Episode 69: Chyka Okarter – Pastime Farms


Chyka Okarter talks about farming an Extension paintings in Nigeria, striking the tilt farming thought into follow, and discovering ingenious financing from throughout the meals machine.

Pay attention about what agriculture looks as if in Nigeria—a pursuit with large doable that Chyka feels isn’t being met on this nation that’s relatively greater than Texas. He talks about rising up in a farming circle of relatives and short of to enter agriculture to lend a hand farmers paintings extra successfully.

Be informed in regards to the Feed the Long run Program, USAID, and Winrock World’s paintings in bridging the distance between Extension and small-scale farmers the place there’s one Extension agent to ten,000 farmers. Chyka’s paintings is to coach the running shoes running with micro, small and medium endeavor (MSME) cohorts to enforce the tilt ideas in farm industry manner. They sought after to check out the use of the tilt manner moderately than the normal Excellent Agronomic Practices manner, which can result in knowledge overload. Pay attention two examples—in aquaculture and in crop manufacturing—of ways the six steps of the tilt manner have led to special wins for farmers and the entire meals chain. (Spoiler alert: One discovery modified the catfish mortality price from 50%+ to 0% with this manner, and any other is main farmers to extra exact natural fertilizer use.)

In spite of everything, eavesdrop on how farmers in Nigeria—a rustic in financial disaster—are running throughout the meals machine for an cutting edge financing fashion involving enter credit.

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