By Abdulgafar Oladimeji.
Kano state government has conducted the training of 1,320 on the utilization of Soya bean for mass local production of pie and juice to strengthen the fight against malnutrition in breastfeeding mothers and growing children in the state.
The director of Extension Services, Kano Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, KNARDA Sadi Ibrahim while addressing a team from Civil Society- Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria CS-SUNN during an advocacy visit to the headquarters of the authority along Hadej9a road disclosed that KNARDA in its commitment and role to boost the production of quality food content said that the trained women were drawn from the 44 local governments.
According to him the training funded by the state government demonstrated to the participants the method to utilize local foods like Soya beans to produce nutritious meals.
Sadi said, “we demonstrated to the women how they should use what we have locally because they are cheaper and affordable to prepare proper nutrition, in children and breastfeeding mothers, we used Soya beans to demonstrate.” Sadi said.
He further said, “what we call Gari Kul- Kul is now popular among our women, we trained them on this and the results are visible it is affordable at all levels and nutritious too.”
Sadi revealed that the women produce the soya pie and drinks for household consumption and commercial purposes, explaining that in the process the household economy is also boosted resulting in good living standards.
The CS-SUNN team led by Innocent Ekene task the agency to set up an appraisal tool to monitor expenses and the implementation of planned nutrition activities across the state.
The coalition further urged KNARDA to heighten the initiation of community nutrition programmes targeted at hinterland communities, adding that in the process rural communities would be aided to connect effectively with development in the metropolitans.
