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The German International Development Agency in partnership with the L and Z in Kano are training pastoralists under a project called the Green Harvest Initiative (GHI).
This was made known to newsmen in Kano on Monday by the Head of Partnership of L and Z, Ahmad Nuhu.
He explained that the whole purpose of the project is improving the climatic resilience of smallholder farmers, who are the main dairy suppliers.
They will train 15 trainers that will also train 400 others in their communities. They will take away knowledge, skills and seedlings as benefits of the training, Blueprint.ng reports.
“We are here to expand the GHI project, we are implementing project called Green Harvest Initiative funded by the German International Development Agency in Nigeria.
“The whole purpose of the project is really towards improving the climatic resilience of smallholder farmers that we work with who are our daily suppliers.
“The product focusses on training 400 farmers on agriculture. Because of that phase the donor saw the need to expand the scope , they gave us go ahead to train additional farmers.
“So today we are beginning with the training of trainers, we have selected 15 pastoralists, we are training the trainers,” he stated.
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