October 02, 2025
Agricultural small and medium enterprises (SMES) in Nigeria can now look forward to a brighter future as the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) of Pan-Atlantic University, in collaboration with Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), has created a platform titled an Exclusive Networking Event capable of connecting participants to key players in the sector.
The platform is gear towards discovering strategies to fund, grow, and scale their businesses in a sector whose key players include financial institutions, business development service providers and government officials
The event held in Lagos, with the Theme: ‘Funding the Future: Powering Nigeria’s Agric-SMEs’, brought together agric business stakeholders from around the country.
The goal of the collaboration was to connect them with key players in the Nigerian agriculture sector and provide strategies for funding, growing, and scaling their businesses.
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Head of Alumni Relations and Support Services at EDC, Dr. Nnenna Ugwu, who reaffirmed the EDC commitment towards supporting SMEs in the country, stressed that the Centre was committed to helping agric-SMEs in the country to find funders, grow, and scale like in other climes.
Ugwu said “Today, we are utilising Business Development Service Providers (BDSPs) to support small businesses on the AGRA platform and explore how they can be funded. And when we mean funding, it is funding that works, funding for the future, and sustainable funding.”
