Fatan is a member-owned agricultural cooperatives management group with registered subsidiaries including Fatan Finance (credit, savings, investment and insurance), Fatan Logistics (storage and transportation), Fatan Agribusiness (input supply, value addition, extension and trade), Fatan Trading (matchmaking and export), Fatan Women, etc.
Fatan will exist and operate under a central institutional arrangement coordinated by IILD. It will utilize cutting edge technology, capacity development, input supply, innovative financing, and market facilitation to catalyse sector and agricultural value chain development, thereby improving smallholder incomes and regional growth in an initial 117 “islands of excellence” in 13 states in Nigeria.
The Fatan group will aim to become a permanent representative of smallholder farmers and other agricultural actors, binding these in a large, coherent, institutionally sound structure that can supply bigger and better markets, negotiate favorable terms of trade and initiate and manage beneficial collaborative arrangements locally, nationally and globally.
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