Strengthening the market position of white sorghum farmers

About the partnership

Nigeria

Staple Crops

The two companies who are the business champions to this partnership, Nalmaco and Adefunke Desh, are looking to empower smallholder farmers to produce high quality white sorghum for supply to a more structured market and to trigger an increased demand for white sorghum products with Nigerian households. In this partnership, we will work on implementing this business idea by empowering 20,000 smallholder farmers to work on agriculture as a business and access structured markets through connections with large companies like Nestlé.

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 Nestlé and Honeywell. Their objective is to meet all their demand (about 20,000 tons/year) for quality sorghum.

Key interventions

Empowering sorghum producers with business skills

Facilitate access to biofortified sorghum varieties & other relevant inputs

Improve access to financial services for value chain actors

Improve marketing & distribution of sorghum-based products to BoP markets

Build trust and embed transparency in the value chain

Create employment for youth as spray service providers, input dealers and other

Promoting climate smart agricultural technologies at the farm level

Improve production & development of sorghum-based products like Fura

Improve community grain aggregation capacity

Professionalize small holder farmers cooperatives

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 organisation that champions the role of innovations in crop protection and plant biotechnology and trains smallholder farmers as 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

Agricultural consultancy involved in extension services, production management, soil management services, etc.