The Borno Cassava Farmers Cooperative Union, on Friday said it would train 100 women affected by Boko Haram insurgency, on professional agricultural business entrepreneurship to make them self reliant.

Alhaji Lawal Umara, the Chairman of the cooperative, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri.

He said that the beneficiaries would be drawn from Kukawa and Nganzai Local Government Areas of the state.

Umara said the training would empower the women to produce varieties of food such as gari, cassava bread, cakes, chin-chin, donut among others in commercial quantity for sale to the public.

The chairman said that N1 million would be disbursed to the 100 beneficiaries as soft loan, to enable them set off businesses after the training.

He explained that the loan would be repaid within 12 months.

According to him, the gesture will boost the economy of the state, provide jobs, enhance food security and create wealth. (NAN)