Body Trains Women On Organic Compost Manure

The Executive Director, Women Empowerment Programme, Mrs Priscilla Achakpa, says the training of women in making organic compost manure is part of the empowerment programmes to eradicate poverty.

Achakpa told The Tide source in Abuja, recently  that the women were also taught how to store rain water in order to cater for their farming and household needs.

She said, “Part of our empowerment programme is compost making, and we also train our women on rain water harvesting and storage, especially during the rainy season.”

The Executive Director said that during the rainy season when rain water was available, some of the women were taught to store rain water to enable them care for themselves.

“Some will just store the water for few months or temporarily pending when the dry season comes, but as a matter of fact, we have taught them how to store the water,” she said.

Achakpa said that whenever they encounter difficulty in getting artificial fertiliser, they made use of organic fertiliser for their farming.

She said that though there were issues of flooding this year, most communities where the organisation worked, were not really affected.

She noted that during the rainy season last year, Yauri Community in Kebbi, was one of the communities affected due to the opening of the dam from Sokoto State, which washed away their farm produce.

However, since the women had been taught to make compost manure, they regained their farmlands and produced, through organic farming which nourishes the soil.

Achakpa noted that in terms of sensitisation, the organisation could not get to every community in the country because of limited resources.

“Nigeria as a whole is a big country, so if we have to go round the communities, there has to be enough resources to go round knowing that our national office has been promoting the programme,” she said.