Cocoa Farms Opportunity

Managed By FADU, A Union Of More Than Half A Million Farmers....







Attractive Cocoa Farms Investment Package - Outright Purchase Of Cocoa Farms

About FADU

The Farmers Development Union (FADU), an NGO, is a membership organization of Nigerian farmers numbering over half a million members. Since inception in 1989, FADU has created structures and program activities to improve members’ living standards.

FADU has a permanent core of Staff, who combine extensive experience designing and managing development programs with background in agriculture, business, finance, community development, rural sociology and food technology. FADU has 346 program employees, consultants and volunteers. FADU can access expertise in other areas

An Attractive Cocoa Farms Investment Opportunity

A rare opportunity to purchase 400 hectares (1000 acres) of Cocoa farms in 400 Packages of 2.5 acres (1 hectare each).

Each package sold would be registered in the name of the purchaser and Comprise 2.5 acres cocoa farms (1 hectare) producing 1 Tonne of Cocoa Annually . The purchase price would also include the cost of cultivating the Cocoa till harvest. The Farms And the cultivation Programme would also be managed by FADU

Interest of 2.8% Per Month paid on Cultivation costs

Each package would also include A a loan note for cultivation till first harvest in 2024 to include all fees. This will be provided upfront to FADU to be loaned as per a loan agreement signed with FADU, to FADU Community Associations at an interest rate of 2.8% per month on the outstanding balance, and fully guaranteed by FADU as Microfinance loans

FADU have been providing microfinance to their members since 1989 and have a miniscule default rate as loans are cross guaranteed within the individual FADU Community Associations and ultimately guaranteed by FADU itself.

Each Package also includes Tokens in the Online Crops Marketplace from Which the Cocoa is sold

FADU is currently embarking on a Digitalized Trade Programme for the benefit of its members, via the Crops.Trade Online marketplace

Crops.Trade, is the Online Crops Marketplace Detailed. More details below. Crops.Trade is a TRade Gateway which is part of the TRADE GATEWAYS programme. Each individual package will also include the provision of TRADE GATEWAYS Tokens to provide Cocoa Farm Holders a Stake in the Electronic Marketplace that sells their cocoa

COCOA FARMS INVESTMENT PACKAGE STRUCTURE

The components of each package would be registered in the name of the purchaser and Comprise:

  • 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of cocoa farms yielding 400 metric tonnes of cocoa from 2024 for them. Each hectare (2.5 acres) will yield 1 tonne of cocoa.

  • The cost is 150,000 naira per acre (375,000 naira per hectare). FADU will manage and cultivate the farms. When they start annual harvests of the cocoa in 2024, each hectare will yield 1 tonne of cocoa which currently sells for around £1,860 (1.5 Million Naira), per tonne.

  • The 400 hectares are offered in 400 Packages of 1 hectare each. Each package costs 1.1 million naira including all fees, the cultivation of the land till harvest as per the Cultivation Schedule and 10,000 TRADE GATEWAYS tokens which help to fund the Crops.Trade Digital Trade Programme. The TRADE GATEWAYS tokens are ERC20 Tokens which are expected to appreciate in value in coming years.

  • 512,000 naira per hectare from the package cost would be used for the cultivation of the land as per the Cultivation Schedule. This will be provided to FADU to be loaned as per a microfinance loan agreement signed with FADU, to their Community Associations at an interest rate of 2.8% per month on outstanding balances till harvest. The repayment schedule would be structured so that capital would be repaid as required for cultivation as per the cultivation schedule, with interest being paid on the outstanding balance on a quarterly basis. This microfinance loan would be fully guaranteed by FADU.

  • FADU have been providing microfinance to their members since 1989 and have a miniscule default rate as loans are cross guaranteed within the individual FADU Community Associations and ultimately guaranteed by FADU itself.

  • The capital will be released for the cultivation so that the purchaser would have nothing more to pay till first harvest, for their 1 million naira investment, receive 2.8% on outstanding balance till first harvest, own the farm outright the value of the farm would increase when it became a fully fledged cocoa producing farm, and receive cocoa to the value of 1.6 million naira in perpetuity


    FADU STRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS

    The Farmers Development Union (FADU) at creation, has the mandate for:

  • Membership mobilization, organization and consolidation
  • Strengthening technical, managerial and financial capacities of members
  • Micro-finance system promotion among members
  • Input supply for member-rural producers
  • Marketing of members’ products

    The FADU Membership is 524,000. The membership is organized into 104,494 groups (of five people each), 52397 Societies (each made up of two groups), 3,618 Districts (containing at least ten Societies each) and 754 grassroots zones.

    The group ensures discipline among its members of five, while the society links FADU for financial service to the members. The District performs overseeing role, screening and guaranteeing societies for eligibility for FADU loans. The grassroots zones provide platform for knowledge and experience sharing among Districts. The apex Union (FADU) provides technical support and financial services to all the formations within the grassroots structure.
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