Skills Outside School Foundation (SOSF), with support from ACT Foundation, Access Bank, Bank of Agriculture and International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has provided an agropreneur intervention programme in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State for cassava and plantain farmers.
Farmers in Nigeria are faced with various challenges in their efforts to feed an ever growing population, which involves producing more foods on lesser acres.
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Capitalising on the gap in the agricultural sector, the SOSF agropreneur intervention came in response to the organisation’s demands under its Headstart Programme, which focuses on providing training, mentoring, funding and advisory support programme for entrepreneurs across sectors to start, sustain and scale their businesses.
Organisers said the agropreneur intervention focused on entrepreneurial clusters in the agriculture sector through community-based groups and cooperatives, with a goal to developing farming clusters that can achieve higher yields and support farmers to engage in value addition of high value raw agricultural produce.
Beneficiaries collectively receive technical and business skills on training, funding and advisory services on production and access to markets.
