Agribusiness Consulting Services

Agribusiness Advisory Services

One major cause of failure in agribusiness is lack of proper guidance by experts. At AGRICS Ltd, we offer and deliver several agribusiness advisory services to practitioners, investors and managers who are engaged in the business of agricultural value chain activities. These advisory services include the establishment, financing, management and marketing of agribusiness projects. For new agri-projects, we help to identify the feasibility, viability, profitability and sustainability of such agri-projects and advise our clients rightly. For existing agri-projects that needs resuscitation and/or expansion, we assist our clients by advising them on how to source and manage the use of funds for higher return on investments and repayment of such funds. If you are interested in our agribusiness advisory services, please click HERE to contact us, we shall be very glad to assist you.

Facilitation of Access to Agribusiness Credit and Loans

Obtaining a loan or credit from banks can be very challenging for agribusiness MSMEs in Nigeria. At AGRICS Ltd, we have the expertise and are committed to assist our clients navigate through the processes of getting bank loans or grants. We support our clients to provide all the necessary documents and meet all the conditions precedent to draw down the loan. Our loan/credit access facilitation services are end-to-end starting from the loan application and following up with the bank on loan appraisal and approval. We also guide and advice our clients on the disbursement and use of the loan funds. If you are interested and want us to provide you with this services, please do not hesitate by clicking HERE to contact us. We're here to support you.

Facilitation of Access to Market for Farmers

The seasonality of farming and the inability of many farmers to preserve and store their harvested farm produce often give rise to glut in the market during harvest period leading to low prices or lack of market for farmers in the short-term leading to over 60% of losses of harvested farm produce. At AGRICS Ltd, we provide solutions to the problem of access to market for farmers during the harvest period. We already have partnerships with a network of agro-traders and processors who have the capacity for immediate aggregation and offtake farm produce. Our role is to facilitate the offtake connect farmers to the off-takers and broker fair prices during the harvest season. Farmers who are interested in this service can please click HERE to contact us. We are always available to support of farmer clients.

Farm Inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, feeds, etc are the primary raw materials farmers need. The yield of crops and livestock largely depends on the quality, quantity and timely supply of these inputs to the farmers for use in their farms. At AGRICS Ltd, we understand the crucial role of farm inputs hence our responsibility to ensuring that high-quality farm inputs get to the farmers at the right time. We facilitate the timely supply of these farm inputs to farmers through our partnerships with network of inputs manufacturers and importers. Farmers who want reliable supply of high-quality farm inputs at the right quantity and time should please click HERE to contact us well in advance of the farming season for guaranteed supplies across Nigeria.

Facilitation of Agro Inputs Supply

In business, knowledge is power. The first step in succeeding in agribusiness is having adequate and reliable knowledge of the agribusiness. Reliable agribusiness knowledge can be obtained from research. At AGRICS Ltd, we have a team of experts and researchers who have several years of experience in conducting field survey and desktop analysis of field data and interpretation of results for information that provides insights for making important business and development decisions by policy makers. For individuals, firms, government institutions, development agencies and NGOs interested in our agribusiness and development research services should please click HERE to contact us.

Agribusiness and Development Research

Agri-Investment Planning and Management

Investment in agribusiness project could be one of the toughest business decisions an investor can make. This is because agribusiness especially in Nigeria could be a very high risky venture. However, with proper planning, execution and management, agribusiness projects could be most rewarding with a return on investment (ROI) that could be as high as over 300% per operational cycle. At AGRICS Ltd, we guide our clients who want to invest in agribusiness project with appropriate project planning and management techniques required to avoid, prevent or mitigate the risks associated with agribusiness. If you want to invest in agribusiness and interested in this service, please click HERE to contact us. We are available to help.

Agri-Finance Products and Models Designing

Agricredit Risk Management

Most Banks and financial institutions often find it very difficult to lend to agribusiness MSMEs due to the huge risk involved. In addition, majority of these lenders do not have adequate capacity in terms of personnel with the requisite knowledge to successfully put in place measures to manage and de-risk lending to agricultural projects. At AGRICS Ltd, we support these lenders to ensure that all credit and loans disbursed to their customers are fully repaid. We have the experts who are former bankers with several years of industry experience in managing agricultural credit risks. We have the tools to design various models, techniques and strategies to support lenders and agribusinesses to manage agricultural and agricredit risks. If you are a lender, investor or agribusiness practitioner interested in this service, please click HERE to contact us.

Nigeria's agricultural system is still rainfed and highly seasonal, hence banks, lenders, investors and agricultural development agencies must work within the cropping calendar to avoid loan default or project failure due to delays in implementing some critical activities within the timelines as stated in the crop calendar. At AGRICS Ltd, we design, pilot, launch and manage actionable agri-finance products and models that can break bureaucracies and guide decision makers in the timely implementation of agricultural project activities. Lenders, investors and development practitioners in agriculture who are interested in this service should please click HERE to contact us.

Agricultural related programs and courses have the least enrolment in tertiary institutions of learning in Nigeria. Many candidates seeking admissions into the Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education apply for programs in the faculties of medicine, engineering, science and law, only very few seek admissions in the faculty agriculture. At AGRICS Ltd, we acknowledge the pivotal role of agriculture in the economic development of Nigeria especially in food and industrial raw materials production, job creation, etc, hence we have designed some education support packages that assist students and undergraduate gain admission and scholarships to study agriculture-related program in universities abroad. We leverage on our several years of industry experience in education. If you are a student seeking admission and/or scholarship to study overseas, please click HERE to contact us.

Agribusiness Education Support

The bedrock of Nigeria's agricultural and food system are smallholder farmers who cultivate less than five hectares of farmlands in a year. These farmers account for more than 75% of food and fibre production in Nigeria. Majority of these farmers hardly get support or benefit from agricultural development programs being implemented by the government or international development agencies and NGOs. At AGRICS Ltd, we understand the crucial roles being played by smallholder farmers in Nigeria's agricultural sector and economy. We have designed various tools and techniques for smallholder farmers cooperatives formation, coordination and management. If you are interested to work with smallholder farmers for contract farming and would need this service, please click HERE to contact us.

Farmers' Cooperatives Management