Land restoration : Zamfara ACReSAL organizes Step down training for FAO initiative


Group picture with some of the participants of ACReSAL project in Zamfara state during the stepdown training held on Tuesday in Gusau, state capital.


Ahmed Attahir 


The Zamfara state Agro Climatic  Resilience in Semi Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) Project has organized a step down training on Degraded land restoration for about 200 participants with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) initiative across the state.

The step down training was held on Tuesday at Karma Hotel in Gusau, Zamfara state capital as a follow-up to an earlier training organized by Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) for technical staff in the ACReSAL Project in the state.

According to the Zamfara state project coordinator Mallam Nasirudeen Bello highlighted that the training would be on different techniques of land restoration, seeds and seedling cultivation, preservation and  land management in the state.

"ACReSAL is a project initiated by the federal government through world bank assistance with aimed to address critical challenge of regional desertification and landscape management in northern states". He said.

The Zamfara state Project Coordinator stressed that the step down training was necessary in order to equipped with knowledge of all the aspects of the FAO initiative as it relates to land restoration, and food sustainability.

"We expected that at the end of the training,the about 200 participants that were drawn from Community interest groups (CIG),Agric extension Agents, LGPIC and line MDA's would be more equipped with methods of restoring degraded lands, crops/seeds cultivation and preservation, as well as the various planting techniques in the state.

Earlier on,the chairman State steering committee ACReSAL and commissioner of Environment and natural resources represented by the permanent secretary Alhaji Garba Altine Dauran disclosed that the training came at a right time when land degrading become issue of concern.

He called on the participants to use what they would learn and work for the benefit of the state.

In his remarks,the Zamfara state Head of service Barrister Ahmed Liman urged ACReSAL stakeholders to buried all the differences for the project to succeed.

" Let us put ACRESAL project as our first priority,we want development in our state,let us put all our hands together for more benefit ,we should endeavour to challenges for the progress of ACRESAL in our state".

The training was followed with field visit to some sites and subsequent papers presentations ,Good will messages as well as Zamfara state ACRESAL documentary, remarks/ comments from participants in the state.

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