Growtech West Africa, the worldwide agribusiness platform, has introduced a collaboration with the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF) forward of the inaugural exhibition in Lagos, as stakeholders search to strengthen entry to expertise, funding, and experience that may assist productiveness and meals safety throughout Nigeria’s agricultural sector.
The collaboration connects Growtech’s worldwide community of agricultural companies, expertise suppliers, and trade specialists with NADF’s mandate to broaden entry to agricultural finance, strengthen productiveness, and assist meals safety in Nigeria. NADF’s assist for the occasion will assist broaden alternatives for stakeholders throughout the agricultural worth chain to interact with new applied sciences, experience, funding, and potential enterprise partnerships.
Established by the Federal Government of Nigeria beneath the National Agricultural Development Fund (Establishment) Act 2022, NADF was created to tackle constraints in agricultural finance and unlock the potential of Nigeria’s agriculture and meals programs. The Fund additionally helps innovation, analysis, capability constructing, and the adoption of recent agricultural practices as a part of its broader position in driving agricultural progress and inclusive socio-economic growth.
Mohammed A. Ibrahim, Executive Secretary/CEO, National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF), acknowledged: “Nigeria’s agricultural transformation requires an ecosystem where finance, technology, expertise, and enterprise can work together to create greater value. Events such as Growtech West Africa can help connect Nigerian businesses and agricultural enterprises with technologies, knowledge, and international expertise that can improve productivity, strengthen value chains, and create new economic opportunities. NADF is pleased to support the event as part of our commitment to collaboration that expands opportunity, strengthens the agricultural sector, and contributes to a more resilient and prosperous food system.”
The collaboration comes at a time when agricultural companies throughout Nigeria are in search of new methods to enhance effectivity, improve manufacturing, and reply to altering calls for throughout the meals system. From irrigation and mechanisation to protected agriculture, livestock, aquaculture, and meals processing, expertise and funding are more and more vital to the event of productive and aggressive agricultural worth chains.
Growtech West Africa represents one other step within the worldwide growth of a platform that has constructed its presence round agricultural innovation, expertise, and trade trade. With its origins in Antalya, Türkiye and growth to Dubai, UAE and Rimini, Italy, Growtech has developed a global community connecting agricultural companies and professionals throughout key markets and is now extending that community to West Africa via Lagos.
Alan Kelly, Commercial & Strategy Director, InD Group acknowledged: “Nigeria is an important market for Growtech because of its scale, its agricultural diversity, and its influence across the wider West African region. The launch of Growtech West Africa reflects our confidence in the market and the opportunities we see across its agricultural value chains. Bringing the Growtech platform to Lagos allows us to engage directly with businesses and professionals seeking technology, expertise, and new commercial connections. We see strong potential in the West African market and believe Nigeria can become a key meeting point for regional and international players, helping build new relationships and support the continued development of agriculture across the region.”
Engin Er, Growtech Portfolio Exhibition Director, stated: “Growtech’s continued expansion into new agricultural markets reflects the strength of the global demand for platforms that connect businesses, technologies, and expertise. West Africa represents an important next step in that journey, given the depth of its agricultural sector and the pace of transformation taking place across the region. Establishing Growtech West Africa in Nigeria gives us the opportunity to bring international agricultural companies and technologies closer to the local market, while creating a space for knowledge and commercial exchange. Our collaboration with NADF will support this by helping us engage with key stakeholders across Nigeria’s agricultural sector.”
Nigeria’s scale, agricultural range, and place inside West Africa makes it an vital marketplace for the event and adoption of agricultural applied sciences. The nation has a big home market and an intensive community of companies working throughout manufacturing, processing, distribution, and associated agricultural providers. This creates alternatives to strengthen native worth chains whereas connecting Nigerian companies with worldwide options and experience.
For Growtech, launching in Nigeria is a chance to interact with the nation’s agricultural potential and join instantly with companies and professionals working throughout the sector.
The inaugural Growtech West Africa, scheduled to happen from 26–28 January 2027 on the Landmark Centre, Lagos, will convey collectively corporations and professionals throughout seeds and seedlings, plant vitamin and safety, irrigation, greenhouse applied sciences and controlled-environment agriculture, agricultural equipment and precision farming, livestock and poultry, aquaculture and fisheries, meals processing and associated agricultural applied sciences.
The occasion may also function the Food Security and Sustainability Conference, bringing collectively policymakers, buyers, agribusiness leaders, researchers and expertise suppliers to look at points shaping the way forward for agriculture, together with agricultural financing, productiveness, expertise adoption, local weather resilience and meals manufacturing.
By connecting Nigerian agricultural stakeholders with worldwide companies, applied sciences, and experience, Growtech West Africa goals to assist better data trade, industrial collaboration, and entry to options that may contribute to the expansion and resilience of Nigeria’s agricultural sector. Participation alternatives stay open for exhibitors, sponsors, strategic companions and trade stakeholders in search of to interact with the Nigerian and wider West African agriculture market.
