Okija_juju:



Easier said than done sir..

For such high powered research to thrive, you need good and stable power supply. You also need good and stable education system (as most researches are carried out by universities). O and lets also not forget that there is a limit to how much one can bend science as it stands.

My take is that rather than focus on sponsoring researches aimed at trying to grow fishes on trees, lets first of all fix the things that are within our immediate control, like Fuel.. Maybe we should first start trying to sponsor researches that would reduce our reliance on imported petroleum products.

We cant have it all.. Nigerias problem is not that we are not self reliant in home grown food stuff. Its because we are not self reliant in anything.

Sardines can be imported from Morocco, I dont care, but atleast lets be exporting the petroleum products that we have to them as well.. Malaysia can keep selling us phones, but how about we start selling them cocoa or cashew nuts..


This banning habit is the dumbest idea ever.. Imagine, we banned importation of packaged juice, but allow Dangote and CHI Nigeria import processed juice and re package it to sub-standard quality and sell it to us.. Thats why I either drink freshly squeezed juice or buy imported brands because all the governments policy has done is take away my consumer right to chose and give these companies a sort of mopolistic hold on an entire country..

This is where you've got it all wrong again. The research for genetic breeding have long been done and these fishery companies are already using the method to meet consumers demand. In fact most fishes you eat these days are Genetic breeds and they grow bigger and weigh more, which maximizes profit for the company.

What about Chickens?
Turkeys?
Meat?

Do you think these companies give them regular feeds? Hell NO!!!

All they need to do is build a plant here and run the process in Nigeria. They can come in with some of their expatriates and employ Nigeria graduates as assistants, train them and in less than 10 years. They'll have a new breed of professionals in fisheries.

How many Asians do you think can afford a tertiary education?
How many go to the University? But they are specialists in their fields cos they were trained by the industry the work for.

Don't discourage this, every country passed through this stage. We cannot continue importing that which we can produce locally.

Mba nu!! Ona e meme

rudedough:

I think you're rather STU.PID.

Does Argentinians eat their sea water fish? YES

Does Irelandians eat their sea water fish? YES

Does Norway eat their sea water fish? YES

SO WHY IN THE NAME OF POPSICLE CAN'T YOU EAT YOUR OWN FISH?

I hate Nigerians mentality. I bloody hate it. I just want to nuke the $hit out of that f@$ked up country called Nigeria. Nothing good ever pleases Nigerians. The word "NIGERIA" irks the $hit out of me.

speedyboi:
because we don't need it. Let us package and garnish the 'alarans' and 'kotes' in Nigeria and they will taste just as good as geisha.

chucky234: I actually underestimated your dumbness, you are far more clueless than I gave you credit for, birdbrain.
There species of fishes that are origin to a particular country due to the natural of their water and thats the major reason why countries including Argentina,Ireland and Norway imports fishes abroad.
You prolly think since everyone farming catfishes then we have enough, sarbalo,sardine,herring,titus and tuna are not in Nigerian water,even the specie of fish people mistake for croaker is actually not croaker as croakers and sarbalo are mainly imported from Argentina.
Maybe you should ask yourself how many metric tons of fish Nigerians consume annually,we dont have the capacity to supply amount of fishes to the domestic market annually let alone satisfying peoples need for the different variety of fishes.
This is not one of those technology or agricultural produce that will generate export duties to govt account, its pointless banning fishes.
Hope you get that into your coconut head, chronic goon.

Naijamericana:

Abi? Ask them o! Why dont we stop importation of fuel or better yet the industrial scale theft of crude oil, nko? $1billion a month in oil theft! So we are banning import of rice and fish, like its something that will suddenly make naija richer. Sometimes our people are so easily swayed by the bullcrap the politicians spew. Why dont we ban importation of cellphones as well? We are banning car import might as well ban them as well.

rudedough:

You should read more science books and stay away from SpongeBob SquarePants for sometime.

solomon111: Fuel is a major commodity.
It would be foolishness for govt to stop it now when we can't sufficiently refine for local consumption.
By the time dangote refineries come on stream and govt stops fuel imports,i hope you won't start complaining about monopoly.
And yes,banning cement has helped the economy by the creation of jobs as increase in demand of local cements has led to increase in supply by dangote and co which has led to the employment of increased manpower.

