The driving philosophy behind GREEN YELWA is the belief that we can organically enrich and rejuvenate our soil while growing clean, healthy and highly nutritious food. The alarming increase in the health conditions like CANCER, DIABETICS and many other diseases is increasingly being linked to WHAT we eat and WHAT we use to grow WHAT we eat. These are the realities driving the Organic Revolution in the developed world. Although we have been in the business of Organic fertilizer around the African continent since 2011, Green Yelwa was born in Nigeria in August 2016. In December 2016, we conducted a scoping mission to Niger, with the sole intention of finding out the status of organic farming in Republic of Niger. This mission led to signing of an MOU to conduct a multi-province field trial with Green Yelwa products. The MOU was signed between the Ministry of Agriculture, INRAN, CAIMA and Green Yelwa in 2017. Green Yelwa was subsequently registered as a Republic of Niger entity in 2017. To date we have seen a growing number of organic farming enthusiast in Niger and have supported a key program in Niger in increasing program participation and increased yield.
Ours is still a developing story but we won’t fail to mention a few highlights in the past 1 year
60% of our raw material is from the U.S.A and we are constantly innovating on how to develop the best product for our farmers at the best price. Innovation drives our every move.
The KAGY (KNARDA, AFAN, Green Yelwa) arrangement was borne out of the desire to see that an unadulterated, quality product gets to the farmer at a very competitive price.
Our 1st generation “blue bottle” has been replaced with a white bottle with engraved company logo. 200ml red or green cap. You spoke we listed. We seek feedback so much from our end users because we know our live as a company depends on these feedbacks. We have spent more time in the field with our farmers than any input company has. We basically live in the farm with our farmers. They speak we listen; we not only listen we act on what we hear from them. To us, the farmer is the KING.
Based on field concerns about adulteration, we went a step further to add an extra layer of security to our great product. We have split our product into a Powder and a Liquid component. These two components must be mixed together by the farmer before application. Although we have spent a little bit more money in achieving this, nevertheless, it has neither affected the quality nor the cost of our finished product.
The farmer is the KING, they ask, innovate.
(a) To help our farmers help the nation achieve food security through the production of nutritious, safe and healthy food by using organic fertilizers
(b) To continue to increase awareness in healthy nutrition through the consumption of organically grown food.
(c) To create an attitudinal change in the Nigerian farmer by making him conscious of the fact that our environment is a gift and we all need to work together to take care of it especially the soil from which we draw nourishment.
OUR COMMITMENT is to the Nigerian citizen who is the ultimate beneficiary of our corporate activities.
WHY THE KAGY PPP (KNARDA, AFAN,GREEN YELWA).
All the AACs here are from the 44 local government which has a KNARDA presence in the form of office structures or centers. We think by what we call the public private partnership, we can add value to those Knarda centers by making our AACs more productive.
AFAN is an umbrella body for the different commodities and I hope all the commodities chairperson are present. Surely our farmers are having challenges with fertilizers. The two key challenges are scarcity and adulteration. KNARDA AND AFAN leaders will talk more on their role, so let me talk to WHY YELWA ORGANIC FERTILIZER.
Yelwa Bio-fertilizer has five (5) major components that make it outstanding. Any truly Organic fertilizer must have these 5 categories.
MICROBES
Yelwa organic Fertilizer contains 76 different species of beneficial bacterial and fungi including 11species of mycorrhiza, when applied on foliar spray, the soil absorbs billions of these bacteria which ultimately feed the plant
AMINO ACIDS & POLYPEPTIDES
Yelwa Bio start contains 20 different species of amino acids & polypeptides which is essential for plant growth leading to increased yield and quality crops
HUMATE, FLUVATE & OTHER MINERALS
The plants need these components because it makes them stronger, healthier, develop resistance to pests, disease and insects
NATURAL OCCURING GROWTH STIMULATOR
Yelwa Products contains high level of Auxins & Cytokinins which favors the root. A strong root helps in absorption of nutrients and mechanical support in shoot
NITROGEN(N) PHOSPHOROUS(P) POTASSIUM(K) 6:2:6 Organically Derived NPK
DIRECTION FOR USE
STEP 1. Tear and pour Yelwa Bio-Start Powder B into a mixing container
STEP2: Shake Bio-Start Activator A well and pour into the mixing container that has the powder
Step 3: Mix diligently
Step4: you have 1 liter
Step 5:Add 200 ml of Yelwa Bio-Start to 15-20 liters of water
Step 6: A.SOAK; For seed, tuber or stem. B.ROOT DIP; If you are transplanting from Nursery. C.SOIL DRENCH (FOR YELWA SOIL REJUVINATION PROGRAM)
BENEFITS OF USING YELWA ORGANIC FERTILIZER
So by working with KNARDA, AFAN we can -:
(11) Reduce the COST of organic fertilizer farm input.
(!!!) Improve the INCOME of farmers from crops yield
3.DEMONTRATIONS AND TESTIMONIES (TIJANNI YAHAYA, MUSA SAMAWA AUWALU, KHALIFA)
4.COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
COST ADVANTAGE
Using parameter of farming cycle (3-4 month) of maize, tomatoes or rice farm. FOR 1 hectare, NPK, 15:15:15, UREA, a serious farmer needs about 14bags -21bags of 50kg for farming cycle. This number amounts to MINIMUM of N98000 to MAXIMUM of N252000 (at N7000 – N12000) a bag depending on exchange rate and government interventions. Add to this the weight and cost of transportation and labor for application, WHILE for GREEN YELWA ORGANIC, if you want to go 100% Organic, you need 9 bottles of 1 liter for 1 hectare which is about N51300 –N60300 WITHOUT government intervention. Our farmers are not prepared yet for a 100% Organics farming so you get a combination of ORGANICS & INORGANICS fertilizer that will solve your financial needs. So let’s look at a combination of 3botles of Green Yelwa to 3 Bags of NPK. GREEN YELWA (3) =N17100 + NPK (3) =N21000 SO YELWA + NPK =N38100. YOU WILL SPEND BETWEEN N38100-N56100 in a hectare and here is a winning combination.
1 = 1 = 1
1 Litre = 1 bottle = 1 acre
You can do more if you have the resources
As long as you introduce Green Yelwa Organic Fertilizer into your farming inputs, you are in for (a) COST SAVING (b) INCREASED YIELD (c) SAFETY (d) IMPROVED HEALTH
5 CONCLUSION
PRODUCTION CAPACITY-: We have a scalable operation and can ramp up production reasonably fast to meet the local demand by our farmers. With our new arrangement, we can stock AFAN with some products and refill this as stock gets depleted. Our ultimate goal is to have a Blending plant in Kano that will benefit every player in this arrangement.
In the developed world, the selling point for Organic fertilizer is mostly healthy nutrition, environmentally responsible farming e t c, but for Green Yelwa, we want to include OVERWHELMING YIELD and OUTPUT. We promote “EARTH SAFE and CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURAL practices. YELWA means ABUNDANCE and we wish this gathering YELWA.
