Food Trade Support(FTS) Express

About Solution

In Africa,  particularly Nigeria,  the challenges in the food industry include:

1. Production of healthy and hygienic food that meets basic international standards.

2. Preservation, Distribution and Supply of harvested food and livestock to consumers and households.

3. Distribution channels that is majorly dominated by middlemen with super profit motives.

4. Quick, efficient and effective access to market to buyers,  consumers and households.

5. Pricing of the food and livestock products to ensure competitiveness and affordability. We have observed that food and livestock products are not so expensive at the end of the farmers but they become highly expensive at the retail points and on offer to households. This is due to the activities of middlemen who focus on super profit taking. 

The solution we present will address the challenges itemised above. Food Trade Support Express is designed to make the following available:

Develop and introduce an application that can be operated on mobile phones  with an option of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data(USSD) Codes and website. This application will provide quick and easy access to farmers, buyers and households, in urban and rural areas, to offer our services and products to them.

Food and livestock farmers who need seeds, equipment and machines, technology,  fertilizer, Pest Control Supplies, Veterinary Care Service and Other Supplies can easily reach us for support at reasonable and affordable cost. 

This will enable the production of healthy and hygienic food for supply and consumption of households and processing by industrial buyers.

We intend to render professional advice on preservation techniques and support in design and construction of food holding facilities and transportation equipment.

We intend to bridge the gap between the household/retailers and the farmers, acting as an immediate offtaker,  with the intention to pay a standard rate per unit of product to farmers and sell at normal profit rate and prices to households and retailers. This effort is aimed at reducing the influence of middlemen who are in for super profit and inflate the prizes of products supplied to households and industrial buyers.

We intend to operate temporary food and processed livestock holding facilities for onward transportation, distribution, supply and sale to households and industrial buyers at affordable and fair prizes.

Farmer, industrial and household buyers will be able to order our services, products, supplies and consumables that are food or associated with food on the Food Trade Support(FTS) Epresss application to ultimately solve some problems of food production and supply in Nigeria.

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