ARISE Home Garden Scheme 2025 Grant (Up to N2 Million)

ARISE Home Garden Scheme 2025 Grant | This portal contain directive on how to apply for ARISE Home Garden Scheme 2025 Grant. The initiative promotes food security, reduced household food costs, and a culture of home-based agriculture. check What It Is & How to Benefit.

The ARISE Home Garden Scheme  part of the broader ARISE Agenda by the government of Akwa Ibom State  is designed to empower individuals, households, youth, school farms, and small-scale agripreneurs to cultivate food and produce at home.

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About The Grant

The ARISE Home Garden Scheme isn’t just a grant program  it’s a push toward self-reliance, food security and community resilience. By turning homes into productive gardens or small farms, beneficiaries can reduce dependency on external food supply, cut household food expenses, and potentially generate supplemental income.

For many, especially youths and households with limited income, this scheme offers a path to financial empowerment, healthier diets, and a sense of contribution to greater community food stability.

In 2025, the scheme was relaunched as ARISE Home Garden Scheme 2.0, offering up to N2,000,000 grant support to successful applicants a substantial boost for home gardens or small agribusinesses. The funding can be used for seeds, seedlings, tools, startup costs, or general garden/farm setup and maintenance

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Grant Award

• Beneficiaries are selected through an official, transparent process. In February 2025, the first set of 50 beneficiaries received N500,000 each under the scheme.
• Once awarded, the grant can be used to purchase seeds/seedlings, gardening tools, organic fertilizer or other inputs  enabling you to set up or expand your home garden or small farm.

 Crops & Farming needed for  ARISE Home Garden Scheme 2025 Grant

The ARISE Home Garden Scheme encourages planting a variety of food crops, vegetables, spices, and even fruit trees. If your farm has the  crops listed below you are eligible for the grant:

• Staple crops: Cassava, Maize, Yam
• Vegetables & Leafy Greens: Okra, Waterleaf, Pumpkin, other local leafy vegetables.
• Tomatoes and Peppers: Great for sauces, stews and frequent household use.
• Spices and Herbs: Local spice varieties such as native spices (for local cooking)
• Fruits & Fruit Trees: Mango, Orange, Pawpaw (papaya), and other fruit-bearing trees for long-term yield and household nutrition

Because the scheme allows home gardens of varied sizes  from small backyard plots to container farms or small fishponds  even urban residents without large landholdings can participate. This flexibility helps maximize participation and spread the benefit widely

How to Benefit: Step-by-Step

Eligibility

The scheme is open to a wide range of people:

• Home Farmers: Producing cassava, maize, yam, vegetables, and more
• Fish Farmers: Operating small or large-scale fishponds around their homes
• Youth Farmers: Young people building agricultural enterprises within their homes
• School Farm Managers: Teachers and students cultivating school farms
• Backyard gardens, small plots or even container farms qualify you don’t need large acreage.

Provide Garden Proof

As part of the application, you may need to show evidence of your home-based garden such as photos, video of your garden/farm area or a description of the space you plan to use.

Thanks to this support, households can grow their own produce — improving food security, reducing grocery costs, and potentially even generating extra income from surplus produce.

Register & Apply

Visit the official portal (for example: arisehomefarms.akwaibomstate.gov.ng) and complete the application form with your personal details and details about your proposed garden/farm.

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