Nigeria’s biggest food companies — Nestlé, Flour Mills of Nigeria, BUA Foods, Dangote, Olam Agri, Unilever — all share the same problem: they need a constant, reliable stream of raw agricultural material (grains, cassava, palm oil, maize, tomatoes) to keep their factories running, and none of them want to deal with thousands of individual smallholder … Read more
At harvest time, Nigerian markets flood with grain, and prices fall because every farmer is selling at once. A few months later, the same crop is scarce, and the same market pays significantly more for it. The gap between those two prices is a business on its own — one that doesn’t require you to … Read more
Most people who want to make money from agriculture assume they need a farm. Land, seeds, labour, a full planting season before you see a single naira back — and if the rains fail or pests show up, you lose everything you put in. There’s a second way into agriculture that almost nobody talks about, … Read more