SKILLS Outside School Foundation with support from ACT Foundation, Access Bank, Bank of Agriculture and International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) recently executed its Agropreneur Intervention programme in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State for cassava and plantain farmers.
According to the Programme Officer, SOSF, Rose Daniel, farmers in Nigeria are faced with various challenges in their efforts to feeding an ever growing population to meeting rising demands which involve producing more foods on lesser acres to using less available farm lands and producing high and quality yields.
Those challenges are summarised as lack of information, insufficient financial support, access to better fertilisers, market access, and transportation challenges among others.
Capitalising on the gap in the agricultural sector, the SOSF Agropreneur Intervention came in response to the organisation’s demands under its Headstart Programme which focuses on providing training, mentoring, funding and advisory support program for entrepreneurs across sectors to start, sustain and scale their businesses.
The Agropreneur Intervention is focused on entrepreneurial clusters in the agriculture sector through community based groups and cooperatives with a goal to developing farming clusters that can achieve higher yields and support farmers to engage in value addition of high value raw agricultural produce.
Beneficiaries collectively receive technical and business skills training, funding and advisory services on production and access to markets.
The Rivers state Agropreneur intervention programme took participants through business training and had in attendance 246 participants with focus on increasing the business knowledge and skills of the farmers to help them further understand the business side of their farming and how to maximise profits from their yields.
The farmers were also taken through basic financial management and cash flow system.
There was a technical training session handled by facilitators from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), this session which had 133 participants focused on training farmers on best agronomic practices in cassava farming, the correct use of Herbicides, soil fertility management and common pests and diseases that affect cassava.
Participants were also tutored on the proper use of herbicides to maintain safety and effectiveness of the chemicals used.
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