The workshop was coordinated by Mrs Lucy Nkumbe, SOWEDA’s Chief of Service for the fisheries sector. It took place at the Community Development School hall in Kumba where some 23 fish farmers from Meme Division have acquired skills. According to Nkumbe SOWEDA has assured fish farmers of a brighter future as they will son benefit from the giant support of her.
According to her SOWEDA is building a multi-million structure to keep a modern fish pond, a poultry farm, a slaughter house and a piggery at Barombi Kang in Kumba. She informed that the three days workshop provides the skills on book-keeping, self-help participatory development, marketing techniques, and it also provide training to manage cooperatives and Common Initiative Groups (CIGs), entrepreneurial skills and financial management.
The fish farmers expressed their satisfaction after the workshop lauding SOWEDA and its effort for organizing such a commendable workshop will help the farmers to implement the skills at the local level. Ojong James Agbor, South West Provincial Chief of Service Local Community Development was the ain facilitator of the workshop, which taught the farmers the skills that will certainly face-lift their farms.
