Babban Gona
A loan of $500,000 helps to purchase improved seed, fertlizer, poultry and support access to credit for over 2000 smallholder farmers in Nigeria.
Babban Gona's story
Babban Gona Farmer Services is an award-winning, impactful, sustainable and scalable agri-tech social enterprise dedicated to improving the lives of Nigerian smallholder farmers by providing training, credit, agricultural inputs, harvesting and marketing services to enable increase their productivity and profitability, on average to 2-2.5 times the national average. Since inception, Babban Gona has served 400,000+ smallholder farmers, with 220,000+ acres under sustainable cultivation, while achieving an average repayment rate of 98%. Since 2013, Kiva lenders have provided over $4.9 million worth of loans to over 20,000 of Babban Gona’s member farmers.
This Kiva loan will help Babban Gona continue supporting smallholder farmers with farm inputs and provide loans in the form of birds, poultry feed, and veterinarian services to over 1,000 women.
Babban Gona Farmers pictured are Murja holding a chicken, Victoria with her poultry farming, and Mariyam standing in front of her maize harvest.