Anambra Facilitates International Advanced Agro Training for Four Persons

By Ebuka Onyekwelu

The Special Adviser to the Governor of Anambra State on Youth Empowerment Programmes, Dr. Nelson Omenugha, has facilitated specialist agro/farming business training, sponsored by the Government of China, for four Anambra indigenes. The training that is going to be held in China is a high-impact seminar on agriculture, agro-business, and farming and for this cohort, only fifty slots were reserved for Africa by the Chinese Government. The Anambra beneficiaries are; Udogu Augustine, Ude Arinze, Uju Muogbo, and Comfort Nwagbo. For the first lap of the programme expected to commence within the week, participants are billed to leave for China on Tuesday. Uju and Comfort are in this category and are now on their way to China for the training. Both will be participating in learning “Cultivation Techniques of Edible Fungi for Women in the Belt and Road Country.” This training will be hosted by Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University and will delve deep into the Junaco medicinal fungi spawn production.

Meanwhile, the second lap of this training will commence by the second week of June 2024 and in this phase of the training, both Augustine and Arinze will be participating in learning about “Food System Transformation under the Global Development Initiative.” This training will be hosted by the Henan University of Technology, with assistance from the foreign aid programme of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, as well as the country’s foreign aid training programme.

Speaking before the participants’ departure to Abuja Airport from where they are billed to continue their journey to China, Dr. Omenugha asked the four participants to be good ambassadors of Anambra State, Nigeria, and Africa. He equally admonished them to show good example in learning and character, throughout the training which he said comes with exposure to the various strategic Chinese developmental strides. Also, Dr. Nelson Omenugha encouraged participants to learn as much as they can and also use the opportunity to network so that upon their return, they will also help train other agro-business owners in Anambra State.

This programme is an all-expense paid learning trip sponsored by the Government of China. All four participants from Anambra State are players in the agro-business. Comfort Nwagbo is in the Department of Agriculture, at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University. Uju Muogbo is in Entrepreneurship Studies at the same university. Meanwhile, Arinze and Augustine have serious agro-interests in Ekwulobia and Nnewi, respectively.