The Federal Government is facilitating the training of 540 women from 19 northern states on fish farming.
This is contained in a statement from the State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The statement signed by the Public Relations Officer in the ministry, Mr Garba Yunusa, stated that the government was performing the programme in cooperation with the Kano State Government.
The statement stated that the state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Hajiya Baraka Sani, launched the programme at the Kano Institute of Fisheries, Bagauda.
According to the Commissioner, each of the students would be given a take-off package that would certainly include juvenile fish, fish feed and medicines in addition to other incentives.
Sani included that even more cooperation was under way, to train youths on poultry and livestock, disclosing that the Kwankwaso administration had developed six capacity agricultural institutes that educated youths in various farming businesses.
In his speech, coordinator of the institute, Prof. Armaya?u Bichi said, the institute has all the needed teaching and learning centers.
He said, so far, the institute had trained and empowered 800 youths and ladies.
