FG trains Zamfara women, youths on fortified sorghum foods

The training is on business and entrepreneurial development as the women participants would be empowered to develop business skills, manage, package and also market their fortified high energy novel food as flour meals and bottled drinks of different types to create wealth, employment and increase family income. Speaking at the training of trainers workshop, Head […]

The training is on business and entrepreneurial development as the women participants would be empowered to develop business skills, manage, package and also market their fortified high energy novel food as flour meals and bottled drinks of different types to create wealth, employment and increase family income.
Speaking at the training of trainers workshop, Head of sorghum value chain unit, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Mr George Okpara, said a major thrust on sorghum value chain is the training of trainers on the use of sorghum-based high energy food for school feeding for children, women youths and the entire family especially in the first 1000 days of a child for adequate brain development and growth.
“The sorghum transformation value chain is focused on improving the nutrition, nourishment and ensuring food security of consumers of sorghum in the Northwest and Northeast of Nigeria via processing and product development, increasing productivity of sorghum using new hybrids and improved varieties, and increasing profitability of sorghum and creating wealth through linking farmers with processors,” he added.
The participants are coordinators of school feeding in the state, women and youths drawn from the 14 local government areas of the state and women in nutrition units of hospitals. The participants are also expected to step down the facts and essence of the programme to their families, communities for the desired development.