Grain FACT Application at Crest Research and Development Institute (CRADI)

The Crest Research and Development Institute (CRADI), through its Agricultural Transformation Lab (ATL), is implementing a nationwide initiative to strengthen productivity, market efficiency, and innovation readiness within Nigeria's agricultural ecosystem. A central component of this initiative is the FACT application: a digital market intelligence platform designed to collect, harmonise, and disseminate real-time data on commodity prices, production volumes, supply trends, and market dynamics across Nigeria's 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory, and all 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs).

A nationwide baseline study is concurrently being conducted to ground the FACT application in field-verified realities, covering agricultural production patterns, units of trade and measurement standards, pricing structures, market actor networks, digital readiness, the innovation ecosystem, and gender and youth inclusion. Findings from this baseline, including a national glossary of local measurement units, a market actor database, and a ranked list of desired features by user type, will directly inform the functional design of the FACT application and will be made available to the appointed developer as foundational datasets.

CRADI now seeks to engage a qualified technology development partner ("the Developer") to design, build, test, deploy, and support FACT as a dual-platform solution, comprising a public-facing responsive website and a native mobile application for Android and iOS, that together serve farmers, traders, processors, financial institutions, policymakers, and other agricultural value-chain actors across the country.