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seeni4ever (m)
Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« on: December 04, 2005, 02:03 PM »

before in nigeria farming used to be one of our major source of income, even, it is number one before petroleum take over everything. but now to my suprise majority of the people don't even think about it anymore. to me nigeria is a country that is naturaly blessed with good land and why can't we go back to farming and establish a large scale farming industry.
let me know your opinion over this. together we can make changes.
layi (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #1 on: December 04, 2005, 02:48 PM »

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.
otokx (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #2 on: December 10, 2005, 12:33 PM »

nigerians are very lazy people and since they want quick money farming is not in their available alternatives.
JosBoy4Lif (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #3 on: December 11, 2005, 08:22 AM »

LAZY   Huh
Seun (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #4 on: December 11, 2005, 06:30 PM »

Some people believe that real hard work is when you are doing some sort of physical labour such as working on a farm.  To those people, those of us that prefer office work are 'lazy'.

Personally, I do not believe that agriculture can contribute as much foreign exchange as oil for the near future, but if we can achieve self-sufficiency in food production and also provide agricultural raw materials for starch-production plants, bakeries, cosmetics manufacturers and so on, I think that will be good enough.
seeni4ever (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #5 on: December 11, 2005, 07:56 PM »

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.
larger_20 (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #6 on: December 11, 2005, 10:14 PM »

I this agreee with most of your posting. Obasanjo's farm is one of the largest in the nations...What about his incentives with the white fammers from zimbabwea? Everything that happens in nigeria is slow but has great potentials to develop. I can't wait to come back

However, I agree with you that most people don't want to work. People prefer a bed of rose. Everyone is concentrating in the oil rig business. Good luck to them. I might concider investing in agriculture in the future.
Seun (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #7 on: December 11, 2005, 11:27 PM »

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.
freshsmile
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #8 on: December 12, 2005, 06:57 AM »

My advise to those people wth a spare bit of dirt . You  can plant a tree or vegetables. Put more fruit trees on your land, plant more vegetables on your land.  I see people going hungry in every place and the land is not used to its best potential. Such a fertile land can have a garden of Eden.  There is not much work involved in a few fruit trees and vegetable plants.
Permaculture is the way of the future. believe me. my garden is abundant.  family and friends enjoy eating from it daily. Forget about making big profits.. Think locally and it can help people around you.
larger_20 (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #9 on: December 12, 2005, 08:04 AM »

Quote from: freshsmile on December 12, 2005, 06:57 AM
My advise to those people wth a spare bit of dirt . You  can plant a tree or vegetables. Put more fruit trees on your land, plant more vegetables on your land.  I see people going hungry in every place and the land is not used to its best potential. Such a fertile land can have a garden of Eden.  There is not much work involved in a few fruit trees and vegetable plants.
Permaculture is the way of the future. believe me. my garden is abundant.  family and friends enjoy eating from it daily. Forget about making big profits.. Think locally and it can help people around you.

You spoke like an Old lady.how old r u?
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freshsmile
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #10 on: December 12, 2005, 08:24 AM »

did i speak like a wise old one? lol .. is this forum only for 20 or under?
freshsmile
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #11 on: December 12, 2005, 08:45 AM »

"What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that."

Dr. David Suzuki, geneticist, broadcaster and international environmental advocate

"Permaculture is also a world wide network and movement of individuals and groups working in both rich and poor countries on all continents. Largely unsupported by government or business, these people are contributing to a sustainable future by reorganizing their life and work around permaculture design principles. In this way they are creating small local changes but ones which are directly and indirectly influencing action in the wider environment, organic agriculture, appropriate technology, communities and other movements for a sustainable world. After 20 years Permaculture may rank as one of Australia's most significant 'intellectual exports'."

David Holmgren

"Permaculture is revolution disguised as gardening."

Mike Feingold, a Permaculture Teacher at Findhorn

"Permaculture, a design system that reconciles human communities with the ecological imperatives of a living planet."

Ben Haggard

"Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. The word itself is a contraction not only of permanent and agriculture but also of permanent culture, as cultures cannot survive for long without a sustainable agricultural base and landuse ethic. On one level, permaculture deals with plants, animals, buildings, and infrastructures (water, energy, communications). However, permaculture is not about these elements themselves, but rather about the relationships we can create between them by the way we place them in the landscape.

The aim is to create systems that are ecologically sound and economically viable, which provide for their own needs, do not exploit or pollute, and are therefore sustainable in the long term. Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life-supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

Permaculture is based on the observation of natural systems, the wisdom contained in traditional farming systems, and modern scientific and technological knowledge. Although based on good ecological models, permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature."

from Introduction to Permaculture
by Bill Mollison.
exu (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #12 on: December 12, 2005, 06:32 PM »


 
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nigerians are very lazy people and since they want quick money farming is not in their available alternatives.
 

wow, a nice broad brushstroke there...

some might even say lazy...

well i guess you just proved your own point...
Oracle (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #13 on: December 20, 2005, 03:14 AM »

Agriculture is very important both the economy and otherwise
but people neglect it these dayz
it may not really be laziness but
uh


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Thethy (m)
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #14 on: July 13, 2007, 02:01 PM »

Agriculture is still the future,even now agricultural businesses is more lucrative.
Do you know that there are some agricultural products like gallstone,cow horn,cow shoes etc that have now become more exportable becouse of the advent of internet.These products and many more are even exported out of the country through NIPOST- What you don`t know? Some guys are making cool money from agriculture.Learn more fromĀ  the following links:

http://richstone2.tripod.com
http://snailriches2.tripod.com
http://grasscutterrearing.tripod.com
http://www.thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=44824
http://www.thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=47820


Sholeyb
Re: Agriculture in Nigeria ('Farming Business')
« #15 on: April 11, 2008, 03:15 PM »

Could you re-post the website address. it is not clear.

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