Shopagric to deepen Nigeria agribusiness value-chain
Shopagric has been in operation for a year already with its Ranch and agro-processing plant located at Kuchiko-ijah, Niger state, Nigeria.
Shopagric, an agritech crowdfunding firm birthed with the mandate to help curb the raising issues of food insecurity in Nigeria, hence the vision of the company which is recreating the agro-value chain together, one sector per time.
Shopagric has been in operation for a year already with its Ranch and agro-processing plant located at Kuchiko-ijah, Niger state, Nigeria.
Since inception, Shopagric has completed six major poultry farm projects, which gave birth to a production capacity of 46,000 broiler birds, one fish farm project and one rice project.
Currently, they have a 4000 layer bird capacity farm with a view on expansion before the end of the year to a 20,000 layers bird capacity pen fully automated.
With a current catfish farm production capacity of 22000, hence the need for a recent set up and functional hatchery to help increase the catfish production capacity to 100,000 by December 2020.
And with the increasing consumption of rice as a staple in Nigeria, a 60 ton per day full automatic rice milling plant is has been approved by the board of directors to be set up in the Ranch and agro-processing plant, in Niger state( Being one of the largest riceproducing states in Nigeria).
Shopagric also has a completed and fully functional meat processing house in the Ranch and Agro-processing plant for the processing of all produced birds in the farm, so as to increase the value of the agro-chain in the poultry broiler production sector.
With a view on further expansion of our production capacity on the various agrosectors, a formidable and smart team had to be built, shopagric has a staff strength of 37 young Nigerians in five different states in the country ( Kano, Edo state, Abuja, Niger state and Jos).