ITF partners Plateau poultry farmers

The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has pledged to partner with the Plateau chapter of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) to boost farmers productivity through its Productivity and Efficiency Improvement Training (PEIT).

ITF’s Assistant Director, Mr Emeka Okafor, said this at the poultry farmers’ monthly congress in Jos, the Plateau State capital, that the partnership was necessary for the sustenance of poultry business.

Okafor said that the programme tagged “Poultry cluster and networking scheme” was designed to enable the ITF achieve its mandate of training, empowering and strengthening small and medium scale enterprises.

“Plateau farmers are known for their quality poultry products nationwide, but the sustainability of the business is under threat as farmers continued to run into huge losses, forcing others to close down.

“This is because standard practise in poultry business is not maintained and marketing strategy is very poor; this scheme was designed to, among other things, solve these problems.

“The training will enable farmers get the right knowledge, acquire the right skills and adopt the right attitude to improve productivity and remain in business.”

The director disclosed that the farmers would be trained in a cluster of 20 farmers at the cost of N200,000.