Yungwizzzy: no matter how many billion una pour put, I still can't be a farmer. God 4bid

but u like 2 eat d food nd other farm produce.dnt talk like dat pls.

Fazhy:

Some countries actually imports almost everything they consume, yet they are still great. Though want Nigeria to improve on agriculture.

like which country,give us example.

Aviation Minister on agricultural program! am i blind or is this how dumb we Nigerians and our leaders are? Where is the Agriculture ministe

searay: This is necessary because "NO FARMER, NO NATION".
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Good God Almighty! Is this me?

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Dumbs!!!

Mr. Sada is a farmer, he lives in Sapele, he has a big farm. He grows Yam, Cassava, Beans, corn.......Anyone remembers this story of the good old days MACMILLIAN PRIMARY TWO READER?

henryvirus: Dnt b suprised dat Only Obasanjo nd sum rich farmers will benefit from this. D common farmer will not......c as dem talk am lyk say na all farmers go get am

Stay on nairaland and be the judge and jury....

There is nothing wrong with farming, if you're into mechanized farming (crops) or livestock, this is the what drives agriculture. Nigerian govt has come a long way in encouraging farming, we just have to blow it up in a medium or large scale. Almost all regions have arable lands that's suitable for farming: the north is suitable for onions, tomatoes, sugar cane etc, the SE is good for plantains, palm oil, cassava, etc and the SW is good for cotton, cocoa and other products. Without tomatoes, you cannot make the paste and without the sugarcane, there isn't any sugar. Same applies to palm fruit that produces oil, oil is used in almost all chemical applications from food to petrochemical, and without cassava, no garri. How about cotton and cocoa, SW can concentrate and make their own chocolate for export, and harness cotton to make textile. So yes, given the right resources, I will go into farming.

[size=16pt]I SUPPORT AGRICULTURE AND FARMING...GOD BLESS NIGERIA.[/size]

:-XWow ...can any of u nairalanders remember TB JOSHUAs prophesy about farmers this year ...He said wealth was gonna come frm there this Year...

The project has failed on arrival. Atleast, birds and animals will get a place to live and the few people would be getting their salary from a failed project. Where are the implements for the farmers to work including the infrastructures (Roads, Transportation, etc)? Without infrastructures, how would PERISHABLE goods get to the cargo terminal? Or is it cutlass and hoes the farmers would use to cultivate land for export quantity? All na wash!

If they ever consult before the project, the consultant too joins in the failure, anyway, all na WASH!

henryvirus: Dnt b suprised dat Only Obasanjo nd sum rich farmers will benefit from this. D common farmer will not......c as dem talk am lyk say na all farmers go get am

ANY PROOF?

I've always held the Notion that If We Eliminate Wastage, Nigeria will comfortably Feed Herself...



E go Require too much Money Oh....Plus Electricity to Power The Freezers!

Nice 1 Sha...I'm Happy

taharqa2: I hope that d President keeps Oduah as Aviation Min if she reali is not interested in running for Governorship..... FANTASTIC idea. One of d very best, with what wud be a huge positive effect on d Agric sector

There is no need for her to go to Anambra. If you are doing something good where you are, stay put and finish the good works. Let Soludo handle Anambra. He is a gifted man with better capacity to impact the state. She is doing excellently in Aviation and must stay put as Nigerians would be the losers if another new minister is put there.

bin waitin 4 somti lyk ds

Fazhy:

Some countries actually imports almost everything they consume, yet they are still great. Though want Nigeria to improve on agriculture.

Oga, na which countries be these
Hope you no go mind for list them here. Inquistive minds wanna know.
Thanks.

Good initiative from Jonathan's administration.
Hopefully the states and LGAs will fulfil their role to reap the full benefit for their residents.

Those posting negative comments about this laudable initiative rather than seeking ample information and finding ways to tap into the flow and move of the times for their own benefit remind me of this Bible story.

Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. 5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. 7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it. 9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household. 10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were. 11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.

12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. 13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left [2] in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed and let us send and see. 14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. 15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king. 16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord. 17 And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him. 18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: 19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. 20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

2 Kings 7

I hope no one here will have such a portion as regards the TRANSFORMATION of our economy that is slowly but steadily going on through the patiently thought out POLICIES of Jonathan's administration.
A wise person will find out from his state Agric ministry and LGA Agric department/ supervisory councillor/secretary how to be part of this programme rather than seeking a "breakthrough" job for a table/cheque-point where he can collect his egunje while blaimng the federal government for all the problems of the country.
Can we determine in our spirit that we shall be wise
SMH!!!

Youths are not

We need proof not words..... Action they say speaks louder than word.

Farmers to earn.... Will not move us again. What we want to hear is

Farmers are now earning.... And they should be able to show to us dos farmers Which will prove to us da result of what they implement.


They want youths to farm, dz, dat.... How will they start if they don't even have access to free/cheap farming land, machines and likes of


We need to Wake Up! FG can't do it alone but at dy can do better

Our govt is always promising what they can not do. How many real farmers has benefited from the billions they have been quoting on papers for farmers? Nigerian government project are always in prints, not pratical. Dont go into farming banking on Nigeria government assisstance or aid.

The real reason likemind youth should combine resources in every field to break the jinx. Collectivelly we can do this. We are the future leaders.

jethro2: Our govt is always promising what they can not do. How many real farmers has benefited from the billions they have been quoting on papers for farmers? Nigerian government project are always in prints, not pratical. Dont go into farming banking on Nigeria government assisstance or aid.

Yes O. They can easily say things out and present to us but da roll out stage iz what we need to focus on

Yungwizzzy: no matter how many billion una pour put, I still can't be a farmer. God 4bid

Mr man, u can't be a farmer, what do u want 2 be then? Either nigeria likes it or not, every1 is still going back 2 farming. D oil u rely on is getting devalued each day, 'cos other nations are discovering it day by day. Go 2 Uk, thousands are begging 2 become farmers, cos very few familiest feed d whole nation and export d rest, dis few families are fucking billionaires. We are talking about mechanized farming, where u can become a multimillionaire in a single farming season. U sit down there when ur coleagues are enriching themselves through dis same profesion u are dispising.