The crop is grown under pump-based irrigation through the dry season. The buyer takes produce at the farm gate and handles export logistics, and produce that misses export specification goes to Abuja’s domestic market.

Financing is released in tranches against verified milestones: land preparation and irrigation, transplanting, and crop establishment.

NOFE prospected a wet-season cowpea and bambara nut pilot with FACAN subscribers in August and September 2026. The wet-season cycle did not go ahead, and NOFE now supports FACAN in an advisory role.

The original design had members finance defined production hectares under common organic and traceability standards, with agricultural insurance built into the per-hectare budget and harvests open to subscriber monitoring.

NOFE is developing three fish-farming projects with NFAN and its members in Kaduna and Nasarawa States. Details for each project will be added as project briefs are completed.

The plan puts cash generation first: produce, preserve, sell, repay, then reinvest. Tilapia from cages is iced or frozen at harvest and sold through Gombe and into wider North-East and North-Central markets.

Before capital is committed, a 30-day Phase 0 confirms legal rights, physical assets, water quality and depth, carrying capacity and market demand. It ends in a go, conditional-go or redesign decision.

The plan is built around feed-cost control. The feed mill supplies the farm’s own poultry and fish units and sells surplus feed to third parties, so the three businesses support each other.

The expansion builds on existing assets: two poultry pens holding about 5,000 birds, about 20 concrete fish ponds and a building earmarked for a hatchery.

Each programme runs a single dry-season rice cycle from November to May, tied to the valley’s irrigation window. Inputs and funds must reach farmers by October for the calendar to hold.

Outgrowers receive inputs and working capital, which are recovered on a structured schedule after harvest.

NOFE’s proposal covers the full path from site assessment to a running farm: soil and water testing, a bankable development plan, financing support, setup and procurement, farm operations and staff training.

Antakil Milnda Synergy Ltd plans an integrated cocoa value chain run from Barkin Ladi, Plateau State. The process runs from harvesting, fermentation, drying and grading through roasting, cracking, grinding and pressing to packaging.

Its Milnda Synergy Tea line processes tea in Jos from plantations in Gembu, Taraba State. By-products are turned into value-added goods, including organic fertiliser made from cocoa pod husks.

EnegasLongmen JV Ltd, an ecosystem member, plans to farm a 200-hectare paddy rice block at Giri in partnership with NOFE. It will also aggregate paddy rice across Nasarawa State and the FCT, and run livestock production and processing at Abaji.

MANBEL Farmers Multipurpose Cooperative Society runs its project as an integrated farm. The hatchery supplies day-old chicks to the laying unit, the feed mill produces feed in-house, and poultry manure is sold as organic fertiliser.

Eggs are aimed at markets across Gombe and neighbouring North-East states, where demand for affordable protein is growing.

EnegasLongmen JV Ltd will aggregate paddy rice from producers in Nasarawa State and the Federal Capital Territory, and run livestock production and processing at Abaji in the FCT. The work is structured as a partnership with NOFE.