techniques.

The one-day skill acquisition programme tagged ‘Food For All Strategic Summit’, FOFASS-1, saw 60 participants trained on subsistence agriculture for self-reliance in food security and sufficiency such as snail farming, fish farming, organic farming, livestock, among others.

Speaking with journalists at the event held in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the Chief Executive Officer, (CEO), LSN, Miss ItunuOluwa Ajayi-Albert, maintained that although her NGO was about youth empowerment, but its operational scope also includes betterment of people’s lives through intervention programmes and rehabilitative initiatives.

She stated that her organisation had held similar skill acquisition programmes for youths in about six states in Nigeria including Gayaza in Uganda and Nairobi Kenya, urging participants to apply the skills they learnt to grow what they eat.

She stated that the organisation was going to follow up with participants to evaluate their performances after the summit and assist diligent ones to access grants needed to take beyond the subsistence levels.

She therefore, advised the participants to use the opportunity to make something good for their living, adding that LSN will continue to work on measures to improve living standards of the poor across the globe.

The keynote speaker at the event, Professor O. J Babayemi, while delivering his paper titled: “Strategies to Achieving Food Security in Nigeria” expressed worries over consequences of hunger in Nigeria, saying that limited access to food has negative consequences on people’s health.

The Executive Director, LSN Ondo State, Mr. Lanre Emmanuel Alegbeleye said the organisation held the programme in pursuance of its objectives in helping the poor to develop mechanisms for their survival, assuring the beneficiaries that LSN would monitored them in ensuring they put the skills to profitable use.

Some of the participants thanked LSN, stating that their expectations were met beyond their imagination and promised to embark on serious practice in their areas of concentration.

At the end of the summit, participants were awarded certificates of participation and given variety of vegetable seeds to kickstart their cottage farms.

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