The Particular Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) below the Worldwide Fund for Agricultural Improvement (IFAD) Part 2 has launched the distribution of toolkits for residence gardening to 1,445 households in Kano State.
The initiative, below SAPZ’s Focused Diet Help Programme, anchored the toolkits to strengthen households throughout eight native authorities areas of the state.
The initiative, held between third and sixth October 2025, primarily aimed to empower girls and susceptible teams by enabling them to domesticate nutrient-rich greens and crops at residence to stimulate meals safety.
Talking on the launch of the initiative in Kano, the State Challenge Coordinator (SPC), Aminu Iliyasu, disclosed that 180 girls, every from the eight native authorities areas, benefited from the intervention.
He listed the benefiting native authorities areas as Kura, Garun-Mallam, Bebeji, Dambatta, Gezawa, Dawakin-Tofa, Bichi, and Bagwai.
In response to Iliyasu, the initiative is primarily to enhance dietary variety and guarantee steady entry to recent, nutrient-rich meals by enabling households, notably girls, to develop greens and small-scale crops inside their properties.
The SAPZ Coordinator emphasised that beneficiaries are supplied with entry to acceptable gardening implements, reminiscent of gardening instruments and inputs to allow households to domesticate a wide range of greens and small-scale crops suited to their native surroundings.
He added that it will assist in reducing the meals bills of households, promoting surplus produce for extra revenue, and constructing self-sufficiency over time. This contributes to better financial stability and reduces vulnerability to exterior shocks reminiscent of worth fluctuations and meals shortages.
“It additionally goals at offering these fundamental sources in order that households with restricted prior farming expertise can take part totally on this initiative.
“The initiative will assist empower households to develop their very own recent produce, thereby enhancing dietary variety and lowering dependence on exterior meals sources.
“It is going to tackle micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition, notably amongst youngsters, pregnant girls, and different susceptible teams inside households.
“To decrease the meals bills of households, promote surplus produce for extra revenue, and construct self-sufficiency over time contributes to better financial stability and reduces vulnerability to exterior shocks reminiscent of worth fluctuations and meals shortages.”
On the finish, the SAPZ Coordinator identified that the initiative is predicted to extend family manufacturing of nutrient-dense greens, which contributes to lowering ranges of malnutrition, particularly amongst youngsters below 5, pregnant, and lactating moms.
“It’s anticipated that the programme would assist enhance family meals safety and resilience in opposition to financial shocks, empower girls and youth via possession and administration of residence gardens, strengthen neighborhood engagement and possession of nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions, and help native suppliers whereas stimulating native financial actions via procurement of supplies,” Iliyasu defined.
In his remarks, the Kano State Commissioner for Agriculture and Pure Assets, Dr Danjuma Mahmoud, described the initiative as a daring imaginative and prescient of a Nigeria “the place agriculture shouldn’t be merely about subsistence, however about empowerment; not merely about producing meals, however about nourishing folks, creating livelihoods, and reworking communities.”
In response to Mahmoud, represented by the ministry’s Everlasting Secretary, Bashir Sanusi, the SAPZ initiative embodies a transformative imaginative and prescient and seeks to reposition the agricultural sector as a real engine of inclusive progress, improved vitamin, and rural growth.
“This flagship programme is being championed via sturdy collaboration between the Federal Authorities of Nigeria, the Islamic Improvement Financial institution (IsDB), and the Worldwide Fund for Agricultural Improvement (IFAD), in partnership with state governments, the personal sector, and our resilient farming communities.
“These interventions usually are not summary coverage statements; they’re designed to handle the on a regular basis wants of our folks. By specializing in youth and ladies—those that carry the best accountability for family vitamin and household wellbeing—the programme is laying the inspiration for stronger households and more healthy futures.
“This effort can also be in excellent alignment with the imaginative and prescient and dedication of the current administration of His Excellency, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, to strengthen agriculture as a driver of empowerment and prosperity.
“Underneath his management, the federal government has launched daring programmes reminiscent of the availability of cattle, goats, and sheep to girls and youth, together with graduates of our Faculty of Agriculture; the deployment of huge agricultural mechanisation gear—tractors, mix harvesters, and energy tillers—to reinforce productiveness; and the employment of over 1,000 younger folks as agricultural extension staff to deliver information and innovation nearer to farmers.
“These measures are clear proof of a authorities that sees agriculture not solely as an financial sector, however as a pathway to dignity, empowerment, and shared prosperity,” Dr Mahmoud mentioned.
