Agri-Woman Marketplace will continue to support agri-women build resilience in these times, as they work to scale-up efforts and fully recover from the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic, Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa has reiterated.
Ahead of the eighth edition of the event, expected to come off on Friday, November 12, at the Forecourt of Agrihouse Foundation, Dzorwulu, she has revealed that about 35 women have already registered to exhibit their fresh produces, goods and services. “They are made up of women farmers, processors, aggregators, agric input dealers, packagers, and other value chain actors,” she said.
The Agri-woman marketplace, an initiative of Agrihouse Foundation seeks to support women Agribusinesses recover, grow and promote their farm produce, products and services. It provides free exhibitions and marketing space for the women to sell and promote their products and services, whiles opening up their access to markets.
According to the Executive Director, “It is rewarding and fulfilling to see this initiative expand,” she said in a release. “In the first month, we had 22 women Agribusinesses coming round to showcase their products and services, in the second month, it increased to 27. We were financially limited and constrained in the 3rd month, so we could only support seventeen (17) women businesses to come around and we are happy, that in the 5th month, we are able to support 35 women businesses.”
“We are truly humbled, that we are able to contribute to an agenda, which further strengthen women, scale them up, promote Agri-women products and services, whiles providing an environment for networking”, she said.
The thirty-five (35) agribusinesses who have registered for the July edition of the 1-day Exhibitions and Mentoring session include women are into vegetable production, yam and tuber farming, grains and cereals. Others are also into processing groundnut paste, shea butter, Moringa, neem, coconut, castor oils, whiles the rest are into food, IT, finance, communications and marketing services.
The monthly Agri-woman marketplace, which is fully sponsored by Agrihouse Foundation provides exhibition booths, tables and chairs for women to display their products and services.
Other side activities during the full day event includes Training and Mentoring sessions, wrapped with music, games and other recreational activities, intended to create a relaxing and friendly environment for the women.
It is our hope that by this platform, which we at Agrihouse Foundation, will be able to contribute steadily to creating and expanding market accessibility, whiles opening up opportunities for women.
The monthly Agri-Woman Marketplace is free for every woman into Agribusiness and we are encouraging women to register and be part. This is one sure and practical means we can empower ourselves, harness the power of networking and build resilience. By this, we contribute significantly to food nutrition and security. Agri-women can register as Exhibitors via this link: shared on all social media pages of Agrihouse Foundation.
About Agrihouse Foundation
Agrihouse Foundation is an Agricultural development Interventional project, capacity-building organization, with a special focus on changing the perception of, and consciously shaping the conversation around agriculture. Our passion and desire lies in making positive impact, which contributes to the development of the national agricultural calendar.
We achieve the above, through our interventional Agricultural projects, which includes the Monthly Agri-Woman Market Place, centered project, Agricultural Students Career Guidance and Mentorship Dialogues Bootcamp (AG- STUD);
Livestock Poultry & Fisheries Trade Show (LiPF); International Farmers and Agribusiness Resilience and Sustainability Convention (INTAFAC) Women in Food and Agricultural Leadership Forum (WOFAGRIC) and Gold in the Soil
Awards; Annual Pre-Harvest Agribusiness Conference and Exhibitions; AgriWatch News Portal and the 1 household, 1 Garden Initiative (1h,1g).
