Agric Solution: For Food Only

13/10/2016

Some takeaways from the Southwest Agricultural Summit (SWAS) 2016.

To policymakers-
Government is resolved to have input of AgroPeneurs, investors and others in making policies that will set Nigeria in the right direction in agriculture. This was shown in there readiness to dialogue with us at the SWAS 2016, but this is not sufficient until we could see government take the steps required to unify the efforts of this sector. Government obviously now see the potential in the agricultural sector, however whether the political and administrative leadership have the vision cm appetite to do what it takes to hit the nail on the head of this challenges at hand is the real question. (Dr. Doyin Salami, LBS):
-Specific plans of action must be put up to guide all players, for example if the southwest governments all agree to supply 10% each of Lagos State food demand daily.
-Available credit should focus on access of the farmer to resources through credit supply of input and lease of machineries until harvest.
-Government must broker more land access relationship making more of the arable land laying fallow to be put to good and more efficient use.
-Extension training must be integrated seamlessly with farm operations in whole institutions of higher learning.
-Government policies should be better broken down for farmers to ensure how every agri-project contributes towards achieving the overall goals.
-Continuous project monitoring of all funded projects in order to prevent politicians hijacking government policies and programmes

13/10/2016

Some takeaways from the Southwest Agricultural Summit (SWAS) 2016.

To Investors-
Investing public must see how important it is to change their taste towards agriculture seeing it is one of the few secure and high yield investments left. However, we must know that only an investment that you know a lot more about can be safe. Risk is a measure of knowledge you have about the instrument.
To invest in agriculture we must take the following suggestion from SWAS 2016:
-Manage the risk in agriculture thereby removing the load the Farmers' shoulder
-We must not look to credit alone but rather work towards an equity driven sector, where investor put in place proper equity for large-scale investment which then supports and derisks the small-scale farmer.
-Investment should be made in education and wellbeing of the farmers to improve yield per acre.
-Investments should be focused on longterm, specifically on mechanization, offtaking and storage, processing, education and research, ICT for agriculture, data and intelligence gathering, complete valu-chain investment, extension services, etc.
-Make agriculture attractive to Nigeria's teeming labour force of young active citizens with appropriate remuneration, ideal class and other perks and motivation.
-Use available facilities from various institutions, like NIRSAL, NEXIM, NEPC, NIPC, AFEX etc together in a bouquet to reduce the risk of the investment through shared risk.
-The new language of equity investment around the world is crowdfunding. We must explore how to synergize our investments into one large scale end-to-end value-chain investment rather than various individuals just hitting and running.
-Concerning Land, investors must work in partnership with host communities in other to have the social license cm security required for their longterm investments.

13/10/2016

Some takeaways from the Southwest Agricultural Summit (SWAS) 2016.

To the AgroPeneur-
Its time to do things right and take our business more seriously. Its obvious that there is more demand than supply for almost every agri-product, this means longterm investments should be made for longterm high yield earnings and in other to bring down cost per unit.
-Lagos alone has at least 3.7billion Naira food market daily and people don't plan to find an alternative to food.
-Agriculture is 1 out of 5 sectors in the Nigerian economy growing persistently in this recession.
-Output per acre is still far below average in all southwest states and in did Nigeria.
-Banks don't understand the agriculture sector and that makes it very high risk for them, therefore they won't start investing high risk in a recession.
-Only about 2% of credit is going to the agricultural sector and all 2% is from the government.
-Current trend is that the closer you are to the farmer today in the food value-chain, the poorer you are.
-There is still an almost 50% waste of all food items produce because of poor storage, poor transport, poor market structure and many other little things that wages against agri-produce.
-Understanding of what's cash crop and food crop must change because almost every crop can be a cash crop if properly directed and processed.

10/10/2016

10/10/2016

Agricultural Solutios' For Food Only was happy to be represented at the just concluded first South West Agricultural Summit organized by the DAWN commission and Agronigeria Media.

We are positive that the future is brighter and nearer as Nigeria's lead region takes the bull by the horn to address its monster challenges through this August event of policymakers and stakeholders of the sector from all 6south-western states.

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22/09/2016

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20/09/2016

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20/09/2016

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18/09/2016

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17/09/2016

Today at Agritropic Farm visitation with Farmers from all over the South-West Nigeria.

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16/09/2016

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