Symphony007: what stupid boom do you speak of? You think what ever is being produced by a country is only exclusive to that country? If ranches in texas and califonia fail to produce, surely farms in mexico and south american countries will grow. How did farming in states like texas and califonia commercialize? The government! Governments and private buisness stomed farms and offered aggrements for buisness, this is were the old southern u.s government skeptisim of government stemed from. The farmers belived the government and big banks were coming to take over their farms. But when the government luminated them. They came to aggrements and massive commercialization began and couple with lincoln's great rail network accross america, produce was moved around the country and exported to europe at cheaper prices. During the american civil war. Abraham lincoln warned the then british prime minister. Lord palmerston that if britain interfered in the civil war, america will cut off cheap cotton and corn exports to britain. That was a major deterent that prevented the british from supporting and even funding the confedrates. Plonker!

Commercial farms will come in time when the boom arises. The states of CA and TX did not have commercial farming just like that, it started somewhere. When demand increase, thousands of people will see the incentive and go into it.

manny4life:

Now I'm officially done with you, if you're not either thinking with your brains, then it's you're too slow to comprehend. You're asking where is the money? They can afford to rent trailers and trucks and have their goods delivered to the market, buyers and sellers that need the products have the money to transact business, it a poor minded fellow like you who's yarning dust here that thinks farmers are poor by default... what a load of bullocks. Even my aged grandmother in the village who owns three acres of plantation and palm trees has the money to export her groundnut oil to the North, continue acting like mugu... In your mind, farmers are poor.

So if the produce is rotting up, what does that tell you? Wouldn't you pay $100 monthly for a 500 sq.ft space and use their regulated facility to store fresh produce worth $2,000 and make profit than to take the risk and loose half of it? Your brain is seriously muddled up... I pity you.



Lol, at nama trying to educate me on commercial agriculture in the U.S., does the U.S. own farms? Isn't it individuals that own farms? Again here is my previous comments, and this time "SLOWLY" read it



Again, gently and slowly read it. In your bid to sound intelligent, you've made mockery of yourself. I clearly stated, when the demand increases, thousands of people will see "the INCENTIVE" in it, rather than asking how I mean by incentive or elaborate further, your warped logic incorrectly assumed otherwise. I made no mistake when I used the term "INCENTIVE", but people like you always argue blindly & foolishly.



Another rant as usual... All these you have mentioned, who asked you for it? Before U.S. Govt invested in Idaho, did farmers not start from somewhere before the potential arose to expand the market? Again, did commercial scale farming "start like that"? My friend, I want you to shout on your voice... I, SYMPHNOY007... I AM FOOLISHHH. Shout it loud. Believe me, this is no offense to you but the way you reason is very flawed...daz al.

Symphony007: you just stink of idiocy. So this is the response i get for that well articulated rebottle. You are just drowning in foolishness but fighting to stay alive. What a waste of MB...gosh. I think we1e done here.

Confusion:

You are one of the problem that nigeria has, critcizing everything
Do you think she is stupid not to have carried out other feasibility studies before embarking on this kind of project
For your information most ideas like this are actually suggested to her by people, orgarnization or countries that have seen the immense opportunities of this,
Furthermore I expect most of us to be thinking of ways to tap into this, all we do is criticise and when the chinese take advantage of all the adjoing business that comes out of this, we will still complain.
Pls if u cant help with good advise then shut up and let us develop nigeria with infrastrure, even if we don't use it our children will think of something better to do with it, it is better than leaving the money go to into one stupid foreign account.
Pls instead of the tribal fighting and criticism I thing we should be coming up with adjoing businesses that is directly or indirectly linked to the move.
I want to start by giving a few business that I can think of at the moment
1.Packaging business(with preservative)
2.Inspection consultant(Nafdac registered
3.Consultant to teach the farmer how best to preserve their goods
4. Small scale refrigirator business close or at a central location for proxy farmers
5. Large scale refrigirator close to the terminal for storage before depature
6. Liason officer to sourse oversea customers

Please there is so much that can come out of this
I hate small minded people especially those nigerians that are abroad

chucky234: Exporting our perishables to the international market will result in scarcity of such produce in the domestic market.

manny4life:

God forbid people like you rule over us, where the people lack vision, they perish. Keep waiting on govt to build cooling vans for you, meanwhile people like me are gearing up in building commercial freezer units less than 3miles into the airport + an export processing/packing zone.

