asha 80:

anambra is a bit more thickly populated than imo and abia so it is the same thing.however you know how land issues are in the south east.you really have to negotiate with the owners(both individual and communities) to get land there.

Nchara:

Where I come from, you hardly find[b] community agricultural land.[/b] Every arable lands, even forests, are privately owned

There is land shortage, as supported by many qualified studies. [b]A simple look in a Nigerian map will answer your question too. [/b]In addition, it is worsened by land fragmentation pattern which works against mechanized agriculture. Igbos have enough land for subsistence agriculture but not enough for large-scale mechanized ventures. Those so-called idle land you see in Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi  are how many in terms of hectarage compared to similarly idle land in the North and SW?

There is land shortage, as supported by many qualified studies. [b]A simple look in a Nigerian map will answer your question too. [/b]In addition, it is worsened by land fragmentation pattern which works against mechanized agriculture. Igbos have enough land for subsistence agriculture but not enough for large-scale mechanized ventures. Those so-called idle land you see in Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi  are how many in terms of hectarage compared to similarly idle land in the North and SW?

Onlytruth:

Posted by: Nchara
The bolded is the problem! No one should take "a simple look" at the official map of Nigeria.
What I found on ground contradicts a lot of that map.
Again, no region can boast of a traditional large scale farming, or sustain infinite large scale farming. Land is not infinite anywhere. So you cannot say that Igbos are "forced" into subsistence farming because of land scarcity. Even if Igboland is as large as the North, Igbos practice subsistence farming traditionally. Large scale farming is new to Africa.

Onlytruth:

@Topic

I really think that Easterners/Igbos don't have any problem with farming or feeding themselves. I think that Igbos/Easterners are more diverse in their career pursuits.

Nchara:

End of story, really. We are evenly spread in all human endeavours. Thanks.

abouzaid:

@alh_harem, ka beri shi, you should not waste your energy arguing with an unrepentant ethnic bigot. @nchara nwoke m, kedu ife na eme gị? Jide onwe gị aka. What's my concern with rural sociology or agricultural economics? When have poultry stop being part of agric? You made a very sensible submission about the fragmentative land holding in igbo land and i supported you by saying that i have seen such in most parts of anambra. Asha80 also suggested that i could counter that obstacle by meeting the owners of the large tracts of unoccupied forestland in nsukka to acquire the land for mechanized farming of which i responded that i intend to do so at igbariam. What's there to fight about? Ok, suggest an appropriate title for the thread and i will rename it just to gain your peace. Jiri ya nwayo na onwero ife eji okwu na ụka eme

abouzaid:
I have noticed how self styled biafrans have invaded all the nigerian electronic and print media often boasting of their ingenuity in weapon design or mathematics while the other tribes are nothing but beggars and terrorists but the irony of the whole situation is that the east is fed today by the north they look down on. Igbo,efik,ibibio etc have all grown too lazy to grow their own food, the result is that any time there is crises upnorth, the prices of food stuffs in the east doubles two times, just by effecting a 30 months food blockade in the east during the civil war, millions died from starvation in biafra. I have no doubt that if all easterners should go back home and biafra declared, It will take only six months of food blockade to kill millions in biafra and they will still surrender with out nigeria firing a single shot. The east have enough landmass to feed it self. It have enough rainfall to farm through out the year without fear of crop failure due drought. For example, maize is grown two times a year in the east and while it's grown only once here in the north yet the east gets it's supply of maize from the north. Is farming a sin in the east or do they no longer have honour in honest labour? The anambra state goverment, a short while ago acquired large number of tractors for farmers free use and shared out an annual revolving loan of #100 million naira to rice farmers to booster rice farming only for the farmers to move to the cities with the money to set up shops as traders with no background knowledge what else in trading, the result is that most of them closed shop just after one year as traders and the loan was never repaid for other farmers benefit. This clearly demonstrates the warped mentality of the average easterner, looking down on agriculture as a career fit only for almajiris and aboki. The most puzzling thing is that the average igbo man or woman will always tell you that agriculture is a highly profitable business citing the high cost of food stuffs in the east as evidence yet him or her would never undertake it as a career. This lack of interest in agriculture is the reason why eastern cities are filled with armies of youths who unable to achieve their get rich quick targets resorts to crime and prostitution.what good is your talked about education if it can not put food on your table considering that food is the most basic need of man? The biafrans of today are clearly on a path  of self destruction if they should opt out of nigeria come the much prophesied year of 2015.( By east, i mean't the old eastern region and igbo speaking parts of delta and edo state)   

Is a different ball game now..
Come to Anambra now and you will be amazed of the turn around of events.
Before the civil war we earn most of our forex with agriculture and now Anambra is getting some of its forex from agro industries...
We have rain and arable land. Do invest in Anambra and have your returns in weeks.

midol:
[s]We yoruba muslims that can farm why are we still crying of hunger in oshogno and queueing for 2kg of rice im ekiti? [/s]