Biography
Farmer Ogbole Samson is the Lead trainer for Farm lab (www.sfarmlab.com). Agriculture for Mr. Samson is more than just food production (zero hunger), it is the foundation for sustainable development, job creation (no poverty), healthier living as well as national development. He believes agriculture must adopt the business mindset, technology, automation, precision, data and be climate smart. To this end, Mr. Samson has devoted his time and resources to building modern farms exploring the latest technologies for agriculture, sharing and training others to adopt “the modern agriculture” to ensure together we can use agriculture as a tool to build the nation we so desire. He believes “food production should not be seasonal because hunger is not seasonal”.

Farmer Ogbole Samson has a B.Sc. Biochemistry Igbinedion University; M. Sc. Biochemistry, Ibadan, and a Biochemistry PhD candidate, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. Other certificates include Disruptive strategy from Harvard Business School, Boston USA, Biotechnology from Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Introduction to Food and Nutrition from Stanford University, Introduction to population health from The University of Manchester, Greening the Economy from Lund University Sweden, Sustainable Agriculture for year 2050 from Wageningen, Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture from The University of Western Australia, and Public Health from University at Albany.

Farmer Samson is a two time TEDx speaker and a one-time TED speaker, he was recognized amongst the top 7 innovators in Africa in the year 2018 by CNN Africa, He was recognized by EFCC as one of the young and legitimate innovative mind in the year 2018, He was part of the Ogun state Investors Forum of 2018, In 2019 he was named top 500 in food tech- prenerus by Forward Fooding. He was part of the Lagos Farmers’ Team who met and discussed with all gubernatorial aspirants for the 2019 elections to draw a road map for agriculture, he was also a part of the documentary – “Swallow – food security in Nigeria’s changing climate”. Farmer Samson’s creativity and entrepreneurial drive has had him featured on CNN’s African Voices, Reuters TV, Channels TV and many others, featured on every major news tabloid in Nigeria, and many more.