You've summed up "no country will buy from a country like Nigeria where there isn't no organization", is it countries that are buying or individuals/companies? Continue tripping while these small scale farmers are getting big, like buying cartons, crates and packaging to international standard is a big problem.

Commercial farms will come in time when the boom arises. The states of CA and TX did not have commercial farming just like that, it started somewhere. When demand increase, thousands of people will see the incentive and go into it.

Symphony007: ignorance. How many nigerian farmers can afford a cooling van? How much do they already spend to grow their crops and store them in unfavourable conditions. Meaning you can afford, does that mean others can. You just speak like someone you sees nothing beynd himself.

You are ignorant to the role the u.s government played in commercializing agriculture in the u.s especially in a state that idaho so i will not engage you in a discussion you know nothing about.

Confusion:

You are very right in that the US gove help to commercialise agriculture but you and I know that our govt is not like that
The question now is should we fold our hands and do nothing
Yes a lot of farmers can"" not afford van or other facilities but that is where big thinkers and risk takers like me come in
From your statement on how much they spend on growing and storing their crop, I'm already thinking of a win-win situation where we can assist with technical and funds for them to expand their farmer and also buy lands for them to farm on and be paid monthly for it

Pls I need more suggestions and critism because I can build on it

Opportunity comes to those that are prepared

Confusion:

Thanks for some of the ideas you came up with, I might have to steal them
I'm already drawing up a proporsal for this and how I can tap from this, this is still a virgin area for so many other ideas

Symphony007: what stupid boom do you speak of? You think what ever is being produced by a country is only exclusive to that country? If ranches in texas and califonia fail to produce, surely farms in mexico and south american countries will grow. How did farming in states like texas and califonia commercialize? The government! Governments and private buisness stomed farms and offered aggrements for buisness, this is were the old southern u.s government skeptisim of government stemed from. The farmers belived the government and big banks were coming to take over their farms. But when the government luminated them. They came to aggrements and massive commercialization began and couple with lincoln's great rail network accross america, produce was moved around the country and exported to europe at cheaper prices. During the american civil war. Abraham lincoln warned the then british prime minister. Lord palmerston that if britain interfered in the civil war, america will cut off cheap cotton and corn exports to britain. That was a major deterent that prevented the british from supporting and even funding the confedrates. Plonker!

Ilaje44:

Insulting and telling someone - who is definitely much older than you and experienced in the Nigerian way - to shut up is not a unique selling proposition. If at all it is something, it is a sign of weakness. And putting the word HATE in your mouth definitely gives you out as the shallow minded person between us two. This in turn means that you can only be hating on your very self. BTW, you have not addressed the issues raised, yet you claim to already knew I am the problem of Nigeria, how?

Anyway, you may have as many new cloth as me, but you will never have as much old cloths like me. If you were knowledgeable and posseses some experience exporting from Nigeria, you would grasp what I talked about.

taharqa:

http://dailytrust.info/index.php/business/4623-13-proposed-cargo-terminals-to-be-ready-december

Watermelon: We don't have enough to eat and we are planning to export. Any way, good news, more terminals, more jobs, competition in the agric sector.

Warri _Pikin:
Asaba and Uyo Intl. airports were in the initial list to have cargo facilities in the SS Zone. When was Asaba dropped?

Dis Guy: pictures of 13 or it didn't happen

okay pictures of 6 will be enough