Babban Gona (“Great Farm” in Hausa) is an agricultural franchise, developed by Doreo Partners an Impact Investing Firm with a proven track record of exclusively investing in profitable, high growth, early stage businesses that improve the livelihoods of Nigerian smallholder farmers.

Babban Gona inspires and enables hardworking smallholder farmers reach their full potential by providing a private sector channel for cost effective delivery of enhanced agricultural technologies and end-to-end services that optimize yields and labor productivity, while simultaneously improving market access.

At Babban Gona, they believe…

1. That similar to other major economies, Nigeria must leverage its gifts of land, water, labor and markets to -become a global agricultural powerhouse, before it can unlock its full economic potential.
2. Smallholder farmers hold the key to their agricultural future.
3. That by providing these smallholder farmers access to enhanced, high quality, cost-effective training, financial services, agricultural inputs and marketing services, Nigeria’s economic future will be secured.

Mission: To inspire and enable hardworking smallholder farmers to reach their full potential.

Vision:To improve the incomes and livelihoods of one million smallholder farmers by 2025. This will be achieved by transitioning these smallholder farmers to profitable commercial farmers through the provision of a holistic set of services. These enhanced, high quality and cost-effective services include training, financial services, agricultural inputs and marketing services.

Values:

• Member First
• Committed
• Mission Driven
• Continuously Improving
• Knowledge Hungry
• Trusted