Eliminate Poverty NOW is creating Niger’s first technical center devoted to horticulture and maximizing farmer income. Honoring the late Professor Dov Pasternak, the Center will be outstanding in the quality of its facilities, staff, and educational programs. It will feature a technician training program to spread the principles of agricultural transformation to hundreds of villages throughout Niger, drawing on Dov’s 50 years of global experience with dryland agriculture and a decade of experience implementing his Farmers of the Future model. The program will be innovative in content and method of instruction, placing heavy emphasis on practical, hands-on learning.
After breaking ground in 2021, construction of the academic hall, cafeteria, and dormitory is now complete. Current activities include furnishing the facilities, landscaping the campus, filling key staffing positions, and creating the 2-year comprehensive training curriculum. Our goal is to open in Q4 2022.
You can find more details about the Center at www.DovCenter.org.