Nigerian Institute of Food
Science and Technology
38th Annual Conference
Sheraton Hotel, Lagos
Tuesday 14 October, 2014.
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Food Value Chains: Opportunity
for wealth creation and food
security
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Soybean in Nigeria
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Farming as a way of life
Agriculture as a
business
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Food Value Chains
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Many well functioning
businesses are needed to
have efficient food value chains.
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Loan granting institutions
Farm inputs and mechanization
Agregators
Transport
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Storage
Processing
Wholesale
Retail food sales
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Why Agribusiness?
They are sustainable
 They offer realistic opportunities for
food security, job and wealth creation
for young people.
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Engaging Youth for Agricultural
Transformation in Nigeria:
The IITA Youth Agripreneurs’ (IYA) model
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Introduction
Unemployment
• Threat to national security
• A time bomb
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Introduction
IYA Formation
Start-up
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The IYA-Model
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 agriculture
Business development skills
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The IYA-Model
Re-orientation of youths
• Sensitization
• Educational tours and learning
visits
Capacity Development
• Best-bet agronomic practices
• Business skills
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The IYA-Model
Mentoring
• Assigning youths to
scientists in different valuechains
• Technical backstopping
Gender Balance System
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IYA – Activities
Production of quality
planting materials
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Maize
Soybean
Cassava
Plantain/Banana
About 30ha of soybean seeds
About 35ha of cassava
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Over 5000 suckers multiplied
About 40ha of maize seeds
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IYA – Activities
Vegetables
Fisheries
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IYA – Activities
Post-harvest
Processing
Communication
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IYA – Activities
Training
• Oases
• Borno Youths
Establishing
partnerships with
different
stakeholders
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Public organization
(not for profit)
Private Organization
(for profit)
PPP
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PPP – Agribusiness Projects and Accomplishments
 WASCO CVC
 Nestlé
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IITA-WASCO CVC PROJECT
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.
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Starch content + cassava tubers
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Processing Center
Starch
Variety content
1
Offorachi, (DDS )
581 28.00%
2
Inye Inye
419 28.50%
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4
Karara (Ihima)
Offorachi
419 25.80%
30572 23.00%
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Processing centers and gari production
Inye
Store at inye
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Frying at DDS
Mobile Graters
Ihima
MPCs
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Job creation/opportunities
 Capacity building
 Packaging
 Stem distribution
 Transporters
 Planting
 Off-loaders
 Weed control
 Processors
 Harvesting
 Fabricators
 Peeling
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Promotion of mechanized farming
Increased productivities and profitability
Four-row planter
Knapsack sprayer
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Boom Sprayer
Harvester
Slasher
Tractor
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Achievements made over the past 3-4 years
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
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Nestlé Plc Cassava Value Chain Project
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
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Project locations – SE-axis & SW-axis
(0 – 150 km)
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Trainings and extension materials
 725 farmers trained
in cassava
production
 Extension materials
developed,
produced and used
Powerline, Ondo State
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Akinlalu, Osun State
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Supply of stems and planting
Improved stems (30,180 bundles) supplied to 503 farmers to
plant 503 ha in 2011 & 2012
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Supply of roots to starch factories
Bucket loader
IITA Staff observing weighing of roots in NSM
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Collection point
Sacks of Starch
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Meeting between Nestlé and IITA teams at
Flowergate factory, Ogun State
Workshop in progress
Factory premises
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Maggi Project
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Action plan from lessons learned
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Issue/Opportunity
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1.
2.
Association of Projects/Initiatives
with Nestlé
Involvement of Nestlé in the
Curriculum of Agripreneurs at
IITA
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Action
Who?
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
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
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3.
Nestlé/IITA Cassava Starch
Project trial results on yield of
Cassava Tubers
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Trial results on yield of cassava tubers to be
sent to Klutse
4.
Optimum level of fertilizer
application
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Recommended quantity of fertilizer for cost
effectiveness to be communicated .
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Discuss with Nestlé Nigeria management on
the possibility of using the idle land
temporarily for Cassava plantation
Basile
5.
Idle 24ha of land in Flowergate
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When?
Feb 2014
Dec 2014
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Quality and Quantity
PPP for the specific traits
needed for a processing
company
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High vitamin A (yellow) cassava
and maize
High Starch Cassava
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Aflatoxin control
Aflasafe
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The Nigerian Cassava Transformation Agenda (CTA)
IITA’s support to CTA
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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
Capacity
Building
Demo
Trial
Support for the Staple Crops Processing Zones
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COMMISSIONING 100,000
METRIC TONS SILOS IN SHEDA
FG SET ASIDE N50 BILLION
MECHANIZATION SUPPORT
FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL
EQUIPMENT HIRING
ENTERPRISES
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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.
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We must eat what we grow and
grow what we eat
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Ask not what your country
can do for you, ask what
you can do for your
country
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Agriserve
Demonstration
Soil tests
(Osun and Kogi States)
Mobilization of
communities
 Business plan
completed
(Edo State)
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Let’s all work together to
improve the food value chains
Thank you
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