The federal government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s Value Chain Development Programme have trained women and youths at the Innovation Clinic in Taraba.

The training was also done in collaboration with the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria.

Irmiya Musa, VCDP’s programme coordinator in Taraba, while declaring the event open on Wednesday in Jalingo, said the training was crucial to enhancing the agric business.

Mr Musa encouraged participants to develop the needed skills to grow their businesses from small-scale to medium and large scale.

He pledged Taraba’s determination to ensure the programme’s effectiveness.

Bala Yusuf, SMEDAN’s director in Taraba, explained that an innovation clinic was a business support service that facilitated business diagnosis and provided grounds for entrepreneurship development.

Mr Yusuf also said that the agency was committed to supporting small-scale businesses to grow and underscored the efforts of SMEDAN in mentoring the nano business class.

The director encouraged participants to develop business ideas before venturing into them, so they could flourish in whatever business they chose.

Similarly, Ibrahim Aminu, the manager of the Technology Incubation Centre, Jalingo, advised participants to take advantage of the centre to promote and sustain their businesses.

In the same vein, Wiza Baido, head of the Business and Marketing Department of the VCDP, advised participants to develop an ideology towards developing their businesses from small-scale to mega ones.

He encouraged them to streamline their business plans and ensure adequate record-keeping for profit-and-loss determination.

(NAN)