adelegan1:



That is what I'm saying out grower which also know as contract farming is the best. because you don't have to go through the stress of planting and harvesting all you have to do is to sponsor farmer and they will bring the rice to you so you can process

sounds interesting. how those this work? pls provide more info

Sincerely, I was thinking of farming right after school even though I had First Class degree from Ife and had a couple of offers from 3 multinationals right after school. I had done some findings and was almost sure that was what I could do with the resources I had raised back then. But the turn around came when I came back to my father's (and grand father's) hectares of land and it's been taken over by a company. And they said the company has compensated the village. C'mmon. I was very pissed and had to settle with one of the companies I had offers from. I'm still interested and following the thread is a blessing.

@tkb417. Send me an e-mail on dotun.ogunlade@yahoo.com so that I can understand more details about how to start.

Some guys offered me some land early January around Ibogun in Ogun State. Maybe I will reconsider their proposal.

@tkb417

I'm into livestock production with a vision to set up an integrated farm down the line. I am at a cross road now as I am looking to acquire some expanse of land to expand my operation and will like to sound you off.

i will appreciate an sms or email so i can get across.

I wish u success in your endevour.

LEASE VS BUY
the lease versus buy scenario is a little more complicated then this. there r calculations to do where the cost of buying is compared against the cost of leasing putting things like expected life span, depreciation etc. its a little easier when it applies to land as there is no terminal end to life and whatever depreciation there is to it can b cured using the normal one year rest/bush fallowing (I stand to b corrected as there should b technology to prevent this in today's world) but in all, u have to furnish us with the costs of leasing and outright purchase to help u.

leasing will definitely b better if it can b leased for just d 4 months of planting. buying will definitely b between if d total cost can only lease d land for 7yrs or less.

I think a lot of the environmental factors are in place for this to be a successful business venture. The most important ones are government intent, strong demographics and poor competitors.

The only things I would worry about (off my head) are storage, transportation and farm diseases infrastructure.

That said, any additional cost can be compensated with local knowledge and top-up on price margins.

ok guys

ill send the emails this evening.

Sagamite:

I think a lot of the environmental factors are in place for this to be a successful business venture. The most important ones are government intent, strong demographics and poor competitors.

The only things I would worry about (off my head) are storage, transportation and farm diseases infrastructure.

That said, any additional cost can be compensated with local knowledge and top-up on price margins.

Does everything with you and Debo have to be in big big English?

Points noted

Holla when ure free so we can talk better

Prof JYK:

LEASE VS BUY
the lease versus buy scenario is a little more complicated then this. there r calculations to do where the cost of buying is compared against the cost of leasing putting things like expected life span, depreciation etc. its a little easier when it applies to land as there is no terminal end to life and whatever depreciation there is to it can b cured using the normal one year rest/bush fallowing (I stand to b corrected as there should b technology to prevent this in today's world) but in all, u have to furnish us with the costs of leasing and outright purchase to help u.

leasing will definitely b better if it can b leased for just d 4 months of planting. buying will definitely b between if d total cost can only lease d land for 7yrs or less.

hmmm, *thinking*

ill get back on that

tkb417:

ok guys

ill send the emails this evening.
Does everything with you and Debo have to be in big big English?

Points noted

Holla when ure free so we can talk better

Haba!

What is convoluted about the tagmemics and lexicons I employed in my asseveration?

This thread reads like a remix of Peterside Ottong's Where Are The Prophets

AjanleKoko:

This thread reads like a remix of[b] Peterside Ottong's [/b] Where Are The Prophets

Chai!!! You be old man o!!! You remember that track?? Most of these Ipad generation people on NL no go sabi am!!

feelamong:

Chai!!! You be old man o!!! You remember that track?? Most of these Ipad generation people on NL no go sabi am!!

what is Ipad generation? who are those?

i don clock 30 oh and i dont know the song

Sagamite:

Haba!

What is convoluted about the tagmemics and lexicons I employed in my asseveration?

pls, take your oyinbo to romance section where its needed

send me email about the other stuff na.

i go dey that side soon sha so we fit do one on one

@Fhemmy

you have mail sir

Where are the Farmers?

Following the visit to China by top government official under the leadership of the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, recently, the Federal government has sealed a deal to set up 100 rice mills across the country.
The Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adeshina, who was part of the delegation made the announcement Wednesday in Abuja after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the state house. Read more: http://premiumtimesng.com/news/national/4008-collaborate-with-china-set-100-rice-mills.html

Prof JYK:



Following the visit to China by top government official under the leadership of the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, recently, the Federal government has sealed a deal to set up 100 rice mills across the country.
The Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adeshina, who was part of the delegation made the announcement Wednesday in Abuja after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the state house. Read more: http://premiumtimesng.com/news/national/4008-collaborate-with-china-set-100-rice-mills.html

I really hope this government actually does these things. They talk so much and raise people's hopes. That's how someone will raise capital and take position, and they will just ponzi the whole arrangement. It's happened too many times, in too many sectors, since 2010 when Jonathan became president.

@ ajanlekoko, thanks for that observation, same thing is happening in ogun state now, where the amosun goverment is loudly boasting in the media to have distributed millions of world bank loans to intending farmers.
i can categorically say that zill/nada has been done, lots of these farmers are eagerly waiting for nothing.meeting upon meeting have not yield any result.
must ppl suffer this much before they get what is rightfully theirs.
the govt. should at least release this loan just to compensate for the brutal murder of JAYE, a gentleman that left the u.s.a after so many yrs to set up his piggery farm @ isara, remo north, who worked tirelessly for this loan.before he was untimely brought down.by hired killer.
we await the ogun state govt. next move.

