Baay Farms Okeogun Cashew Farmers Integration Programme held on the 26th of September 2021 in conjunction with CRIN held at Iseyin, Oyo State.
Inline with Baay Farms community farming approach, we held a town hall meeting with local farmers across villages and town in Oke Ogun, Oyo State. The team expressed their warm appreciation to the Chiefs and Elders for their commitment and support to our existence in Ojutaye community
Baay farm educates the farmers on the essence of Community farming towards achieving its processing and value adding plans
Our Team lead, Segun Adegoke stated the support gotten from the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), and the pledged continuous support of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) during the meeting with the Director of Agri-Business and mechanization, Dr. Debo Adebowale and his team at IITA.
During the closing, the chiefs and farmers appreaciated the proposed plan and how we intend achieving it,
At the end of the programme where more than 30% were female farmers and merchant went home with 100 cashew seedlings each, 5000 seedlings were distributed, and plans were made for collection at our ware house in Iseyin, Oyo Sate batches over the week