Live from Ijebu-Ife, Ogun State

Nigerian agriculture, finally with an intelligence layer.

Runners Agro combines an AI farming assistant, a national data platform and verified land access into one operating system for Nigerian agriculture — starting with a working conversation, not a pitch.

79M
hectares arable land, Nigeria
40%
of the labour force in agriculture
3
ventures, one connected platform
Runnerbot 1
WhatsApp · Yoruba/English
LIVE DEMO

An illustrative conversation — try a real one below

Why this exists

Everyone downstream of a farmer works from incomplete information.

Farmers don’t know
  • What to plant, and when
  • Which inputs are safe
  • Where buyers are, and at what price
Banks don’t know
  • Who is genuine
  • Where real production is happening
  • Expected yields and regional risk
Government doesn’t know
  • Pest outbreaks in real time
  • Pesticide usage patterns
  • Farmer locations and food-shortage risk
The platform

One platform, three ventures — each building on the one before it.

01Live today

Runnerbot 1

An AI farming assistant delivered through WhatsApp, USSD and voice — agronomy advisory, pesticide safety, weather and market prices, in local languages.

Try it now
02In build

RAIP

The Runners Agro Intelligence Platform structures every Runnerbot interaction into a national data layer: crop, weather, pest, credit and export intelligence.

How it works
03First site live

RAMAS

Managed Agricultural Sites use RAIP's own data to turn verified land into ready-to-deploy agricultural opportunity — beginning in Ijebu-Ife.

See the land

Everything after RAMAS — Runners Rice, Runners Oils, Runners Foods and an export division — is built on these three pillars, not standing alone.

A concrete differentiator

Pesticide safety is a public-health problem here — not a feature checkbox.

Nigeria imported 147,446 tonnes of pesticides in 2020 — more than any other West African country that year. Runnerbot 1’s pesticide-safety module checks a product’s EU and NAFDAC status directly, in the farmer’s own language, before it’s applied.

147,446t
pesticides imported into Nigeria, 2020
~80%
used by small farmers are hazardous, EU-banned
270
deaths, Benue State, 2020 alone
~500
deaths nationally, 2008–2021
Available now

Land in Ijebu-Ife, secured — not a search in progress.

The founding pilot site carries the backing of His Royal Highness, the Ajalorun of Ijebu-Ife — genuine traditional and community backing, on ownership-preserving, licensing-only terms. It is RAMAS’s first Managed Agricultural Site: verified, community-supported, AI-enabled.

Between Lagos and the rest of Nigeria, direct highway access
Proximity to Lagos ports and the Lagos-Ogun food corridor
Family-supported land access, already secured
Room to scale into demonstration farms and future sites
Ways to engage with the land
01
Paid Trial / Test Plot
Short-term, lower-commitment testing
02
Research Licence
Universities, research bodies, seed companies
03
Commercial Licence / Rental
Longer-term structured access for production
04
Managed Farm Site
Full-service — land, manager, Runnerbot, agronomy
Start a conversation about the land →

The fastest way to understand Runners Agro is to talk to it.