The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on Thursday donated farm inputs and machines to 135 young farmers in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, to enhance agricultural productivity, improve livelihood and contribute to food security in the country.
The institute, in a statement, said the farm inputs were donated to the farmers under the purview of its Youth in Agribusiness Project (YAS) and supported by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria.
“The YAS project, which is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, donated the items to 135 farmers it earlier trained in the value chains of aquaculture, poultry, horticulture and other commodities,” the statement noted.
It listed the items donated to the farmers to include 148 bags of fish feed, fingerlings, tarpaulin collapsible ponds, different sizes of fish smoking kiln, and broiler starter feed.
Other items distributed are 148 bags of poultry feed, a full irrigation kit for horticultural crops, 2,000-capacity water tanks, fertiliser, and a chicken plucker, which removes feathers in a few seconds, among others.
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