digitalman:
Mr Man u are criticizing but you are quite incoherent. take your pills dude.

Maybe I should speak pidgin so you can better understand?

Rossikk:

The problem is you people do not follow developments in Nigeria. You think you know the country but you don't. Nigeria is fourth in global peanut production, after China, India and the United States, even without 'pyramids'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut

http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdreport.aspx?hidReportRetrievalName=BVS&hidReportRetrievalID=918&hidReportRetrievalTemplateID=1#ancor


I reckon we probably have more sophisticated methods of storing our grain these days. I don't see China or USA flaunting ''groundnut pyramids'' even though they're the world's biggest producers.

This is the same Nigeria you say agriculture has ''collapsed'', with some peabrain posting market women selling in trays above as representing our groundnut exports. That's the ignorance caused by laziness to research or go out there and see what is really happening, rather than sitting in your beer parlour thinking you know what you really don't know.

u made more sense with ur earlier post, u jst derailed cos u were criticized

onila: when we had a good agriculture industry

its sad when the oil came everything disappeared

oil made us lazy and forget our other nice resources
they left it and faced the oil wells in South, that is why ONE NIGERIA is a do or die affairs .


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hmm Nigeria, too bless

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Cattle led by Fulani herdsmen raise dust before huge pyramids of sacked groundnuts, at Kano, Nigeria.
This style of stacking protects the peanuts from insect damage.

If only the north can go back fully into agriculture they will be so powerful and strong than they can ever dream or imagine. Some of the evil leaders that benefits from the masses being poor will never tell them the truth.God has blessed the region with vast and fertile land. Just like the man with the one talent in the bible they have buried what God has given freely to them. They are now chasing oil and bombing the owns of the oil. God is ever willing to bless the north if only the are willing to comply and go back to the land

^^You're all very good at posting images of folks in hard labour stacking sacks of groundnuts in the hot sun, but I bet if you were asked to do the same in this 'oil economy' of ours, you wouldn't be so quick to post pictures. It always looks good when it's OTHERS doing that back-breaking labour.

Rossike don fall hand pata pata when em want form prof. Pele o!. He's trying to tell experienced intellectuals on Nairaland that our Agricultural sector has witnessed so much growth that we no longer need to import food.

So Mr Prof what do you have to say about this

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Nigeria is spending about N365bn annually on the
importation of 2.1 million metric tonnes of milled rice,
the Federal Government has said.
According to the government, the country is currently
the largest importer of rice in the world, a development
it notes as adversely affecting its agricultural sector.
A document obtained by our correspondent from the
Federal Ministry of Agriculture on Friday stated, "Nigeria
is the largest importer of rice in the world, spending
N365bn per year importing 2.1 million MT of milled rice."
The government, in a bid to reduce the nation's import
dependence, had to raise tariff on imported brown rice
and finished rice, it was learnt.
Our correspondent also gathered from the ministry that
private investors had set up 13 new rice mills with a total
capacity of 240,000MT.
This, the ministry officials said, was part of measures
aimed at reducing the huge capital outflows from the
nation's economy through the importation of rice.
The Director, Policy Research and Statistics in the
ministry, Dr. Umar Hussaini, stated that in the last one
year, the Federal Government had produced 690,000MT
in the main season, and would have done 1.2 million MT
by the end of the dry season.
He said the government was "currently securing
financing of over $1.2bn from the China Exim Bank for
100 large-scale rice processing plants with a total
capacity of 2.1 million MT, which is enough to substitute
imports."
"For the first time in our history as a nation, Nigeria will
have the full industrial capacity to mill internationally
competitive quality rice," Hussaini said.
The document stated that agriculture import dependency
was hurting the economy, stressing that yearly, Nigeria
was importing over $11bn worth of wheat, rice, sugar
and fish.
"Nigeria's food imports are growing at an unsustainable
rate of 11 per cent per annum. Relying on the import of
expensive food on global markets fuels domestic
inflation," it stated.
It added that excessive imports were putting pressure on
the naira, adding that Nigeria was importing what it
could produce in abundance.

