Thread by @sarnchos

When you go into processing, you quickly realise the market has a price it will pay for your processed goods.

So its not just about buying raw materials from the market because their inadequate supply has made them expensive.
@ShoutsAndMiras

#Thread

Our labour intensive crop production in Nigeria makes our crop output expensive in price & poor in quality.

It limits what we can produce & makes it extremely expensive for large processors to produce for the market whose prices are mostly determined by imported finished goods

You realise you need a cheaper source of raw materials than what the open market (supplied by small holder farmers) can supply

This often leads processors into backward integration via direct or contract farming

We urgently need to ramp up crop production in Nigeria

We should focus less on waste, & more on increasing yields

Our small holder farmers experience such huge wastage because they lack resources to process their produce

Ramping up small scale processing capacity will help to drastically reduce the wastage and empower SH farmers

Increasing small scale processing capacity at the grassroots will drastically cut waste and empower farmers,

While improving yields and increasing mechanized crop production will drive down food costs in the medium and long term