How our Directors are transforming the local farming communities in Nigeria

Lifters farms Nigeria is an integrated farm where we do livestock such as poultry (chicken and guinea fowl), goats, pigs, fish, cash crops such oil palm, cashew, citrus, arable crops such as maize, cassava, melon, vegetables such as green amaranth, kale and okra.

The journey started 3 years ago when our Directors (Dr & Mrs Agbeniga) who are professionals in Livestock, Meat and Food production and processing acquired a 43-acre land within a farm settlement in Abeokuta North Local Government, Ogun State, Nigeria.

About 90 kilometers to Lagos State which is known as the commercial capital of Nigeria.

Dr Agbeniga with a team at the farm

“At Lifters Farms, we seek to build a sustainable farming community where knowledge, innovation, creativity and profitability thrive.

Apart from the expertise of the Directors, we also have a team of seasoned agricultural experts in crop production, aquaculture and vegetable production.

Together, Lifters farms have been gradually transforming the surrounding communities by transferring knowledge and improving on local and indigenous knowledge in realizing better and more modern profitable and sustainable production of livestock and crops.”

Bell peppers produced at the farm

“New and improved vegetable species have been introduced from South Africa and currently we run some pilot projects to test the performance and adaptability of these high yielding and improved species.

We are also currently working on importing some genetically superior and high yielding goat breeds from South Africa to improve the available local and indigenous species.

With time, we’ll be rolling out some of the offsprings and crossbreeds of these high yielding breeds of goats to the surrounding communities to improve their stock.”

“At Lifters Farms, we strongly believe that the growth and development of our surrounding communities is paramount in the success of agricultural ventures.  

Collectively, these will afford us a better bargaining power to negotiate bulk supplies in the business value chain.”

A cassava plantation at the farm

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