Commercial Palm Oil Processing

Palm oil industry in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria is faced with challenges of low yield palm seedlings, inadequate technologies, finances, poor processing machines, storage facilities and government negligence which make it difficult for smallholder palm oil dealers to enforce processing of palm oil in commercial quantities to meet up with the market demand both in Nigeria and in global.

Our solution is Commercial Palm Oil Processing: This embodied expanding our processing factory with High Tech Modern Commercial Palm Oil Processing Machines to accommodate 1000 smallholder palm oil dealers in Akwa-Ibom State to manufacture Palm Oil in commercial quantities to feed the yearning palm oil market in Nigeria. Provide free training and assist in the cultivation of improved seedlings. 

Our solution will generate income in rural communities in Akwa-Ibom State; create additional 10,000 jobs in Nigeria to tackle unemployment, poverty and to generate much supply to meet with global market demands.

I am working to solve Challenges facing Sustainable Food Systems in rural communities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria by revamping the palm industry which is the most lucrative business with good returns on investment in the region. Currently in Akwa Ibom State, over 1000smallholder-palm oil dealers are struggling to feeds their families. Unlike before the discovery of crude oil in Nigeria in 1956, smallholder palm oil dealers benefited much from the palm-oil manufacturing business, making billions of Naira because the Federal Government played important roles in providing the required assistance, but today, the reverse is the case. The attentions of the Government of Nigeria are now focusing on extraction and sales of crude oil leaving ones economic booming industry to wallow in serious dilapidation. 

Smallholder-palm-oil-dealers are now left alone to stumble in cultivating low yield varieties of oil-palm trees with inadequate technologies, finances, as well as facilities to handle commercial manufacturing of palm oil to meet with the market demands in Nigeria and global. These open a wider supply and demand gap leading to huge importation of palm oil in Nigeria which would have been produce locally as before, thus leaving the smallholder-palm-oil-dealers to wallow in severe poverty and hunger.

Our solution is commercial palm oil processing. This embodied expansion of our current palm oil factory by replacing our current machines with High-Tech Modern-Commercial-Palm-Oil Processing Machines which are more efficient in  commercial palm oil production, select 1000smallholder-palm-oil-dealers in Akwa Ibom State in gradual process, provide free training, and improved seedlings; assist in cultivation  and support to purchase/harvest Fresh-Fruit-Bunches(FFBs) in large quantities to use the expanded modern commercial palm oil facilities to manufacture palm oil, palm kernel oil, kernel cake (Sludge) and shell in commercial quantities to meet with the market demands; package and brand the manufactured household consumable edible oil and provide a comprehensive marketing processes for profit maximizations.

This will help in generating more incomes and create 10,000additional jobs to tackle high unemployment rate and poverty in Nigeria and to increase the supply of palm oil to our local markets.

Premium Palm Mill was established in 2014 to carry out legal palm oil production in Nigeria and we have gained good market tractions over the years for our quality edible oil manufacturing. Having a customer’s base of over 200palm oil exporters who rapidly off-take the manufactured products irrespective of quantity and even booked and pay in advance for more.

We are targeting over 1000 Smallholder Palm Oil Dealers in rural communities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria that are struggling in palm oil manufacturing business with the use outdated technology, inadequate capital and crude implements to manufacture palm oil to feed their families.

We are currently operating a comprehensive commercial palm oil manufacturing and supplies business in the affected communities by purchasing Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFBs) from individuals, the local markets as well as harvesting from the leased plantations.

We are engaging the smallholder palm oil dealers in a gradual processes due to our factory capacity by allowing access to use our commercial modern machines to process their Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFBs) in commercial quantities and providing strategic marketing processes that foster profit maximization; as we are working on expansion of our factory to accommodate the targeted 1000 smallholder palm oil dealers with installation of High Tech Modern Palm Oil Processing Machines.

Our free training, supply of improved seedlings, supports and High Tech Modern Palm Processing Machines will address inadequate technologies, low yield palm, poor processing and storage facilities as well as inadequate capital and government negligence and will generate 10,000 additional jobs to reduce-poverty to 15% minimal before 2025.

We are providing solution to challenges facing Sustainable Food Systems in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria through offering commercial palm oil processing services to over 1000smallholder palm-oil-dealers in rural communities who are struggling to feeds their families from palm oil manufacturing business; to produce large quantity of palm oil to meet the market demands with the use of modern processing machines of less greenhouse emission technology as well as providing free training on cultivation of improved oil palm seedlings to increase productivity and availability of raw materials for the foreseeable future. This will create 10,000 additional jobs, generate incomes and alleviate poverty.

