Ya Mu'alleem Agribusiness Ventures

28/08/2025

🌱 “Begin with the end in mind!”
Sustainable agribusiness is not a short sprint; it is a long-distance marathon that demands perseverance, consistency, and commitment. Too often, agriculture is portrayed as quick harvests and celebratory pictures in front of lush fields.

But in reality, building an agric-based investment requires:
✅ Patience-seasons will test your resilience.
✅ Consistency-farming systems thrive on continuous effort, not occasional input.
✅ Commitment-value chain development needs long-term vision, not short-term excitement.

The end we must keep in mind is not just today’s yield, but the future of food security, livelihoods, and sustainable wealth creation across Nigeria and Africa.

Studies have shown that agricultural ventures with structured value-chain approaches are 40–50% more resilient to market shocks compared to fragmented production efforts (FAO, 2023). This resilience comes from staying the course, reinvesting, and scaling strategically.

To every agripreneur, investor, policymaker, and stakeholder 👉 let’s shift the narrative! Agriculture is not just about what we plant today, it’s about what we sustain, multiply, and leave for tomorrow.

18/04/2025

🌽IAR Has Done It Again!
Celebrating Innovation & Impact in Agriculture🍀🪴

Yesterday, 17th April 2025, the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, once again made Nigeria proud by registering and releasing a whopping 17 new crop varieties at the meeting of National Committee on Naming, Registration & Release of Crop Varieties, Livestock Breeds/Fisheries in Ibadan — a remarkable feat that showcases our unwavering commitment to agricultural transformation in Nigeria.

Here’s what’s new and exciting:

🌽 Maize Hybrids Registered by IAR

SAMMAZ 77
• Yield: 10.8 t/ha
• Tolerance: Striga hermonthica, drought, and fall armyworm
• Ecology: Adapted to Northern & Southern Guinea Savannas

🌾 Three Barley Lines (with Lake Chad Research Institute)

1. LACRISAMBARLEY 1
• Yield: 3.6 t/ha | 18.8% protein
• Ecology: Guinea Savanna & mid-altitude zones
2. LACRISAMBARLEY 2
• Yield: 4.9 t/ha | 15.25% protein
• Exceptional tillering capacity
• Ecology: Sudan Savanna & mid-altitude zones
3. LACRISAMBARLEY 3
• Yield: 4.3 t/ha | 2.4% ash content
• Ecology: Northern Guinea Savanna & mid-altitude zones

🤝 Public-Private Partnerships That Delivered More Maize!

With ETG Inputs Nigeria Ltd

• ETG M401: 10.2 t/ha
• ETG M601: 11.1 t/ha

With AgriSeed Co Nig Ltd

• SC 451: 10.2 t/ha
• SC 563: 10.8 t/ha
• SC 618: 10.8 t/ha

🌱 Pasture for Livestock – Greener, Better, Smarter
In collaboration with NAPRI, IAR scientists also released:

2 Pasture Legume Lines:
• Shikalegume 1 & 2
6 Pasture Grass Lines:
• Shikagrass 1 to 6

These lines promise improved forage quality, resilience, and livestock productivity — a major win for Nigeria’s animal agriculture!

This achievement reinforces IAR’s leadership in crop and livestock research, innovation, and development for food security, income generation, and climate resilience.

We celebrate our brilliant scientists, dedicated partners, and the resilient farmers who turn these innovations into impact!



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16/04/2025

Shout out to my newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Nasir Umar Mustapha, Muhammad Abdulfatah

16/04/2025

You Don’t Need Vast Land to Build a Career in Agribusiness

These days I upon come across questions of how a person will make a career in Agribusiness "remember we agreed that Agriculture is a business no more a culture" with less access to vast land for cultivation or rearing.

So I decide to made the answer open to every individual with the same desire irrespective of any profession or skillset he is.

Note this -any enterprise that's within the value chain of any agricultural product will be term as "Agribusiness" think of input supply, production, services, financing, aggregation, logistics, many to mentions.

