SDG2: Zamfara SUBEB organises Agric Competition,winners emerge.

Ahmed Attahir 

As part of effort to encourage school children and achieve SDG goals in agriculture Zamfara state  Universal Basic Education  Board has organised quiz competition for livestock development in the state. 

The competition was organized under the department of school services UBE 2020/2021 for primary and junior secondary schools in the state. 

The final quiz competition was  held today at Teachers Training and Development Center Bypass, Gusau,  the state capital and was organized through Agric Education training program (AETP) of the Board.

In his welcome address the Director school services, Zamfara state UBE, Alhaji Garba Abdullahi, said introducing children to farm is an initiative to basic Education in schools. 

"This would  no doubt achieve the goals and the aspirations of the SDG #2 by encouraging and inculcating practical Agricultural knowledge to basic Education in schools and prepare them for life-long learning which are part of the objectives of the UBE program".

He called on stakeholders in education to contribute their quoter towards achieving agricultural practice in schools for the success of the program and better society in future.

During the quiz competition for  primary section winners has emerged, Gusau zone who took the first position with 12 marks,Anka zone second position with 10 marks while Kaura Namoda zone  becomes third position with 7 marks in the state.

For the Junior secondary school section, Anka zone took the first position,followed by Gusau zone with second position while  Talata mafara zone took the third position.

Those at the occasion were  representatives of Commissioner ministry of Education,chairman zamfara state Universal basic Education Board and other important dignitaries in the state.