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BIC Farms Concepts becomes a Winner of the 2021 Green Skills Innovation Challenge.

Amidst the 348 applications received from organizations across different countries, scheduled rounds of tasking challenges and series of interviews spanning 6 months , BIC Farms Concepts emerged as the Nigerian company to win the Green Skills Innovation Challenge, as announced (see announcement) on Thursday, 14th October 2021. This makes it one of the twelve (12) worldwide 2021 Green Skill Innovators in the world. This year, Ashoka, an organization that builds and cultivates a community of change leaders for the good [...]

October 14, 2021

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GOLDEN ROLE MODEL AWARD PRESENTED TO CEO OF BIC FARMS

It was a beautiful afternoon on Wednesday 18th August, when the BIC Soilless Technology Farms received representatives of the Nigerian Youth Advocacy For Good Governance Initiative (NYAGGI). These young men and women, who came in from different cities like Abuja, Ilorin, Ekiti and Iseyin, paid a courtesy visit to the farm in order to confer on our CEO, Pst. Debo Onafowora, the award of a Golden Role Model. Nigerian Youth Advocacy For Good Governance Initiative is a platform where every [...]

August 22, 2021

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BIC FARMS CONCEPTS OPENS NIGERIA’S FIRST URBAN GARDENING n’ HYDROPONICS FARMING SHOP IN LAGOS.

Now the dreams of young Nigerians, retirees and urban garden lovers to have their personalized food gardens as well as commercial greenhouses can be realized more easily as BIC Farms Concepts opens Nigeria’s first Urban Gardening Shop. Hitherto, Nigerians depended heavily on foreign companies to get the equipment for their gardens. Apart from being more expensive, many people ended up wasting their resources to wrong equipment not suited to their immediate environment and situations. With BIC Farms coming close, you don’t [...]

April 4, 2021

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BIC Farms holds last edition of Urban And Soilless Farming Masterclass for year 2020

All glory to God for the successful training sessions held in the unusual year of 2020 and most especially for the last one, being Urban and Soilless Farmng Masterclass, which came up between 17th and 19th December 2020. Asides participants who joined on line as a result of different restrictions, there were trainees who came from neighbouring cities like Lagos and Ibadan to a trainee who came from Yobe state and travelled across different towns to attend the training. The [...]

December 20, 2020

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Nigeria Private Sector Leadership& Productivity Award 2020

BIC Farms bags Nigeria Private Sector Leadership& Productivity Award

It was a remarkable and memorable event today, 27 November 2020, as BIC Farms, ably represented by our Managing Director, Adebowale Onafowora, was given the award of Nigeria Private Sector Leadership& Productivity Award at the Nigeria Army resource Centre, Abuja FCT. The prestigious award was jointly given by the National Productivity Commission, a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, and the Professional Ethics Consult at the Nigeria Private Sector Leadership and Productivity Summit, an event to celebrate [...]

November 27, 2020

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ABEOCCIMA pays a working visit to BIC Farms Concepts

It was the beautiful Thursday morning of the third day in the month of September. The BIC Farms Concepts played host to the Leadership team of Abeokuta Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ABEOCCIMA) on a working visit to facilitate collaboration towards Agricultural transformation and Youth empowerment in the State. Tour of the Hydroponics section Tour of the Aquaponics section Discussions ongoing The ABEOCCIMA delegation, was led by the Executive President of the Association, Sir Jare Oyesola KJW in company of Alhaji [...]

September 8, 2020

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BIC Farms launches Responsive Drip Irrigation (RDI) in Nigeria

For centuries, plant root systems- their biology, function, and development, have been relatively mysterious. Studies in the recent decades are helping us gain new understanding of how vital, complex, and active life is just below the surface. Now, root exudates refer to a broad range of secretions and chemicals that are released into the rhizosphere (root zone). Exudates perform a number of functions, such as defending against intruding plants, bacteria, insects, and even communicating with symbiotic microbes. However, one of [...]

August 4, 2020

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BIC Farms Concepts holds July edition of Maximize Agribusiness Course

The July edition of the Maximize Agribusiness and Hydroponics Commercial Growers Course was a huge success, to the glory of God. The event, which started on Thursday 23 July, came to a successful end on Saturday 25 July 2020. It was an intensive, yet rich and impactful experience for the participants who came from different walks of life, across different locations like Abeokuta, Ibadan, Lagos and even Warri. To them, it was a boot camp in Agribusiness training. Other participants [...]

July 30, 2020

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