alj harem:

southerners, u better start producing bananas for nigeria, if u do not want trouble

u ppl are very lazy
the north produces
rice
tomatoes
pepper
maize
millet
etc
and u can only produce
crude oil
palm oil
and vegetable oil


what good is that

STRAT PRODUCING THIS BANANA BEFORE U STRAT SOMETHING U CAN NOT FINISH

omo, this guy don kolo ooo!!!

Sustainable and organze agriculture is d way forward. And nigeria is yet to put even oxen ploughing into full gear.

redsun:

Genetically altered seeds and incessant use of pesticides are hazardous to d environment and consumers,something oyinbo will never tell u but if u ve a bit of comon sense,u should know that.Nigeria doesn't those bulls-hit that is already backfiring on dem

You have not taken your drugs, I and your psychiatric nurse had been looking for you.

invisible!:

You have not taken your drugs, I and your psychiatric nurse had been looking for you.

what is wrong with what he said.

@ Asha u should know by now invisible is morbidly 'odeic'born to believe,live and die ignorant. Trying to brush him up like i said b-4 is like a dog barking at a flying bird.His one of those nigerians that thinks knowing is an act of white witch.

asha 80:

what is wrong with what he said.

Don't mind them.

did you guys stop to think for a moment the volume of Nigerian exports to those countries? and by the way, there is the ecowas protocol which allows for free flow of goods within the subregion.
by the way, it is heartening in a way that the bananas are not coming from europe

knotty:

did you guys stop to think for a moment the volume of Nigerian exports to those countries? and by the way, there is the ecowas protocol which allows for free flow of goods within the subregion.
by the way, it is heartening in a way that the bananas are not coming from europe

It doesn't matter. The most important thing is that we don't need imported bananas in Nigeria.

Sellers and buyers who spoke to NAN attributed the high patronage, in spite of its cost, to the fresh appearance, smooth skin, size and taste.

Our local farmer should be dynamic and plant improved species of banana. This shows us that our bananas are not acceptable in international market.
The goverment is failing these poor people. The goverment supose to be doing research and provide improve species of bananas and other kind of plants that are acceptable internationaly, so that the farm produce of our farmers will be able to compete internationally.

Aloy+Emeka:

It doesn't matter. The most important thing is that we don't need imported bananas in Nigeria.

We can be an island to ourselves if we so choose. then, we will not need imported Rice when we know our rice farmers are too lazy or dumb or both to polish and parboil rice to acceptable standards.

we will not need to import fertilizer when we have camel dungs everywhere.

we will not need to import anything.

please, let us face it, the quality of the banana is am seeing around is by far better than the banana i used to know.
it is now i am getting to know that they too are imported.

please, there are no shortcuts in excellence.

we either get it right or someone else will profit from our mediocrity.

knotty:

We can be an island to ourselves if we so choose. then, we will not need imported Rice when we know our rice farmers are too lazy or dumb or both to polish and parboil rice to acceptable standards.

we will not need to import fertilizer when we have camel dungs everywhere.

we will not need to import anything.

please, let us face it, the quality of the banana is am seeing around is by far better than the banana i used to know.
it is now i am getting to know that they too are imported.

please, there are no shortcuts in excellence.

we either get it right or someone else will profit from our mediocrity.

+1000. Protectionism is not the answer. Step up our game or perish.

knotty:



please, let us face it, the quality of the banana is am seeing around is by far better than the banana i used to know.
it is now i am getting to know that they too are imported.

Roflmao

How do you rate the quality of a banana?

Aloy+Emeka:

Roflmao

How do you rate the quality of a banana?

Yes, how do you rate the quality of a banana

[size=14pt]Nigeria: Rep Condemns N4.2tr Annual Food Importation[/size]
19 October 2010


http://allafrica.com/stories/201010200917.html
Abuja — The Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture, Hon. Gbenga Peter Makanjuola, has called on the Federal Government to on develop the agricultural sector through Biotechnology, saying the N4.2 trillion expended annually on food importation was a waste of resources.


The lawmaker this , yesterday, while delivering a speech on the "Legislative Framework/Biosafety Law: The Path to Sustainable Agricultural Biotechnology", at a media training on Agricultural Biotechnology organised by the African Agricultural Technology Fund (AATF) in Abuja.

[size=13pt]He said with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of about $40b, which made Nigeria the second largest economy in Africa, yet over two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line of $1 per day.
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[size=13pt]According to him, the sector contributes 40 per cent to the GDP against 13 percent for oil, with crop production accounting for an estimated 85 per cent of this amount, livestock, 10 percent, with the remainder made up of fisheries and forestry.[/size]

[size=13pt]"If one quarter of the amount spent on food importation is channeled into the agricultural sector, the country would be better off. Concerted efforts must be made, as a matter of urgency, to improve the performance of agriculture, agro-processing and trade, as well as the nation's stock of infrastructure, to enable Nigeria take an advantage of emerging opportunities in the domestic and international market."[/size]

He said a bill on Biosafety which is currently been worked upon at the Senate has been passed in the House. The bill titled: "A Bill for an act to provide for the management of Biosafety and for other related matters," which would ensure that foods are produced and handled in ways that ensures the safety of the environment, human health and creates an enabling environment for Nigeria to take advantage of agricultural biotechnology to boost food production."

The Nigerian Biosafety Bill, he said, is a robust legal instrument that will surely meet the aspirations of Nigerians and achieve rapid development of modern biotechnology in Nigeria when passed into law.

^^^^^^^^

Absolute balderdash. Nonsense bunkum. What is new in that thrash again? We all know the details of that story up there. we all know what this great country can do for herself and her people. But, we also know that greed and inordinate lust for fast money has deprived us of all the greatness this Land is capable of. and it starts with those we elected to rule over us or those we had allowed to lord over us.

let them not come and bemoan the opportunities we have lost. let them not come and preach tales of woe to us now. we know that they dont really care about us. how many of them eat what we eat? do they care? no. they must be seen to care about foreign reserves they have depleted in fancy borrowings.

let any serious government come in the open and tell us what programs/manifesto they have for only 2 staple Nigerian food: RICE & YAM will suffice. let us see their road map and then only can we be serious as a people willing to elect leader who have plans. until then we continue to wallow in directionlessness.

As soon as d self sustenance farming that is one of d pillars of nigerian economy dies,d economy will be like that of HAITI that relies on imports for even cooking water.Farmers and small trader will lose their livelyhood and that will equal to famine.

D reason why nigeria is not as horrible as zimbabwe economically is b-cos we indigenously till d land on a large scale.Admistratively,nigeria is worse than zimbabwe.