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Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by kemitwarrior: 11:05am On Apr 27, 2015
Nigerians Say Goodbye To Increasing Food Cost,
GMO Food As Agriculture Minister Akinwumi
Adesina Leaves


Nigerians Say Goodbye To Increasing Food Cost,
GMO Food As Agriculture Minister Akinwumi
Adesina Leaves
Some attribute agricultural development in Nigeria with the policies of Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the spectacle-wearing stand-out minister of
Agriculture. Indeed Dr. Adesina with his a decade
at the Rockefeller Foundation history, on a
superficial look transformed Nigeria’s agriculture
landscape, but is this the whole truth about his
legacy? I believe our outgoing minister of agriculture’s.legacy can best be summarized thus: Adesina converted Agriculture into a business. This is as he puts it, in his own words.
Dr. Adesina looked at the agric sector and
decided that rather than keep it a sort of
‘charitable’ operation, he could turn it around into
a business; and oh yes he did. Within a few years,
in spite of increasing desertification and Boko
Haram devastation, Nigeria met Millennium
Development Goal #1: reducing the population of
hungry people by half. Jobs were also created in
the agric sector.
It all looks good and everyday Bill Gates was
seen in Nigeria walking hand-in-hand with Dr
Adesina. But at what cost did Nigeria experience
Adesina’s ATA transformations? To whose gain?
Simply ask the common man: what the cost of
food is? Food prices have continued to rise in
Nigeria in spite of this great expansion. From the
fundamental principles of economics we
immediately see pertinent questions.
Why has the Consumer Food Price Index
continued to rise at about and above 10% each
year? Why has Food price inflation remained about 10.90%, and stayed higher than the core inflation rate?
Economics defines that with increased supply
there is decreased price but rather the cost of
staples is increasing in Nigeria, defying the basic
economics principle; to whose gain?
Importantly, how is it possible for food production to increase in spite of much of the nation’s food basket; from Benue to Borno, devastated by Boko Haram terror and marauding villagers, herdsmen and undefined agents? [I have written earlier on the broader contradictions and failures of our agriculture ministry touting increased food production with millions of northern farmers rather out of business via terror of the Jonathan years. That article: Agriculture Transformation:
Invest In Protecting Farmers’ Lives, Not GMO’s-
ENDS.ng; May 2014]
Dr. Adesina worked on increasing bank lending to farmers to buy fertilizer and seeds. His target: to increase lending from 2% to 10%. With fertilizer distribution totally privatized and seed sellers a private business controlled by the Bill Gates foundation, Monsanto’s and other world
producers, farmers cannot simply re-plant seeds
from the last harvest but take these bank loan
facilities to buy seed from Big corp. under the
Adesina legacy. Visit agriculturally crippled Ghana and Haiti to see the impact of New World Order, NWO and Genetically Modified Organisms, GMO control of food production.
In the process, with loan-dependent farming,
farmers are dependent on the banks; the Big
corp. makes big gains and the cost of food must
rise and be gambled away in futures and stock
markets.
Food in Nigeria is no longer priced by the simple
dynamics of rain fall and harvest but is controlled by banks, seed marketers and the stock market.
What Adesina has introduced to Nigeria is
artificial food and artificial pricing of food, food
becoming a business and business only as he
fantasizes.
Of course as we eat our more expensive and less
nutritious, possibly toxic food, we cannot simply
dismiss the entire ‘transformation’ of Adesina.
But we must be ready to face several certain
realities as Big corp. takes over our farming
industry.
1. As Nnimmo Bassey can most thoroughly
explain, expect more cancer, more sterility, more
ecological devastation and less nutritious food in
general. [Refer: Do Not Force-Feed Nigerians With GMOs By Nnimmo Bassey-SaharaReporters]
2. Expect the price of food to continue to rise
indefinitely.
3. Expect to see the cabal and Big corp. grow
more content and satiated as you get hungry.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah; http://ENDS.ng [Every
Nigerian Do Something] Email: drbrimah@ends.ng
Twitter: @EveryNigerian
Read more: http://newsrescue.com/goodbye-
akinwumi-adesina-goodbye-gmo-goodbye-nwo/
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Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by Nobody: 11:07am On Apr 27, 2015
this land is not for sale ,beware of my son samyj247 cool
Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by papaejima1: 11:11am On Apr 27, 2015
OP you are talking rubbish.
How many feet of land have you cultivated to produce simple waterleaf.?

Abeg park one side Moor.
Bad belle

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Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by Samyj247: 11:33am On Apr 28, 2015
Nigerdeltaboi:
this land is not for sale ,beware of my son samyj247 cool
Hei who b ur son. U de call ur father ur son abi. Make i catch u for house fest. Chai so nairaland MODs get mind to ban me abi. All of una go see. Anyway na god save una say una unban me if not. I go scarter ds arena
Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by Nobody: 12:40pm On Apr 28, 2015
Samyj247:

Hei who b ur son. U de call ur father ur son abi. Make i catch u for house fest. Chai so nairaland MODs get mind to ban me abi. All of una go see. Anyway na god save una say una unban me if not. I go scarter ds arena
hehehe bad guy, how far na
Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by Samyj247: 12:51pm On Apr 28, 2015
Nigerdeltaboi:

hehehe bad guy, how far na
, guy u go recieve a shocking slap now.
Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by Nobody: 12:55pm On Apr 28, 2015
Samyj247:
, hehehehehe see u, e b like say na u ban me abi. I go punch ur face now. Nairaland mod s get mind ban me for NYSC thread. I de spark omake dem better unban me for nysc section o or else I go
nor be me ban you ooo,why i go do dat wan na,nor be my papa house ....but you sef dey wori ooo
Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by Freest(m): 1:31pm On Apr 28, 2015
Mhen, That guy is the best minister Nigeria produced in this outgoing administration. We need a few like you for the economy

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Re: Nigerians Say Goodbye To GMO Foods As Agric Minister Adesina Leaves by Chinum: 2:40pm On Apr 28, 2015
Op, that's my crush you talking about. undecided

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