Soaring Food Prices: Agribusiness firm seeks collaboration between Government & Stakeholders
An agribusiness firm, SWEER Global Farms, has called for collaboration between governments at all levels and agricultural stakeholders to tackle the soaring prices of food, as the situation poses serious concerns on the wellbeing of Nigerians.
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Dr. Thaddaeus Thompson, made this call during a briefing on ways to crash the skyrocketing food prices in Nigeria.
“The purchasing power of Nigerians for food items is a matter of great concern
“I urge the government to go out of its way to stem the rising tide of insecurity that has sacked many farmers from their farms,” Dr. Thompson appealed.
He noted that stakeholders in the industry were not pleased with the current trend of unending increase in food prices, pointing out that his firm was ready to intervene through a massive harvest of staple foods like plantain, rice, maize, cassava, among others.
An agribusiness firm, Sweer Global Farms, has called for collaboration between governments at all levels and agricultural stakeholders to tackle the soaring prices of food.
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“We are so concerned about the high prices of food in the country.
“Even though we are into profit-making, we are Nigerians and have to do business with human face as well by being fair enough despite the harsh business environment coupled with the global effects of climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War.
“But interestingly, we are going to harvest our cassava sitting on over 15 hectares, this month of May, and also process it at our state-of-the-art cassava processing factory located in Amassoma, and sell directly to Nigerians at affordable prices, because we want to crash the high cost of garri.
“Also, our workers are currently working on our plantain plantation to harvest the plantains on several hectares of land we cultivated in 2021.
“The volume of plantain is going to be enormous because it is going to run into hundreds of bunches.
“The plan is to sell directly to Nigerians at an affordable price,” Dr. Thompson explained.
Furthermore, he assured that the cassava, plantain and yam cultivated by the company were purely organic, adding that they decided to adopt organic farming as a result of unwholesome usage of chemicals by some farmers to produce food, leading to health crisis in consumers.
“We believe in the natural or organic process of producing food, and our cassava is purely without using fertilizers or sprays to clear the weeds.
“The same applies to our plantain plantation and yam farm”, he added.
Dr. Thompson also expressed the readiness of his firm to collaborate with the government in the area of food production and to offtake farm produce like cassava, yam, rice, and others from interested farmers across the country.
Source: Agro Nigeria