Commercial Palm oil processing is a lucrative business with good returns on investment that exists for decades in Nigeria with lots of competitors; which are:

(1)       Okomu Oil Company Plc, Okomu Udo, P.M.B 1449, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria established in 1976 as a Federal Government pilot-project aimed at rehabilitating oil palm production in Nigeria.

(2)       Presco is a public limited liability company incorporated on September 24, 1991. Its corporate head office at Obaretin Estate, Benin City. Presco holds Obaretin Estate of 6,462 hectares and Ologbo Estate of 12,560 hectares, both in Edo State, and Cowan Estate, of 2,800 hectares in Delta State.  Also Sakponba Estate in Edo State of 17,000 hectares. But the market demands for palm oil in Nigeria and global are yet to meet.

 (3)     Local Palm Oil producers that produce palm oil in smaller quantities with the use of primitive tools in rural communities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

We break-in the competitive edge and stand at advantage over our competitors through the use of modern technologies and machines in our production processes thus making the manufacturing more adventitious with low cost structure to targeted 1000 smallholder-Palm-Oil dealers in Akwa Ibom State and providing free training and supports to purchase Fresh fruit Bunches and cultivation of additional 500hectares of improved palm seedlings for the foreseeable future; as well as our quality production, timely delivery and good customer relationships set us high above our competitors, making our products highly demanding and business need satisfying, thus fostering profitability.

Currently, we are using modern palm oil processing machines in our palm oil manufacturing factory in which we intend to expand to a modern High-Tech Palm Oil processing Machines with low greenhouse emission which is a modern technological machines fostering high productivity and efficiency in modern commercial palm oil manufacturing business ranging from fresh fruit bunches receptor, automatic cookers, rotary beater arm fruit bunch thresher, conventional rotary arm digester, automatic presser, static decanter to separate oil from sludge, conveyors to reduce manual handling, and a vibrating filter to reduce solids entering the decanters and large storage tanks for products preservation.

All these machines are Automatic Electric Powered Machines that will be running on 35-50KVA power consumption rating making production easier, faster, neat, providing good quality controls, reducing workers overtime which would have lead to high overhead cost, and also reducing factory overcrowding and will be providing a 21stcentury palm oil manufacturing services to the targeted 1000smallholder-palm-oil-dealers in Akwa-Ibom State in commercial quantities at low cost.

The machines will be imported from Henan Doing Mechanical Equipment Co,. Ltd, headquartered in China by their Lagos State branch office in Nigeria in-which we have received their costing including transportation and installation cost with standby trained Nigerian technical personnel.

The machine operators are locally available, with little training and supervisions, they will perform excellently and efficiently.

We will also brand and package the household consumable edible oil in sachets and kegs, develop web-store and mobile phone apps to connect with the wider markets.

Our business is an existing business with the use of these latest technology and machines in commercial palm oil manufacturing which make our production easier, faster, neat, providing good quality controls and reducing workers overtime.

I started the commercial palm oil production in Ikot Ada Idem, Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria as an inherited business and develop into corporate organization “Premium Palm Mill” because of passion, zeal and experiences.

Premium Palm Mill was established in 2014 to carry out legal commercial palm oil production in Nigeria and we have gained good market tractions over the years for our quality edible oil manufacturing. Having a customer’s base of over 200palm oil exporters who rapidly off-take the manufactured products irrespective of quantity and even booked and pay in advance for more.

The business is a lucrative business with good return on investment. The demand for palm oil and its by-products are high in our local market; the demand for it is all year round. Due to the high demand, buyers sometimes book for the products on cash and carry basis. Sometimes, buyers even pay in advance in order to secure products.

Our modern machines which foster quality production, low-cost-structure, timely-delivery and good-customers’-relationships set us high above our competitors, making our products highly demanding and business need satisfying; rapidly-gaining-market-momentum, thus fostering-profit-maximization.

Here is the demo video for our intended modern high tech palm oil processing line from Henan Doing Mechanical Equipment Co,. Ltd, Lagos state branch office, Nigeria.

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Our theory of change circled around fostering a rebound commercial palm oil production in rural communities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria to meet with the yearning market demands for palm oil and its by-products both in Nigerian market as well as in the global market.

