Programs and Initiatives

1

Agribusiness training and workshop

  • Workshops on accessing the Credit Guarantee Scheme
  • Constant Staff training programs
  • Series of training for producers, aggregators and traders in the state
  • Free business advice and resilience support to farmers

  • Periodic Agro-sectoral reviews and industry news dissemination

2

Access to Finance and Funding

The scheme has been designed to help the beneficiaries to access loans from financial institutions, particularly at this present age where access to credit at the grassroot level is almost impossible. ADAS will provide Credit Guarantee for bank loan applicants pre-accredited for such. Credit Guarantee letters are then issued to beneficiaries to be taken to their respective banks to enable them access credit. The guarantee is being implemented in phases, commencing with aggregators and marketers, while gradually expanding to cover primary agricultural production and even non-agricultural Credit Guarantee. With this development therefore, the days of ‘’no collateral; no loan’’ is long gone.

3

Market Linkages and Value Chains

Connections are constantly being developed for the 4 main categories of sub-sectors and 16 priority commodity value chains based on suitability for commercial production and potential for value addition:
  • Crops - Primary producers will farm paddy-rice, maize, soya-beans, sesame Cotton. The corporate private sector will build Mills and other specialist processing plants for value addition and marketing.
  • Livestock Now enlightened pastoralists, farmers and Ranchers will produce cattle pigs, poultry, goat and sheep. The private sector will aggregate these to process and produce Beef, Goatmeat, Port, Eggs, Chicken meat while the offals and wastes will be used to produce export graded Hides and Skin, BioGas, Fertilizers, Feather meal, Sausage sleeves, Blood meal and Bone meal for feed processing, to mention but a few.
  • Aquaculture Harvested fish will be processed into Fillet, smoked fish, Frozen Fish and Fish meal for the Feed mill additive.
  • Forestry Orchards, woodlot, shelterbelt, agro-forestry and plantations. These will first develop the Honey value chain in the immediate term. Orchards will produce seasonal fruits to be processed into Fruit juices, Canned fruit slices and the wastes processed into animal feed.

4

Agricultural Technology Adoption

The project will adopt a trado-modern technology approach with gradual increase in modernization towards increasing output, quality with ardent sustainability attitude for meaningful development. The program will partner private sector companies specializing in mechanization of farming systems on the field as well as the use of modern processing and production standards that guarantees high-quality outputs.

5

Women and Youth Empowerment

Women are the integral bedrock of the societal building blocks and as such they are prioritized alongside the youth with the effort to build a viral State economy that is eco-financial driven while generating several thousands MSMEs across the State.

6

Sustainable Farming Practices

The program has always been an ardent supporter of sustainable integrated farming methods for products that readily complements each other. Farmers are also thought through workshops and various training programs on recycling and creative conversion of wastes to wealth. The R & D department will readily appraise and advise producer on best practices through information dissemination exercises.

7

Research and Innovation

The program takes R & D seriously with modern Laboratory support for known and unknown vectors, diseases and other bio-security threats. These and many more to be commenced are done in collaboration with institutions like:
  • Institute of Agricultural Research Training (IART)
  • National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS)
  • Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR)
  • SEED-CO
  • International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
  • Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO)