ACReSAL trains 20,153 farmers on improved manual farming techniques in Adamawa
From Umar Dankano, Yola
The Agro-climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes, ACReSAL has trained twenty thousand,one hundred and fifty three (20,153) farmers with techniques for degradation of landscape through traditional ways of farming in Adamawa state.
Accordingly demonstration farms were provided for the selected farmers involving Forty eight percentage female farmers while fifty two percentage are male farmers with a view to reduce use of chemical solutions on our farmland to boost the fertility of the soil.
ACReSAL’s Monitoring and evaluation expert in charge of the state (Adamawa), Mr. Zira Jeremiah made the disclosure in an interview with journalists yesterday stressing that the aim is to restore degradation of landscape through reclaimenation of degraded landscape and regenerative agricultural approach.
Jeremiah said that the approach is to ensure the ecosystem with all the macro organisms are retained in that same soil or farm so that it wouldn’t be expose to sun and the use of these in-organic dust up the soil.
Jeremiah explained that the organization has already rehabilitated and turned all the skill acquisition centers built by Former Governor Murtala Nyako’s administration to Landscape farming skills acquisition training centers in the 21 local government areas in the state especially agricultural revolutions.
He explained that sixteen thousand(16,000) seedlings of different kinds of trees has been planted across the demonstration in the state noting that 256 hectares in Girei local government area.
According to him a total of 582 direct beneficiaries have been given farmlands so that they practice what they are taught in the class (theory) noting that 57 buffer zones are established for growing animal grasses.
The M&E Specialist, Jeremiah maintained that, ACReSAL is a World Bank-assisted project in 19 Northern Nigeria aimed at tackling land degradation and climate change with the goal to increase the adoption of sustainable landscape management practices, restore degraded lands, and strengthen Nigeria’s capacity for climate-resilient landscape management.
“The project involves multiple sectors, including environment, agriculture, and water resources”. Jeremiah highlighted
