Entrepreneurship Zone: 23 January 2025 : Is this crop Nigeria’s next big agribusiness opportunity?

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A Senegalese village chief holds up the fonio grain. Photo by Richard
Nyberg

 

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been
cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years. It
is drought-resistant, can grow without the support of fertiliser and
restores organic matter in fallow soil. Despite the crop’s long history in
the region, it is not fully commercialised.

Thanks to fonio’s nutritional profile, demand has been growing in regions
such as the US and Europe.

One advocate for fonio’s potential is Timi Oke, co-founder and CEO of
AgroEknor, a Nigerian company exporting dried hibiscus flowers to markets in
the US, Mexico, and Europe. AgroEknor turned its attention to fonio after
exploring additional crops for the hibiscus farmers in its supply chain.

“You don’t need fertilisers for fonio, you can literally just throw the
seeds of fonio on the ground and it will grow … It can grow on any type of
soil,” Oke said in an interview with How we made it in Africa.

He mentioned a recent article by Bill Gates that highlights fonio’s
benefits and notes that brewer Carlsberg has launched a beer made solely
from fonio grains, without barley or bittering hops.

However, AgroEknor is primarily looking at fonio for the Nigerian market.
“We are more interested in using fonio as a substitute for rice domestically
because Nigeria imports rice and it’s just not practical.” Yet, Oke
acknowledged one of the key challenges with fonio: its processing. The grain
requires dehusking, which is a labour-intensive process.

 

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