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 […]
One third of humanity is fed through an estimated 500 million smallholder farms with less than two hectares of land. In Asia and sub-Saharan Africa the dependence is even higher, where small farms produce about 80% of the food consumed. These holdings are typically managed by families with limited technical and mechanical support and with […]
Meet Garfar Lawal a colleague and friend of mine. During one of our many conversations in the office he was kind enough to volunteer to do a write-up on Farm Mechanization in Nigeria. Gafar graduated with a degree in Agriculture Engineering and since graduation has worked in the Agric sector. He is also an active […]
Poultry is one of the 3 value chains the project focuses on. We headed down to one of the biggest poultry farms in Lagos. An employee of the farm estimated that they produce about 8000 crates of egg a day and still the supply does not meet the demand. It sounds a bit contradictory because […]
