SOBBA
The Strategy Organization for Building Business Initiatives in Agriculture- Sierra Leone
A Dedicated Seed and agricultural services company
Product and Services
SOBBA is working to bring to the door steps of its clients and customers unique and distinct products and brands includng nutritious food products, services for farmers and consulting products with the help of our experienced team of research assistants and agricultural porfessionals. The links that have been established with experiecned professionals from the only agricultural research institution and and agricultural University are a tremndous asset to SOBBA's portfolio
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Crops
SOBBA has over three years focused primarily on producing highly nutritious crop mix; rich in protien and carbohydrates. The main products planted are:
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Rice is the cereal grain that is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world's human population
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Maize is used for both human, livestock and poultry feeding. The yellow maize vareity (consumed in almost all African countries and in the Americas) is a more nutritious cereal than rice.The starch obtained from maize is of high quality and the oil is cholesterol-free.
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Cowpea is very rich in protein, fiber, and in most African nations is the second most important grain legume grown. It is incraesingly becoming a protein supplement to meat which is expensive in most developing countries.
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Groundnuts is the a major source of fats/oil, potassiom, carbohydrates and proteins consumed by majority of African nations.
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Cassava is a Gluten-free starchy tuber with nearly twice the calories than potatoes. It contains a moderate source of valuable Vitamin B-complex group; folates, thiamin, pyridoxine (vitamin B-6), riboflavin, and pantothenic acid.
Farmer Services
SOBBA's niche in our produciton arena is focused on seed multiplication. This approach allows SOBBA to focus and maximize resources towards developing quality products and extension services that are perfected to accomdate the broad need of farmers who cannot afford the services of agricultural professionals. SOBBA has developed the capacity to provide the following services listed below (which has over the years been regularly provided to farmers)
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conducted farmer training and education meetings programs
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offered the opportunity for farmers to gain knowledge in seed multiplication, improved farming technology training and services, seed marketing and promotion, crop protection and farming inputs and agronomic advisory services.
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Fertilers, seeds and labour have been provided to contract farmers that SOBBA has working with in various communities.
Research and Consulting
A plethora of relevant agricultural research information is being generated all over Sierra Leone by different research groups. Furthermore, several of these groups continue carry our similar research activities with limited triangulation. Furthermore, most of these findings are kept in reports stack in shelves. This has affected adoption rates and hence agricultural productivity. SOBBA will collaborate with different groups to generate a hub to assemble these research findings and relevant information and make them available to farmers and other potential users. This task would be done alongside personnel from Njala agricultural Universty and the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research institute.
SOBBA will be providing these services to farmers,, companies and national bodies that need impirical data to make sound agricultural decisions and policies