Take corn as an example:

1. Input Supply – seeds, fertilizers, crop protection products
2. Production – actual farming
3. Aggregation – buying from multiple farms
4. Processing – converting to pap, animal feed, or cornflakes
5. Logistics – warehousing and transportation
6. Retail & Distribution – packaging and selling
7. Finance & Insurance – funding and protecting value chain players
8. Technology & Advisory Services – digital tools and expert support

Grab your entrepreneurial mindset, add tech and consult us for the Agribusiness value chain expert advice.

Make your quota to food security and enrich your pocket from the solutions you offer

14/04/2025

Agriculture is not a Tradition. It's a Business.

As you set the plan, think business and think big!

What keeps many farmers stuck in the same place is the mindset of seeing Agriculture as a tradition, not a business with vision.

The new wave of agriculture which is coined as Agribusiness calls for:

1. Strategic thinking
2. Financial planning
3. Market foresight
4. Record keeping
5. Innovation and optimization

Think like an agripreneur, act like a CEO, and plant like you’re feeding a continent.

Want an Agribusiness value chain expert advice?

Engage us to Analyze, Develop, and Optimize your presence in the value chain.

12/04/2025

The Spirit of the Farmer
"The farmer has to be an optimist — or he wouldn’t still be a farmer." – Will Rogers

Farming is one of the few professions where hope is planted alongside the seed.

Every season, the farmer:

👉Prepares, despite past losses

👉Invests, even with uncertain returns

👉Prays, while working relentlessly

👉Smiles, even when rains delay or pests arrive

👉That’s not just work, that’s faith in action.

As we approach the new farming season, may we carry the same spirit, the resilience, the courage, and the optimism that defines every true farmer.

Let’s keep moving forward. The land still listens. The soil still rewards. The harvest will still come.

Are you an optimist? Are you ready for this season? Tell us in the comments section 👇

12/04/2025

Pidgin savy Agric Trainer needed 👇

11/04/2025

RAINY SEASON FARMING IS COMING... ARE YOU READY?

Farming is not about trial and error, it’s about strategy!
We know our farming season here in the North is not all-year-round. Once it begins, there’s no time to play catch-up.

That’s why the smart ones are already doing this:

- Planning their farm budgets
- Gathering funds ahead of planting
- Sourcing improved seeds, fertilizers, and agrochemicals
- Mapping out their farm activities by the week

You see that seed? It won’t forgive you for being late with fertilizer.
And your land? It won’t yield its best if you don’t show up ready.

So let’s be honest… Have you started preparing for the rainy season?

Tell us in the comments — what have you done so far?

11/12/2024

A ɗan kwarewar da nake da ita a bangaren k**a daga kan

1. Yawan duba dabbobi ƙauye ƙauye da gidajen gona daga shekarar 2018 zuwa yau.

2. Yawan ansar data (agrodealer data collection) a -KT a matsayin intern daga Jan., 2021 zuwa Dec., 2021.

3. Jami'in horar da manoma (Technical Field Officer)a -KT daga Dec., 2021 zuwa Dec., 2024.

4. Mai neman kwarewa akan bada jari ga manoma (Agribusiness finance specialist intern) a daga Oct., 2024 zuwa yau.

Ina kallon wa'yannan abubuwa a matsayin manya manyan matsalolin harkar musamman anan ta

1. Ƙarancin hangen kasuwanci cikin harkar noma da kiwo (Low level of business mindsets towards Agribusiness value chain).

2. Ƙarancin yin noma da kiwo bisa tsarin bukatun masana'antu (Little focus to industrial demand based Agriculture).

3. Rashin ingantattun bayanan kasuwancin noma da kiwo da adana su ( Proper Agribusiness analytics and record keeping).

4. Ƙarancin samun dama ga kudade (Low level access to finance).

5. Ƙarancin haɗin gwiwa da haɗaka (Little level of partnership and collaboration).

Da taka kwarewar wace gudummawa zaka iya bayarwa wajen magance waɗannan kalubalen???

Mu haɗu a comment👇👇👇



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06/05/2024