| ID: | 43631 |
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| Country: | Nigeria |
| Title: | Nigeria - Rural Finance Institution-Building Programme (RUFIN) - June 2016 |
| Description: | Ajiwole, 60yrs, married with children is a piggery farmer and a grass root politician.He began piggery-farming 10years with little money he made from politics and invested it in getting four pigs.Through the IFAD RUFIN programme he was able to secure several loans to boast his piggery venture. Today he boasts of minimum of 64 pigs and 14pens. With his improved earning from his piggery farming he has been able to invest well in the education of his children and his own education. He just graduated from the Ekiti state university because being well educated is important for politicians to take governance roles.Feeds for his pigs is one of his challenges facing him with the farm because demands for the feeds outnumbers the supply as such cost of feeding the pigs higher.He hopes to expand on the numbers of his pigs and pens and diversify in cultivating crops like rice, cassava, maize etc. |
| Size: | 7.52 MB; 6144 x 4096 pixels; 520 x 347 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1626 x 1084 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Andrew Esiebo |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Andrew Esiebo/Panos |
| Categories: | none |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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