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NAGROPRENEURS: ‘NURTURING THE SUCCESSOR GENERATION OF NIGERIA
FARMERS AND AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES’
AT THE 19TH NIGERIAN ECONOMIC SUMMIT, 2013
ADENUGA, ADENIYI ADEDEJI TÈPÉBÓ FARMS
• Tepebo farms is located at No 3 Orelaja street, opposite Ilese Army barrack, Isade Ijebu.Ogun State.
• Tepebo farms is a subsidiary of Tepebo international limited, a registered limited liability company. The farm is operating on about a three plots of land.
• Tepebo farms was established 2 years ago as Youth Corps member serving in Oyo State,
• The initial startup capital came from my parents, church cooperative loan and part of the 'popular allawe' from youth service .
• The farm plans to market a complete line of catfish products and packages including live fish hamper, value added catfish, packaged smoked catfish and make fish available for local consumption and international market.
OUR CAPACITY
• There are total of 14 ponds
• 4 NOS. of 4m × 4m of 1.3m depth.
• 10 NOS. of 4m × 6m 0f 1.5m depth.
• The small pond serves as the growing pond for fingerlings to juvenile and the big pond serves as the grow out pond.
• The big ponds can conveniently occupy 1500 post juveniles till harvest.
• We produce 15 tons per circle and a capacity of 30 tons per annum.
FARM OVERVIEW
• After the second cycle of six month and impressive sales figure, the lesson learnt/challenges of sourcing fingerlings outside the farm, I re-invested my turn over to construct a standard hatchery ,this was done using local initiative of a smart plumber and copying the standard imported ones in the market.
HATCHERY
To increase my product line and with the gift of 3 smoking kiln from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, we decided to package smoke fish that will meet not only with local/national market but also compete internationally.
SMOKING KILN
TEPEBO SMOKED FISH
PROCESSING SHED FOR SMOKED FISH
DIVERSIFYING: KALAHARI RED GOAT
Irrigating Plantain with waste water.
CHALLENGES
• LAND ACQUISITION AND OWNERSHIP: expansion program is dependent on this.
• FUNDS : needed for new constructions of ponds, feeding and other working capital.
• MARKET: Fish is a highly perishable product and must be sold either fresh or smoked quickly to preserve the quality and customer satisfaction.
RECOMMENDATION
• Youth friendly Agricultural policies (GES and Youwin) etc.
• Easy access to funds/capital (soft loan and starter pack).
• Creation of markets for products.
• Mentoring and following up
• Capacity building and training.
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
• I AM NIGERIAN
• I AM YOUNG
AND
• I AM A FARMER!
GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!!