Agric firm to train 3,000 poultry farmers in Oyo, Lagos, others

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As part effort to assist poultry farmers to improve their business an agricultural firm, Pullus Africa Solutions is set to train 3,000 poultry farmers in Oyo, Lagos, Abuja and Kaduna states.

This was disclosed by the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of the organisation, Mrs. Opeoluwa Fayomi in Kaduna at the weekend.

She said her firm has discovered three major problems after one year of intense discussion with poultry farmers.

“This is because the demand for poultry meat is high at an annual growth rate of over 4.1 percent between now and 2030. But when you look at it, a lot of farmers are suffering because they do not have the right tools and resources to manage their businesses.

“After one year of discussion with farmers, we discovered 3 major problems, and those are the problems that Pullus wants to address. One is to access premium, quality markets.

“A lot of poultry farmers are forced to sell their poultry, birds and products at a loss because they’re not connected to the right market.

“There’s a lot of middlemen interference, that’s making the profit on these farmers, and Pullus will help to stop that by connecting them to the right market at the right time at premium prices.

“The second issue is access to finance. Pullus want to build credibility that’ll help them to access finance, even with Pullus and financial institutions at an affordable rate by giving them the credible track records that financial institutions or bodies need or seek, by helping them to safeguard their businesses.

“This will make their profit margin swell up, the rate at which they produce their birds will increase, and they’ll have all the available resources at the bake and call to do their work. So that’s what Pullus is here to do.

“We’ve launched officially today with farmers in Kaduna who we’ve been piloting for the past 4-5 months. The goal is to grow and work with farmers in Abuja, Lagos, and Ibadan, until we’re able to service all the 36 States in Nigeria, and we move to other African countries.

“From our analysis, discussion and interactions from the test pilot, we’ve run with farmers, we discovered farmers make 30% more profits when they use Pullus than when they grow normally without Pullus, and therefore that’s enough incentives for farmers, to us.

“We have over 3000 farmers already in our network working with us. We’ve given about 300 to be able to use the platform for the past few months in Kaduna alone.

Speaking at the event, Margret Ado, a participant, who has been a member of the Pullus community testified how Pullus Solutions helped improved her profitability by 25% and “she looks forward to a deeper engagement with the firm.

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