NGO determines to help 100,000 women in agriculture annually

The president, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) named Aged-Network, Dr. Majidadi Bala Kontagora has lamented over under-utilization of women in Agriculture, saying they are supposed to be well integrated into food security matters with a right to own a land. 

Dr. Kontagora disclosed this during the women’ day celebration organized by the Aged-Network in Abuja yesterday.

                      

 Dr. Bala Kontagora stressed the need why women should be given right to own their land saying   they were responsible to 75% of our food production and thereby promised to empower 100,000 of them annually on skill acquisition.

He frowned at the neglect of women over the years especially in agriculture as he demanded for more inclusion of them in food policy and programme since they were responsible to the greater number of food being produced in the country.  

Speaking the executive officer in charge of the Network, Mrs Joy Ezikeil said that the international women's day is a day to reflect on the political achievement and access of them to land in the face of food security added that they had been too long neglected in the scheme of food security.

Ezikeil wanted government to wade into ensuring that women also had access to lands and owning one for farming towards stimulating food productivity system to commercialization.

                         

In her position, a member of the Society for Women Development and Empowerment in Nigeria, Maununa Yakubu disclosed that the issue of access to land and ownership is most times a  traditional thing, saying no constitution of such.