The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing the Agribusiness Investor

Like every other industry with tremendous value creating opportunities, the Agribusiness industry in Nigeria also has its fair share of challenges. Some are everyday rough edges that are more easily smoothened by tact and wit. While a few problems exist that required the skills of experts to solve. These are the three biggest challenges facing the agribusiness investor.

Why Should a College Graduate Consider Farming?

I get asked this question a lot of times: why should a big time, 21st century college graduate consider a career in a dirty, uncivilized farmland meant for the lowly and uneducated?

Well, the big time, 21st century University graduate is a big illusion.

A well-marketed fantasy: Nigeria is one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world. Graduate with a good degree in any discipline and secure a well-paying job in one of the several oil firms operating in the company. Buy a brand new car, build your house, get married and settle down within the first year of employment.

However, a 21st century University graduate has woken up to different reality. 

Welcome to Farm Starter Blog

Welcome to Farm Starter Blog, Nigeria's Number One Agribusiness Investment blog.

This blog was set up to show my country men that there's money to be made in all aspects of agriculture. A lot of cash. 

I keep saying that because I believe it strongly to be true. And I will keep saying it until you believe it too. 

Yet it is only for those who have the right information, who are ready to key into the countless opportunities that abound in agriculture and for those who dare to sip through the dirt to get to the wealth.

Agro-Business Opportunity in Nigeria: Tomato Paste Production

Thinking of a viable agribusiness to start that will guarantee good return on investment and be sustainable for the long-term? Maybe you don’t see yourself as a farmer or grower but still want to make and create wealth via farming or agribusiness?

Then tomato paste production is for you.

                                                                                                   Tomato Crop and Paste

Do not be surprised that Nigeria is one of the world’s biggest growers and consumers of tomato.

Countless truckloads of tomatoes can be seen almost on a daily basis making their way from the Northern part of the country where they are predominantly planted to the Southern region where they are generously consumed.

The sad part though is that a large chunk of this yummy crop does not make it into our pot of Stew, Edikaikong, Afam or Vegetable soup.

They are condemned and thrown away as waste, a couple of weeks after harvesting them.

The best way to store them for a much longer period therefore is to process the tomatoes into paste and package them properly.

Privatizing Agric Mechanization in Nigeria- The Challenges

Mechanizing agriculture in Nigeria is the best way to go. Even illiterate farmers know that. 

Agricultural equipment helps a farmer cultivate more with less labour.

Simply put, a farmer with access to a tractor could plant 10 hectares per day, compared to just one hectare per day if the same operation is being done manually with hoes and cutlasses with human labour.

Even a workaholic farmer can see the difference.

So why does the Nigerian farmer appear indifferent to the use of modern technologies in boosting his yield and thus his income?

Most of them still carry out subsistence farming trusting in the same crude tools that was popularize by the cave man two million years ago.

Is it that Nigerian farmers don’t welcome the use of high tech in farming? Far from it! 

Is technology a taboo, forbidden in the land? As far as I know, definitely not!

Then why is it that majority of our food growers still rely on hoes and cutlasses in the jet age? 

The reasons are not so far fetched. Two of the biggest challenges are: