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The Lasgidi Farmer Podcast

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  • Discussion of pertinent issues and opportunities in the Nigerian agriculture space.
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  • EP 06 | Femi Adekoya: Discussing Career in Agritech -Purpose, Clarity & Opportunities.

    EP 06 | Femi Adekoya: Discussing Career in Agritech -Purpose, Clarity & Opportunities.
    Jul 19 2024

    Agriculture already accounts for bulk of national GDP and employment for Africa and Nigeria. Technology with its efficient multiplier capability, could expand the potentials of the African agriculture and unlock immense possibilities. That is becoming the situation of the sector with significant agritech investment pouring in. (With latest reports) In 2022, the African agritech raised $636million. This was a 25% increase from 2021, the largest y-o-y increase after a 164% change from 2020 since a total $1.8billion attracted from 2013 and 2022. This opens up diverse array of agritech opportunities to build/utilise skills and carve a niche. The challenge, however, is that the ecosystem and terrain of startups can be complex to navigate. With experienced fellows the path becomes clearer and easier to navigate. Sharing insights on agritech and navigating agritech landscape is a pioneer of UAVs and drone technology for Agriculture in Nigeria and Africa, Femi Adekoya (The Flying Farmer). Femi is a UK Civil Aviation Authority certified drone pilot and also a drone data analyst. He heads flight operations at Integrated Aerial Precision, providing drone-powered solutions, training and consultancy to individuals and various organisations. Through his engagements with Drones in Agriculture, he has introduced over 5,000 agricultural technology enthusiasts to the realities and goodness of Drones in Agriculture.

    The discourse in this episode encompasses the below themes: • Agritech definition: This is important to better understand agritech, as there are numerous definition for it which could be confusing. Also, knowing what agritech is would help in knowing what is not and what to follow. • The Agritech landscape: The status-quo. To continue in the present (2nd Industrial Revolution) or leapfrog to global level (4thIR). Funds and infrastructure availability. For instance, the total funds ($1.8bn) the African agritech has seen represents just about 2% of global agritech venture capital. • Career opportunities in agritech. • Choosing purpose –Impact vs Remuneration. • Practical insights/step to navigate career in agritech: especially in UAVs and drone tech field. • Smallholder farmers place in agritech. Changing meaning of the African smallholder farmers.
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • EP 05 | Nurudeen Tiamiyu: The Comatose Fishery & Aquaculture Sector -Discourse on Issues & Solutions

    EP 05 | Nurudeen Tiamiyu: The Comatose Fishery & Aquaculture Sector -Discourse on Issues & Solutions
    Jul 11 2024
    Growth in the Fishery and Aquaculture sector has plummeted in the last decade to levels never seen with recurrent input supply chains disruptions and harsh business environment to domestic and global factors. This skyrocketed operation cost with attending shutdown of farms and impact across the economy -hike in protein cost and malnutrition, unemployment and revenue loss, accompanied by growing poverty and widening inequality gap. Many have wondered how all these came to be, pondered on (if there could be) a sustainable and lasting solution with unabating rising input inflation. Nurudeen Toba Tiamiyu a well decorated fish farmer, nationally and across the boarder, and with immense experience in the sector, gave invaluable insights and advices to understand issues in the sector, get the sector back on track and in reaching its full potential, and strategies and opportunities participants in the sector can seize to stay in operation and scale amidst the challenges. This episode covered core issues impeding production and value creation and earnings of the sector in focus and solutions to them. It encompassed: -Assessment of the status quo of and national strategy for the sector, impact on the economy -Feed (maize, soybean, trace elements...) and energy problem, alternatives (black soldier fly larvae, duck weed, etc.) and sustainability. -Entrepreneurship challenges, value addition and opportunities in the sector, advice to farmers. -Food safety and Competitiveness: ban, traceability, sustainable fishing. -Data adoption essence for production planning in meeting demand. -The future of the Fishery and Aquaculture sector.
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • EP 04 (FB Live) | Dr. Badiru: Revamping Agricultural Extension System for a Sustainable Food System

    EP 04 (FB Live) | Dr. Badiru: Revamping Agricultural Extension System for a Sustainable Food System
    Jul 7 2024
    This discourse was about the role extension can play in ensuring a food secure Nigeria, especially in stemming the nation’s present high food inflation. It features Dr. Badiru Idris, a senior lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Ibadan, who has been significantly engaged in transforming the farming system and rural economies in different initiatives at community, state, national and global level and with public, private and NGOs and international institutions. Issues seen with the food situation depict extension gap and the discourse attempted to unravel these gaps and reasons for them tracing the history, approaches and structure of and impediment to extension system and service delivery. On this basis, possible solutions were given and the best form of extension model to adopt looking at learnings in the course of different extension practices and delivery approach. The importance of and the role of the rural economy -being stable and productive -to provide foods and resources supporting lives and other sectors and industries, impacting the general economy and translating to a prosperous nation, was established. In this regard, investing in rural economy ensuring basic amenities and productivity enhancing facilities that makes the rural life worth living to stem rural-urban migration, make life habitable for rural residents and their extension worker partner was highlighted to be crucial. The discourse touched on providing holistic support for extension workers as regards resources and training to support farmers, drive change in rural communities that spreads across the nation -creating employment, opportunities, tackling multidimensional poverty, hunger, inequality, insecurity, and bridging inequality gap. The converse also looked into the role of technology in delivering responsive and effective extension service that advice for the adoption of new technologies that break barriers and expedite the dissemination of venture impacting information, innovation and support. The event ended with revealing the opportunities for graduates of agricultural extension and agriculture in general, detailing the opportunities, possibilities and career prospects in the fields and how to navigate them, offering practical steps.
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    2 hrs and 15 mins
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