favour ume:

We will get there, na small small . Now BOI is trying to get funds accross. Even commercial banks have been told to give loans to credible business. With this ban, we will have people to sell to.

solomon111: It seems Nigerians don't realize yet that our comparative advantage is in agriculture.
Agriculture as a whole contributes up to 40% of our GDP.
If we want to create enough jobs,we need to develop all the forms of agriculture available to us.
And we can't keep looking for the easy way out by importing.

saxywale:
BOI?.... yes
commercial bank? NO
Commercial bank would not give loan for fish farming even they claim to do. It's a very risky venture.

saxywale:
but we don't have alaran and kote in Nigeria (mackerels). They can only be found in high seas. They can't be bred in fish ponds too. That's why they are called Atlantic Mackerel.

And i don't think cat fish is rich and extremely high in vitamin B 12, vitamin D and omega 3.

rudedough:

I think you're rather STU.PID.

Does Argentinians eat their sea water fish? YES

Does Irelandians eat their sea water fish? YES

Does Norway eat their sea water fish? YES

SO WHY IN THE NAME OF POPSICLE CAN'T YOU EAT YOUR OWN FISH?

I hate Nigerians mentality. I bloody hate it. I just want to nuke the $hit out of that f@$ked up country called Nigeria. Nothing good ever pleases Nigerians. The word "NIGERIA" irks the $hit out of me.

chucky234: Joke of the century....
You dont need a science book to that sea fishes like mackerels,titus,tuna,sarbalo can never survives in Nigerian waters, common sense will tell you that.
What about stockfish imported from Norway or Blue Whitening (kpanla) imported from Ireland, you science book didnt tell that you can never find such specie of fishes in any Nigerian waters.
Olodo rabata.

rudedough:

Bro we can import the Baby mackerels and breed them in modified salt water. We can breed any specie of fish with a little genetic modification.

This policy is a good one, let's embrace it.

GboyegaD:

Please, do you mean BOI now give loans to SMEs?

rudedough:

I don't want to argue with you anymore. If you think you're going to import a different specie of baby fishes and then throw them into the ocean. You really need to have your head checked.

Okija_juju:



[b]Easier said than done sir..

For such high powered research to thrive, you need good and stable power supply. You also need good and stable education system (as most researches are carried out by universities). O and lets also not forget that there is a limit to how much one can bend science as it stands.

My take is that rather than focus on sponsoring researches aimed at trying to grow fishes on trees, lets first of all fix the things that are within our immediate control, like Fuel.. Maybe we should first start trying to sponsor researches that would reduce our reliance on imported petroleum products.

We cant have it all.. Nigerias problem is not that we are not self reliant in home grown food stuff. Its because we are not self reliant in anything.

Sardines can be imported from Morocco, I dont care, but atleast lets be exporting the petroleum products that we have to them as well.. Malaysia can keep selling us phones, but how about we start selling them cocoa or cashew nuts..


This banning habit is the dumbest idea ever.. Imagine, we banned importation of packaged juice, but allow Dangote and CHI Nigeria import processed juice and re package it to sub-standard quality and sell it to us.. Thats why I either drink freshly squeezed juice or buy imported brands because all the governments policy has done is take away my consumer right to chose and give these companies a sort of mopolistic hold on an entire country..

rudedough:

Bro we can import the Baby mackerels and breed them in modified salt water. We can breed any specie of fish with a little genetic modification.

This policy is a good one, let's embrace it.

ochejoseph: Seriously I used to think it was a bad Idea but not anymore ,

1 with the No of Titus Gesha etc that Nigerian Students alone consume any right thinking Company would have thought of establishing a processing plant in Nigeria but No! For several Decades this Guys prefer to create Jobs for their people and ship the Fish for us to CONSUME

2. When the Obasanjo administration banned chicken I was a student at that time , I screamed to the heavens that it was suicidal as we lacked capacity to produce the quantity of chicken needed . I was completely wrong , I underestimated the entrepreneurial powers of the average Nigerian , today we are producing More chicken and eggs than we can consume . I could not believe we were importing eggs at a point in this country

3. We are not a land locked country ,our vast stretch of atlantic ocean could be used for something better than kidnapping ,piracy and Oil Bunkering

4 I know several families that produce and supply Chickens to Cold rooms, and this has created another stream of Good Income for several Household

We must Believe in ourselves ,we must stop this consuming Mentality , I grew up know Derica Tin tomatoes, Gesha ,Titus etc its time we stop wasting our harvests and start creating our own brands .

