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LAYERS:
We founded the farm starting with this unit in October 2012 with a capacity of 5,000 birds. We have now grown to a capacity of 110,000 birds. Our layers’ unit produces high-quality, affordable table eggs with 10 modern, open-sided, high rise poultry pens. Our birds come from our Parent Stock, are fed premium, herb-based feed from our own mill, and are raised without antibiotics, ensuring safe and natural eggs for consumers at competitive prices. Strict biosecurity measures are upheld at every stage.
PULLETS / BROODING:
We raise high-quality broilers under strict safety standards, with a 60,000-bird capacity. Sourcing chicks from our hatchery ensures full quality control. Broilers reach slaughter weight in 4–7 weeks and are processed per international standards. Housed in open-sided coops at Awowo Farm Settlement, they enjoy a natural environment.
BROILERS:
Rearing broilers was our first major diversification since our operations commenced; we started in March 2016. Our Birds are housed in coops/pens with open sides to ensure that allows them roam & immitates to an extent their natural habitat, We have a capacity for 60,000 Birds.
This unit focuses on raising high-quality commercial broilers under strict safety standards. With a capacity of 60,000 birds, we ensure quality by sourcing day-old chicks from our own hatchery, supplied by our parent stock section. This allows full control over product quality. Broilers reach slaughter weight in 4–7 weeks, depending on consumer preference, and are processed under international meat standards. Our birds are housed in open-sided coops at Awowo Farm Settlement to maintain a natural environment.
GUINEA FOWLS:
PARENT STOCK (LIGHT & HEAVY BREED): June 2018, The parent stock unit supports backward integration, supplying fertile eggs for our livestock operations. With a 22,000-bird capacity, it includes broiler breeders (heavy breed) and pullet/cockerels (light breed). This capital-intensive unit features automated feeding and drinking systems, ensuring efficiency. All eggs are transferred to our hatchery
AGRONOMY:
In the year 2014 We then diversified into Green House farming and started with 5 Green Houses in the same year. By July 2017 we increased that number to 20. Our Green Houses produce vegetables such as Tomatoes, Onions, Bell Peppers, Scotch Bonnet and Turnips.
In 2014, our quest to add value to the lives of our consumers by increasing our offerings and also led us to commence agronomy (open field); In May 2015, we expanded into greenhouse farming, starting with five and growing to 20 by 2017. We produce tomatoes, onions, peppers, and habaneros using poultry waste as natural fertilizer to minimize chemicals. Our vegetables are packaged and supplied to Lagos supermarkets and individuals. As one of the few farms in Nigeria integrating greenhouse and open-field farming with poultry rearing and processing.
To further our goal of achieving an integrated system of farming where nothing goes to waste, our poultry waste is used as fertilizers/manure in this unit hence our vegetables are exposed to as little chemical influence as possible.
As one of the few farms in Nigeria that combines Green House farming, Open-fields as well as the rearing of poultry animals and processing the said farm animals for consumption. This guarantees that our clients have access to a wide range of produce from our farm. Currently, we farm an extensive range of produce, some of which include; Sweetcorn, Cucumbers, Bell peppers, Habaneros, Chili, Okra, Ewedu (Jute leaves) Efo shókò (Lagos spinach), Efo tète (African spinach).
AQUACULTURE:
We commenced this unit in July 2017. The aquaculture business unit is located at Agege, in Lagos state.
The unit stands on a viable production pondium of well selected high performance brood-stock bank that has both pure clarias gariepinus and pure heterobranchus.
We have the full control of the entire value chain from breeding to smoking.
Our fish hatchery can produce over 200,000 fingerlings per month. We produce pure clarias, pure heterobranchus and hybrid heteroclarias fingerlings. We turn out over 20 tonnes of live catfish per month in our 140,000 capacity grow out ponds for smoking and third party live catfish markets.
Because we realize the importance of nutrition in the performance and taste of our fish, we took the pain to establish a modern fish feed-mill with extruders and other equipment that produces quality floating feeds for various ages of our fish.
Our aquaculture unit, located in Agege, Lagos, operates a full catfish value chain from breeding to processing and sales. With a 140,000-catfish capacity, it is supported by our in-house hatchery and feed mill. Our hatchery produces over 200,000 fingerlings monthly, including pure clarias, heterobranchus, and hybrid catfish. We supply over 20 tonnes of live catfish monthly for smoking and third-party markets. Our modern smoking kiln meets export standards, ensuring high-quality processed fish.
PARENT STOCK UNIT
The parent stock unit supports backward integration, supplying fertile eggs for our livestock operations. With a 22,000-bird capacity, it includes broiler breeders (heavy breed) and pullet/cockerels (light breed). This capital-intensive unit features automated feeding and drinking systems, ensuring efficiency. All eggs are transferred to our hatchery.
HATCHERY UNIT:
We launched our poultry hatchery in June 2018. Our poultry hatchery is fully automated with capacity to produce over 380,000 quality day old chicks per month. We produce broilers, pullets and cockerels. The spare capacity of our produced day old chicks are sold to external parties after meeting full capacity absorbtion by our respective livestock units on the farm.
CHICKEN PROCESSING UNIT:
We commissioned our plant in July 2019. We an fully automated machines / equipment with a capacity to slaughter & process 500 birds per hour. Our processes start at the point of birds’ offloading and then process equipments covering the stunner, defeathering machine, eviscerators chiller completed the process before moving to dressing (cutting), packaging and finally being transferred to the blast freezer.
To ensure top-quality products, we established a chicken processing plant with a capacity of 2,500–5,000 birds per session. We also lease the facility to other businesses, providing a clean and hygienic environment for poultry processing.
FISH DRYING UNIT:
In a bid to command more value from our matured fishes harvested from the Aquaculture unit, we commenced this unit in July 2018. The fish processing unit is equipped with modern smoking klin that utilizes gas and can dry our fish to serve and satisfy export market requirement.
AGRO-PROCESSING:
We launched this unit in March 2019; It is where most of the conversion from fresh produce to dry products happen
