Business Day (Nigeria)

Shopagric to deepen Nigeria agribusine­ss value-chain

- SEYI JOHN SALAU

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).

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