About
Built in Zaria, since 2021.
Arzikin Noma is Hausa. It means the wealth of agriculture — the idea that farming is not subsistence to be endured but a business that can make a household prosperous.
The company was founded in 2021 in Zaria, in the middle of Nigeria’s grain belt, on a simple observation. Nigerian smallholders are not short of skill or effort. They are short of four things at once: good seed, working capital, sound agronomy and a buyer who will not exploit them at harvest. Solve one and nothing changes. Solve all four together and the arithmetic of a small farm turns.
Five years on, that model reaches over 400,000 farmers across 13 Nigerian states, has crossed into Kenya, and has been chosen to help deliver the largest smallholder financing programme in Nigeria’s history.
What we are working towards
Africa should feed itself first, and the world second.
Food that must be imported can be withheld. A continent that grows its own is a continent that cannot be leaned on. That is why the target is not only yield but sovereignty.
One million African smallholders by 2030.
Leadership
Who stands behind it.
Adeoluwa Michael Adeshola
Group Managing Director
Has spoken on food sovereignty at the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce and led the company's expansion into East Africa.
Kolade Orilade
Managing Director, Commercial & Supply Chain
Leads the commercial book and the supply chain that moves grain from buying centre to offtaker.
The team
Ugochukwu Oguike
Olive Shehu
Lead, North-West Operations
Miracle Ozuluoha
Warehouse Manager
Samson Moses
Internal Auditor
Beatrice Agbor
Accountant
Laitu Makeri
Human Resources
Blessing Joel
Communication Supervisor
Emmanuel-Akinola
Enterprise Information Systems Officer
For governance, financial records or due diligence material, contact us directly. We would rather answer questions early than late.
Development partners
Organisations that fund and audit work like ours.
USAID
United States Agency for International Development
CNFA
Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture
IDH
The Sustainable Trade Initiative
2SCALE
Inclusive agribusiness incubator
Three offices, two countries.
Head office
Zaria, Kaduna
15 Bako Zuntu Building, Sokoto Road, Kwangila
West Africa regional
Abuja, FCT
No. 25B, 7th Avenue, Gwarinpa
East Africa regional
Nairobi, Kenya
Ikigai, Block D, Merchant Square, Riverside Drive