The Greenathon Executive Summary The Greenathon was a 2-day event curated by the Green Innovation Centre Nigeria to identify and detail innovative ideas in response to frequent issues faced in the agricultural value chains covered by the programme. Prior to the event, all stakeholders who were invited had the opportunity to submit innovation challenges they find important to focus on in a survey across four areas (training & extension, market information and linkages, policy and enabling environment, agroprocessing); more than 40 responses were received and further prioritized in the first part of the stakeholder meeting. After the first half-day of the Greenathon, the group of more than 110 stakeholders had agreed on five challenges they deemed the most important to be tackled with innovation:
Challenge 1: Improving market access using ICT to avoid low profits and post-harvest losses Challenge 2: Introducing efficient processing equipment that reduces post-harvest losses and helps produce high-quality products Challenge 3: Introducing a specialized quality control body for agriculture to improve and harmonise standards Challenge 4: Improving business management skills of extension agents and smallholders to profitably manage and scale farms Challenge 5: Introducing quality seeds and disease control approaches to augment the yield and profit of smallholder farmers.
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