COTVET assists Abrodi Women Association
The Abrodi Women Association (AWA) of the Have Traditional Area in the Afadzato South District of the Volta Region have benefitted from an income generating skills training programme.
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The women were trained in pepper cultivation with post harvest management and marketing, Bee-keeping and honey production and marketing.
Initiated by the Queenmother for the area, Mama Teke Foliwa II, the training was sponsored by the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) and was undertaken by the Adidome Farm Institute of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).
According to Mama Foliwa II, the training helped to “sharpened our skills in farming and marketing”.
The AWA was founded by Mama Teke Foliwa II, to develop and promote the social economic and gender interests of its members.
It is also aimed at building the capacity of women to be self-sufficient through engaging in sustainable and comfortable income generating activities.
Since most of its members are peasant farmers, the association according to Mama Foliwa II aims at progressing from subsistence farming to economically viable and sustainable business for profit ventures.
The realisation of this goal she said would depend to a very large extent on acquisition of better and higher level of farming skills hence the quest for help.
She said AWA luckily became one of the beneficiaries of “Skills Developing Fund (SDF) of COTVET.
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This she said would help them have good yields on their farms.
“The association can say that most members now have the skills and can impact their knowledge to others”, Mama Foliwa II said.