It is indeed my pleasure to be here on the last day of this Annual Learning Summit that commenced on Tuesday. I am aware that the Mission Director of USAID, Mr. Stephen Haykin was with you all yesterday to express his deep appreciation for your hard work and commitment to the SACE project.
PIND Foundation is sharing best practices in cassava through practical demonstrations. A total of 14, 947 men and women farmers had improved their knowledge, attitude and practices as a result of the demonstration plot intervention training.
As Nigeria’s Cocoa production and export began to increase in 2017, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) carried out a value chain study of the sector between January and April 2018. The findings from the study will be validated with stakeholders including farmers, intermediate and final processors, aggregators, exporters, Business Membership…
March 8, 2018. We were at Ugborodo and Ago-Nla Communities in Escravos, located in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, to demonstrate the Chorkor Oven to fish farmers in the communities Chorkor Oven is an appropriate technology that is very efficient for smoking fish, with a capacity to smoke up to 250kg of…
Rivers State Partners for Peace (P4P) hosted a 2019 election scenarios simulation exercise for peace actors in the State on March 16, 2018. The peace actors who attended the exercise learned conflict mitigation approaches for different possible scenarios that may come up during Nigeria’s general elections in 2019. This is part of PIND’s peace building…
As part of efforts to improve the income of farmers in the Niger Delta, PIND facilitated a Nigeria Agricultural Enterprise Curriculum (NAEC) and Technical Training for cassava farmers in Adofure Community in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State on March 20, 2018. The training focused on equipping farmers with knowledge on record keeping,…
PIND is facilitating a Nigeria Agricultural Enterprise Curriculum (NAEC) training for farmers in Qua Odukpani in Cross River State. The training which started yesterday (March 28, 2018), is designed to improve the business skills of farmers so that they can keep records, plan their cash flow processes and farming activity for increased income. PIND had…
PIND’s Partnership and Engagement Manager, Sylvester Okoh (Middle), joined the Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Emmanuel Tibi (on Sylvester’s left in white), and the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Delta State, Austin Chikeze (in brown on Sylvester’s right), to inaugurate the committee which will be charting viable policies for agricultural development in…
From February 26 – 28, 2018, PIND facilitated a Capacity Building for Local Empowerment (CAPABLE) Market Systems Development training in Benin, Edo State, for profit and non-profit organizations and service providers in the Niger Delta. This was a follow-on training to the CAPABLE Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) training which held in Akure,…
Pictures from action research on the potentials of cassava aggregation in the Niger Delta. From April 1 to 5, PIND facilitated the aggregation and supply of 24.2 tons of Cassava from partners in Edo state to Unicane Industries, a cassava processor in Kogi state. Through this research PIND is exploring the feasibility of developing a…