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Aquapro Agro Industry AGI

Type of Organization: Others
Areas of work: Small-scale fisheries
Region: Africa
Country: Nigeria
Description:
AQUAPRO AGRO INDUSTRY is focused on helping Nigerian farmers to grow better fish, crops and to maintain a strong environmental and technical compliance position. Our breadth of expertise enables us to provide specialist consultancy services on a wide range of Agriculture fields including, but not restricted to: Fruits & Vegetables, Root crops, Arable crops and protected crops. Our consultancy service includes: Crop Production & Protection • Fertilizer advice and usage • Farm assurance and certification advice: GLOBALG.A. P, IFOAM, etc. • Integrated crop and pest management strategy • Pesticide management and usage • Environmental stewardship and strategy • Insect pest forecasting and monitoring strategy • Water benchmarking and irrigation management Product Management • Produce supply chain management • Product benchmarking and organoleptic studies • Varietal trial development and monitoring • New product development • Promotion of new products (through field trials, trade shows and overseas visits) Quality Management • Auditing and site preparation against technical standards, e.g., GLOBALG.A. P, IFOAM • Quality system design and management • Food Safety, HACCP and traceability system design and implementation • Crop specification management and design • Postharvest consultancy AQUACULTURE & FISHERIES • Fish farm set up • Catfish and Tilapia Hatchery • Fish Feed Production • Fish post Harvest Handling • Cold Room and Blast Freezer set up OUR FOUNDING OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Mr Akinwale Oluseyi Emmanuel is the Founding Operation Director of Aquapro Agro industry. A Graduate of Central Bank Of Nigeria Entrepreneur Development Centre, south west center, Ibadan. He is a graduate of fisheries since 1997. He has attended so many local and international workshops. The most pronounces amongst them is the World Bank training the trainers of catfish consultant. Before arriving at this point he has worked in several fish farms and companied like Zartech Agric Limited Ibadan, Obasanjo Holding, West Farm Ltd Lekki and Catholic Farm Oluponna. He belongs to several trade groups and profession association like, Fisheries Society of Nigeria, British Society of Project Management Profession and most recently Nigeria Association of small medium enterprises He is an appointed training facilitator of Funtuna Institute the Training arm of Annual Care Consult Limited. He is Oyo state executive of Nigerian Association OF small Medium Enterprises, NASME and Tilapa Developers Association of Nigeria. TADAN. He is certified Farm Assurer/GAP consultant with GlobalG.A.P.org/ FoodPlus Germany https://www.globalgap.org/uk_en/Profiles/Akinwale/ More about his biodata can be gotten also from https://www.growcatfish.com/training/