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 cant sit in the office and do your business and who told you that agriculture cant 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.

U 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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Yeah agriculture will definitely take over.I know that.Nigeria has gonethru  too much.we have so little in the midst of plenty.we are gradually getting to realise ousleves, with time we will know what time it is.Do u know know how much could be  made from agriculture?I write about investment opportunities in NIgeria from time to time with a strong bias for agriculture now.bizinnigeria.blogpsot.com.

My opinion on this issue is very wide.

First i believe so much in agriculture, because no matter the amount of time you spend in the office you must eat food.
No matter hw much we make from Crude oil, we must eat. So we Must get that fact in our heads that AGRICULTURE IS ESSENTIAL.

But let us not forget some issues,
First, we know the state of our banks, their high interest rate (if they even agree to give u a loan).
we must also know that crops are not predictable, hardwork is not always the key in agriculture, pest or a sudden disease can wipe out a whole plantation, also if you have excess harvest and there is no ready market u tend to reduce your price. which affects your overhead cost.

Another problem is Insurance, there is no insurance for crops anywhere in the world.
SO you wouldn't blame me if i had N500,00 and i decide to learn one professional IT course that would fecth me quick money as soon as i finnish the course, or i invest in the oil sector.

But agriculture is very essential, afterall we made alot of money during the Groundnut pyramid, Palm oil rush.

I THINK THE GOVERMENT SHOULD LOOK MORE INTO THIS ISSUE, though the have tried with the cassava incentive but they should do more cos its only the North that's enjoying the cassava thing.

Cheers

thanks in the forum for the wonderful jobs you guys are doing
i will like to coment on the subject about farming in nigeria
i believed that what we call civilization robb us a bit,and its
not the civilization per say but our over interpretation of what
civilization mean some believed that being a farmer is local
things and they wanted to be seeing as educated and civilized
so they dump farming for what they concieved to be civilized.
i.e banking,industrilisation,and other proffesion,though all
are not bad at all,but why would every body just abandon farming
just like that,and before civilization farming is our main occupation
but thank God for those who understand that farming is every
coun try life jacket,checked every advance world,they didnt joke
with farming.and our Gorvernment dind help enough,farming should
be ultimate responsibility of our Government,it should be encourage
in our tre tier education,i mean from primary to the tetiary

We ,unbehalf of the Motherless, Widows, Poors, Needy, the Sick , SMEs and Kingdom Projects, are going into Agriculture and Solar Power this year.

We hope to meet on Saturdays in pursuit of the divine mandate of massive wealth conversion where we save 10 percent of our income and invest in Agric and Power

Interested savers should contact

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For more details

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Thanks