Below are a few things that happened in the Agric space in Nigeria in 2013 In 2013 we spent $11 billion importing basic food commodities including; wheat ₦635 billion, Rice ₦356 billion ( ₦1 billion per day) and ₦97 billion on fish. All of which was paid for by forex earned from the sale of crude oil. […]
There are times when everything within me is resisting going to farm, I’m tired, uninspired and unwilling to make that long journey and work under the intensely hot sun. Then I remember that I am accountable to my investors and those cheering me on and those not exactly cheering me on :-). If this doesn’t […]
Happy New Year folks!!! Pretty excited about this year for many many reasons one of them being the fact that this year has been declared the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF). I hope we can work together to make this year succesful. Below is literature from the FAO website on what the IYFF is […]
On the 19th of December the Commercial Agriculture Development Project (CADP), hosted a few investors, farmers and staff of the project. The aim of the event was to get investors and farmers to discuss potential investment opportunities and collaborations and launch the manual/workbooks on farming within the aquaculture, rice and poultry value chains. We had […]
Merry Christmas guys! Thanks so much for staying connected. Very much appreciated.From my heart to yours THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
So we headed down to the farm to ensure that the cassava planting had been completed. Well for the most part it was, but there is always room for improvement :-). So we’ve been dealing with the issue of setting clear boundaries for the farm. It appears to us that the boundaries keep moving…ok so […]
Meet Ellen Olafsen, a programme coordinator with infoDev, a global partnership programme in the Financial and Private Sector Development Network of the World Bank Group, which supports entrepreneurs to secure early-stage financing and convene key stakeholders for dialogue and action. © World Bank I read her interview with Spores which I found interesting and decided […]
In October the Commercial Agriculture Developement Project (CADP) worked in collaboration with the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) to gather data on Rice Farmers in Lagos state. Below are pictures from our field visit at Itoikin. Questions and Answer sessions….. My Boss and I working with the farmers…. Drying the Rice Random pictures… Just […]
To understand this post you have to read the ‘Going Pro‘ post. In the previous post I mentioned that I would discuss what it has cost me so far. Below is a tabular representation…. The size of the farm is 1.23 hectares. Farm Expenses Cost (₦) Cost ($) Land Clearing ₦ 112,000 $700 Land Preparation […]
I’ve been away for a while trying to get trained up and build my knowledge on agriculture. I’ll have to do a separate post on my training. Anyway let’s get down to business, like literally 🙂 So I have been doing a lot of talking about the potential of agriculture and the business opportunities that […]