Abagworo: Rossike don fall hand pata pata when em want form prof. Pele o!. He's trying to tell experienced intellectuals on Nairaland that our Agricultural sector has witnessed so much growth that we no longer need to import food.

So Mr Prof what do you have to say about this

mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/nigeria-spends-n365bn-yearly-on-rice-importation-fg/

I actually thought you were more intelligent than this. What has rice got to do with the groundnut production under discussion?

Dangote's Maternal great Grand dad had an interest in these pyramids.. I.e the late Alhassan Dantata

The pyramids had been replaced with BH. Apologies!

What has Rossike said that y'all can't understand sef? Sha its the same like I have always said : of what use is intelligence in a cave full of stupidity? Of what use is a star in a galaxy full of blackholes? Ur guess is as good as mine

searay: The pyramids had been replaced with BH. Apologies!

The pyramids has been replaced by mansions of IBB and others and their deep pockets (corruption thing).

[quote author=onila] the great pyramids of kano.....i was never opportuned to see them though much stories were told about them.[/quote

Congratulations!! U r the first to comment... Contact me 4 ur prize.

Rossikk: ^^You're all very good at posting images of folks in hard labour stacking sacks of groundnuts in the hot sun, but I bet if you were asked to do the same in this 'oil economy' of ours, you wouldn't be so quick to post pictures. It always looks good when it's OTHERS doing that back-breaking labour.

Why do you use the word OTHERS?. There is no OTHERS, because We all belong to one African family. The way we worship may be different, the way we celebrate in life may be different, our language and our ways may be different, but we all belong to one African family. When we forget this, we moves towards disaster.

Rossike why do you even bother? Some people just don't get it, and never will.. What's even sad is that you could provide an article that proves this thing and yet many would read two sides to it..

To the dude that posted an article of rice or food importation as evidence that we aren't top peanut producers SMH!!

onila: the great pyramids of kano.....i was never opportuned to see them though much stories were told about them.

E don tey wey mallam dey carry load as aboki. No be today them surferty start walahii. I can now understand why they have refused to get used to relinquising power. They are imagining going back to building of groundnut pyramids. e no funny at all

idupaul: What has Rossike said that y'all can't understand sef? Sha its the same like I have always said : of what use is intelligence in a cave full of stupidity? Of what use is a star in a galaxy full of blackholes? Ur guess is as good as mine

Bro I have given up on some Nigerians.. am not quite sure what it is but seems some of our people have lost the ability to Reason, to be objective, have a dialogue in which they might not be in agreement with but yet be civil about it.. Thus folks on nairaland are supposed to be the privileged amongst Nigerians compared to the other 60% in rural settings..

@Rossikk, it must be excruciatingly exasperating to join issues with these a**wipes on here that can't understand sense in wateva languague it's conveyed.

@topic, has anyone bothered to check the manufacturers' addy on the common peanut that sells (for N50 currently) like satchet water in most neighbourhoods? Aboki kiosks no dey miss get am.
That stuff bears a Ghanaian addy. Shame coz we're 4th behind 3 countries & Ghana is not even 1 of them; but, apparentli, they know wat 2 do with peanuts & we don't. Pathetic.

nanaboi: @Rossikk, it must be excruciatingly exasperating to join issues with these a**wipes on here that can't understand sense in wateva languague it's conveyed.

@topic, has anyone bothered to check the manufacturers' addy on the common peanut that sells (for N50 currently) like satchet water in most neighbourhoods? Aboki kiosks no dey miss get am.
That stuff bears a Ghanaian addy. Shame coz we're 4th behind 3 countries & Ghana is not even 1 of them; but, apparentli, they know wat 2 do with peanuts & we don't. Pathetic.

The sad news is intense. Habah.

Even the ACN governors are performing poorly on agricultural development.

hardbody:

E don tey wey mallam dey carry load as aboki. No be today them surferty start walahii. I can now understand why they have refused to get used to relinquising power. They are imagining going back to building of groundnut pyramids. e no funny at all

Just plain rhetorics instigated from utter ignorance, prejudice and bias.. If you don't know nigerias agriculture makes up about 60% of its GDP, oil about 25%.. Where do you think the majority of agriculture is based?..

