Theresa Odu runs Odu Farms in Abuja but says she is constrained by financial and labour shortages
, located in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. Before she left the civil service, she was already nursing the idea to begin farming but was uncertain of what exactly to grow.
PT: Your career history says you worked in the aviation sector; how then did you come about going into agriculture?I started working in the ministry, and I retired there. I worked there as a continental secretary. When I retired, I thought of the best business to venture into to keep me going with the children. Their father died when two of my children were undergraduates, and a few years later I retired.
PT: Okay, so as you were retiring at the time and you had no other option than the farm, how were you able to raise capital?Actually, the capital was a bit challenging because I didn’t have enough. Part of the funds came from my gratuity. I gradually started with vegetables, from vegetables to poultry, from which I started getting small amounts of money. Even up till now, I am still doing it small-scale.
PT: You have mentioned one of your key issues, which is the capital to run the farm. Let’s talk about dealing with the costs of feed for your animals. How are you able to manage the cost of feed for the animals and also buy fertilizer? These are really key issues when it comes to poultry and crop farming.Presently, things are really expensive. Earlier, I could boast of stocking up 3000 birds, but now I cannot do it because during that time we were buying feed between N2,500 and N3,000.
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