Improved Farming: KSADP/ Sasakawa Africa train 841 extension agents, community based facilitators in Kano

By solacebase.com On Aug 27, 2022

By Aliyu Mansir

Kano State Agro -Pastoral Development (KSADP) and Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) have trained 841 extension agents (EAs) and community based facilitators (CBF) on ways to improve farming and rearing of livestock in Kano state.

The organization said the initiative is a partnership with Kano state government in order to boost agricultural activities in the state, through its program tagged Kano state Agro-Pastoral Development Project (KSADP).

Project Coordinator for KSADP in Sasakawa Africa Association, Comrade Abdurrashid Hamisu Kofar Mata stated this on Friday, at Kadawa, in Kano at a mid season training for extension agents (EAs) and community based facilitators (CBF).

He said that the aim of this mid-season training is to build the capacity of EAs and CBF on agricultural activities and also to provide lasting solutions to the challenges they encountered after undergone pre-season training.

“it is our tradition in every season we conduct what we call pre-season training, where the EAs and CBF are taken through the rigors of the packages of the technology that are given to farmers, so as for them to understand the basics of the theoretical and practical field work.”

“So when it comes to the mid-season training, we also organize a kind of gathering like this to review the happenings on the field, where we think we are doing the right thing we maintain the protocol and where we have certain observation that needed to be corrected we put them through to correction, so that the right message will reach the right beneficiaries at the right time” Comrade Abdurrashid clarified.

He added that the trainings will also help to increase farmers’ income and food nutrition security through promoting market-oriented, sustainable, resilient, regenerative, and nutrition-sensitive agricultural innovations and building the capacity of extension agents and farmers.

Na’ima Sarki Muhammad , one of the extension agents (EAs) who attended the training, expressed her appreciation to Kano state government and Sasakawa Africa association for the knowledge imparted in her.

She promised to put to use the knowledge and transfer same to others.

Similarly, apart from the training of EAs and CBF, Sasakawa also organized youth empowerment training, with the theme youth training and empowerment on spray service enterprise management.

At the event, 310 youths across the 44 local government of the state benefited with personal protective equipment on farms that include sprayers, gloves, helmets, face shields and goggles.