Poultry business growth has ripple effects for Nigerian smallholder farmers
- Name: Adebayo Awoyele
- Job title: Owner
- Company: Ensapuh Veterinary Services
- Programme: Grow Your Business
- Country: Nigeria
Adebayo Awoyele (Nigeria), the owner of Ensapuh Veterinary Services, enrolled for Grow Your Business in 2021. Ensapuh saw revenue growth from $106k to $178k (67%) from 2021 – 2022, raised investment in 2022 and created 5 full time jobs and 7 part time jobs. Ensapuh offers consultancy services to farmers and works with smallholder farmers to produce live chickens.
Adebayo noted that modelling their finances and goals in the programme helped them secure funding. The 12 new staff include farm managers, a farm service office, 1 vet and part-time employees supporting the movement of birds. Ensapuh also creates livelihoods for smallholder farmers through its out grower programming, adding 5 smallholder farmers to their operations in 2022. 60% of their smallholder farmers are women.
Adebayo notes that food security is a pertinent area of impact for the business, as live birds are constantly in demand by processors in their area. Critically, when there are not enough live chickens there is redundancy in the processing plants. For every 2000 live birds processed, 20 staff are involved. Adebayo notes he has seen people coming out of redundancy to obtain daily wage jobs processing chicken. In addition, he notes that his growth has had positive knock-on effects for his suppliers.
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