By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna
Friday, July 5, 2024
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To promote Nutrients Crops and Diet Crops in Kaduna state and Nigeria as a whole. Global Alliance for Improve Nutrition, a Nongovernmental organization, has trained trainers on improving nutrition and the value of nutrient-enriched Staples in Kaduna state.
The one-day training of trainers convened three participants from each of the twenty-three local government areas of the state.
Speaking during the training session the senior project manager, of supply chains for commercialization, Mr Godwin Ehiabhi, said “We were in Kaduna in the last 5 years, that’s 2019 to implement a different project that promotes the consumption of safe and nutritious food in Nigeria.
we want the community members to see the importance of consuming what they have because biofortification can help you at little with no cause it doesn’t add much cause to it so instead of consuming your normal meal this time you’ll be consuming vitamin A and rich maize fortification.
“This training aims to support the government with technical assistance in training the agricultural extension workers on how to process and save the nutrition food using vitamin A maize and Vitamin A cassava Orange potatoes.”
The project manager, however, explained that the overall goal of the particular training is to ensure that the extension agents have acquired the knowledge on processing and value addition of product formalization and reformation.
He further noted that the community would be benefited from the program, because, the extension agents from various 23 local government areas, and expected to castigate what they had learned down to the communities.
One of the participants, Aisha Gidado, an extension worker from the Kauru local government area, said “We learned more about nutritional food and with different kinds of things would promote youth and old peoples and the farming system in Nigeria must, especially in Kaduna state.
“I’m delighted with the training, I urged my fellow participants to adapt to what they have learned from the project.
Another participant, Hauwa’u Gambo from KADA, thanked God for allowing them to attend the training, “That’s benefited us a lot especially females in knowing the overall techniques on developing our farming activities.
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