BOSCH, UNIDO, stakeholders chart way for cassava marketing

cassava

BOSCH, a global supplier of technology and services in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO, has organized a stakeholders’ consultative meeting in Lagos with farmers to discuss the prospect, challenges and marketing opportunities for cassava production in the country.


Managing Director of the company in West Africa, Mr. Ghislain Noumbessy, said it was imperative for farmers to take advantage of the technological tools and services that could help them proffer solutions to their food loss to grow their profit. This is even as he restated his company’s commitment to search for everbetter technological solutions and fresh approaches that will help tackle the great challenges of today and deliver benefits to her customers.

Noumbessy said: “At Bosch, our work is guided and motivated to find solutions to even the most complex technological challenges while at the same time preserving natural resources and making a positive contribution to the society and that is why we decided to create a stakeholders consultative meeting to discuss about the market prospects, challenges and opportunities of agriculture especially in Cassava farming” A representative of UNIDO from Austria, Dr. Yvonne Lokko, noted that the organization has been working with Bosch in line with the United Nations agenda to reduce poverty, facilitate trade capacity building, agri-business and agro-industry development in Nigeria. Speaking on the Bank of Industry role in Agro Business development in Nigeria, its Managing Director, Mr. Rasheed Olaoluwa, explained that agriculture was one of the cardinal agenda of the present administration and that the bank would continue to give adequate necessary supports and loans to farmers to grow their business.

Olaoluwa, who was represented by the Group Head, Agro Processing Unit of BOI, Mrs. Kadafa Lolo Ruth, said farming was a serious business and cassava a profitable trade, noting however that there is a significant need for many farmers to improve on their skills and management structures to enable them improve their farming in 21st century. She said that BOI had noticed that lots of farmers were individualistic and seldom come together as a team to have a registered corporative or association which could enable them to access loans from financial institutions.