About 1,000 farmers in northern Nigeria will be trained on good agricultural practices and entrepreneurial skills thanks to a new partnership between Nestlé Nigeria and the International Fertilizer Development Center.
The two-year pilot project aims to help smallholder farmers, 40% of whom are women, in the Sahel and Sudan Savanna areas of the country to develop farming as a business and improve the quality and yields of millet and sorghum.
Part-funded by Context Global Development, the training programme will run until 2018, with an aim to enlarge and extend it for an additional five years.
Read more about the partnership (pdf, 100 Kb).