AgricRadio

Apeh Mary Uyo is an Agricultural Development Expert. She is passionate about creating value in Agriculture and bringing opportunities to farmers and investors. She is a passionate agronomist and an advocate for profitability for small scale farmers. Today we’ll be speaking on the subject “Adoption of Technology in Agriculture”

Mr Kolade Dada is the Managing Director of SeedCo Nigeria, a joint venture seed company between Seed Co West Africa Limited and SARO Agrosciences Nigeria Limited. Prior to that, he had spent well over a decade between SARO AgroScience & SARO Lifecare Limited in the capacity of Head of Business, Head of Sales, Brand Manager & Head of Marketing. A graduate of Agronomy & Pedology from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State Nigeria, he is also an alumnus of Lagos Business School.

Date: Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

Time: 6:30AM

Topic: Maximizing Wealth Creation in Food Value Chain Through Digital Innovation.

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We had the privilege of hosting Mr Femi Royale, founder FarmBase Africa

Miss Hairat Abimbola Ajao is an Aquaculture expert and runs an aquaculture business that specialises in Fish farm management, Hatchery production, Fingerlings and Juveniles sales, Pond design and construction, Business plan and Investments Consultancy services. She is a graduate of Fisheries from the Federal College of Freshwater Fisheries Technology, New-Bussa (FCFFT).

Ms. Bobe Odunsi is the MD of Amazon Farms & Outlets, a Multi-Billion-Naira vertically integrated commercial farm project in Nigeria. It is Lagos' first City Farmers Market offering organic, farm fresh, healthy produce 7 days a week.. Before then, she was the Practice Manager for Hart Square in UK between August and October 2017. Prior that, she was the Senior Legislative Lead, Nigerian National Assembly between Sept 2011 and June 2015. This is after been the Head of Business Transformation and Process Improvement at ADIC Insurance Limited between Feb 2009 and August 2011. She is a graduate of Cardiff University where she obtained a Degree in Language & Communications.

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Logistics for Enterprenuers in every value chain of agriculture is very tough. 3rd party companies do not hold the complete solution to deliver to customers. Government involvement doesn't seem to be enough. These and many other questions were posed to our guest speaker to share her views and recommendations.

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Ms Gladys Amiandamhen is the business leader for Grants & Partnership in FarmCrowdy. She is saddled with the task of sourcing grants for the business both locally and internationally. Even for a business such as Farmcrowdy that is rich in pedigree and numbers, it is her responsibility to ensure communication with businesses aiming to deliver on effective collaboration to meet their goals. On this session, we shared some insightful details on how she goes about to get this done and also dropped some tips for businesses looking to do the same.

Agriculture in Zimbabwe is overseen by the Ministry of Agriculture. Agriculture accounts for 18% of Zimbabwe's GDP as of 2015. Agriculture enabled people to produce surplus food. There are different crops that farmers grow and some of these include, maize, sorghum, rapoko, groundnuts, round-nuts and beans. In this session, we had the priviledge of having Ms Lucy Kundai Zvaraya to discuss on how well farmers are faring in the southern part of Zimbabwe.

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Introduction

Ms. Lucy Kundai Zvaraya is qualified Agronomist for all farm advisory, based out of Zimbabwe. She also runs a consultancy outfit called AgronomyBae Consultancy that deals majorly in Farm Project Management, Farm Advisory & Budgets. Other things include farm advisory, employee training, crop choice, soil tests, budgets, project planning, crop nutrition, disease and pest management and all things Agronomy.

Mrs. Victoria Madedor is the Founder & CEO of AgricDrone4Africa. As a Agribusiness Fundraiser and Poultry Farm Management Provider, Mrs Victoria is also currently the Agribusiness Expert at BOI Investment and Trust Company, a subsidiary of the Bank of Industry Nigeria. Also a Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC); Senior Member, Chartered Institute of Public Diplomacy and Management; and Fellow, Institute of Agribusiness Management, Nigeria.

Mr. Kenneth Okonkwo is the Founder & CEO of IrriTech Nigeria, a business that provides life transforming Technologies for Smallholder Farmers, by providing them with low cost portable Solar Powered irrigation & Agricultural services.