Post by Trade facilitator on Feb 12, 2018 9:52:02 GMT 1
‘’Improving crop quality and safety by significantly reducing the level of contamination in sorghum and millet is one of the reasons most companies embarked on an aggressive training.’’
Majorly, poor farm practices, low crop yield and post-harvest losses have been described and identified as a catalyst to food security, low export drive in agricultural commodities in Nigeria. Considering these limitations, The Thy Global Investment Limited began training and seminar, training young farmers and would-be exporters on good agricultural practices and export on agricultural commodities methods, to enable them develop and improve on their farming and export drive as a sustainable business in a way, which will boost their output and increase their local and foreign exchange earnings, minimize losses and ensure financial independence.
Since 2013, more than six thousand of smallholder farmers and two thousand exporters of agricultural commodities have benefited from the trainings while many have so far been reached between January 2018 and now.
However, to have a firsthand experience of how our services is being transformed, The Thy Global Investment Ltd encouraged farmers and would-be exporters to strengthen their resilience of millet/sorghum farming systems in the Northwestern Nigeria by empowering themselves with the skill required for effective yield. These poor local farmers watched keenly how the grains and legumes they produced on their farms are transformed into high - quality nutritious products for families in Nigeria and oversees.
For Nestle Nigeria Limited for instance, 90 percent of communities who supply Sorghum and Millet are drawn from this team from the Northwestern Nigeria. Sorghum is used in the manufacturing of food products especially Milo, the energy food drink that is a staple in Nigeria diets.
The Thy Communications checked on how Nestle Nigeria has been working with smallholder farmers in the Northern Nigeria.
Mauricio Alarcon, Managing Director, Nestle Nigeria explained that the company is currently working with International Fertiliser Development Center (IFDC) to improve the sustainability and quality of millet and sorghum production in Nigeria. He stated that Nestle has been working with four different states in the northern part of Nigeria and had so far trained about 42,600 farmers where over 15,000 have been trained on pre-planting seasons, planting seasons and post harvest practices. Nestle has been working with Katsina, Kaduna, Kano and Jigawa states. It has trained men, women and youths in the business while about 41,600 farmers supplying grains, millets and sorghum are spread all over the place
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture is not left out as the company seeks ways to make mechanization and agriculture financing available for local farmers, maintaining that mechanization and finance are key for the nation’s agricultural development and agriculture commodity export drive in Nigeria.
Another critical thing about mechanized agriculture is financing. Stake-holders should engage government to seek ways to avail these farmers access to cheap financing and another thing that has been pleasant to our hearing is that the federal government is planning to provide mechanized farming to Nigerian farmers in clusters.
At The Thy, our expectation from those we have trained during our seminar/s or trainings to farmers and exporters is to make sure that they put into play all we have taught them such as the pre-export best practices, best practices during exportation and post-export practices.
One of the things that happen in export trade is wrong packaging, exporting contaminated or sub-standard products, how to secure foreign buyers, documentation etc. We also train people on safety measures to reduce damage to commodities like livestock, fresh fruits, vegetables, etc.
Majorly, poor farm practices, low crop yield and post-harvest losses have been described and identified as a catalyst to food security, low export drive in agricultural commodities in Nigeria. Considering these limitations, The Thy Global Investment Limited began training and seminar, training young farmers and would-be exporters on good agricultural practices and export on agricultural commodities methods, to enable them develop and improve on their farming and export drive as a sustainable business in a way, which will boost their output and increase their local and foreign exchange earnings, minimize losses and ensure financial independence.
Since 2013, more than six thousand of smallholder farmers and two thousand exporters of agricultural commodities have benefited from the trainings while many have so far been reached between January 2018 and now.
However, to have a firsthand experience of how our services is being transformed, The Thy Global Investment Ltd encouraged farmers and would-be exporters to strengthen their resilience of millet/sorghum farming systems in the Northwestern Nigeria by empowering themselves with the skill required for effective yield. These poor local farmers watched keenly how the grains and legumes they produced on their farms are transformed into high - quality nutritious products for families in Nigeria and oversees.
For Nestle Nigeria Limited for instance, 90 percent of communities who supply Sorghum and Millet are drawn from this team from the Northwestern Nigeria. Sorghum is used in the manufacturing of food products especially Milo, the energy food drink that is a staple in Nigeria diets.
The Thy Communications checked on how Nestle Nigeria has been working with smallholder farmers in the Northern Nigeria.
Mauricio Alarcon, Managing Director, Nestle Nigeria explained that the company is currently working with International Fertiliser Development Center (IFDC) to improve the sustainability and quality of millet and sorghum production in Nigeria. He stated that Nestle has been working with four different states in the northern part of Nigeria and had so far trained about 42,600 farmers where over 15,000 have been trained on pre-planting seasons, planting seasons and post harvest practices. Nestle has been working with Katsina, Kaduna, Kano and Jigawa states. It has trained men, women and youths in the business while about 41,600 farmers supplying grains, millets and sorghum are spread all over the place
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture is not left out as the company seeks ways to make mechanization and agriculture financing available for local farmers, maintaining that mechanization and finance are key for the nation’s agricultural development and agriculture commodity export drive in Nigeria.
Another critical thing about mechanized agriculture is financing. Stake-holders should engage government to seek ways to avail these farmers access to cheap financing and another thing that has been pleasant to our hearing is that the federal government is planning to provide mechanized farming to Nigerian farmers in clusters.
At The Thy, our expectation from those we have trained during our seminar/s or trainings to farmers and exporters is to make sure that they put into play all we have taught them such as the pre-export best practices, best practices during exportation and post-export practices.
One of the things that happen in export trade is wrong packaging, exporting contaminated or sub-standard products, how to secure foreign buyers, documentation etc. We also train people on safety measures to reduce damage to commodities like livestock, fresh fruits, vegetables, etc.
