Risk
By Abdullahi Shugaba
Dutse, Sept. 27, 2018 (NAN) The Nigerian Incentive Risk Sharing System (NIRSAL) has organised a two-day workshop for farmers in risk management and farm record keeping for stakeholders in agricultural value chain in Dutse, Jigawa.
Mr David Akande, the Head of NIRSAL in the state, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Thursday.
Akande said that NISIRSAL was a subsidiary of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which was also giving loans and other interventions to farmers, especially on agricultural value chain programmes.
He said that the workshop was also meant to teach farmers ways to use modern technology on risk management and farm record keeping,
“We are organising the training from producers, distributors down to consumers on agricultural value chain programmes.
Alhaji Abubakar Bello, the NIRSAL Field Officer in the state, said that about 27,000 farmers were expected to benefit from the training programmes. (NAN)
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Edited By Adeboye Ajayi/Tajudeen Atitebi