A member of CGIAR consortium Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology 38th Annual...

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Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology

38th Annual Conference Sheraton Hotel, Lagos

Tuesday 14 October, 2014.


Food Value Chains: Opportunity for wealth creation and food

security


Soybean in Nigeria


Farming as a way of life

Agriculture as a business


Food Value Chains


Many well functioning

businesses are needed to have efficient food value chains.


Loan granting institutionsFarm inputs and mechanization

AgregatorsTransport

StorageProcessingWholesale

Retail food sales

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They are sustainable

They offer realistic opportunities for food security, job and wealth creation for young people.

Why Agribusiness?


Engaging Youth for Agricultural Transformation in Nigeria:

The IITA Youth Agripreneurs’ (IYA) model


Unemployment• Threat to national security

• A time bomb

Introduction


IYA Formation

Start-up

Introduction


Vision built on:Use of improved technology options that will make a difference in people’s lives Facilitating access to markets, seed distribution,

crop processing, etc.Skills development in agricultureBusiness development skills

The IYA-Model


Capacity Development• Best-bet agronomic practices• Business skills

The IYA-Model

Re-orientation of youths• Sensitization • Educational tours and learning

visits


Mentoring• Assigning youths to

scientists in different value-chains

• Technical backstopping

The IYA-Model

Gender Balance System


Production of quality planting materials• Maize• Soybean• Cassava• Plantain/Banana

IYA – Activities

Over 5000 suckers multiplied

About 35ha of cassava

About 30ha of soybean seeds

About 40ha of maize seeds


Vegetables

Fisheries

IYA – Activities


Post-harvest Processing

Communication

IYA – Activities


Training• Oases • Borno Youths

IYA – Activities

Establishing partnerships with different stakeholders


Public organization(not for profit)

Private Organization(for profit)

PPP


General objectives

1.To use a farmers’ cluster model.

2.To recommend a feasible scheme of producing 100,000 t of cassava roots at minimum cost.

IITA-WASCO CVC PROJECT


Starch content + cassava tubers

P/N Processing Center Variety Starch content

1 Offorachi, (DDS ) 581 28.00%

2 Inye Inye 419 28.50%

3 Karara (Ihima) 419 25.80%4 Offorachi 30572 23.00%


Processing centers and gari production

Store at inye

Frying at DDSInye Ihima

Mobile Graters MPCs


Job creation/opportunities

Capacity building

Stem distribution

Planting

Weed control

Harvesting

Peeling

Packaging

Transporters

Off-loaders

Processors

Fabricators


Promotion of mechanized farming

Four-row planter Boom Sprayer Slasher

Knapsack sprayer Harvester Tractor

Increased productivities and profitability


starch yield is achievable in farm level

identified reliable service providers

use mechanized farming and increase profit margins

Proved that farmers can make millions through cassava farming

Achievements made over the past 3-4 years


Objectives multiplication and dissemination of improved cassava varieties to

cluster farmers around industries

To introduce smallholder farmers to improved cassava production management practices

To create effective linkages that guarantee the sustainable supply of raw materials (cassava roots) to

MATNA and NSM and by extension/implication increase starch supply to Nestlé

Nestlé Plc Cassava Value Chain Project


Project locations – SE-axis & SW-axis

(0 – 150 km)


Trainings and extension materials

725 farmers trained in cassava production

Extension materials developed, produced and used

Powerline, Ondo State Akinlalu, Osun State


Supply of stems and plantingImproved stems (30,180 bundles) supplied to 503 farmers to

plant 503 ha in 2011 & 2012


Supply of roots to starch factories

Bucket loader Collection point

IITA Staff observing weighing of roots in NSM Sacks of Starch


Meeting between Nestlé and IITA teams at Flowergate factory, Ogun State

Workshop in progress

Maggi ProjectFactory premises


Action plan from lessons learnedS/N Issue/Opportunity Action Who? When?

1.Association of Projects/Initiatives with Nestlé

• Initiatives should be associated with Brands and not Nestlé. Project with IITA should be referred to as MAGGI Cassava Project and not Nestlé Cassava Project

Guy TBD

2. Involvement of Nestlé in the Curriculum of Agripreneurs at IITA

• Nestlé should be involved in the curriculum of Agripreneurs. Topics such as quality control, finance, need for meeting deadlines etc. should be incorporated into the curriculum.

IITA TBD

3.Nestlé/IITA Cassava Starch Project trial results on yield of Cassava Tubers

• Trial results on yield of cassava tubers to be sent to Klutse

IITA Feb 2014

4.Optimum level of fertilizer application

• Recommended quantity of fertilizer for cost effectiveness to be communicated .

IITAFeb 2014

5. Idle 24ha of land in Flowergate• Discuss with Nestlé Nigeria management on

the possibility of using the idle land temporarily for Cassava plantation

Basile Dec 2014


Quality and Quantity

PPP for the specific traits needed for a processing

company


High vitamin A (yellow) cassava and maize

High Starch Cassava


Aflatoxin control

Aflasafe

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The Nigerian Cassava Transformation Agenda (CTA) IITA’s support to CTA

It aims to create a new generation of cassava farmers, oriented towards commercial production, and treating farming as a business.

Over 284,489 bundles of improved stems distributed to farmers in 2013

Demo Trial

Capacity Building

Support for the Staple Crops Processing Zones


COMMISSIONING 100,000 METRIC TONS SILOS IN SHEDA

FG SET ASIDE N50 BILLION MECHANIZATION SUPPORT FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL

EQUIPMENT HIRING ENTERPRISES


FMARD: Staple Crops Processing Zones

Improving investment frameworks for agriculture: this idea focuses on

attracting private sector agribusinesses to set up processing

plants in zones of high food production, to process commodities

into food products.


We must eat what we grow and grow what we eat


Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what

you can do for your country


Agriserve

(Osun and Kogi States)

(Edo State)

DemonstrationSoil tests

Mobilization of communities Business plan completed


Let’s all work together to improve the food value chains

Thank you

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