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

saxywale:
yes, they do. I only know for fish farming though. i recently watched a BOI documentary where some groups of fish farmers where given loans.

speedyboi:
because we don't need it. Let us package and garnish the 'alarans' and 'kotes' in Nigeria and they will taste just as good as geisha.

ochejoseph: Seriously I used to think it was a bad Idea but not anymore ,

1 with the No of Titus Gesha etc that Nigerian Students alone consume any right thinking Company would have thought of establishing a processing plant in Nigeria but No! For several Decades this Guys prefer to create Jobs for their people and ship the Fish for us to CONSUME

2. When the Obasanjo administration banned chicken I was a student at that time , I screamed to the heavens that it was suicidal as we lacked capacity to produce the quantity of chicken needed . I was completely wrong , I underestimated the entrepreneurial powers of the average Nigerian , today we are producing More chicken and eggs than we can consume . I could not believe we were importing eggs at a point in this country

3. We are not a land locked country ,our vast stretch of atlantic ocean could be used for something better than kidnapping ,piracy and Oil Bunkering

4 I know several families that produce and supply Chickens to Cold rooms, and this has created another stream of Good Income for several Household

We must Believe in ourselves ,we must stop this consuming Mentality , I grew up know Derica Tin tomatoes, Gesha ,Titus etc its time we stop wasting our harvests and start creating our own brands .

GOD BLESS NIGERIA

favour ume:

Atleast, it has created plenty jobs for people- the workers, those selling the packaging material, and others involved

What jobs?!

All they did was take away the power of choice from clients, eliminated competition and gave the power of monopoly to the producers.

Employment you said.. Even the darn packaging materials (Tetrapack) are manufactured abroad..

simpleseyi: This is the best thing Jonathan has done since his assumption of office. Poor masses don't need to eat fish. Chickens and turkeys have been banned since by the monster called Obasanjo thereby making the poor masses eat more of low quality fish because prices of the smuggled frozen foods have sky rocketed. Now that Jonathan has taken the best decision of his life since the time he married Dame Sheppopo by banning importation of fish, the poor masses should eat their eba or fufu without fish or chicken or meat. That is the punishment for being poor. Where were your parents when others were embezzling money and looting the treasury? You can all "Go and Die". Jonathan's over 1.3 billion naira food budget can buy him human beings, I suspect that is what he eats.

Several nonentities have died and have been taken to "heaven and hell" by the "angels" before they resurrected and made CD naming all the people they saw in hell. None of them saw Maryam Babangida, Segun Agagu, Sanni Abacha, Augustus Aikhiomu,, Mike Akhigbe, Jonathan's brother, Dame Shepopo's foster mother and other looters. I beg help me ask all the Lazarus that are making and selling CD of heaven and hell visit that who and who did they see.

GOD is watching on a 5D television.

Naijamericana: If you want to develop the agricultural sector here are some pointers to consider...

1. Create interest in farming and proved subsidies like they do in developed nations
2. Institute tariffs on imported products and commodities. That way, you stimulate people to go into farming and earn income for the country thereby killing two birds with one stone
3. Provide agricultural loans for farming
4. Don't focus on just satisfying domestic demand, create the mindset of being an exporter of high quality goods
5. Invest in infrastructure (electricity, roads, storage facility)

freethug:

I am sorry i do not agree with you, we produce Eggs in abundance, but 80% of the chicken you find in the cold rooms are smuggled in through Cotonou, the policy to ban importation of Chicken was a selfish one by Obasanjo, who thought his farm could provide the whole of Nigeria with Chicken, his farm cannot even meet Chicken demand from Ogun state.
This policy if true is very stupid and not well thought out, we should have concrete structures on ground, and the most important thing that drives business in a country is POWER, the Government should tackle that area first, because when we use diesel to generate power, it makes more sense to import.