The Niger Delta Construction Fee has equipped monetary assistance to 300 rice farmers within the Niger Delta, every receiving starter packs usefulness N200,000 to reinforce rice manufacturing.
The Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, stated this in a remark on Saturday in Port Harcourt.
The remark used to be issued by means of the fee’s Director of Company Affairs, Mrs Seledi Thompson-Wakama.
The starter bind used to be offered to the beneficiaries throughout the endmost rite of the second one quantity of the NDDC-sponsored coaching programme for rice farmers.
Ogbuku, represented by means of the NDDC’s Director of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Winifred Madume, reaffirmed the fee’s constancy to reworking the rural sector within the area.
In line with him, the programme aimed to show farmers to very important talents in fashionable rice farming ways, processing, and agribusiness methods.
“The scheme is designed to enable farmers to enhance rice production, establish cooperatives, and explore further partnerships with relevant agencies and financial institutions,” he mentioned.
Ogbuku additionally highlighted the NDDC’s ongoing collaboration with the World Charity for Agricultural Construction (IFAD) to handover apprenticeship coaching for farmers within the Niger Delta.
“We remain committed to implementing impactful agricultural empowerment initiatives to enhance food security, create jobs, and alleviate poverty in the region,” he added.
The Deputy Director of Agriculture and Fisheries in NDDC, Mr Wale Oretan, stated 300 farmers from Abia and alternative states within the area participated within the coaching.
He defined that the educational lined each theoretical and sensible sides of rice manufacturing, processing, and entrepreneurship.
“Each participant received a starter pack worth N200,000 along with a certificate of completion,” Oretan mentioned.
He advised the beneficiaries to use the information received from the educational to enhance their companies and spice up rice manufacturing around the 9 Niger Delta states.
The President of the Abia Rice Farmers Affiliation, Mrs Uzoma Ochulo, expressed gratitude to NDDC in the name of the beneficiaries.
Ochulo stated the beneficiaries would percentage their wisdom with alternative farmers of their communities to extend rice manufacturing within the Niger Delta.
NAN