These evolve around strategic planning, vigorous partnership as well as implementation methodologies for better result.

Drawing on the knowledge and experiences we gained to date in the commercial palm oil manufacturing business and the growing opportunities in the market sector, we are facilitating the expansion of our dynamic factory to create more and efficient value chains with strong linkages between the smallholder oil palm dealers and we the primary processors. These arrangements will reduce the production and market risks faced by smallholders, and ensuring them access to quality inputs, technical knowhow and investment credits for better tomorrow.

We are partnering to provide smallholder-palm-oil-dealers with improved seedlings and supports to cultivate additional 500hectares, harvest as well as purchasing fresh fruit bunches that will enable them to join us in astounding commercial palm oil production services at a transparently negotiated price.

The monumental progress of this model will not only make palm oil available in commercial quantities but will alleviate smallholder palm oil dealers in Akwa Ibom State, in fact many Nigerians from high rate of unemployment and poverty and will also restore the lost glory of Nigeria in palm oil industry which have been nipped in buds many years ago by creating additional 10,000jobs in rural communities thus making the dream of diversification of the Federal Government of Nigeria a reality.

We have the experiences, skills, talented workers, astonishing partners, technology, facilities and quality materials to manufacture quality products, the market and good track records in the commercial palm oil business.

In conclusion; our theory of change provides a strong proof of concept for scaling up commercial palm oil business in Akwa Ibom State, based on: (i)the favorable agro-ecological conditions for profitable production;(ii)the viability of smallholder oil palm producer; and (iii)the long term experience, which has provided a framework for a sharing of incentives and risks. 

Our customers’ base randomly increase due to the use of modern technology, machines as well as experienced workers in our production processes which are efficient and effective; making production easier, faster, neat, providing quality-controls and less-cost-effective that make our products to compute in the local markets.

Our quality-production, low-cost-structure, timely-delivery and good-customers’-relationships set us high above our competitors, making our products highly demanding and business need satisfying.

We have provided services to approximate 3,432clients since 2014 ranging from local-palm-oil-dealers, exporters within and outside Akwa-Ibom State, animal feed producers, petrochemical researchers and companies, kernel-extracting companies and individuals, organic fertilizer researchers and manufacturing companies, bitumen manufacturing firms and construction companies, biofuel & energy researchers and manufacturing companies, cosmetic manufacturing companies, bakery, prisons, eateries, several events and event planners, just to mentioned but few.

In the next 2years after expansion of our processing factory with Modern High Tech commercial palm oil processing machines, we will extend our commercial processing services to reach over 11,000clients including smallholder oil palm dealers, researchers, manufacturing and construction companies, as well as individuals to benefit in our high quality and large quantity services, products as well as training and marketing services.

In the next 5years-10years, we intend to further scale up our commercial services to reach over 31,000targeted clients within and outside Nigeria which include but not limited to smallholder-oil-palm dealers, researchers, exporters, manufacturing and construction companies, as well as individuals to benefit in our world class oil palm products, training, as well as cultivation and marketing services.

In the next 2 years, we will extend our quality commercial services and Corporate Social Responsibilities to over 11,000 target clients which are smallholder oil palm dealers, researchers, manufacturing/construction companies, as well as individuals and communities and our quality products, services, free-training, marketing, employment capacity and 10,000 additional jobs created will tackle high rate of unemployment, poverty and malnutrition and these will have greater impacts on over 5million lives within and outside Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

And in the next 5-10years, over 31000 clients will directly benefit from our modern commercial palm oil manufacturing services and technological-based oil palm seedlings cultivation exercise in gradual process. And additional 25millions lives within and outside Nigeria will be greatly impacted through our quality services, products as well as Corporate Social Responsibilities.

Our goals is to provide solution to challenges facing Sustainable Food Systems in Akwa-Ibom State, scale-up to reach the entire Nigeria and the world before 2025; by re-modernizing one of the most global viable agricultural business “palm oil industry”, in providing a-21st century commercial palm oil manufacturing services to thousands of smallholder-palm-oil-dealers in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria and in the world, offer free-training and distribute quality inputs to foster cultivation of additional 500hectares of high-yield-diseases-resistant oil palm fruits to boost availability of raw materials to manufacture high-quality and large-quantity oil palm products to meet with the global market demands using modern-processing-machines with low-greenhouse-emission-technology in producing low carbon consumable palm products which are raw materials used mostly to further manufacture household consumable goods. 

