NESTLÉ NIGERIA, PROMOTING AGRICULTURAL LANDSCPE FOR PROFIT

       A Woman Farmer On Duty

 By Daniel Olushola Michael

Pointer to Maize and Sorghum farmers improvement

For decades of employing economic machineries to promote agricultural wastes of non availability of storage of farm produce, Nestle's partnership in Creation of quality yield support to farmers of Maize and Soya bean has tremendously scaled the unprecedented produce attainment .With three decades of one of the company's products,Golden Morn made from Nigerian local maize has generated quality income to farmers of northwestern part of the Nation. While generating more yields in the partnerships, the company never look away to maintain hygienic and quality nutritious product are resultants of the programs.

An Instructor Educating a Female Farmer On Grain Sustenance
 

In 2013 alone,Nestlé Nigeria purchased 9,780 tons of maize from farmers. Most often,others companies would opted for importation but Nestlé's top management policy for backward integration ensures local farmers which were usually peasantries smiles to the Banks from their Partnership.
Empirically, Nestle in partnership with International Fertilizer Development Centre (IFDC) initiated project on Sorghum and Millet in the Sahel (SMS) aimed at strengthening sustainability of miller/Sorghum farming projects in the country, the beneficiaries being the northwestern small business owners . With a deliberate projection of possibilities,the program has successfully attained nothing less than 30,000 farmers to produce better quality increase in yield in just 2 years of the collaborative operations.
While looking inward to support local farmers getting better and quality yields of farm produce, it is Nestle's ways of contributing quotas of economic growth to nigeria as a Nation.
In futherance to enhance better yields in maize and sorghum, At Kaduna state alone, Nestle's also initiated Feed The Future Nestlé Maize Quality Improvement Program (M-QIP)
With USAID and VEGA targeting modern farming trainings for small and medium scale farmers,the drive was specially to reduce to bearest levels the contaminants of crops within targets of 3 years to build capacities for volunteers who would offer trainings to other small scale farmers in yielding better quality farm produce which also would positively enhance profiting to their businesses in the value chains of agricultural sectors in Nigeria.

 Along the line, about 150 local youths volunteers were engaged to further impart over 20,000 local farmers for greater quality agricultural knowledge for profiteering, and about 40 percentage of women engagement was targeted to benefit from 20,000 aimed to acquired the modern trainings.
At least 17,000 metric tons annually would prop the resulting increased grain and maize sales will boost incomes and help farmers and least 17,000 metric tons annually. The resulting increased grain and maize sales will boost incomes and help farmers and small business operators improve their livelihoods in the long run.