Nigeria’s agricultural sector remains one of the most critical pillars of the economy, employing over a third of the labour force and contributing significantly to non-oil GDP growth.
According to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data reported by Naijaonpoint, agriculture grew by 3.79% year-on-year in Q3 2025, improving from 2.55% recorded in Q3 2024, reflecting a gradual recovery driven largely by crop production, mechanisation efforts, and rising private-sector investment.
Across 2025, broader GDP growth also strengthened to 3.98% in Q3 2025 and 4.07% in Q4 2025, with agriculture consistently ranking among the top non-oil contributors alongside trade, manufacturing, and telecoms.
Yet, structural challenges remain post-harvest losses, climate shocks, insecurity in food belts, weak storage infrastructure, and financing gaps, continue to constrain productivity.
Against this backdrop, a new generation of agribusiness founders under 40 is reshaping Nigeria’s food systems through technology, processing, logistics, export aggregation, and climate-smart farming models.
This list highlights some of the most inspiring agribusiness founders under 40, ranked from youngest to oldest, whose ventures are solving some of the most pressing inefficiencies in Nigeria’s agricultural value chain.
