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70% of the Eats Attained on the African Continent it was borne out of Smallholders Agriculturalist in Africa Agrorite – a Digital Agricultural outlet Finds
Posted On 17 Sep 2020
By Abdul Rahman Bangura–
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NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Agrorite, a digital agrarian forum begets that, smallholder agriculturist in Africa catalog for over 70% of the edibles yielded on the African continent. The report also said that the importance of smallholder farmers in Africa could not be over-emphasized. And that, the report asserted that, for Africa to be out of food poverty, it was vital and for the continent’s countries to boost them in continuing business.
In addendum, the report let out that, most smallholder planters peddled their cultivated produce at meager prices hence, leads to the involvement of middlemen and also experienced about 30-40℅ postharvest penalties as a result of dearth of progression to premium market. Similarly, the reports discloses that, smallholder planters required fund to scale food output, because they are not creditworthy, underscoring that most of them despite being hardworking, had limited or nonentity to exhibit for their efforts.
The report added: “We are creating shared value for sustainable growth for smallholder farmers and key stakeholders such as financiers, premium off takers, insurance companies, input suppliers, and telecoms. This has proven to be formidable in improving the livelihood of smallholder farmers.
“This was the idea behind setting up Agrorite. So far, we have been able to increase smallholder farmer’s revenue by 15% and generate real value for their time and energy.
“Lack of access to quality, nutritious agricultural commodities by premium processing companies was another major gap we spotted in the sector, which we are tackling by enabling smallholder farmers to meet up with the growing demands by these processing companies.”
In furtherance, the firm asserted that, it begot unbuttoned farming participation for all through coalitions with cooperate and institutional funders, underscoring that, people were not deserted as they could subsidize agrarian activities via crowdfunding to reap fair profits. The Agrorite let out that, it was well-received in Nigeria, but reported that it was also acknowledged in the investment and agricultural sector.
In excursus, the company inducts on over 8,200 farmers’ network that stretches across Nigeria, acquired on 5,830 hectares of farmland, and produce over 86,340 metrics tones of crop production for local consumption and export. Commodities such as peanut, sesame, cashew, shear butter and others it announced some of the commodities the company trades on.
For New Africa Business News (NABN) Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports, Africa Correspondent
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Thank you for the report and thank to our Farmers all over the Continent, working hard to feed their families. Dese Ethiopia. Soliyana
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Am not surprise of this report. Thanks for reporting. Accra Ghana. Morowa
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Not surprise at all of our smallholder agriculturist in the Continent, greatly cataloging over 70% of food output. Our respective governments need to invest in agriculture. Good for us and our great for the whole Continent. Toteng in Botswana. Gorata
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We in Africa have about 60% of the world’s fertile lands, if our governments, African own businesses and our people invest in agriculture, we can feed our people and the rest of the world. Lagos Nigeria. Olive
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Agricultural expansion in the continent could be a game change for our people and please to our lazy African Presidents, no foreign aid, foreign aid is killing Africa. Thank you for reporting. Windhoek Namibia. Grace
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