We have outstanding experiences since the commencement of operation in 2014 as a legal registered palm oil manufacturing company in Nigeria. we encountered challenges as financial, technical, legal, cultural, market barriers, etc. which  slow-down our operations and services as well as giving us opportunities to creatively strategized robust mitigations that help in boosting our tract-records for effective and efficient services delivery.

The barriers were:

• Financial: Currently, we are operating 3tons-per-day modern palm oil processing machines in our palm oil manufacturing factory with a customer base of over 200 palm oil exporters who consistently off-take the manufactured products irrespective of quantity and even booked and pay in advance for more. But we could not meet with their demands for our edible oil; as we don’t supply all with the required quantity as demanded due to inadequate capital which could have enable us go into large-scale-manufacturing.
• Technical:Machines breakdown, high overhead cost, factory overcrowding, low quality production, high volume of waste and spillage as well as inexperience workers were fostering business losses and debt incurring.
• Legal/Market: We were having low market penetration and poor sales due to fear of harassment as the result of improper registration with the relevant authorities thus causing low return on investment during the first 12months of the commencement of operation.
• Cultural: Though the factory is cited in my hometown, Ikot-Ada-Idem, Ibiono-Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria but the villagers demanded monetary items as traditional rites and levies for peaceful operation of the business.

We started overcoming those aforementioned barriers from our second year of operation, though it was not an easy tasks. We formed a formidable management team and partners that comprises of talented experts and dedicated individuals with passion for making impacts in commercial palm oil processing business using constructive interactions, focusing on common vision and expectation, having full knowledge of weakness and strength of the company. Being transparency, hardworking and exhibiting the right management styles and providing periodic feedback on progress of the project at hand.

These help us having good mitigation to some of the challenges experienced, as in:

• Financial: It was resolved that we should prepare a comprehensive business plan that will enable us secure funds from investors within and outside Nigeria for expansion while we should contribute our own quotas to keep the company in operation.
• Technical:More experts were invited for proper inspection of the factory, their reports and recommendations help us employed the services of talented and technical personnel who streamline the machines, operational services and human resources in accordance with the modern commercial standards.
• Legal/Market: We have done company registration with Corporate Affairs Commission in 2014 as a legal commercial palm oil processing entity in Nigeria which helps us to gain good market tractions for our edible products.
• Cultural:We have paid the recommended monetary items demanded by the operational communities as the traditional rites for smooth operation of our business and promised to abide by our corporate social responsibilities programmes as stated in our written agreement.

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The company Management Team and Partners comprises of 5full time staff, unnumbered part-time-workers, 5Partners, 3 suppliers and 200exporters.

FULL TIME STAFF:Solomon Solomon George; the MD/CEO, Sarah Peter Okon; Financial Secretary, Friday Eka and Nyenime Emmanuel; Machine operators, and Elijah Emmanuel; Mill Assistance.

We employed the services of part time or causal workers inconsistently, only when need arises.

THE PARTNERS: The family of Late Rev. of Solomon George Udoetuk, Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research(NIFOR) PMB-1030-Benin-City,Nigeria, Vika-Farms-Limited, Idu-Rd,Mbak Etoi, Uyo. Skye-Bank-Plc and United-Bank-for-Africa;(UBA)(Periodic Loan Assistants) and Green Agro Ventures, Abak, Akwa-Ibom-State.

SUPPLIERS:Vika-Farms-Limited, Green Agro Ventures and Vikman Technical Company, etc.

The Management team and partners of Premium-Palm-Mill comprises of talented experts and dedicated individuals with passion for making impacts in commercial-palm-oil manufacturing using constructive interactions, focusing on common vision and expectation, having full knowledge of weakness and strength of the company. Being transparency, hardworking and exhibiting the right management style by providing periodic feedback on progress of the project at hand.

