SMEDAN Train Farmers on Agro Allied Business in Kano
AREWA AGENDA – No fewer than 100 farmers in Kano State participated in training organized by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).
The 2-day capacity building programme for farmers on agro process is organized under the Products and Marketing Enhancement Scheme (PAMES) of SMEDAN.
Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Olawale Fasanya, the Director General of SMEDAN said the training was aimed at providing technical support services to MSEs in agro-allied businesses on product development, from farm gate to market.
Fasanya, who was represented by Regina Bamaiyi said it was also aimed at promoting entrepreneurship in agro development in the areas of product development, storage, standardisation, sales, and marketing.
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She further explained that SMEDAN was collaborating with relevant stakeholders to provide standard product development services to promote market access and encourage competitiveness.
,”It is all about how to address challenges in the production value chain from the farm to the table, we are training them on how to produce, process, preserve, standardise and sell in order to get the maximum benefit from their enterprise,” she said.
Also speaking, the State Manager of SMEDAN in Kano Mallam Bashir Jaafar said the choice of rice in the state was because it had a comparative advantage in the production of rice.
He further revealed that the participants are tested rice farms who were drawn from rice farm cooperatives available in the data of the Kano Ministry Of Agriculture.
He said the trainees would go back home better equipped as they would be trained on modern processing techniques, post-harvest processes, and agro insurance to inoculate them from extreme loss in event of disasters like recent fraud.
