FG trains, empowers Edo, Delta Poultry Farmers

BENIN – 60 poultry farmers from the states of Edo and Delta have received advanced training in poultry production methods from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

The Ministry also gave each participant in the presidential program for food security a cartoon featuring day-old chicks and feeds.

Additionally, stipends were given to the farmers to make transportation easier.

The program, according to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Ernest Umakhihe, was designed to improve the standard of living for young people in Edo and Delta by empowering them and increasing their capacity.

Rose Igbinedion, a senior agricultural officer in the ministry, who was speaking on behalf of Umakhihe, said that small-scale farmers in Nigeria accounted for between 70 and 80 percent of the country’s agricultural output.

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“However, they encounter difficulties resulting from a lack of access to financial services and a feed issue in the production of poultry.

In order to solve the issues of gender inequality, unemployment, and poverty, it is crucial to support, educate, and empower young people.

Accordingly, the ministry created a training and empowerment program on contemporary chicken production to offer the simplest and most easily accessible agricultural enterprise to support 60 adolescents in the states of Delta and Edo.

Program Manager for the Edo Agricultural Development Project (ADP), Dr. Edward Izevbigie, thanked the federal government for the gift in his welcoming speech.

Izevbigie challenged the farmers to use the education and empowerment to their advantage and make money for themselves.

Speaking on behalf of the farmers, the Secretary of the chicken Association of Nigeria, Edo chapter, expressed appreciation for the federal government and asked the farmers to use best practices when raising chicken.