This is in furtherance of our dedication to encourage sustainable production practices and improve income for young agriculture and agribusiness practitioners. Handholding young food producers is also critical to combating food insecurity. Guiding their activities over the 2-year period will position them for growth with novel farming processes such as choice of crops to farm, reduction of post-harvest loss, market access, hygiene considerations, health regulations, processing and packaging.
Seven candidates were selected after going through series of screening and have been matched with the respective mentors. Candidates line of business include rice farming, vegetable farming, food processing, fish farming, and ground nut farming. Mentors include Chike Nwagwu (CEO, Novus Agro); Dickson Orisamuyiwa (CEO Perez and Peret); Victoria Madedor (Co-Founder, Agroverified); Femi Adekoya (CEO, Integrated Aerial Precision) and Helen Emore (CEO Scientia Consult). During panel discussion, all mentors and mentees lauded the mentorship programme, however Victoria Madedor hinted that it will help uphold relevant traditional farming practices needed for sustainable food production.
