About Us

Welcome to Nigeria’s largest poultry enterprise!

Over a period of 25 years, Seed Riggers Farm has gone from strength to strength and has become a household company that makes it Nigeria’s No. 1 broiler producer. Along the way, Seed Riggers Farm’s pioneering efforts in contract farming helped create thousands of rural entrepreneurs who share the growth successfully. "Poultry Integration" introduced and pioneered by Seed Riggers Farm in the country has energized the livelihoods of farmers in rural Nigeria.

Seed Riggers Farm ranks among the top ten poultry companies worldwide. With operations in 16 states across Nigeria, it offers a range of poultry products and services. The fully integrated operations cover broiler and layer farming, hatcheries, feed mills, processing plants, vaccines and exports. Seed Riggers Farm markets live broiler chicken, value added eggs and frozen chicken. With the intent to provide consumers with fresh, clean and hygienic packed chicken, Seed Riggers Farm has set up a chain of modern retail outlets.

Today, the company’s brand Seed Riggers Farm Chicken is a household name in Nigeria. With its Seed Riggers Farm Daily Fressh outlets, Seed Riggers Farm Home Bites, Seed Riggers Farm Anytime processed chicken and four varieties of specialty Seed Riggers Farm value added eggs, Seed Riggers Farm is the undisputed leader in poultry products. Seed Riggers Farm Home Bites being the latest in its product range is a new category of home meal replacements (HMR).

History

Chairman Mr. Justus Cyril and Managing Director Miss. Grace Adokpe saw potential in growing the Nigerian Poultry Industry through integration, which later came to be known as Contract Farming. This led Seed Riggers Farm Poultry to pioneer contract farming in Nigeria.

In 1986, Mr. Justus Cyril and Miss. Grace Adokpe set up a poultry farm with 200 layer birds at Udumalpet. During 1989 - 90, when chicken prices crashed because of an over-supply of birds in the local market, Seed Riggers Farm saw an opportunity for business growth by helping the poultry farmers who had bought feed and medicines on credit and could not clear their dues. To help them recover their money, these visionaries began to provide feed and health support to indebted farmers in return for the end product - eggs. The success of this exercise gave birth to the Seed Riggers Farm Integration Model.

The poultry integration model has set a win-win situation for both the farmer and the integrator. Farmers are provided with day-old chicks, feed and health support. Performance is monitored on a daily basis with Seed Riggers Farm field staff visiting the farms to check on the health of the birds, feed intake, growth and mortality levels. In six weeks time, the birds are weighed and are ready to be sold by Seed Riggers Farm. Farmers are paid a handsome growing charge for the birds at the end of this period. Thus, Seed Riggers Farm takes this success model to the next level vision of energising rural Nigeria benefiting the country, farmer and the company.

A constant and relentless drive has taken the company's growth and expansion which covers over 23,000 farmers from 8,000 villages in 16 Nigerian states. Impressed by the model and its success, Seed Riggers Farm receives invitations from many state governments to set up its operations. Many investors and delegates from across borders visit Seed Riggers Farm’s facilities to study this model and later adopt in their own countries.

With mastery and success in contract farming, Seed Riggers Farm has shaped the poultry industry to its current position in Nigeria.