Qiqi Farms is a platform founded to take Nigeria agricultural system to a global level thereby breeding, refining, cultivating and branding of agricultural products. Thus helping Nigerians to make the best use and assuring them healthy choice with their money .
Key owner : Adeleke favour okiki
Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
Industry: Agriculture
Vision
•Qiqi farms aims at becoming the biggest digital farm market platform there is in West Africa by 2024. •To become the number one-stop-shop for fresh foodstuffs and grocery items in Africa that also addresses logistical and infrastructural gaps in the food value chain across Nigeria and beyond.
Services
- Providing Nigerians with a better healthy lifestyle with good food thereby reducing malnutrition.
Mission
- The primary aim of the brand is to reduce hunger and malnutrition thereby ensuring value added package and also to curb food wastage in the country.
Brain behind the industry
Adeleke favour okikioluwa, a twenty year old student from Lagos State University is the brain behind the industry ,which is aimed at taking agriculture to a global level. Favour, though brought up by heritage farmers, is currently studying Computer Science at LASU. He was inspired to start the organisation because of his family.
About Company
Qiqi farm was established in 2018. It is a leading agribusiness brand in Nigeria that believes in helping it’s customers adopt a healthy lifestyle of good food and well-being and keeping fit by eating protein rich food.
This fast growing brand feeds over 500 families in 6 states and more. They specialize in the production, processing and sales of quality fish and chicken products at affordable prices offering a wide range of products employing innovative approach and technology.
It is a known and trusted brand that delivers exceptional value for quality body building protein productss in Nigeria and is committed to changing the narratives in the food industry by reducing malnutrition and continually raise expectations for how much good food can do to health.
Challenges faced
Being a student as well as an entrepreneur in a public space is a lot combined with the fact that the company has faced a lot. Despite the contribution to the economy, Nigeria’s agricultural sector faces many challenges which impact on its productivity which in one way or the other affects the organisation. Also Qiqi farms had serious issues with logistics and up till now they still do. For the founder, being an entrepreneur has not been easy and it takes time spent with loved ones away which affects him mentally at some point.
Achievements
- Qiqi Farms emerged a winner of the Lagos Ebony Life Host Eko Youth and was awarded the sum of 500,000.000 naira courtesy of Access Bank plc.
- Qiqi Farms was nominated for the A.C.I award for African changemaker.
- Qiqi farms emerged part of the 50 brands shortlisted to be apart of Growth Africa Start up.
- Qiqi farms partnered with Lagos business school, Pan Atlantic University.
SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES
INSTAGRAM:Qiqi farm https://instagram.com/qiqifarms?utm_medium=copy_link
EMAIL:qiqifarms@gmail.com
FACEBOOK:http://www.facebook.com/qiqifarm
WEBSITE:https://qiqifarms.com/
