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Breast Feeding:: Kano  Trains  1,320  Women On Mass Production Of Soya Pie, Juice.

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By Abdulgafar Oladimeji.

Kano state government have conducted the training of 1,320 on the utilization of Soya bean for mass  local production of pie and juice to strengthen the fight against malnutrition in breast feeding mothers and growing  children in the state.

The director Extension Services, Kano Agricultural and Rural Development Authority , KNARDA Sadi Ibrahim  while addressing a  team from Civil Society- Scalling Up Nutrition in Nigeria  CS-SUNN during an advocacy visit to the headquarters of the authority along Hadej9a road disclosed that KNARDA in its commitment and role to boost the production of quality food content said that the  trained  women were   drawn from the 44 local governments .

 

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According to him the training funded by the state government  demonstrated to the participants the method  to utilize local foods like Soya beans  to produce nutritious meals.

Sadi said “we demonstrated to the women how they should use what we have locally  because they are  cheaper and affordable to prepare  proper nutrition, in children and breast feeding mothers, we used Soya beans to demonstrate ,.”Sadi said.

He further said “what we call Gari Kul- Kul is now popular among our women, we trained them on this and the results is visible  it is affordable at all levels and nutritious too.”

Sadi revealed that the women produce the soya pie and drinks for household consumption and commercial proposes, explaining  that in the process  the household  economy is also boosted  resulting into good living standards.

The CS-SUNN team led by  Innocent Ekene task the agency to set up an appraisal tool to  monitor expenses and the  implementation of planned nutrition activities across  the state.

The coalition further urged KNARDA to heighten the initiation of community nutrition programmes targeted at hinterland communities, adding that in the process  rural communities would be aided to connect effectively with development in the metropolitans..

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