NIRSAL PLC Target 600 Adamawa Farmers in Livestock Skills Drive By Raymond Enoch
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) PLC , are strengthening livestock farming in Adamawa State through a skills-based training programme designed to equip hundreds of farmers with practical knowledge for profitable goat and livestock production.
The training which is sponsored by NIRSAL PLC and facilitated by WANILTU ACADEMY Yola Adamawa state is aimed at equiping Livestock farmers with best practices skills and modules that enhances their optimization of livestock farming. Speaking at the training in Aliyu Musdafa College, Yola , the Director Waniltu Academy Abdullahi Suleiman ,charged the participants to take the advantage of the training to advance their livestock businesses, noting that the purpose of the training is to equip them to better enhance their, increase their income and improve on the existing livestock farming.
The initiative targets 600 participants across six locations in the state, with 100 participants each in Wuro Nyombe, Mayo-Belwa, Nyibango, Jada and Ganye, while 300 participants will be trained in Yola South.
The programme is expected to go beyond basic classroom instruction, focusing on practical livestock management, improved production techniques, animal health, feeding, breeding and other critical elements of the livestock value chain.
For many smallholder farmers, livestock farming remains an important source of household income, employment and food security. However, limited access to technical knowledge, improved production practices and finance continues to constrain the sector.
The engagement therefore seeks to bridge that gap by putting practical skills directly in the hands of farmers and aspiring livestock entrepreneurs and SMEs.
NIRSAL’s agricultural mandate includes capacity development and technical assistance, alongside efforts to strengthen agricultural value chains and improve access to finance and risk-management mechanisms.
The WANILTU Academy component brings the training and practical skills dimension to the initiative, with particular attention to goat farming and livestock enterprise development.
The selection of communities across Adamawa also gives the programme a strong grassroots character, taking agricultural knowledge beyond major urban centres to farmers operating within local communities and grassroots.
With 600 beneficiaries projected, the initiative could create a wider pool of better-trained livestock farmers capable of improving productivity, building sustainable businesses and contributing to the state’s agricultural economy.
More importantly, the programme reflects a growing recognition that transforming agriculture requires more than providing inputs or finance.
Farmers must also have the knowledge and practical skills to turn those opportunities into viable businesses.
For Adamawa’s livestock sector, the NIRSAL initiative could therefore mark an important step towards building a more skilled, productive and commercially oriented generation of livestock farmers in Adamawa and beyond.
