What is the name of your organization?
Greenovate Agro-allied Limited
What is the name of your solution?
Green-Smart Kit
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Greenovating the Climate: Green-Smart Kit
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Nigeria
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
We are solving the problem of low agricultural productivity, inefficient resource use, and climate vulnerability among Nigeria’s smallholder farmers. Over 70% of smallholders lack access to quality inputs, leading to yield losses of up to 50%. Erratic rainfall and droughts have reduced cereal yields by 20-30%, while inefficient irrigation wastes 40% of available freshwater. In rice farming, traditional continuous flooding methods consume up to 5,000 liters of water per kg of rice, increasing production costs and methane emissions.
Additionally, post-harvest losses exceed 40%, costing farmers ₦3.5 trillion annually, while limited market access and poor financial support keep smallholders trapped in poverty. With fewer than 10% of farmers receiving real-time weather and agronomic advisory, climate risks further threaten food security.
Our Green-Smart Kit provides an affordable, all-in-one climate-smart input package, integrating drought-tolerant seeds, precision irrigation, organic fertilizers, and post-harvest solutions. Farmers can repay in kind using their harvest, ensuring financial inclusivity. By enabling 20-50% higher yields, 30% water savings, and 40% lower losses, we empower smallholders to achieve food security and climate resilience sustainably.
What is your solution?
Green-Smart Kit is an all-in-one, climate-smart input package designed to help smallholder farmers increase productivity, improve water efficiency, and reduce post-harvest losses. The kit provides customized input bundles for different crops, including rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, cowpea, and soybean, ensuring farmers have access to high-quality seeds, organic fertilizers, and precision irrigation tools.
For rice farmers, the Green-Smart AWD Kit promotes Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) technology, reducing water use by 30% and cutting methane emissions. The Green-Smart Dryland Kit supports drought-resilient crops with moisture sensors, drip irrigation, and regenerative farming practices.
The kit also has the potential to integrate real-time advisory services through partnerships with Ignitia for hyper-local weather forecasting and will use eProd Solutions for digital farm management. Farmers receive training, market access, and flexible repayment options, including in-kind payments using a portion of their harvest.
By combining climate-smart inputs, precision tools, and digital advisory services, Green-Smart Kit enhances resilience, improves yields by up to 50%, reduces losses by 40%, and increases farmer incomes, ensuring a sustainable and profitable future for Nigeria’s smallholder farmers.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Green-Smart Kit serves smallholder farmers in Nigeria, who make up over 80% of the country’s agricultural workforce yet struggle with declining yields, water scarcity, poor access to quality inputs, and post-harvest losses. These farmers, often financially constrained, lack the resources to adopt climate-smart and regenerative farming practices, making them vulnerable to erratic weather patterns, soil degradation, and inefficient traditional farming methods.
Our solution directly impacts rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, cowpea, and soybean farmers by providing an affordable, all-in-one input package tailored to their needs. Through the Green-Smart AWD Kit, rice farmers can adopt Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), cutting water use by 30% and reducing methane emissions. The Green-Smart Dryland Kit enhances drought resilience for other crops through precision irrigation, organic inputs, and soil regeneration techniques.
Additionally, partnerships with Ignitia and eProd Solutions enable farmers to access real-time weather forecasts and digital farm management tools, improving decision-making. Farmers also benefit from flexible repayment models, including in-kind payments, allowing them to pay with harvested produce.
By increasing yields by up to 50%, reducing post-harvest losses by 40%, and improving incomes by 60%, Green-Smart Kit empowers smallholders to achieve food security, profitability, and climate resilience.
