The programme dubbed”, Business Incubation, Cooperative Capacity Development and Valued Addition Training to Maaltaaba Business Development Team (BTD), organized by Maaltaaba Peasant Women Farmers’ Cooperative (MAPEWFAC), was funded by the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).
The participants who are into livestock and poultry rearing such as goats, sheep, gunea fowls, fowls, ducks among others are expected to become trainers of trainees in their respective communities where they have women smallholder farmers.
Speaking to the media at the event, the Director of MAPEWFAC, Lydia Miyella, explained that the emphasis on the training was on value change approach to business and stressed that her outfit was working hard to sow a seed of business mindedness and positive climate change attitude into the women smallholder farmers.
She stated that already most of the beneficiaries have shifted away from using fertilizers to organic manure through the training they received from MAPEWFAC on compost making.
