Vanguard News Syngenta Foundation Nigeria empowers Kano, Jigawa farmers with N10m inputs On By Nnamdi Ojiego A non-governmental organization, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, SFSA, has supported 13 hubs managers who will be servicing 13,000 smallholder farmers with the sales of certified seeds of cowpea and sorghum varieties worth over N10 million in Kano and Jigawa states. This gesture came as part of the SFSA’s operational strategy which focuses on smallholders, productivity, and markets by extending science-based know-how, facilitating access to quality inputs, and linking farmers to markets in profitable ways. At a one-day workshop organized by the foundation on the launching of Certified Seed and Grain Aggregation Through the Farmers’ Hub Using Revolving Fund Model, held on Wednesday, in Bichi Local Government Area, LGA, of Kano state, the Country Programme Manager of SFSA-Nigeria, Isaiah Gabriel, said the event was to create awareness that would generate demand for some selected cowpea and sorghum varieties.