We are:

• Solomon George; the Managing-Director/Chief-Executive-Officer is a ND/HNC certificate holder in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Maintenance;B.Sc., Business Administration(In-View)also a Business Manager with Fifteen(15)years managerial experiences in relevant field including inherited Oil-Palm-Plantation. I attained eight(8)weeks/Six-month Agro-biz training/workshop in 2009 and 2011 organized by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)and Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Agriculture in 2006 and 2009respectively, and 2014Youwin stage2; 3-days Business Concept Training.  With all of these and more, I will supervise daily operation of the company, purchase necessary materials needed for production, establish and maintain strong marketing network.
• Machine operators/technicians (Friday Eka, Nyenime Emmanuel and others) with good experiences in field operation and maintenance, operate digester, Electric Hydraulic Press, Selector and other machines being used by the company for production and will employ more during or after expansion.
• Financial Personnel, (Sarah Peter) are handling all daily financial transaction records of the company.
• Mill-Assistant (Elijah Emmanuel) handles the required assisted services

Our Partners are:

(1)The family of Late Rev. of Solomon-George-Udoetuk.(technical-advices).

(2)Nigerian-Institute-for-Oil-Palm-Research(NIFOR)-PMB-1030-Benin-City,Nigeria. (fabricators of our Oil Palm Processing Machines, installation and processing advices).

(3)Vika-Farms-Limited, Idu Rd, Mbak-Etoi, Uyo (Supplier-of-improved-Nursery-oil-palm-Seedling)

(4)Green-Agro-Ventures;(Major suppliers), etc. 

We are partnering with the following organizations as well as individuals and groups which contributed immensely in both intellectual properties and assets to make this project a huge success in the past years. They are:

• The family of Late Rev. of Solomon George Udoetuk is my family who had found confidence on the project at hand and donated a plot of land for construction of Mill and provides the company with technical and operational advices base on longtime experience in the business.
• Nigerian-Institute-for-Oil -Palm-Research (NIFOR) PMB-1030 Benin-City, Nigeria is one of the local fabricators of some of our commercial-Oil-Palm Processing Machines and always provide us with technical and operational advices.
• Vikman Technical Company, located in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State is one of our local commercial palm oil machine fabricators with wealth of experience in palm oil machines manufacturing and maintenance processes.
• Henan-Doing-Mechanical-Equipment-Co,. Ltd, No.133 Yaozhai Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, China with branch office in Lagos State, Nigeria is one of our major international machines suppliers who are supplying us with the sophisticated modern commercial palm oil machines for effectiveness and efficiency in large scale production.
• Vika Farms Limited, Idu Rd, Mbak-Etoi, Uyo. The Supplier of improved oil palm seedlings and the provision of the 21st century profitable cultivation techniques.
• Skye Bank Plc and United Bank for Africa(UBA) are our periodic loan assistants who are providing us with bank loan whenever need arises. Green Agro Ventures located in Abak-Local-Government-Area, Akwa Ibom State is one of the major suppliers of raw material, etc.

Our business model is Commercial Palm Oil Processing: This embodied expansion of our current palm oil facility with installation of Modern High Tech Commercial Palm Oil Processing Machines, select 1000 smallholder palm oil dealers in Akwa Ibom State in gradual process, provide free training, improved seedlings and support to cultivate additional 500hectares, harvest/purchase Fresh Fruit Bunches(FFBs) in large quantities and use our expanded facilities with Modern High Tech Commercial Palm Oil Machines to manufacture palm oil, palm kernel oil, kernel cake (Sludge) and shell in commercial quantities to meet with the market demands; package and brand the manufactured household consumable edible oil and provide strategic marketing services to boost profit maximization.

This will help in generating more incomes and create 10,000 additional jobs to tackle high unemployment rate and poverty in Nigeria and increase the supply of palm oil to  global market.

To achieve this, we are to purchase and install Automatic Electric Powered Modern High Tech Commercial Palm Oil Machines with less greenhouse emission running on 35-50KVA power consumption rating from Henan-Doing-Mechanical-Equipment-Co,. Lagos State branch office, Nigeria.

Embark on public announcement and invitations through words of mouth, dispatching messages to different socio-political and religious groups as well as using social media, local radio and tv stations to get the attention of the smallholder-palm-oil-dealers, assemble them in different designated places in the rural communities of Akwa-Ibom State in gradual process, provide free training and support them to purchase/harvest fresh-fruit bunches and make use the installed modern machines for commercial-palm-oil-manufacturing.

We have outstanding experiences since the commencement of operation in 2014 as a legal registered palm oil manufacturing company in Nigeria. we encountered challenges as financial, technical, legal, cultural, market barriers, etc. which  slow-down our operations and services as well as giving us opportunities to creatively strategized robust mitigations that help in boosting our tract-records for effective and efficient services delivery.

