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.

Amuda Musbau     Law School Scholarship     Age AbdulKareem     Wasiu Odewale     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Folorunsho Erubu     Kumbi Titilope     Abdulkadir Orire     Oniye     Egbejila     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Doyin Awoyale     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Amos Bajeh     Ilorin Durbar     Ajase-Ipo     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Kulende     Mohammed Yisa     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Sanusi Abubakar     Danhawa     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Firdaos Amasa     Harmony Holdings     Al-Hikmah Radio     Elese Of Igbaja     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Rachael Obisesan     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Kanu Agabi     Toyosi Thomas     Mubarak Oladosu     Durosinlohun Kawu     Tsado Manman     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Niyi Osundare     CBT     Elerinjare     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Harrison Osauwagboe     Ilorin Central Mosque     Igbaja     JSSCE     Ajia-Bako     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Jumoke F. Ajao     Idris Garuba     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Oniwasi Agbaye     Nurudeen Mohammed     Hauwa Nuru     Congress For National Consensus     Ayoade Akinnibosun     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Isapa     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Omoniyi     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Sunday Fagbemi     COVID-19 Palliatives     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Erin-ile     ASMAU PLAZA     Centre For Digital Economy     Rafiu Olasile     Garba Ado Sanni     Femi Gbajabiamila     Folorunsho Alao     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Ilorin Emirate     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     T And K FOODS    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Pilgrims Board     Aliyu Muhammed     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Diagnostic Centre     Albert Ogunsola     Shonga Farm Project     Alapansapa     Olaitan Buraimoh     Sardauna     Kunbi Titiloye     Bayer AG     Tunde Kazeem     ITEM 7     Aremu Odolaye     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Doyin Group     Olupako Of Share     Sam Onile     Shuaibu Yaman     Fareedah Dankaka     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Kulende     Emir Of Kano     Damilola Yusuf     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Muhammed Abdullahi     Femi Oladiji     Oko     Leke Ogungbe     Offa Metropolitan Club     Gobir Organization Foundation     Mumeen Lah     Wasiu Onidugbe     Maigida Soludero Transit     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     IHS     Mufti Of Ilorin     Ibrahim Akaje     SSA Youth     Shettima     Muhammad Yahya     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Adeola Abraham     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Elese Of Igbaja     Unilorin FM     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     JAMB     Olawuyi     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     LEAH Charity Foundation     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Aminat Ahmed     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Sarkin Malamai     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Pakata     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Isiaq Khadeejah     08001000100     Laduba     Sheikh Alimi     Igbaja     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Bukola Saraki     Talaka Parapo     HYPPADEC     Oba Abu