Programs

The TGOIC program offers a variety of courses ranging from vegetable gardening to cash crops and from animal husbandry to rural development. Most of the clients are rural youth who have left the formal track of education. Graduates tend to be self-employed as farmers. In order to increase food security, TGOIC maintains the following objectives:

• Increase agricultural production by training young adult farmers modern, appropriate and environmentally-sound agricultural techniques
• Provide training in agro-processing and value adding to farmers and provide credit for purchase of necessary equipment
• Strengthen and expand TGOIC’s training and production units in order to reach more farmers and help them to generate more income for their households

Specific training and education programs are offered in the following areas:

• Civics education
• Rural economics
• Communication skills
• Agricultural measurements
• Agricultural enterprise management
• Crop production
• Animal husbandry
• Agricultural marketing
• Handicraft skills
• Family life education (including reproductive health and HIV/AIDS)
• Functional literacy