‘Greenhouse Technology will Boost Nigeria’s Agric Production’
Greenhouse technology has potential to rapidly expand the country’s agricultural production including a very attractive opportunity to generate huge ROI for investors within a short time. The Chief Executive Officer, Dizengoff Nigeria, Antti Ritvonen, made the assertion in Lagos recently, during a media parley on agric investment in the country, also submitted that the technology equally holds huge opportunity as an investment option with juicy returns on investment for investors within a short time.
The technology is acclaimed as a very innovative solution that enables all year round farming. It delivers a technique for achieving high quality increased agric produce, thereby helping to expand production.
“Greenhouse technology is a huge break- through agricultural production, either way you look at it. And I believe its adoption holds the future for the country’s agriculture both in terms of production as well as investment.
“It is a technology that delivers a unique farming technique that enables increased high quality production all year round. For the investor, what I see is that with proper management what you have within a short time is very attractive returns on investment that is perhaps difficult to get elsewhere.”
Giving details, about the innovative greenhouse technology developed by the company known as “Dizengoff Farmer’s Kit (DFK), Antti said “it is a managed all year round farming technique that is very suitable for investors and professionals who are not necessarily farmers.
He disclosed that the technology “breaks away from the traditional open farming technique”. It adopts greenhouse technology “developed with the aim of helping farmers with an all year round technique to produce increased yields of greenhouse crops”.
“Dizengoff Farmer’s Kit is essentially an innovative technology a greenhouse production package consisting of a greenhouse, drip irrigation system and high yielding highbred seeds. The package also includes assorted fertilizers, agrochemicals, nursery sets, farmer’s sprayers, and personal protective clothing. It also include planting bags and sheets, all complimented with farmer’s training and agro support services.”
Ritvonen also disclosed that the package which comes in different units could also have a paid agronomist, who is an agro support adviser to work with the investor for ten months. This he said the company does to ensure proper management as well as for technical operations.
According to him, Dizengoff is pioneering the technology in Nigeria because of its firm belief that it has the capacity to rapidly expand the country’s agricultural production within a short time. All that is needed is interest and involvement in adopting the technique.
“With increased interest in agriculture across all strata of the economy and the adoption of this technology, we will be able to get more people involved to rapidly expand production within a short time.”
Equally speaking during the parley, Dizengoff Marketing Communications Manager, Humphrey Otalor, disclosed that the company had recently embarked on a promotional scheme, geared at making the Dizengoff Farmer’s Kit very affordable for interested investors.
“We are passionate about helping the country become not only self-sufficient but also become an exporter of agric produce within a short time. And we believe that do this by getting more people involved in production through the greenhouse technology being pioneered by Dizengoff,” he also said.