Green Sahara Farms (GSF) has disclosed moves to rejuvenate about 200,000 hectares of land in the north-central and Sahel region.
The chief executive officer, GSF, Suleiman Dikwa, explained that the farm in partnership with their partners is creating a full value chain in the two regions through planting of trees and creating a green economy wherein human beings co exist with nature in a sustainable manner.
Dikwa while speaking to newsmen in Maiduguri, stated that Green Sahara Farms is working towards changing the criminal economy due to extremism and banditry in the North East and the north central into an economy dependent on natural capital.
He explained that, “We create a model which seeks to adapt business models which redevelop natural capital and reconnect the economy to nature using landscape restoration as a foundation for the emergent economy with a view to develop an economy for the common good.
“Our approach to business is to create economic clusters of interconnected and co-dependent entities of stakeholders through the sustainable market approach which takes cognisance of all social ,environmental and economic components of the supply chain.
“We commenced tree planting at the inception of the company in Yobe state where we experimented by introducing trees in Potiskum and environs. About five years later, we commenced the green sahara revolution which is Africa Centric, components of the program in our first strategic framework were operation Spicy Green , Green Grain Gains, Green Tree Thrift (GTT).
“We had two major successes with the OSG. We were able to work with a local company, Tiger Foods Limited to develop alternatives to imported raw materials and clean up the supply chain of herbs and spices.”
