The National Agricultural Extension Research and Liaison Services, NAERLS Zaria said that the institute had devised a plan to transform the lives of three hundred and sixty thousand smallholder farmers of maize and soybeans through modern farming techniques.
The Institute’s Executive Director, Mohammed Kabir-Othman made this known at the opening of a three-day Stakeholders’ Inception Meeting in Kaduna targeted at: `Building the Capacity of Community-Based Advisors for Improved Productivity of Maize, Rice, and Soybeans in Niger and Kaduna States.
Kabir-Othman said the institute was privileged to receive a grant of over one million dollars for the project that will be implemented in the two states of Kaduna and Niger in the next two years.
He noted that the public extension system was on the verge of collapsing, adding that in the past thirty years, the services being rendered by extension agents had drastically reduced.
