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EDOBONG AKPABIO
I coordinate the day-to-day operations of the organization @ Greenport Nigeria
Ifo, Nigeria
I built a career as an HR professional for over 20 years and as an agro-entrepreneur for almost 20 years now. In addition, I have a post-graduate diploma in Logistics & Supply Chain Management; I'm an ILO-SIYB certified trainer; and an ISO-certified lead auditor in two international quality systems, namely, ISO-9001:2015 (Quality Management System - QMS) and ISO-22001:2008 (Food Safety Management System (FSMS).
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I volunteer as a trainer/facilitator and mentor, etc, to reputable organizations, local and international. They include: FATE Foundation, NECA's Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW) - where I currently serve as the chairperson of the Governing Council, Cherie Blair Foundation, HerVest Nigeria, Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry - where I served for two years as the chairperson of the Agriculture & Agro-Allied Group, Lady Ranchers Cooperative Multipurpose Society Ltd - where I currently serve as the General Secretary, and African Farmers Stories Initiative - where I currently serve on the Board. All these positions have provided me with the opportunity to positively impact thousands of people in their careers and businesses. I am happily married to Pastor Eno Akpabio and we have 3 lovely children and grandchildren.
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I coordinate the day-to-day operations of the organization @ Greenport Nigeria
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Posted on Feb. 22, 2025, 12:40 p.m.
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My name is Edobong Akpabio. I am an agri-entrepreneur and an enterprise development consultant in Nigeria. I have a special interest in supporting entrepreneurs to grow their businesses successfully. I have qualified as a certified trainer with the ILO on the start and improve your business ...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 3:42 a.m.
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How can a business reap the rewards of persistence and smart execution? Let's go after the reward system. A reward system in a business environment refers to all the monetary, non-monetary and psychological benefits that employees receive or the business owner experiences when the business has me...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 3:31 a.m.
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I have a question to answer and it says, if all I have is a 100,000 Naira, where do I begin to do business? Very interesting. I probably get asked that every other day. Professionally, I don't tell investors where to put their money. I don't tell people who have money, whether big or small, what ...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 3:09 a.m.
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Let's talk about using export technology and value addition to scale up business. Business scale up is that period of deliberate and rapid growth for a business that involves making significant changes to your operations in order to increase its capacity to grow. And many businesses look to scale...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 2:52 a.m.
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How can a business achieve sustainable growth through smart investments and financial discipline? I would say that in business, growth is not just a goal. It is very necessary. Business growth is about having a strategy that the business will grow its customer base and its revenue, especially thr...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 2:41 a.m.
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Let's talk about innovating for profitability in a competitive agro market. Innovation is really about doing something different. Doing something different in order to create value. In business, innovation has to do with the process of introducing new ideas, new products, services, or methods tha...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 2:27 a.m.
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In my nearly 20 years of experience in the agriculture and agribusiness space in Nigeria, I have seen some mistakes that some agri-entrepreneurs have made. I'll probably just share with you five of them that have been very, very troubling for me. The first one is agri-entrepreneurs tend to follow...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 2:19 a.m.
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Another question that I frequently receive is how businesses can mitigate the impact of market challenges. A market challenge is a problem in your business that is caused by the behavior of consumers. Market challenges impact a business by affecting, one, its ability to attract customers, two, it...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 2:03 a.m.
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How can agro-entrepreneurs weather the storm of unstable government policies? Let's find out what a government policy really is. A government policy is a set of laws, regulations and actions that governments use to address issues that affect the public. So, a government policy can be created at t...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 1:54 a.m.
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The interest rate is so high, the process of application is so tedious, and then they'll be asking for collateral which you may not have. So, it's good for agri-entrepreneurs that are starting, you always tell them start small, learn the business, learn the ropes, and then you expand. By the time...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 1:46 a.m.
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How can entrepreneurs get funding for their businesses? Let us start by describing funding – business funding refers to the money required to start and fund a business. It is usually used for working capital and to purchase assets for the workings of the business. We all agree that funding is imp...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 1:29 a.m.
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There are many organizations and institutions that support and impact on the development of agriculture and agribusiness in Nigeria. One of them is the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA. IITA is a non-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet the chal...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2025, 1:19 a.m.
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People ask me all the time; what skills do agro-entrepreneurs need to succeed? And I normally take them back to the basics. What do I mean by the basics? Who is an entrepreneur? And then we get to who is an agro-entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is a person who sets up a business or businesses whose ...
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Posted on Feb. 19, 2025, 9:45 p.m.
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Entrepreneurship in agriculture is what we call agribusiness. And like every other business, you need to have passion and purpose, even as you start and manage your business in order for you to be successful. Let's talk about passion. Passion is the driving force behind business successes, becaus...
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