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Tea
Dutse, Feb 9, 2017 (NAN) The Federal University, Dutse in Jigawa, said on Thursday its local tea production programme in Raju community of Dutse Local Government area would provide economic succour to no fewer than 12,000 members of the host communiy
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof Fatima Mukhtar, disclosed this at a Pre- Convocation Press Conference in Dutse.
Mukhtar explained that the school’s Centre for Enterprenureship Development went into a research and discovered a local product known as ‘Dinya’ in Raju community in Dutse local government area of the state.
According to her, the local product will be used in producing local tea, something that is capable taking the people of the community out of poverty.
“It is a local product, Dinya, that had been developed into highly marketable modern tea and coffee.
“The research by our scholars had indicated that the tea is highly medicinal and nutritious, and we are going to raise another research team for more findings on the tea,”she said.
Mukhtar said that very soon, the university would convey an economic summit to market the tea, as well as other confectioneries being produced in the school.
The Vice Chancellor also announced that 18 students would be graduating with First Class and 139 with Second Class Upper Divisions during the second convocation ceremony on Saturday. (NAN)
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