NAGROPRENEURS: ‘NURTURING THE SUCCESSOR GENERATION OF NIGERIA

FARMERS AND AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES’

AT THE 19TH NIGERIAN ECONOMIC SUMMIT, 2013

ADENUGA, ADENIYI ADEDEJI TÈPÉBÓ FARMS

Adenuga.adedeji@yahoo.com

• 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!!!