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Profitable plantain: towards more sustainable & inclusive production

Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Staple Crops
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Fresh Produce
Country
  • Burkina Faso
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • South Sudan
  • Egypt
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Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Staple Crops
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Fresh Produce


Country
  • Burkina Faso
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • South Sudan
  • Egypt

About the partnership

Nigeria
Fresh Produce
Status:
Active

In this partnership, the business champion Crystal Dominion Foods intends to provide more market opportunities for smallholder plantain farmers mainly in the South-Western states of Nigeria. Partners will collaborate to increase the productivity of plantain farmers and improve post-harvest processes to allow a larger, more reliable supply of plantain to the business champions processing facility. In addition, this partnership will work on the development of more nutritious products based on processed plantain and look at how to improve packaging, branding, and marketing to create more value for BoP consumers.

About the business champion

Crystal Dominion Foods is a food processing company. The company was incorporated in 2008 and makes Rolly-Tk plantain chips from fresh plantain sourced from smallholder farmers. The major objective of the company is to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of the popular and demanded plantain chips consumed across Nigeria.

Key interventions
Optimize the processing of plantain to improve nutritional value and extend shelf life
Switch to a more sustainable source of energy for the processing of plantain
Increase the involvement of women and youth in the production, sales and distribution
Work on new product development, looking at other opportunities for processed plantain
Introduce innovations with farmers such as drip irrigation to increase efficiency
4,000 smallholder farmers involved .
5 micro-small and medium enterprises involved
100 producer organizations involved.
€ 146,374 private sector co-investment.
20,000 BoP consumers with better access to nutritious food
Get in touch

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

E-mail Oluwatoyin Otitoju
Partnership Facilitator
Oluwatoyin Otitoju
motitoju@2scale.org
Project partners
Plantain Producers Association
Main association of plantain farmers & growers in Nigeria. Will play a central role in organizing governance in this partnership
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Large (international) agricultural research institute, will provide knowledge,advise on plantain production and access to improved varieties.
College of Agriculture Akure
Local agricultural training institute, will provide training on good agricultural practices to the plantain farmers.
First City Monument Bank
One of the larger financial institutions in Nigeria, will look into the financing of plantain farmer's activities
Harvest Field Industries
Harvest Field Industries Limited is an input provider, will support in providing access to inputs for plantain farmers
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