Olapeju Umah is the Founder & CEO of MyFoodAngels (formerly known as Mile12marketwoman) – an agricultural hub which leverages technology with the objective of closing the gap of access to organic farm produce by connecting farmers and consumers.
Basically, farmers in the MyFoodAngels network are funded with high yielding seeds, and assured of an offtake of the mature produce, which are directly sold to end-customers who enjoy affordable products for longer shelf life than what is obtainable in the open markets.
Says Olapeju: “Over the years, MyFoodAngels has provided a wholesome #farm2table experience for our customers while helping the farmer achieve better ROI. With this capital injection, we will be able to build more robust and sustainable systems for the agric supply chain”.
In this snippet, Olapeju presented to judges of the Grooming Endowment Trust, making a case for the impact of MyFoodAngels in terms of effectively applying funds towards farm offtakes and seed funding its farmers.
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Myfoodangels addresses the peculiarly Nigerian challenges of dire post-harvest loss and insufficiency of direct organic farm-to-table produce. The organization provides a community that is fully representational of an efficient Agric value chain serving as the optimum intersection between registered farmers, wholesalers, shoppers, producers, consumers and agro logistics.