Foundation Empowers Poultry Farmers

A German-based initiative under the African Trust Fund for Entrepreneurial Development (AFOS) Foundation has empowered members of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) on effective management of poultry farms in order to improve the subsector for economic growth.

The programme which is the second edition was done in Lagos in collaboration with the Microfinance and Agricultural Learning and Development Centre (MLDC) and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) through the National Occupational Standard (NOS).

PAN president, Sunday Ezeobiora said that the programme was aimed at training skilled workers and improve their competence to develop Nigeria’s poultry industry.

According to him, Nigeria has enough skilled workers, and the poultry industry in the country can compete with every other industry all over the world.

The CEO and country representative of AFOS, Ladi Akoni said they are interested in the training due to the country’s potential for growth in the poultry sector and the gap in capacity building in the sector.

“So, we believe that though vocational training offers a pathway for efficiency in this sector, low cadre workers can become skilled, and these are the people that typically will be handling the birds in the sector, so we believe that up-scaling them helps them improve workmanship,” Akoni said.