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[Abisola Olusanya | The Lagos Food Architect @Abi_Olusanya]

The yummy white mustache

I have a bet that I am almost certain I would win: the majority of Lagosians have never tasted fresh cow milk. That thought was one of the starting points when we began working on the dairy project in Lagos. We wanted to change a reality that most of us had never really questioned: that in a city where milk is consumed every day, access to fresh milk is almost non-existent.

Most of us grew up on powdered milk, evaporated milk and condensed milk, and that was perfectly normal. You opened a tin, tore a sachet, added water where required, and got on with your milk-required meal – cereal, pap, oats porridge etc. Fresh milk belonged more to foreign films and advertisements, usually accompanied by that unmistakable white mustache left behind after a good gulp. Our objective from the beginning was to see whether we could change that.

Our experience is not necessarily the African experience either. In Kenya, for instance, fresh liquid milk has long been part of everyday food culture, so the idea that fresh milk should feel unfamiliar in a major African city like Lagos is unpalatable.

At Badagry, dairy being run by Origin farms is currently working towards producing about 1,500 litres of fresh milk every week from the Ayrshire cows. The milk is processed and bottled with trials being done, moving samples under cold-chain conditions to Lagos Island and Ikeja, and delivering them to select stakeholders for feedback.

It is one thing to produce milk on a farm and another to get it into a refrigerator several kilometres away in the same condition in which it left the dairy. The milk has to be processed and bottled, tested in a lab, kept at the right temperature and moved from Badagry into the city, and this is being done now on a relatively small scale before moving into the much larger operation planned for Epe.

The Lagos dairy farm and cattle feedlot in Epe sits on 250 hectares and is where the commercial scale of the dairy programme will eventually take place, with the land and infrastructure for the cattle, feed production and the wider livestock operation. Badagry and Epe therefore have different roles within the same plan: Badagry allows private sector to produce, test and understand the market now, while Epe is being developed for the volumes that a commercial operation will require.

The market is also an interesting one because we are not introducing Lagosians to milk; we are only giving access to a different form of something they have consumed all their lives. Fresh milk tastes different, has to remain refrigerated and has a much shorter shelf life than the milk most of us grew up with. This is part of why we are sending out samples now. We want people to taste it and tell us what they think before it gets anywhere near a supermarket shelf.

We have some distance to go before locally produced fresh milk becomes a regular sight in refrigerators across Lagos, but that is exactly the narrative we set out to change: that fresh milk is something Lagosians consume elsewhere, see in films or associate with other markets, rather than something that can be produced here and become part of everyday life here.

On a lighter note, I can’t wait to have a white mustache everyday.

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...members of the Lagos Agrinnovation club @lagos_agriclub and the Ministry of Ag & food systems @lagosagric1 at the China-Nigeria Agricultural Technology cooperation summit - a 2 week training programme in the heart of China's Agricultural belt.

A big thanks to the PRC consul general @china_cg_lagos and the LASG SSG @BSaluHundeyin for facilitating the programme

Our delegates gave swag at the farewell dinner today!!!

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[Lagos Agrinnovation Club @lagos_agriclub]

International Women’s Day Spotlight

Today, we celebrate remarkable women driving innovation and transformation across Nigeria’s agricultural sector.

Meet the inspiring leaders shaping the future of agribusiness and food systems:

🌿Yetunde Adegbite – CEO, Jodriela Concepts Limited
🌿 Dumebi Oluwole – Chief Strategy Officer, Farm Junction Foundation
🌿 Etimbuk Imuk – Founder, Eti Farms Global
🌿 Tracy Dabul – Chief Partnership Officer, Benue Farmer

These women are redefining agriculture through innovation, empowering farmers, strengthening food systems, and building sustainable agribusinesses that impact communities across Nigeria.

At the Lagos Agrinnovation Club, we celebrate and support women who are shaping the future of agriculture.

💜 Happy International Women’s Day!

#IWD2026 #WomenInAgriculture #WomenInAgribusiness #LagosAgrinnovationClub

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[Abisola Olusanya | The Lagos Food Architect @Abi_Olusanya]

...the Lagos cattle feedlot is taking form. Turning a dense jungle to a land fit for livestock production, as is any other agricultural endeavour is costly, and this has been a major obstacle to commercial food production particularly in the SW. As part of the Produce-for-Lagos programme, this project is kicking off with pilot paddocks/livestock on ground with more expected in subsequent weeks.

Personal lesson for me - Nothing is impossible to those who dare to dream!!!

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[Abisola Olusanya | The Lagos Food Architect @Abi_Olusanya]

...as we prepare for the final pitch from contenders for the Lagos Agrithon N150mn grant by Governor @jidesanwoolu, it's important to highlight the process and how we arrived at this point:
Step 1 : Public call for biz case submissions
Step 2: Selection of businesses that met the criteria
Step 3: Physical Intro pitch by business owners to jurors
Step 4: Selection of biz cases that exhibited innovation
Step 5: Physical business school type examination
Step 6: Mentorship phase for 3 weeks
Step 7: Physical visits to enterprises for verification
Step 8: FINALE PITCH
Step 9 : Winning Selection of businesses to be unveiled & awarded at the Agrinnovation Summit 2.0 on the 13th of Nov, 2023 at Harbour Point, V.I

Our jurors are seasoned experts in the business, finance, Ag. & Food space, and bring over 100 years of combined experience. They are the real MVPs.

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ATTENTION: Year-Round Access to Education Initiative is in 1st place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 Rally the troops to celebrate now!: https://t.co/1PwWkzcfVE #AnthemAwards

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MERCY PLEASE 🖤 the video is out now on YouTube
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[Abisola Olusanya | The Lagos Food Architect @Abi_Olusanya]

...kicking off with the Produce for Lagos state-to-state engagement, starting with Benue - the food basket of the nation".
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Unilag agric students hosted us today 😁 @ecotutu @TracyDabul Coconoto @lagos_agriclub