Royal Khalhadin Global Enterprise

We are developing a reach-out site and establish partnership with rural groups to encourage the adoption of modern practices that increases production, and improved crop seedlings so that we can have sustainable farms and for constant supply of high quality produce all-year-round creating sustainable income opportunities. We will engage in the building of an ultramodern laboratory developed in conformity with today’s research reality for increased output and extension of our services to include hybrid seeds. Our farm and agronomy solutions turn raw farm data into valuable insight. Our next milestone is to grow the business and make it increasingly self-sustaining towards the successful creation of jobs, wealth and advancement. We believe that by expanding the business and engaging more hands and carrying out a number of researches in terms of improved seedlings, we will have access to greatly impact positively on the skills and talents of young individuals within the community. We will also continue to optimize by crowd sourcing the last-mile logistics to be able to offer healthy food that hitherto are at risk of being wasted, saving time and money and maximizing the value of every acre through improvement in operational efficiencies and increase in the bottom line.

With first-hand on-site experience growing up as a child, I faced series of challenges, being born in one of the poverty-stricken family in the rural neighbourhood; I struggled alongside my mother in the rice farms. With little or no support from anybody, most young Africans, particularly women in agriculture are left to their fate. We create equal opportunities by empowering women in fighting poverty and food insecurity through improved seedlings, improved supply-chain practices and solid sales channels to reduce food loss and minimize post-harvest farm waste. Women make significant contributions to rice farming, processing and marketing, and play a dominant role in buying rice for consumption. Yet, women face many barriers and inequality in access to and control over resources. We are resolving three deeply intertwined problems: malnutrition, food-waste and female access to meaningful work. 58% of the farmers we work with are women. Female under-representation is an age-long problem with cultural dimensions and has affected over 100million women across various communities in Africa. By providing a network that broadens women participation in the agro-economic front and solving other input-based difficulties, we create equal employment opportunities for women and empower women-led businesses, thus accelerating attainment of food-security and poverty alleviation.

We are creating a common market place of off-takers that connects farmers to a huge milling community. In Nigeria, for example, transportation and intermediation costs account for a 270% markup from farm to fork. Therefore, by crowd sourcing the last-mile logistics and reducing inefficiencies in the food supply chain, we offer healthy food at 20-50% less market price, and make it affordable for the most vulnerable to food insecurity. Rice is our particular focus. Women make significant contributions to rice farming, processing and marketing, and play a dominant role in buying rice for consumption. Yet, women face many barriers and inequality in access to and control over resources. Rice farming is associated with poverty in many areas, and rural women are at the most receiving end. We are resolving three deeply intertwined problems: malnutrition, food waste and female access to meaningful work. Female under-representation is an age-long problem with cultural dimensions and has affected over 100 million women across various communities in Africa. By providing a network that broadens women participation in the agro-economic front, we offer equal employment opportunities for women and empower women-led businesses, thus accelerating attainment of food security, poverty alleviation and reduced ozone layer depletion.

Small holder rice farmers resort to an out-of-fashion age-long pattern of rice production without a corresponding value addition coupled with increased waste. Our new state-of-the-heart laboratory developed to conform with today’s research reality for increased output will provide an opportunity to take advantage of both backward and forward integration in the agricultural value chain by making available improved seedlings and creating solid sales channels.

Unlike the traditional route taken by rice farmers in reaching out to millers vis-à-vis millers reaching out to the farmers, we are deploying appropriate technology to create a common marketplace of off-takers that connects farmers to a huge milling community to rescue at risk produce from risk of being wasted. This is done by creating an access application to the modern marketplace and mixing the online and physical worlds correctly. We will develop a reach-out site, scale new models for producer-market connections, and create low-carbon cold chains by minimizing harvest and post-harvest farm waste by establishing partnership with rural groups to encourage the adoption of modern practices that increases production, and improved crop seedlings so that we can have sustainable farms and for constant supply of high quality produce all year round creating sustainable income opportunities.

The impact of the business on the community is substantial. As an organization with an established product and business model ideally rolled out in several communities, we are poised to grow the business and make it increasingly self-sustaining towards the successful creation of jobs, wealth and advancement benefiting tens of thousands, particularly those fleeing the crises areas inflicted with banditry and terrorism. We specifically target a 100million vulnerable young-adults from low socioeconomic backgrounds in order to promote their economic and financial independence. Our model allows farmers to increase their monthly income by 300%, through our improved seedlings and by tying their produce to high value highly recognized brand name and solid sales channels. By empowering women and women-led businesses to excel in agriculture, we are assured of not only economic changes, but also a shift in societal norms combating the negative stereotypes that historically have limited female participation in agro-economics. Additionally, we would have helped in accelerating the attainment of food security, poverty alleviation and food loss making food affordable for the most vulnerable and tackling one of the main hidden drivers behind climate change. Food waste is responsible for the emission of 1.5gigatons of CO2 equivalents into the atmosphere.