Strengthening and integrating smallholder farmers into white sorghum marketing

About the partnership

Nigeria

Staple Crops

The business champions to this partnership, Nalmaco and Adefunke Desh, are looking to empower smallholder farmers to produce high quality white sorghum for structured market and household consumption. In this partnership, we will work on replicating and accelerating this business idea by empowering 20,000 smallholder farmers to implement agriculture as a business and access structured markets through connections with large companies like Nestle

About the business champion

Nalmaco Limited and Adefunke Desh Varieties Limited are both large scale grain aggregators based in northern Nigeria. Both source high quality white sorghum from smallholder farmers and add value by grading and cleaning it before supplying to large scale processing companies such as Nestle and Honeywell. Their objective is to meet all their demand (about 20,000 tons/year) for quality sorghum

Key interventions

Empowering sorghum producers with agribusiness and leadership skills, build trust and embed transparency at the grassroots level

Facilitate access to biofortified sorghum varieties and other relevant inputs

Improve access to financial services for value chain actors

Professionalize small holder farmers cooperatives

Create employment for youth such as, spray service providers, input dealers, threshers and e-extension service providers

Promoting climate smart agricultural technologies at the farm level to enhance productivity and grain quality

Improve production and product development for sorghum based products like Fura, and improve its marketing & distribution towards BoP markets

Improve community grain aggregation capacity

20,000 smallholder farmers involved (40% youth & 40% women)

10 micro-small and medium enterprises involved

800 producer organizations involved

€ 262,000 private sector co-investment

10,000 BoP consumers with better access to nutritious food

Get in touch

Curious about this partnership? Get in touch with the partnership facilitator.

E-mail John Paul Chime

Partnership Facilitator

	John Paul Chime
	jchime@2scale.org

Project partners

LAPO Microfinance Bank

Financial institution committed to providing access to responsive financial services on a sustainable basis

ICRISAT

ICRISAT provides access to quality and improved sorghum seed varieties for smallholder farmers

CropLife International

International organization that champion the role of agricultural innovations in crop protection and plant biotechnology to support sustainable agriculture and also train smallholder farmers as SSPs (Spray service providers)

OCP Africa

Develop fertilizer solutions customized to local conditions and crop needs. Will connect farmers to the agricultural services, knowledge and resources they need in order to prosper.

INTAGRIS consultancy limited

Professional agricultural consultancy services provider. Main activities include extension services provision, production management services, produce marketing, project management, monitoring & evaluation and soil management services.