Oil is limited in the number of jobs it can provide and the long term distribution of wealth to its citizens.. It's why agriculture with the advent of VALUE-ADDED finished goods makes more sense...

P.s I doubt u have the attention span/understanding to even constructively object, though u may disagree..Peace!!

www.hortinews.co.ke/article?id=393

A call to boost Nigeria's groundnut production to
export level
A call to boost Nigeria’s groundnut production to export
level
10/Jun/2013 8:15:42 pm
In July 2012, Philip Ikeazor will complete his second and
final three-year term on the Governing Board of the
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT).
A professional banker and chartered accountant with
over twenty-five years of experience in the financial
sector, Ikeazor is currently Executive Director Corporate,
Investment Banking, and Treasury at Union Bank of
Nigeria and a director of Union Bank UK. Union Bank has
remained Nigeria’s leading bank in supporting
agriculture .
“The last six years with ICRISAT has nurtured my belief
that agriculture is one of the most potent ways to
alleviate poverty and create significant income streams
for the poor people of the semi-arid tropics,” said
Ikeazor. I have witnessed the giant strides and impact
made by ICRISAT’s research work on the smallholder
farmers in India and East Africa and some parts of West
Africa. I would like such collaborations to be adopted in
Nigeria,” he added.
Ikeazor is particularly keen on transferring the watershed
irrigation technique piloted in India and the recent
Groundnut Revolution in Malawi, which has seen a
thriving fair trade export of improved groundnut to the
UK. Nigeria was once the world’s leading groundnut
exporters in the 1960s with the crop accounting for
about 70% of the country’s total export earnings. Since
then the success story of the groundnut pyramids of
Kano has sadly ended. Nigeria now produces barely
enough groundnuts for local consumption and
desperately needs to apply research that could eliminate
aflatoxins from harvests and produce high yield export
grade groundnuts.
To do this, Ikeazor is urging collaboration between
groundnut farmers and ICRISAT, supported by the
National Agricultural Research System and the Ministry.
It is very timely that ICRISAT has recently reopened its
research station in Kano, so Nigeria needs to support
ICRISAT beyond the existing bilateral agreement, in
order to reinstate the country’s former groundnut glory.
“By working with farmers to grow improved varieties of
groundnuts which are more resistant to disease and
meet export market demands, as well as better aflatoxin
management to prevent contamination, we can
significantly boost groundnut production and sales,”
insists Ikeazor. “This will create employment and yield
significant income for smallholder farmers especially in
the Northern and the South Western part of the country,”
he added.
Ikeazor is positive that Nigeria’s groundnut industry can
be revived. He is inspired by the way farmers partnered
with ICRISAT in Malawi resulting in smallholder
cooperatives replacing a declining tobacco crop market
with the cultivation of the right variety of aflatoxin-free
export grade groundnuts. With the right support, things
can change in Nigeria too. Ikeazor adds that the dynamic
Agriculture Minister, who is incidentally an alumnus of
ICRISAT, should include groundnuts among the first
phase major crops under the Ministry’s on-going
transformation program. In addition the usual strong
support of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Ministry of
Finance in encouraging banks to support the agricultural
sector will be needed.
Ikeazor will be handing over his Governing Board position
to another Nigerian, Oluwande Muoyo, a chartered
accountant and professional banker. Oluwande recently
moved to the public sector, having spent over 22 years
of hercareer at Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Nigeria (a
subsidiary of the Standard Bank of South Africa Group).
She is currently the Honourable Commissioner for
Budget and Planning in Ogun State, Nigeria, a state
where agriculture has been identified as one of the main
drivers of industrialization of its economy. With her
position as a non-executive Board member of ICRISAT,
Oluwande intends to align herself to the vision, mission
and strategic plans of ICRISAT and contribute her quota
to the reduction of hunger and poverty in the lives of
farmers in the Tropical Drylands.

ACM10: All those bags of groundnut put together is not up to the price of hundred barrels of crude oil.

