₦airaland Forum

OUR OWN SUPPLY CHAIN VEGETABLE MEGA STORE
I blv the time is ripe for a "Farm-Gate" vegetable maga store (in our major cities) in Nigeria where every registered vegetable farmer cld supply or sell or offload their vegetables straight from the farm to the shelves. Must we always wait for foreigners (Shoprite & co) to think & do things for us? Why not let's create our own vegetable supply chain like "Zucinni" shown by Oga @pavore9 in the pix?

If we do this, lots of young & educated farmers will be encouraged to do farming because the market is there & they can get premium price for their fresh vegetables.

THINGS TO CONSIDER
1) All registered farmer's farm must be certified to be organic (as much as possible).
2) There will be an agreed standard or fixed price for each farm produce or item supplied to the store.
3) Create s standard selling price for each vegetable. I blv @pavore9 cld help us here
3) it cld be formed as a cooperative or a limited liability company or we can get an investor to just build solley for groceries.

If Shoprite is doing it & making profit, then we can equally do it. Afterall Globacom showed us that Nigerians too cld run a succesfull telecomms company.

Let all known vegetable farmers on Nairaland think abt this as doable in 2016.

HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE.

Over to all known gurus in the house.

Cc
@Organicfoods, @Kalusam, @soft777, @agrsolfarms, @Jasper7, @pavore9, @jetro2, @soloxam

My thoughts for 2016.

jasper7:
Uncle, very helpful pictures. As I saw this picture, I just felt like eating the fruits from the picture . This is the effects of packaging. I believe if kenya can do it. I can also do it. I have a mega-project in mind in 2016. I hope to retire from full time farming very soon and enter into complete food processing and vegetables marketing. I will still need to steal some ideas from you when the time is right

jasper7:
Thanks for this, very useful posts indeed! helping to improve the work we are already doing. You've have ignited back a fire in me that was beginning to burn low. Having a better packaging for products and dictating market price has been the major reason behind the Jireh project. Now that the production aspect is stabilizing, I think this will be the target in 2016.

Great Insight I must say!

Newway2:
OUR OWN SUPPLY CHAIN VEGETABLE MEGA STORE
I blv the time is ripe for a "Farm-Gate" vegetable maga store (in our major cities) in Nigeria where every registered vegetable farmer cld supply or sell or offload their vegetables straight from the farm to the shelves. Must we always wait for foreigners (Shoprite & co) to think & do things for us? Why not let's create our own vegetable supply chain like "Zucinni" shown by Oga @pavore9 in the pix?

If we do this, lots of young & educated farmers will be encouraged to do farming because the market is there & they can get premium price for their fresh vegetables.

THINGS TO CONSIDER
1) All registered farmer's farm must be certified to be organic (as much as possible).
2) There will be an agreed standard or fixed price for each farm produce or item supplied to the store.
3) Create s standard selling price for each vegetable. I blv @pavore9 cld help us here
3) it cld be formed as a cooperative or a limited liability company or we can get an investor to just build solley for groceries.

If Shoprite is doing it & making profit, then we can equally do it. Afterall Globacom showed us that Nigerians too cld run a succesfull telecomms company.

Let all known vegetable farmers on Nairaland think abt this as doable in 2016.

HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE.

Over to all known gurus in the house.

Cc
@Organicfoods, @Kalusam, @soft777, @agrsolfarms, @Jasper7, @pavore9, @jetro2, @soloxam

My thoughts for 2016.

When are we going to have a grocery store that looks like this?

Newway2:
When are we going to have a grocery store that looks like this?

It only requires planning, from the farmers' group which is the source of supply to selling to end consumers. That should be standards, the farmers knowing that they must supply only pre-agreed quality at certain price per kg. Buyers come in pick the quantity they want and have it weighed and paid for at the till. People get attracted to things unique.

@Pavore9:

An investor has been on my neck for the design and implementation of this grocery store for several months here in Akure, Nigeria but I couldn't help her because I have a couple of work to finish before I could give my commitment but I would appreciate if I could get a like minded person to work with me if we agree to terms.

Pavore9, I sight you oooooh

Whao! That's great! We can work together on this venture if u don't mind. & as u said if we agree on terms. I will see this as a manifestation of my vission for Agric business value chain in vegatable farming. There are lots of positives if it materialises.

It's not rocket science & I know Oga @pavore9 will guide us.

Let's hook up.

TheUnbeatable:
@Pavore9:

An investor has been on my neck for the design and implementation of this grocery store for several months here in Akure, Nigeria but I couldn't help her because I have a couple of work to finish before I could give my commitment but I would appreciate if I could get a like minded person to work with me if we agree to terms.

Pavore9, I sight you oooooh