Lead farmers and extension officers undergo training

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Skills and knowledge gained during training must reach farmers at the rural areas to help improve their livelihoods.
World Bank Project Management Unit representative Louis Kurika said this today at the opening of a week-long lead farmers and extension officers training workshop at the University.
105 participants in three project areas - Vudal Vunapalading, Central Inland Baining and Women and Youth - are undergoing training on Sustainable Livelihood, Basic Record Book Keeping; and the Bank South Pacific facilitated Financial Literacy training.
Mr Kurika urged participants to impart skills and knowledge gained from the training to farmers because donor partners have spent a lot of money to ensure that farmers in rural areas have access or benefit from the project.
He said it is their responsibility as lead farmers and extension officers to learn as much as possible.
Under the Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (PPAP), the University’s Kairak Vudal Resource Training Centre (KVRTC) has been tasked to conduct training on Sustainable Livelihood, Basic Record Book Keeping and Cooperative Governance to 19 partnerships throughout the country: six partnerships in East New Britain, four in Bougainville, three in New Ireland, two in East Sepik, three in Madang and one in Morobe.
BSP bank is involved to deliver the Financial Management Literacy training.
The Sustainable Livelihood and Basic Record Book Keeping training will be delivered to all technical officers and lead farmers throughout the country while the Cooperative Governance will be delivered to office bearers of those partnerships. Under this Cooperative Governance, those office bearers will be trained on how to manage those cooperatives by knowing their roles and objectives.
KVRTC manager Hosea Turbarat said for the last 15 years, KVRTC has run training in partnership with other institutions.
He said the modules delivered during the training are unique and are applicable to simple people in rural areas. He also urged the participants to ensure that information gathered during the training reach farmers.
The targeted groups for the training are mainly technical officers and lead farmers because they are the next line of trainers who will deliver the training to clusters they look after. Each technical officer is responsible for 250 farmers. These 250 farmers are then divided into 10 groups of 25 members each which has one lead farmer looking after them.
The training ends on Friday.

Farmers and extension officers at the opening of the training workshop.

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