Integrating smallholder maize farmers through agribusiness cluster formation

About the partnership

Nigeria

Staple Crops

Status:

Active

This partnership will impact food and nutrition security by offering high-quality maize grains to Nigerian consumers. It will also promote on-farm and off-farm innovative technologies and increase the volume and consumption of high-quality maize, free from Aflatoxin (less than 0.4 ppb) and pesticide contamination, particularly aluminum-based chemicals used during storage. The partnership targets to produce more than 50,000 tons of quality marketable maize grains and the excess will be consumed by farmers and by local communities.

About the business champion

AFEX commodity limited is an SME that provides innovative solutions for the agricultural sector in Nigeria. The focus of AFEX is on food security and development of sustainable agriculture in Nigeria connected to 100,000 smallholder farmers in the grassroots. AFEX aspires to increase the bargaining power of maize smallholder farmers and link them to agronomic best practices, access to inputs & credit to enhance the production and improve coordination of the maize value chain

Key interventions

Strengthen the Integration of SHF into AFEX's Supply Chain

Improving the quality, yield & volumes of maize supplied by smallholder farmers