Kwara trains women, students in potato processing

Date: 2022-11-23

The Kwara State Government, in conjunction with the Agricultural Development Project have trained over 40 women and students on the processing of sweet potatoes into confectionaries.

The one-day training workshop, held at the Ministry of Agriculture Headquarters in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday, had in attendance the principal officers of the ministry, nutritionists, students and staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and ADP.

Declaring the workshop open, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mallam AbdulLateef Alakawa, said the training would add value to the state government's programmes on food security.

While appreciating the organisers of the workshop, the commissioner, who was represented by the Director of Agriculture Services, Alhassan Mohammed, disclosed that the present administration would spare no efforts at ensuring availability of nutritious food and wellness of the people in the state.

He explained that the training would further help in eradicating poverty especially among women and youths in the state.
In her opening remarks, the Managing Director, KWADP, Dr. Khadijat Ahmed, disclosed that the training was conceptualised to address the prevalence issue of malnutrition in the country.

Ahmed, who is also a nutritionist, identified deficiency of vitamins in the body system as the major cause of blindness.

She appealed to well meaning individuals, corporate organisations, non-governmental organisations, and government at all levels to join the campaign against malnutrition in the country.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kulende-UITH     Yahaya Seriki     Salman Suleiman     Haliru Dantoro     All Peoples Party     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Kwara State Governor     Garba Dogo     Oni Adebayo     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Elerin Of Adanla     Idi-Ape     CLAY POT     Kolo     Abdulazeez Arowona     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Igbaja     Usman Yunusa     Ilorin Like-Minds     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Jumoke Gafar     Ahman Pategi University     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Maigidasanma     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Okin Malt     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Oyin-Zubair     Yusuf Abubakar     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Rasheed Jimoh     Abiodun Oyedepo     Oba Sulaiman Asude     3MTT     Kayode Alabi     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Adeniyi Ojo     Local Government     LABTOP     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Saliu Shola Taofeek     General Hospital, Ilorin     Kazeem Adekanye     John Mayokun Dada     Elekoyangan     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Arinola Lawal     Ilorin South Constituency     Kwara State Pension Board     Makama     Oyun     Yaman     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Tunji Moronfoye     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Oladimeji Thompson     Bolaji Nagode     Kayode Issa     Paul Olawoore     Yusuf Mubarak     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Cornelius Adebayo     Kumbi Titiloye     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Baba Issa Awoye     Kwara TV     NIRSAL     Federal Allocation     Mohammed Haruna     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     ANCOPPS     Okin Biscuits    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

AbdulRahman Saad     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Ahmed Dankaya     Peter Obi     Umar Adelodun     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Solomon Edojah     Jimoh Bashir     Oya State     Saka Saadu     Owode Market     Sango-UITH Road     Abubakar Atiku     KWASIEC     Ilorin.Info     Olayinka Are     Olaoye B. Felix     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Olabanji Orilonishe     Marufat Oladosu     Muslim Cementary     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Olokoba     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Chikanda     Assayomo     Gobirawa     SSA Youth     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Issa Oloruntogun     Offa Poly     Quareeb Islamic Association     Ado Ibrahim     Tunji Arosanyin     Aisha Buhari     Olatunde Michaels     Sunday Otokiti     Makama Of Ilorin     Taofeek Ibraheem     Ilorin General Hospital     Leke Ogungbe     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     CKNG     KwaraLearn     Salami Adekunle     Ibrahim Mohammed     Shehu Salau     John Mayokun Dada     SAPZ Project     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Adesoye College     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Abubakar Imam     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Lanre Jimoh     Jumoke F. Ajao     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Olam Food Ingredients     Earlyon Technologies     Mohammed Saidu     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Cassava Growers\' Association     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Lithium     Ndama Al-hassan     Buhari     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Okeose Christian Cementary     Abdulwahab Ololele     Waheed Ibrahim     NAWOJ