Meet Simon Sinek who is described as an optimist and “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect”. Sinek teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people go home everyday feeling fulfilled by their work, Sinek is leading a movement […]
Hi guys! Thank you so much for sticking around and checking up on me wondering why I hadn’t blogged in so long…much appreciated. Will explain in the next post but right now let’s see about this post that I’ve been holding on to for a month…. The Lagos State Government (Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives) […]
This is not just a quote it’s a fact…. Ok so while I was doing some research and just pointlessly surfing the net. I stumbled across a really interesting inspirational quote and I decided to google agriculture inspirational quotes…haha…here are the best quotes I found…. It is thus with farming, if you do one thing […]
In the past few weeks been doing some research and that has led me to some pretty interesting books on vegetable farming. One of my hobbies is reading non-fiction books. Some of the books are ebooks and some are regular print books. Bought all the books online @ www.amazon.com. The titles of the books are: […]
I was doing some research on mobile applications in agriculture and thought I’d share a few of the interesting apps out there. This has always been an area of interest for me but the real inspiration for this blog post is from the e-debate titled Enhancing Young Women’s engagement in ICT and Agriculture http://ardyis.cta.int/ . […]
Happy Easter people! Hope you had a fab one… Below are links to some surveys and interesting activities going on in the Agri space… Edible Insect Survey: International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe)a leading insect science institution in Africa is in the process of collecting information for a database to promote the use of edible […]
As an agripreneur, one advice you always get is never plant anything without first identifying your market and figuring out how to get your produce to the market at the right time and price. This is especially true for highly perishable produce like vegetables. Well we took this advice and hit the road with […]
Back when I was in the corporate world before the year starts we make our sales plan and expense budget for the year. I played a key role in this process because I was a finance analyst and then a business and planning analyst. It was an intense period; it’s the most likely time of […]
How we made it in Africa published an article with the above title which I thought was interesting. The article shares the views of Bikash Prasad, CFO of Olam International. He discusses what needs to be done to realise the potential in Africa that everyone is talking about. Below are the key highlights. Africa holds […]
That’s the well we are looking into… What you often hear about is the ‘Cost of doing business in Nigeria’ and you rarely hear about the ‘Cost of starting a business in Nigeria’. Maybe I should replace Nigeria with Lagos, since my experience is only in Lagos. We plan to go National and then International […]
