Empowering Oil Palm Farmers In Nigeria
Nigeria is one of the top producers of oil palm in the world. The business is highly lucrative and primarily dominated by smallholder farmers, with 80 percent of the local market share.
Recently, Releaf, an Agritech start-up that makes African farmers and food factories more efficient, secured $4.2 million in seed funding to drive the industrialization of food processing in Africa.
For most perspective, Africa 54’s Technology Correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke to Ikenna Nzewi, CEO and co-founder of Releaf, based in Lagos, Nigeria.