YAS distributes farm inputs and equipment to empower young farmers in Kano

The IITA Youth in Agribusiness (YAS) project has donated various farming equipment and inputs to no fewer than 400 young farmers in Kano State. These donations were additional support to the participants, who had previously been trained in the value chain of various agricultural commodities, including poultry, horticulture, and aquaculture.

With funding support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, the items distributed by the project included bags of chicken and fish feed, knapsack sprayers, bags of fertilizer, chicks, planter machines, seedling trays, coco peat, packs of sweet pepper and tomato seeds, among others.

The Project Coordinator, Adebayo Awotodunbo, said the process started with extensive technical and business training, followed by the empowerment to enable them to either start profitable agribusinesses or scale up existing ones.

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