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Educative thread and good luck in executing your endeavor!

Someone spoke of food processing and no one responded to it. I actually think that most of Nigeria’s food problems has to do with food preservation. There are two main issues that I see, namely:

1. Transportation – getting the food to where it’s needed in the main cities or states where people will pay top Naira; and
2. Preservation – preserving the food long enough to reach its destination and even remain available past its naturally occurring season.

I think that we need more people like you, the educated and exposed, to go into food preservation because it requires technical knowledge unobtainable by most farmers. Also, real money is never made in raw materials in any industry but in the finished product. I would think that our advantage over our father’s generation is the availability of technology that makes us more efficient.

In the US, you can pretty much get any fruit or food you want at anytime during the year by simply walking into a store. Can you imagine being able to get agbalumo, cherry mango or any of the other seasonal fruit any time of the year? Or even being able to prolong the lifespan of a fresh produce?

The only problem is that it takes research to be able to preserve food while keep bacterias at bay and still maintaining the original taste. This is where someone like you can employ your background to engage the right type of people to develop a solution, even if for only one fruit like mango.

Regardless of your decision, good luck! I’m still trying to develop a big enough kohuna to walk away just like you did!

^^ but who will pay for the preservation aspect? the farmer or the consumers

Will the consumers pay extra to get plantain when its off season or wil they prefer to just wait when it will be all over the market?
and if they will are there enough consumers that will make the venture profitable

Dis Guy: ^^ but who will pay for the preservation aspect? the farmer or the consumers

Will the consumers pay extra to get plantain when its off season or wil they prefer to just wait when it will be all over the market?
and if they will are there enough consumers that will make the venture profitable

The retail chains will buy into it.
I wouldn't be surprised if the links of Chi, Spar and Shoprite are already investing in this area. They are major stakeholders in fresh farm produce.

We are all farmers and we need to be practising farming.

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Can somebody please tell these infomarketers †☺ get off this thread? If You wan sell your product open ɑ̤̈̊ new thread naa.
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Dis Guy: ^^ but who will pay for the preservation aspect? the farmer or the consumers

Will the consumers pay extra to get plantain when its off season or wil they prefer to just wait when it will be all over the market?
and if they will are there enough consumers that will make the venture profitable

People will pay for the convenience of having the fruit readily available! if the option is having to eat no plantain or paying a little extra for it, most people that want it bad enough will pay extra for it.

People will also pay for convenience, especially those in the city. It follows the same exact reasoning why one would buy cooked food from a street vendor rather than buying the ingredients and cooking it yourself.

Why do people buy powdered pounded yam in a bag instead of pounding their own yam?
Why do people buy tomato paste in a can instead of making their own?

If I were a farmer, I would want to sell my produce off season when supply will be lower if I can guarantee that the produce can be preserved until then because the same produce will fetch me more money! Supply vs. demand.

There's no doubt that the venture will be profitable if the preserved food is "good enough." You will be more profitable than a farmer because you will sell the end product >10 times what you paid the farmer who did all the manual labor!

hei...where all of una dey?? una don enter farm no gree come out

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Wallie:

People will pay for the convenience of having the fruit readily available! if the option is having to eat no plantain or paying a little extra for it, most people that want it bad enough will pay extra for it.

People will also pay for convenience, especially those in the city. It follows the same exact reasoning why one would buy cooked food from a street vendor rather than buying the ingredients and cooking it yourself.

Why do people buy powdered pounded yam in a bag instead of pounding their own yam?
Why do people buy tomato paste in a can instead of making their own?

If I were a farmer, I would want to sell my produce off season when supply will be lower if I can guarantee that the produce can be preserved until then because the same produce will fetch me more money! Supply vs. demand.

There's no doubt that the venture will be profitable if the preserved food is "good enough." You will be more profitable than a farmer because you will sell the end product >10 times what you paid the farmer who did all the manual labor!

Makes very good sense.
An example is Ola-Ola yam flour, made in California, but sold everywhere Nigerians are, including in Nigeria.
There are some local brands of yam flour, but none is as good. If I had the money to hire the know-how, I'd go into food processing and biotech, in Nigeria.

Quail Farming,quick Cash:

Quail farming is an uncommon farming business in Nigeria, but the few people that have embraced it are not only smiling to banks, they are also enjoying both the nutritional and health values derived from consuming it
Considering the large number of poultry farmers in Kaduna that have embraced quail farming, it is no doubt one booming farming business that is gradually taking over chicken poultry business in most parts of the north. The high rate of returns and low cost of investment as well rearing them are some of the reasons many farmers are fast resorting to quail farming. In Zaria alone, there are more than 50 farms where quail are reared and sold. The fact that the birds grow and reach maturity stage faster and lay eggs within two months, compared with the six-month maturity period of chickens for whether egg-laying or consumption, attract them to farmers who see the business as a better and more sustainable investment to explore.
From market surveys both in Zaria and Kaduna, a female quail bird sells for N500 while the male goes for between N250 and N300. Its speckled eggs go for between N20 and N25. The bird’s high nutritional and market value encourage many chicken poultry farmers to abandon the business for quail farming. The NEWS gathered that these financial and health benefits, especially the high and quick returns on investment, largely explained farmers’ rush into the business in Jos where it first started, and in Kano, Kaduna and other states in the north where it is booming now. But it is very difficult for people in the southwest who wish to go into quail farming due to the problem of getting quail chicks for starting. Good news the problem has now been solved because you can easily get it now in Ibadan. I started the business just three months ago but glory be to God I earn nothing less than 2000 Naira every day.
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