NIRSAL PLC calls on all smallholder farmers, farmer leaders, and aggregators to key into its Agro Geo-Cooperative model created for sustainable farm/field structuring and governance to enable sustainable access to finance, quality inputs, and structured markets through NIRSAL’s facilitation.
The exercise aims at creating 16,000 Agro Geo-Cooperatives (ranging from 10 hectares to 20,001 hectares and above) on 4 million hectares of farmland and enrolling about 8 million farmers across Nigeria who is expected to produce about 12 million metric tonnes of Grain Product Equivalent (GPE) annually over the medium to long term.
In line with this, Community Leaders, Individuals, Enterprises, Corporate Bodies, Graduates, N-POWER Beneficiaries, Active and Retired leaders, and farmers in:
- The ADP program,
- World Bank FADAMA Program,
- USAID MARKETS Program,
- IFAD Value Chain Development Program,
- The World Bank Climate Adaptation and Business Support Program,
- AfDB Agric Program,
- The DFID’s Propcom Maikarfi Program,
- The SASSAKAWA Global 2000 Program.
The program also comprises others that meet NIRSAL PLC’s eligibility requirements and who are domiciled in or have access to their communities. Farmers are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity as a means of employment and income generation by supporting the productive activities of their self-organized Agro Geo-Cooperatives.
How to Apply
NIRSAL PLC calls on all smallholder farmers, farmer leaders, and aggregators particularly for Dry Season and Non-Seasonal Commodities – to take advantage of the NIRSAL AgroGeoCoop formation exercise, which is currently structuring smallholder farmers for access to finance, training, markets and more.