By Bakah Derick
The Austrian based company Nourivit Technologies has used the two-day Bamenda III Festival of Heritage Arts and Culture (FEHACU) to educate farmers on the need to use its crop production and livestock products.
Basil Asah Azefor Founder and CEO of Rainbow Cameroon and official representative of Nourivit Technologies in the country led the team to the festival at the Nkwen Palace. He told many who visited his stand including North West Governor Lele L'Afrique Adolph Tchoffo Deben that Nourivit is " developing holistic solution for vital plant growth and healthy livestock" adding that "Nourivit stands for an ecological circular economy – keep the nutrients."
Present in the Cameroonian market for about two years now, participating in FEHACU 2022 was an opportunity to continue reaching out to many in agriculture while preserving culture.
"Our culture is rich with knowledge and values passed down onto us by generations that have gone before us. In our culture you can learn how past generations dealt with similar issues that we are faced with today and also contribute in shaping knowledge and values that we pass down to our children. When I saw images of 2021 FEHACU, I was sure I wanted to be part of this. As a prince of the Nkwen Fondom it is only natural that I contribute my own little bit to support and preserve our culture, which our father Fon Azehfor III incarnates. I have collaborated with Bamenda III Council in the past and FEHACU offered yet another opportunity for a fruitful partnership. " Basil Asah explained.
While at FEHACU 2022, Basil Asah Azefor and his team.gave advise to visitors on the value of Nourivit products.
"The earth we live on has a fixed size; with the rising population and rising water levels, communities are experiencing shortage of land available for farming. Our farmers have more mouths to feed with limited space to produce on. As such there is the need to promote agriculture that is regenerative; at the level of inputs and production techniques. Organic fertilizers are known to produce higher yields with the advantage that the yield keeps getting better with its continuous yield over time. This is because with the passage of time the soil that had been destroyed is given what it needs to repair itself, hence the even better results with that passage of time. Whereas it is common knowledge that chemical fertilizers destroy the soil and harvest yield drop over time, leading the farmer to abandon their farmland. Perishable crops (tomatoes, carrots, vegetables etc) produced with organic inputs generally have longer shelf-life, better taste and texture. Last year we did a comparative study on Maize production in Bambili on the effectiveness of using Nourivit fertilizers as opposed to the traditionally used fertilization (poultry manure and some quantity of NPK). The results of this comparative study showed that the harvest from the plot of land on which we applied Nourivit fertilizers was more than double the harvest from traditionally used fertilization." Basil Asah explained
Located at Rail Bonaberi with a branch office at Menteh Nkwen, Nourivit has a distributor at St Pauls’ Junction and is open to more businesses that would like to be distributors of their products. They are available on facebook as Rainbow Cameroon and can be contacted through call or whatsapp on the following numbers: (237) 671 390 635 / (237) 676 333 117
Amongst the many products by Nourivit on sale in Cameroon is Nourivit FKE which is a feed additive for poultry, piggery and fish farming. It Improves feed conversion, boost immune system and reduced antibiotics use