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My question is how can I get a loan as an entrepreneur in the agric business?. I am a professional farm input and produce dealer. I certainly need loan to strengthen my daily effort. Your answer with the step to climb to get there will be honored and appreciated.

Dear Ndidi, I work with Scruples Resource Limited, Lagos state whose subsidiary company Agrik Nigeria is in Abeokuta, Ogun State. I would appreciate if I could get links to training on extraction of essential oils as my subsidiary company, Agrik Nigeria want to venture into essential oils. We grow ginger, garlic and turmeric on our farmland in Abeokuta but we have not gotten the perfect extract. We would appreciate if we can be train on extraction of turmeric oil. Regards, Ifeoluwa Ojewumi

Hello Ndidi firstly I must commend you personally on your enthusiasm towards a Better Africa. My question is how can I get a loan as an entrepreneur in the agric business? I have done all the researching needed to start up a Cattle Animal husbandry farm and be sure of an incredible success, my problem is Capital. Thank you

How can the private sector collaborate with the federal government to address the challenge of product wastages due to poor storage facilities. I read recently of the decay of huge agricultural produce in Benue state. The country cannot afford such waste now.

Good day, Agriculture is the new Oil. I will like to start actively investing in the Agricultural sector so I can earn extra income while still working in my current HR role. For a start, I have 1million to commit to Agriculture. Kindly advise on what opportunities/options are open to me.

Good morning, We are going into cultivation, growing and processing fresh tomato into tomato paste. Strategically, backward integration will be one of the key to our company success, growth and sustenance. No firm or company in Nigeria and indeed in West Africa who is presently producing tomato paste through backward integrated farming methodology or any other method. All the tomato paste consumed in Nigeria are all imported and repackage in smaller sizes with branded names. Nigeria consume more than 200,000 tonnes of tomato paste annually and, all are imported and, in quite majority of cases the imported tomato paste fails to meet international standard quality. The size of the plant is 1,200 tonnes of fresh tomato process into tomato paste per day per season. We are working with an experience Italian tomato paste production company. The company is Fenco, the company will supply, install, managed and maintain the machines for a period of 5 years. Also, we are working with a Israeli agronomist, irrigation and green house company to achieve high yield per hectare of minimum of 80 tonnes to maximum of 180 tonnes of yield per hectare. We have develop a relationship and are in negotiation with an off taker, a renown company with popular consumer brand. Our annual production is 23,040 of tomato paste per planting season of 120 days per year. We require $ 28 million usd to buy, install all the machinery for the tomato paste production machines, tractor machine, 1,2 megawatt gas generating set, construction of factory building, including offices and furniture supply and fitted, staff quarters for farm workers to reside inclusive of the civil work. We require equity and debt investment as a method of financing the project. The project is profitable with Internal rate of return IRR of more than 40%. The investment payback is 4 years. To be frank and candid your understanding, support, assistance and advise is a prerequisite and will be highly appreciated and we would be immeasurable grateful to work with you. We look forward to hearing from you, Sincerely, Andrew

I operate in Ghana in the Central region. I have available 5,000 acres of arable land for palm oil smallholder farming project which will feed a palm oil mill all year round. I have been facing challenges financially in developing these lands and starting the entire project. I would be very grateful if i can have your expert opinion on how to go about the entire project. we have registered the smallholder association and hope to start a nursery so as to supply them with certified seedlings next year. ideas, networking and recommendation from you on this will go a long way for me. Thank you

I'm an Agrc Economist and I've been inspired to start-up an Agric sactor based Market information Services. Could you please give some insightful counsel to guide me operation wise and the kind of deal to strike with media houses to ensure rich content. Thanks

 I am Mrs Judith Bikawei, CEO of Keju Farms Enterprise,a catfish farming company located in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. Currently, we are about to go bankrupt as the the Covid-19 pandemic has really affected our business negatively in terms of finance, low patronage from clients etc. We really need capital to do as to get back to business. Is there an organization that currently gives grants, equity etc. to entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector we can apply to? Thanks in anticipation to your positive response.

How can I get financial assistance for my processing industry? We want to migrate to electrical machines as opposed to the manual we use for better production.

Is it possible for implement farm-to-table solutions on a global scale ?

In my assessment, I have come to discover that food has not been sufficiently transformed in Africa, thus we incur lots of post harvest losses. What can we do to encourage food transformation in Africa?