For these reasons, we apply to Solve Challenge 2020:

• Financial:We solicit funding from MIT Solve under 2020 Sustainable Food Systems Challenge which will enable us to expand our processing machines, select, train, provide improved seedlings to 1000smallholder palm oil dealers in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria in gradual process, support to cultivate, harvest/purchase fresh fruit Bunches to manufacture palm oil in commercial quantities to meet with market demand, brand and package the manufactured household consumable oil, develop web-store and mobile app to connect to the global market.
• Technical: We solicit partnership with MIT Solve Foundation who might willingly offer technical assistance to our factory that will enable us to streamline the machines, operational services and human resources in accordance with the modern commercial palm oil manufacturing standards.
• Legal/Market: We warmly welcome any legal and marketing assistance that might deem fit for the progress of our company from MIT Solve Foundation in terms of training, monitoring and partnership.
• Cultural: We also welcome any cultural advice or instructions that might deem fit for the progress of our company from MIT Solve Foundation under 2020 sustainable food systems challenge.

• Business Model: We humbly solicit MIT support in preparing a comprehensive business plan that will enable us secure funds from investors for further expansion of our company to meet with the commercial palm oil standard.
• Solution Technology: We seek partnership for technological exposure and modern methods of commercial palm oil processing.
• Products and Service Distribution:We intend developing web-store and mobile phone app to help connect to the global market in which we seek technological assistance.
• Funding and Revenue Model: We warmly solicit funding assistance which will enable us to generate more revenue for sustainability and replications.
• Board Members and Advisors: We welcome comments, advices as well as directives that may help boost our operations.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: We also welcome monitoring and evaluation services from MIT Foundation.
• Marketing, Media and exposure: We solicit partnership as well as recommendations that will enable us gain access to profitable marketing and media exposure.

We will like to partner with MIT faculty, Initiatives as well as Solve Members with wealth of experiences in business development and operation that will enable us gain wider exposure in our business.

We welcome their assistance in the area of:

• Financial: We solicit funding which will enable us to expand our processing machines, select, train, provide improved seedlings to 1000smallholder palm oil dealers in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria in gradual process, support to cultivate, harvest/purchase fresh fruit Bunches to manufacture palm oil in commercial quantities to meet with market demand, brand and package the manufactured household consumable oil, develop web-store and mobile app to connect to the global market.
• Legal/Market: We warmly welcome any legal and marketing assistance that might deem fit for the progress of our company in terms of training, monitoring and partnership.
• Cultural:We also welcome any cultural advice or instructions that might deem fit for the progress of our company.
• Business Model:We humbly solicit MIT support in preparing a comprehensive business plan that will enable us secure funds from investors for further expansion of our company to meet with the commercial palm oil standard.
• Solution-Technology: We seek partnership for technological exposure and modern methods of commercial palm oil processing.
• Products/Service Distribution: We intend developing web-store and mobile phone app to help connect to the global market in which we seek technological assistance.
• Marketing,Media-and-exposure:We solicit partnership as well as recommendations that will enable us gain access to profitable marketing and media exposure.

Women and girls play significant roles in agricultural sector in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria in commercial palm oil production specifically, greater percentage of women living in the rural communities of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria purchase fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) in low quantities to manufacture palm oil due to insufficient capital, inadequate technology, poor processing machines with no quality storage facilities which would have enable them to  maximize profit when the price of oil rises.

We intend to expand of our current palm oil factory through purchasing and installation of Modern High Tech Commercial Palm Oil Processing Machines with low greenhouse emission technology, select 1000 smallholder palm oil dealers mostly women in Akwa Ibom State in gradual process, provide free training, improved seedlings and support to cultivate harvest/purchase Fresh Fruit Bunches(FFBs) in large quantities and make use our expanded modern High Tech Commercial Palm Oil Machines to manufacture palm oil, palm kernel oil, kernel cake (Sludge) and shell in commercial quantities to meet with the market demands; package and brand the manufactured household consumable edible oil and provide astounding marketing strategies that will foster profit maximization.

This will help in generating more incomes to the women and girls in rural communities in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria in addition to support from MIT Foundation 2020 Solve Challenge under Sustainable Food Systems  will also create additional jobs to tackle high unemployment rate and poverty in among women and girls in Nigeria and increase change women and girls participation in commercial palm oil manufacturing.