Boosting Farming Productivity in Adamawa: SCL Trains MTG Leaders to Increase Yields by 30%
Sa’i‘anwara’I’jumai Consultaire Limited (SCL) has successfully trained and registered 100 leaders under its Project Juriya Mutual Trust Groups (MTGs) in Adamawa State.
The leaders were presented with certificates of registration, record books, and leadership management training materials by SCL’s Agricultural Financial Consultant, Mr. Joram Nganga, during an event held at Bawuro Hall, City Green Hotel Yola.
The programme is aimed at improving the living status of farmers to be self-reliant as the MTG leaders prepare to return to their communities to begin the process of managing their various groups as trained by SCL.
The SCL Project Juriya MTGs is designed to bring small holder farmers who are participating in Regenerative Agriculture practices (Organic farming) into groups so as to leverage economies of scale through cooperative management systems.
As of April 2024, the project has on-boarded 5,571 small holder farmer households in Adamaawa State, with 3,726 females, of whom 2,097 are female youth, 142 are people living with disability, and 443 are internally displaced persons.
The project taught farmers groups on leadership qualities, financial inclusion, guidelines on increasing farming productivity, and regenerative agriculture.
To ensure the success of the project, 25 Field Agents have been trained on Regenerative Agricultural integrated Crops, trees, and Livestocks (RA ICTL) practices and serve as RA Ambassadors in their communities which will contribute to youth in work target.
The SCL Project Juriya is being implemented in three states, namely Kaduna, Adamawa, and Nasarawa states.
In Adamaawa State, the project is implemented in ten LGA’s, namely: Yola North, Yola South, Mubi North & South, Fufore, Demsa, Mayo-belwa, Girei, Michika & Madagali.
The project has provided an alternative and easier means of improving the livelihoods of farmers through regenerative agriculture, according to Obioma C’ezirioha from Rahama Farmers MTG & Rebecca Sini of Alheri MTG who shared their experience to Sahel Reporters.
SCL is an indigenous private sector agro-allied enterprise established in year 2010 with the purpose to seed diverse and interconnected African agri-business models for future food systems to enable the rise of purposeful and sustainable communities.
Some advantages of the Project include the restoration of soil health, boosting farm resilience, enhancing biodiversity, bolstering local economies, securing food supply, and mitigating climate change.
