On December third and 4th, 2025, the agricultural highlight in Nigeria shone brightly on Ibadan as key gamers throughout the meals and agribusiness worth chain gathered for the Oyo State Worldwide Agribusiness Summit 2025. Hosted on the Worldwide Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), this 12 months’s Summit introduced collectively authorities leaders, buyers, innovators, and farmers to form the following part of Oyo State’s agricultural transformation.
Among the many organisations main these conversations was Afrimash, proudly representing the way forward for accessible and technology-driven farming.
Organised by the Oyo State Agribusiness Growth Company (OYSADA), the Summit is a part of a complete technique to increase Oyo’s financial system via agricultural industrialisation.
The occasion showcases investment-ready initiatives, scalable worth chains, and enabling insurance policies aimed toward turning agriculture from subsistence farming right into a vibrant agribusiness ecosystem.
It additionally options exhibitions, networking periods, panel discussions, a tour of the agribusiness transformation hub, and engagements with key decision-makers and buyers — making it a fertile floor for innovators like us.
At this 2025 version, the Summit projected even larger scale: about 70 exhibitors and over 5,000 individuals, underscoring Oyo’s ambition to develop into a regional agribusiness hub.
Additionally, the Summit served because the platform for the disclosing of the brand new “Certification Mark” for home-grown produce, a mark of high quality and authenticity for items cultivated inside Oyo. This displays the federal government’s dedication to high quality, traceability, and requirements within the state’s agricultural produce system.
Making Farming Accessible – AVA and USSD
For our firm, the Summit provided a perfect platform to show how we’re serving to make farming extra environment friendly, inclusive, and accessible — notably via two key instruments: AVA and USSD.
AVA: Our audio-visual agriculture instrument, designed to supply farmers with steering on greatest farming practices, entry to data on crop cycles, mechanisation, market costs, and agritech improvements. By leveraging AVA, farmers can acquire information even when they’re illiterate or have restricted entry to formal coaching.
USSD: Recognizing that many farmers in rural communities might not have smartphones or dependable web entry, our USSD service affords a easy, phone-based gateway to agricultural providers and inputs. By means of USSD, farmers can entry data, place orders for seeds/fertilizer/tools, schedule mechanisation providers, or join with service suppliers, all with primary telephones.
These improvements present our alignment instantly with the Summit’s emphasis on know-how and knowledge techniques, a pillar recognized by the state governor as central to the way forward for agribusiness in Oyo.
Our Impression For Farmers, For the Future
Our presence on the Summit alongside banks, buyers, agritech entrepreneurs, processing-hub builders, and authorities stakeholders sends a robust message: agriculture in Oyo is not simply conventional farming; it’s an evolving, tech-enabled ecosystem.
For farmers, our instruments make farming extra accessible and fewer depending on guide processes or pricey intermediaries.
For agribusiness buyers and stakeholders, AVA and USSD show a scalable, inclusive mannequin for outreach and repair supply.
For Oyo State’s financial system, such improvements assist actualize the state’s ambition to industrialise agriculture, enhance output, scale back post-harvest losses, and add worth alongside all the meals provide chain.
Wanting Forward: What Comes Subsequent
Because the Summit highlighted, Oyo’s agribusiness roadmap consists of increasing the community of business hubs (equivalent to in Fasola, Ijaiye and Eruwa), strengthening infrastructure, bolstering post-harvest storage/processing, and integrating know-how and knowledge techniques throughout the worth chain
In that mild, our instruments, AVA and USSD, are well-positioned to contribute meaningfully to this transformation: facilitating farmer schooling, enabling simpler entry to inputs/inputs-services, and bettering the effectivity and transparency of provide chains.
We’re optimistic that after the publicity and connections made on the Summit, our firm will additional collaborate with authorities companies, personal buyers, and farmers accelerating adoption of tech-driven farming throughout Oyo and past.
