Farmer facilitators graduated in ToT on farm business school
A week-long Trainers’ training (ToT) on farm business school (FBS) organized by FAO supported project 'Building Agri-Business Capacity of Smallholder Farmers to Market Safe Produce of Good Quality (TCP/NEP/3503)’ was successfully completed on 28 March 2016 in Kathmandu.
31 participants including 25 famers and 6 junior technicians from the districts of Dhading and Kavrepalanchok graduated in ToT on farm business school.
Giving away the certificate of attendance to the participants, Ms Renu Adhikari, the Program Director of Agri-Business Promotion and Market Development Directorate, Department of Agriculture, extended her good wishes to the participants.
Ms Adhikari, who is also the National Coordinator of the project, hoped that the participants would be successful to achieve the project's goal to strengthen the agri-business capacity of service providers to engage in agribusiness development and facilitate them in linking to markets.
The farmer facilitators, who have attended the ToT, will conduct Farm Business School (FBS) with the farmers’ groups lasting almost 3 months covering all 27 sessions of the training curricula designed and delivered for them in this training.
The project is scheduled to organize a week-long the Trainers’ training (ToT) on farm business school (FBS) on for another group of farmer facilitators of the districts of Bara and Kapilvastu 4 April 2016.