Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')

A lot of the Big Industrialists like Chief Adedoyin, Chief Folawiyo, Dangote etc are into Agriculture 'Big time'.

Just that the reforms in the country favor other sectors ahead of agriculture. Most micro credit facilities would rather go to an oil exporter than a fish/cassava exporter.

If this is looked into, it would make the industry lucrative enough for peeps to go back in.

Its not that bad anyway. just that focus has been shifted on Oil gains.

LAZY   

seun, i do not agree with you on this issue. doing a farming business(agriculture) doesn't mean that u can't sit in the office and do your business and who told you that agriculture can't contribute as much as petroleum. have you  heard about biological diesel fuel that has being use as substitute to the petroleum diesel fuel in in some countries. in America here, we have thousands of hybrid cars on the road. since Nigeria started producing petroleum what have we achieved? nothing!. Brazil is a country that doesn't have oil, they make most of their revenues from agriculture. having a farming industry doesn't mean that every Nigerians will be carrying hoes and cutlasses to the farm, i am talking about large scale mechanized farming. Nigeria will never move forward if we don't try other industries which agriculture is number one.

I also have interest in agriculture.  It is important that we should be able to grow our own food and source agricultural raw materials for our industries locally.  Nigeria is oil and gas rich and if we can add agriculture and other sectors to it and maintain peace and stability (with some patience) the sky will be our limit.

You spoke like an Old lady.how old r u?

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Agriculture is very important both the economy and otherwise
but people neglect it these dayz
it may not really be laziness but
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Could you re-post the website address. it is not clear.

Cheers