The Osun Agricultural Value Chain Activation initiative is a project of the state government to partner with competent aggregators to spur private sector-led and market-driven agricultural value chain development and is designed to use the aggregator and out-grower model in a way that is innovative, sustainable and scalable.
The vision is to facilitate the activation of a minimum of 10 market-driven value chains that will empower 50,000 sustainable smallholder farmers/MSME, increase income and create jobs for 300,000 people using the aggregator and out-grower model.
A statement signed by the Project and Economic Team (PET) in the Governor’s office, states that selected aggregators will identify and establish sustainable and competitive markets in any of the Plantain, Rice, Cassava, Yam, Maize, Tomatoes, Soybeans, Cocoa, Rice, Oil Palm, Poultry, Rice, Oil Palm, Poultry, Aquaculture, Small Ruminant, Goats, Piggery, and Forestry value chains.
The aggregators will secure sustainable market linkage and organise Osun Small businesses to produce in commercial quantities. The initiative will connect competent aggregators to qualifying small businesses leveraging on the abundance of Macro, Small and Medium and Enterprise (MSME) funds at the National and Sub-Nation levels to support small businesses.
The statement also informed that the initiative will also partner relevant financial and development institutions.
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