U even price am well. Am from the North,28 barrels"ll equate the whole bags MUMU. May b ur laughing, u just dnt knw wht oil will b by the next ten years abi?

Do you know we are still a top cocoa exporter? Yet go in the shops. Can you see any made in Nigeria chocolate? Any made in Nigeria cocoa butter cream/cosmetics etc? Nope. We export the raw cocoa (maybe in cocoa pyramids too) to Britain and US. They convert it into chocolate, cocoa butter etc, then export back to us at exorbitant prices. We then pose that we're enjoying by chopping imported chocolate. I mean, when does this nonsense stop?

Who says the old days were good? With the illiteracy and diseases?How many graduates would want to do this back-breaking labour to earn money from peanuts?
For agriculture to be attractive in Nigeria, it must invent itself beyond the present subsistence level. We can't go back to the groundnut pyramids, the cocoa farms and the oil palm trade. Nigeria and the world have gone beyond that. We can't store them in this crude way. We have also gone beyond that.
By the way, exporters are making a kill exporting PKS(pal kernel shell which is used for generating biofuel), cassava etc.
The world is moving forward. We must move too because we can't live in the past

nanaboi: @Rossikk, it must be excruciatingly exasperating to join issues with these a**wipes on here that can't understand sense in wateva languague it's conveyed.

@topic, has anyone bothered to check the manufacturers' addy on the common peanut that sells (for N50 currently) like satchet water in most neighbourhoods? Aboki kiosks no dey miss get am.
That stuff bears a Ghanaian addy. Shame coz we're 4th behind 3 countries & Ghana is not even 1 of them; but, apparentli, they know wat 2 do with peanuts & we don't. Pathetic.

The company packaging the peanuts might be owned by a nigerian, and besides, ghanaians possibly consume more peanuts than nigerians do, since they also use theirs in sauce, unlike most nigerians. They even have their own locally made peanut butter.

Besides, they might be importing peanuts from nigeria, who knows.

However, i do see your point, nothing prevents nigerians from packaging peanuts also.

Wow! Northern Farmers really did enriched their pockets, unlike crude oil where people would be forced to vacate their lands with no compensation.

Rossikk: Do you know we are still a top cocoa exporter? Yet go in the shops. Can you see any made in Nigeria chocolate? Any made in Nigeria cocoa butter cream/cosmetics etc? Nope. We export the raw cocoa (maybe in cocoa pyramids too) to Britain and US. They convert it into chocolate, cocoa butter etc, then export back to us at exorbitant prices. We then pose that we're enjoying by chopping imported chocolate. I mean, when does this nonsense stop?

You've avoided todays news on groundnut production in Nigeria and now talking about cocoa.

Rossikk: Do you know we are still a top cocoa exporter? Yet go in the shops. Can you see any made in Nigeria chocolate? Any made in Nigeria cocoa butter cream/cosmetics etc? Nope. We export the raw cocoa (maybe in cocoa pyramids too) to Britain and US. They convert it into chocolate, cocoa butter etc, then export back to us at exorbitant prices. We then pose that we're enjoying by chopping imported chocolate. I mean, when does this nonsense stop?

It's not nonsense dear. It's what makes us a global village. No single country produces things from start to finish. Even Japanese cars have million components sourced from the entire globe. We can't be self-sufficient

onila: when we had a good agriculture industry

its sad when the oil came everything disappeared

oil made us lazy and forget our other nice resources
they left it and faced the oil wells in South, that is why ONE NIGERIA is a do or die affairs .


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This place is now super empty, infact it is a big field where young man play football and learn how to drive car. It is not far from where i reside in kano state.

salt 1:

It's not nonsense dear. It's what makes us a global village. No single country produces things from start to finish. Even Japanese cars have million components sourced from the entire globe. We can't be self-sufficient

ODE X2.

Nairaland sha. Where people just yarn what they don't know.

Nawtipet: Wow! Cnt believe this picture is still existing ... U see dat man wey dey snap picture, na my father b dat... Mehn! Those days

Can't believe that was the lie he told you and the excuse he gave for not been as rich as my father. Lol. (JK)