Leadership (Abuja)
6 January 2008
Kwali Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) will train members of farmers cooperative societies on modern techniques for beekeeping. Mr Samuel Gwamna, the council chairman, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Kwali.
He said that the training was necessary to generate income, in view of the immense potentialities of Kwali in honey production. " Honey is one of the major commodities that can earn a farmer a lot of money if properly tapped," he said. He said that agricultural
experts had confirmed that Kwali had a good weather for rearing honey bees which could generate millions of naira for farming communities.
" Personally, I am a beekeeper and I have trained more than 20 farmers on modern beekeeping," Gwamna said. He said that his council had commissioned experts to organise the training for contact farmers before thesecond quarter of 2008.
The chairman explained that after the training, the council would provide incentives and beekeeping tools to the contact farmers to enable them train others. He reiterated the commitment of his council to develop agriculture and the various empowerment programmes introduced by the federal government.
"That is why the Council paid its counterpart funding of N2 million to FADAMA project in 2006," he said. Gwamna said the council had also concluded arrangements for the distribution of fertilisers to communities at subsidised rate. " We are also making a frantic efforts to either take over or invest in the stalled brown sugar project of the ministry of Science and Technology," the chairman told NAN.
He gave an assurance that by the end of 2008, agriculture would contribute in uplifting the income status of farmers in the area council.
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