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PARTICIPATE IN AGRICULTURE WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE FARM

In the past, being in the Agro-business involves you owning and cultivating your own farm with hoes and cutlass. This has discouraged many young Nigerians from venturing into farming. They prefer to chase the limited white-collar jobs. However, with advancement in technology, this is no longer the case as you can now confidently be in the business of agriculture without necessarily getting into the farm. And the startup that is making this possible is Farmcrowdy.

farmcrowdy.com, Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform is offering a new way for Nigerians to participate in Agriculture using their online technology.

Through Farmcrowdy, Nigerians across the world can commit an agreed sum to own a minimum farm space, start and complete a farming cycle. In doing so, the farm partner is able to sponsor a farmer in one farming cycle thereby empowering the farmer, expanding their farm operations, participating in the drive to end food scarcity and making use of 50 million hectares of arable farm land in Nigeria that is currently under-utilized according to the World Bank.

Farms Partners on the platform, can sponsor any farm of their choice including Maize Farms, Poultry (Broiler) Farms, Cassava Farms and Tomato Farms. The Farm Partners then get bi-weekly updates about their farm progress including pictures and videos from the farmers. Also, Farm Partners can visit their farms if they wish to at any point in time to learn about the farmer they’ve partnered with and the farm products they are working on.

According to Onyeka Akumah, Co-Founder and CEO, Farmcrowdy, “Farmcrowdy is a revolutionary platform, one that has the ability to turn Nigeria’s economic fortune for good leveraging on technology to impact on the Agriculture space. We have secured over 1,000 hectares of farmland in the South-Western part of Nigeria especially in Oyo and Ogun state as we launch this initiative. With one farmer working on one hectare per season, this means that we have provided a platform to engage a minimum of 1,000 farmers with Farmcrowdy. Our goal is to secure 10,000 hectares around the eastern parts of Nigeria and the Lakaji Corridor in other to make use of Dams and Irrigation facilities in this region.”

Currently, the platform has secured 52 partners locally and internationally who have sponsored over 200 farm units. Also, over 500 farm followers have signed up to learn about farm progresses as the updates come in.

The co-founder further explained that Farmcrowdy was brought forth out of a need to increase food production to keep up with the growing Nigerian population.

Farmcrowdy is here to bring the best out of the resources available in Nigeria so that Nigeria can increase the production of agricultural raw materials to meet the growth of an expanding industrial sector, reduce poverty and unemployment, offer returns on investment for Farm Owners and Farm Partners while proffering a win-win solution for everyone.

4-Steps to Join Farmcrowdy

1. SIGN UP
Get on board either as a sponsor or follower
Select to either become a Farm Sponsor or Farm Follower
Create your Farm Sponsor profile
Visit the Farmshop

2. SPONSOR A FARM
Put your money on a farm of interest
Go through the profile of the farms and pick any of interest Farm types include Cassava Farms, Maize Farms, Tomato Farms, Chicken Farms All farms have different tenure/contract period and varying ROI from 13-25%

3. WATCH & LEARN
Get to know about the metrics of Farming
Get updates through video/pictures/timeline on what happens in the farm
Learn what it takes to farm in your selected farms.
Watch your farmer grow the farm and engage him/her at will

4. HARVEST & SELL
Get High Yield ROI up to 25%
At harvest, the farm produce are sold to the consumer market.
Profit is then split between the Farmers, Farm Sponsors & Farmcrowdy

Start your farm today. Visit

www.farmcrowdy.com

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