The main goal of the Kano State Agro-pastoral Development Project is to achieve poverty reduction by strengthening food and nutrition security of the most vulnerable population in Kano State
In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, the project coordinator of the Kano State Agro-pastoral Development Project, Abdulrasheed Hamisu, speaks on how Sasakawa Africa Association used $95 million loan/grants acquired from the Islamic Development Bank to promote sustainable agriculture models to improve farmers’ livelihoods and achieve food security across the 44 local government areas of the state within five years.
So, SAA has its own approach to getting that mandate achieved. We have three strategic pillars that we work with: regenerative agriculture, nutrition sensitive agriculture, and market-oriented agriculture. For the market oriented agriculture, of course, there has been a very serious problem on the side of the farmers where they do farming not as a business but they cultivate it as heredity trait. Here in SAA, we support them to grow to sell, which means to consider farming as a business.
So based on that sustainability criteria, women are drawn from across the 44 LGAs of the state and within the value chains for which we are intervening. They received different sets of trainings and at the same time we provide support for them to go and continue their business in their localities and get others within their communities who will also be trained and also earn their living through that value chain.
Regarding their productivity, we really support farmers to understand how to cultivate a small piece of land and also get higher results. We have the baseline study actually from the commencement of the project, which clearly showed us that rice farmers achieved an average of 1.5 metric tonnes and maize farmers achieved an average of 1.33 metric tonnes.
Secondly, the issue of practicalising the concepts, we do source early maturing seeds and also climate-resilient seeds that can withstand drought and then we diffuse them across the communities where the farmers cultivate as part of our training, because seed is the foundation. We source for climate-smart seeds that will enable them to cultivate within the right atmosphere and also grow to harvest within the favourable period.
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