The founder, Hope for Farmers, Women and Girls Initiatives (HOFWGI), Dr. Mabel Ifeoma Onwuka has charged Abia women on the need to embrace new research findings and modern farming techniques to improve yields.
The Associate Professor of soil science and meteorology, who stated this recently during a training workshop in Amawom Oboro, Ikwuano Local Government Area (LGA) of Abia State, added that the quality of your seeds (farm inputs) determines your harvest.
Dr. Mabel Ifeoma Onwuka, sensitizing Amawom women on home-garden as well as the distribution of planting materials/organic fertilizers to women recently in Ikwuano LGA, Abia State.
She cautioned farmers on the indiscriminate use of fertilizers, insisting that proper soil test must be carried out in order to decide the fertilizer type/proportions to be applied.
This, she said would save the soil from further deterioration and preserve our environment for posterity.
In their vote of thanks, the woman leader, Amawom Women Wing, Mrs Ezinne Ngozi Ugbor and her assistant, Mrs. Rose Israel Omenazu, thanked the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), headed by Dr. Onwuka, for coming to enlightened Amawom women on the new scientific findings from the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State as well as the distribution of free farm inputs to them.
Dr. Onwuka, demonstrating/teaching rural women, Organic fertilizer (Biochar) production recently in Amawom, Ikwuano LGA Abia State.
They said that, it would offer them the opportunity to improve their farm yields.
Highlights of the workshop was the free distribution of organic fertilizers, vegetables like mint leaf, amaranthus (green) among others.
