“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller.
Partnerships have all the time been on the coronary heart of what we do at Thrive Agric. Partnerships for elevated development and worth to our farmers is how we’re steering our work to drive the subsequent stage of what profitable in Agriculture in Africa would imply.
One of these partnerships is with OCP Africa, a number one international supplier of Phosphate Fertilizers, who’re serving to smallholder farmers entry fertilizer to enhance crop yield and facilitating different worth additions in extension providers and entry to finance.
Our partnership with OCP Africa has helped us seize elevated yield for our farmers and significantly contributed to sustainable meals manufacturing. Through this partnership, we have now been capable of join our over 35,000 Smallholder Farmers with the tailor-made Agric booster initiative.
This has additionally been substantial in constructing an ecosystem of providers that’s intentional about innovating across the challenges of farmers in our improved bid to make agriculture much more worthwhile for our farmers whereas tackling the ever-looming query of meals safety in Nigeria.
The initiative supplied tablets for subject mapping, bikes, and stipends for extension officers. It has additionally been instrumental to our development by way of farmers output, variety of tonnes per hectare, the common yield from the overall variety of farmers, highest yield and mortgage restoration charges.
During our final challenge, 20,917 Hectares of land was cultivated for white maize, 8285 Hectares for rice and 3442 Hectares for soybeans.
We know that with partnerships like this, we will empower extra farmers throughout Nigeria and in the end Africa. The prospects are countless within the Agriculture business, the projection is that Agriculture in Africa can be a $1 Trillion business in 2050.
The present actuality is that the business is constructed on the backs of smallholder farmers and they’re the important thing to unlocking Africas Agriculture potential.
The incontrovertible fact that Agriculture shouldn’t be seen as a way of life however a enterprise that may generate large wealth can’t be overemphasized. This means we should search for methods to make Agriculture extra worthwhile for farmers and put some revenue of their pockets and that’s what we’re about.
The solely means to try this is to offer them with finance, inputs, data-guided advisory and an ideal market construction like we have been doing for the previous 3 years. This way, we are making Agriculture profitable for them and also taking steps towards our vision to make Africa the food basket of the world.
PUTTING THE FARMER FIRST — HOW OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH OCP IS WORKING
This farmer-centric method as we have now all the time completed has had great results with strategic partnerships of this scale.
This resulted in a 3.4MT common yield throughout all affected farms. 60% of our farmers recorded a better yield, accounting for an awesome 18% enhance from our manufacturing volumes 2018.
Our highest recording farm had a yield of seven.8MT. We had a mortgage restoration price of 97% as nicely. Creating higher lives for farmers and telling the tales of how we’re reworking their lives, one-Farmer-at-a-time is what makes this journey adventurous for us.
One of our farmers Rabiu Aliyu, a Maize farmer who recorded a 3.1 MT in his final harvest doubled that with a whopping 6.5 MT, over 100% increment. Another Maize farmer, Deji Sani was capable of enhance her output from 2.5 MT to three.2 MT, a 30% development over the earlier yr.
Partnerships with well-meaning brands like OCP Africa, that is committed to the expansion of sustainable agriculture on the continent is how we’re selecting to method the dimensions and urgency that meals manufacturing calls for.
RAISING THE BAR — OPENING MORE VENTS FOR SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIPS
As an organization, we’re strongly targeted on worth supply Thrive Agric prides itself as an ecosystem creator throughout the Nigerian Agric sector. Having completed this for various years, we all know the worth nice partnerships convey to the desk and are glad to be working with OCP Africa to assist meet the challenges smallholder farmers face within the Nigeria setting — from entry to fertilizer and farm inputs on the proper price, to entry to finance to buy the proper of enter to boost crop yield to entry to the marketplace for their produce. Solving this problem is on the coronary heart of Nigeria’s Agric revolution.
Food safety and the expansion of non-oil export proceed to be crucial points in Nigeria. The main coverage thrust of the Economic Reform Programme of the Nigerian authorities is the diversification of the economic system away from Crude Oil.
Since the Agriculture sector affords the very best prospect for assembly authorities’s goal, the clear benefit of the partnership with OCP Africa is that it helps us scale up so we will function a crucial agent within the fulfilment of the aspirations of the Nigerian authorities.
Beyond elevating crop yield via the provision of reasonably priced fertilizers and different farm inputs, OCP Africa continues to help us with extension providers which factors the best course by way of fertilizer use based mostly on topography and nature of the soil existent throughout our associate farms.
OCP Africa can be serving to within the space of entry to finance, via partnerships with credit score suppliers at an reasonably priced price to smallholder farmers.
These contributions by OCP Africa has seen us at Thrive Agric deal with creating worth inside our ecosystem of smallholder farmers whereas OCP Africa gives the facilitation platform which permits us to do our work. The partnership is subsequently one which we hope we will develop, consolidate, and maintain via the years.