Dangote Cement Creates 50 Agric Entrepreneurs

 

Decided to assist the governments in its meals safety effort, the Dangote Cement Plc has launched a Farmers Empowerment Programme in Benue State.

 The initiative is geared toward enabling 50 farmers to supply subsistence and money crops in industrial amount from Benue State, thought-about to be the meals basket of the nation.

 The programme is coming barely two months after the corporate empowered businesswomen in Gboko host communities of the State with money grants, thus deepening enterprise actions within the State. Earlier, the corporate had elevated bursary funds to college students of host communities by greater than 100 per cent.

Talking Thursday on the launch of the Farmers Empowerment Programme, Common Supervisor Social Efficiency, Johnson Kor, described the programme as ‘historic and progressive.’

He stated the beneficiaries have been chosen from the corporate’s host communities of Gboko Native Authorities Space of Benue State.

In accordance with him, the beneficiaries have been fastidiously chosen from the six catchment areas of the Native Authorities.

Mr. Kor stated the tasks have been earmarked for the communities as captured within the extant Group Improvement Settlement (CDA), including that the contents of the CDA are progressively being executed.

“At present we’re witnessing an historic event in our journey of mutual growth. Farmers Empowerment Programme is the primary programme to be launched since we signed the CDA with the rapid host communities in December 2024,” he stated.

In his speech, Plant Director, Dangote Cement, Gboko Plant, Munusamy Murugan, stated the corporate may also assist farmers with fertilizers, Agro chemical substances, Knapsack Sprayers and numerous forms of seedlings.

Mr. Murugan who was represented by Head of Manufacturing Division, Engr Soom Kiishi stated: “That is the primary batch however definitely just the start, and definitely not the tip. We plan it to be an annual occasion, however the alternative of the Farmers programme might change, relying on the selection of the benefiting communities.”

He stated different {economic} empowerment programmes are lined up within the coming weeks.

“The Youth Empowerment  Programme will quickly be launched, and chosen beneficiaries will obtain coaching in Welding & Fabrication, and Photo voltaic Electrical Set up from Skilled personnels,” he added.

He stated the corporate’s scholarship scheme cuts throughout college students from numerous disciplines and tertiary establishments.

In his handle to the communities, Marketing consultant from Abbass Company Providers, Dr. Ahemen Aondoaver Samuel, suggested the beneficiaries to utilize what he described as a uncommon alternative from the Dangote Cement Plc.

The Marketing consultant stated the corporate’s effort will assist rework beneficiaries into entrepreneurs within the agricultural sector and allow them to assist the federal government’s meals safety effort.

Responding, a member of the group, Kwaghgba Isaac, described the Farmers Empowerment Programme as a historic and big intervention from the corporate, noting that the hassle is not going to solely increase subsistence farming, however assist feed the nation.

He urged members of the communities to maintain the peaceable coexistence at the moment being loved with the corporate.

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