By Albert Akota
The National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC) has signs Tripartite land agreement on a 21.6hectares farmland with Ushafa Community, Bwari Area Council.
In a statement signed yesterday in Abuja by the Omini Oden, Head, Corporate Affairs, Media and Communications, said that the NSCC flagship program was “Grandmothers Arise for Good Initiative: Economic Tree Crop vegetable planting project.
At the signing ceremony in Ushafa, the NSCC Director General, Dr Emem Omokar said the project will integrate water sanitation and hygiene, healthcare and Social Services.
According to her, the initiative will enhance the production and productive capacities of Older Persons (60+ Women and Men) in Nigeria through agriculture using the “Social-Economic Entrepreneurial Model”
The project will have forty-three beneficiaries on a ratio of 40% male to 60% female in pairs working on a 21.6hectares of land cultivating groundnut, maize and cowpea annually.
The beneficiaries are largely non-pensioned members of the Ushafa Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society who will adopt the communal approach to agriculture with the tendency to leverage resources from the community, private sector, government and other partners to improve on their outputs, production and productivity.
The initiative which has partnerships with SMEDAN, WHO, Water Aid, FCT RUWASSA and FCT PHCDA facilitated by NSCC will adopt and promote smart and climate friendly agricultural practices as well as enhance the production and productive capacities of the farmers and cooperative.
