Bowei said that climate change had greatly affected women farmers’ productivity which had led to the reduction in the quality and quantity of their harvest.

She explained that the training would also help the women to apply adaptation practices that would enable them to adapt to the problem of climate change.

“It will also assist them to mitigate the impact on themselves as farmers, and on their incomes,” she said.

Bowei said the women farmers were taught on how to grow their farm business, how to process their produce, package, label and export them.

According to her, they were also taught how to produce organic compost and organic pesticides, how to use them on their soil and on the farm as well to improve the quality of their soil.

Also speaking, Mrs Oloruntosin Taiwo, National Coordinator, ROSF, said that the initiative sought to get stability for widowed farmers.

“We have our widows that are also farmers. So, what we hope to achieve working with this partner (ICEHD) is to get stability for our widow farmers.

“So, from this training, they are going to increase their knowledge of smart agriculture, everything that has to do with climate agriculture, so that even as they have a change in the climate, their produce is not affected,” she said.

“We want them to be able to take care of themselves, take care of their children.

“So, we know that if their farming occupation is doing well, definitely they’ll be able to have something to fall back on aside all the other support that they are getting from the foundation,” she said.