ARMTI Trains Small-Scale Women Farmers In Agripreneurship

Date: 2022-06-28

Forty women in small-scale agriculture and agribusiness drawn from six geopolitical zones of the country have been trained in agripreneurship development by the Agriculture and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI) in Ilorin Kwara State.

The women, who attended the training programme from such states as Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Nassarawa, Borno, Benue, Kebbi, Abia, Edo, Imo, Delta and Lagos states, were trained in intensive agripreneurship development for five days.

Speaking at the event, the executive director of the ARMTI, Dr Olufemi Oladunni, said the aim was to make the women active participants in various agriculture enterprises and to benefit their families and the nation at large with their business.

Represented by the Head, Finance and Account department of the institute, Mr Moses Ibitoye, the executive director also said that the participants would do study visits to integrated farms in the course of their training programme to study agriculture enterprises and identify with any enterprise of their choice. For example, poultry, fishery, piggery, or crops.

Also speaking, head of, Training Department of the institute, Dr Abdulrazaq Yahaya, expressed the belief that skills acquired by the participants would go a long way to earn them a living.

“We have observed in the past that a lot of university or polytechnic graduates in the country are in search of elusive white-collar jobs upon their graduation. We thus try to imbibe the culture of agriculture in them, towards having a change of attitude in agriculture and choose an enterprise in agriculture. So, we believe that skills acquired would go a long way to earn them a living. In the past, agriculture was seen as a way of living among our people, but it's business nowadays. We will train them agricultural skills. They would then choose the enterprises of their own”, he said.

Also in an interview, Head, Rural Development and Gender Issue (RUDEG) of ARMTI, Mr Olasoye Abiodun, said that when women are empowered, family is empowered.

“If you look at the nation's population figure, one would see it's about 50-50 for both male and female. Women have peculiar challenges and we feel we should specially select them for entrepreneurship training so that some of the problems they are facing aside that of men could be addressed. When women are empowered, family is empowered. We want our women to be fully engaged in agripreneurship whether they practice at home or outside their residential homes.

“Agripreneurship cuts across every area of agriculture. It's not necessarily they go to farm with hoes and cutlass or rear animals. There are things they can do right at home, eg fish smoking, making cassava chips, plantain chips, among other value chains of agriculture.

Some of the participants, who commended the organizers of the training programme, shared their vision on the programme.

Mrs Susan Folasade Samuel and Yussuf Nafisat said that “agriculture should not only be for men. Women should be able to benefit from agricultural production. We hope to improve our knowledge on agric and participate in agric development to benefit our community and Nigeria as a whole.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kayode Yusuf     Saka Onimago     Adaramaja     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Oko Erin     Rasaq Jimoh     Isa Aremu     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Ojuekun Sarumi     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Saba Mamman Daniel     Adanla-Irese     Haliru Yahaya     Maryam A. Garuba     Olateju Lukman     Abubakar Aliagan     Park     Idris Amosa Saidu     NURTW     Ita-Nmo Market     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Lafiagi     Offa Metropolitan Club     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Aro Yahaya     Earlyon Technologies     Omotoso     Kolawole Akande     Otoge     Al-Hikmah University     Kwha.gov.ng     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Kehinde Baale     Gbenga Adebayo     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Oba Sulaiman Asude     General Hospital, Offa     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Haleeman Salman     Najim Yaasin     Adamu Attah     Marafan Shonga     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Kola Ologbondiyan     Agbarere     Isiaka Yusuf     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Lateef Fagbemi     Maryam Ado Bayero     Kanu Agabi     Mansur Alfanla     Abiodun Abdulkareem     NFAI     CCT     Share/Tsaragi     Aminat Omodara     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Alfa Yahaya Road     Ayinde Oki     Garba Ado Sanni     Kayode Zubair     Post Utme     KWASAA     Baboko     Hassanat Bello     George Funsho Adebayo     Shero     Baboko Primary School     Albert Ogunsola     Ayekale     School Of Nursing     Bolakale Saka     Mogaji Aare     Aliyu Adebayo     Abubakar Usman Jos    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Gbenga Adebayo     Tanke     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Abdulwahab Ololele     Local Government Pension Board     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Henry Olaosebikan     Kwara University Of Education     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Sulyman Buhari     Lateef Fagbemi     Alabi Lawal     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Ilorin Central Mosque     BECE     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Abdulrasaq Alaro     ER-KANG Mining     Mutawali     Gobirawa     Olupako     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Ajasse-Ipo     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Durosinlohun Atiku     Tafida     Abubakar Suleiman     Ilorin International Airport     Sambo Murtala     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Basit Olatunji     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Oke Sunna     CACOVID Palliatives     BIR     Mujtabah Bature     IHS     Riskat Opakunle     Aremu Bose Deborah     Alapado     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Kumbi Titiloye     Amos Bajeh     Quareeb Islamic Association     Funmilayo Oniwa     Idofin     Ariyo     Kwara Polytechnic     Usman Rifun     Olusola Saraki     Arinola Lawal     NULGE     Kwara State Sports Commission     Al-Adaby     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Olaiya Lawal     Amosa     Samari     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Kunle Suleiman     Olatunji Ibrahim     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Kwara NIPR     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi