Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology

1. Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology 38th Annual Conference Sheraton Hotel, Lagos Tuesday 14 October, 2014.

2. Food Value Chains: Opportunity for wealth creation and food security

3. Soybean in Nigeria

4. Farming as a way of life Agriculture as a business

5. Food Value Chains

6. Many well functioning businesses are needed to have efficient food value chains.

7. Loan granting institutionsFarm inputs and mechanizationAgregatorsTransport StorageProcessingWholesaleRetail food sales l

8. Why Agribusiness? • They are sustainable • They offer realistic opportunities for food security, job and wealth creation for young people.

9. Engaging Youth for Agricultural Transformation in Nigeria: The IITA Youth Agripreneurs’ (IYA) model

10. Introduction • Unemployment • Threat to national security • A time bomb

11. Introduction • IYA Formation • Start-up

12. 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

13. The IYA-Model • Re-orientation of youths • Sensitization • Educational tours and learning visits • Capacity Development • Best-bet agronomic practices • Business skills

14. The IYA-Model • Mentoring • Assigning youths to scientists in different value-chains • Technical backstopping • Gender Balance System

15. IYA – Activities • Production of quality planting materials • Maize • Soybean • Cassava • Plantain/Banana About 30ha of soybean seeds Over 5000 suckers multiplied About 40ha of maize seeds About 35ha of cassava

16. IYA – Activities • Vegetables • Fisheries

17. IYA – Activities • Post-harvest Processing • Communication

18. IYA – Activities • Training • Oases • Borno Youths • Establishing partnerships with different stakeholders

19. Public organization(not for profit) Private Organization (for profit) PPP

20. PPP – Agribusiness Projects and Accomplishments • WASCO CVC • Nestlé

21. General objectives IITA-WASCO CVC PROJECT To use a farmers’ cluster model. To recommend a feasible scheme of producing 100,000 t of cassava roots at minimum cost.

22. Starch content + cassava tubers

23. Processing centers and gari production Frying at DDS Inye Ihima Store at inye Mobile Graters MPCs

24. Job creation/opportunities • Capacity building • Stem distribution • Planting • Weed control • Harvesting • Peeling • Packaging • Transporters • Off-loaders • Processors • Fabricators

25. Promotion of mechanized farming Increased productivities and profitability Four-row planter Tractor Knapsack sprayer Boom Sprayer Harvester Slasher

26. 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  

27. 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

28. Project locations – SE-axis & SW-axis (0 – 150 km)

29. Trainings and extension materials • 725 farmers trained in cassava production • Extension materials developed, produced and used Akinlalu, Osun State Powerline, Ondo State

30. Supply of stems and planting Improved stems (30,180 bundles) supplied to 503 farmers to plant 503 ha in 2011 & 2012

31. Supply of roots to starch factories Bucket loader Collection point IITA Staff observing weighing of roots in NSM Sacks of Starch

32. Meeting between Nestlé and IITA teams at Flowergate factory, Ogun State Workshop in progress Factory premises Maggi Project

33. Action plan from lessons learned

34. Quality and Quantity PPP for the specific traits needed for a processing company

35. High vitamin A (yellow) cassava and maize High Starch Cassava

36. Aflatoxin control Aflasafe

37. The Nigerian Cassava Transformation Agenda (CTA) IITA’s support to CTA • 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 Demo Trial Capacity Building Support for the Staple Crops Processing Zones A member of CGIAR consortium

38. COMMISSIONING 100,000 METRIC TONS SILOS IN SHEDAFG SET ASIDE N50 BILLION MECHANIZATION SUPPORT FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT HIRING ENTERPRISES

39. FMARD: Staple Crops Processing ZonesImproving 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.

40. We must eat what we grow and grow what we eat

41. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

42. Agriserve • Demonstration • Soil tests (Osun and Kogi States) • Mobilization of • communities • Business plan • completed (Edo State)

43. Let’s all work together to improve the food value chains Thank you