Published 07 Oct,2020 via The Nation - As Nigeria continues to grow its farming capacity, startups are rushing to add technology and structure to centuries-old, largely informal supply chain. They are building a marketplace to empower poor farming families, DANIEL ESSIET reports.
Nigeria’s agriculture and overall food system is still facing some challenges. One of them is uncertainty about the prices of crops and farmers having ready markets to sell their produce. This has kept a lot farmers from growing their businesses.
To boost growth, analysts said Nigeria needed to improve supply, quality and food safety with added value. In addition, they called for short-and longer-term strengthening of public and market institutions to achieve the ambitious goals for agriculture and the overall food system.
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