Olawale, Rotimi Opeyemi is the Founder and CEO of JR Farms- a family multinational agribusiness company with operations in Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia. Olawale holds a Bachelor and Master of Arts from University of Ilorin; an Executive Certificate in Agribusiness from Lagos Business School and currently a PhD candidate at Wageningen University Research in the Netherlands. Over the years, Olawale through JR Farms has worked closely with global partners across the world including the International Labour Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, World Food Programme, Rwanda Development Board, French Government, Dutch Government among other global partners. Through JR Farms, he has consulted on high level projects focused on agribusiness and food security, some of them include Making Finance Work for Africa hosted at the African Development Bank; Kwara State Government, BRL Engineering France in a projected financed by the French Government among others. His interests are value addition in agriculture, decent job creation for youth and women, market innovation in agribusiness, food security and sustainability.
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First Name
Olawale
Last Name
Rotimi Opeyemi
Company
JR Farms
Participant
agrofood & plastprintpack Conference
Logistics, Supply Chain Finance, Distribution Models
Session brief: Efficient supply logistics, processing intra-logistics and distribution logistics are essential to operate successfully in the food market with high competition and limited margins. With a general assumption that farm production in Nigeria is not streamlined to markets, and the transport & energy infrastructure is in development, the agribusiness sector operates with high transaction costs, limited operation capital and the need to provide own off-grid power. To overcome these challenges, aggregators and processors use different model to smooth the commodity supply, control risks and generate capitalization on the Nigerian and Inter-African market. These strategies underscore the relevance of the panel session as an important component of the Nigerian AgroFood-PlastPrintPack conference.
Session objectives: This panel session will provide insights in best practices, innovative solutions and market incentives to secure material and cash flows in: I. In-house, contracted, and open procurement models for raw material supply. II. Balancing capital needs, efficiency, employment effects, and flexibility (season & partners) III. Strategic partnerships for sourcing and processing of regional complementary commodities, that boost regional production, resilience, risk management and cash flow through improved crop cycles, IV. Feed-back from processing and product characteristics (food industry) to the production level (farms and aggregators) for QM (quality management). V. Differences for domestic and export markets
Session format: I. Introduction: Panelists will be introduced and given 3 minutes each to share their thoughts on the theme. II. Moderated panel discussion: This is a 40-minute conversation between panelists and moderators, drawing on panelists' knowledge and experience on Supply Chain Management & Finance. III. The panelists will be asked various questions and given time to answer and discuss. IV. Audience participation: The moderator will guide questions and comments for 10 minutes. V. Wrap up and highlight critical takeaways — 10 minutes
