kampasdevon: Give the farmers 10million each

bigass: 6,000x10,000,000= 60,000,000,000(60billion)
Minister you are an olodo

HNosegbe: I'm sorry but I still don't understand what necessitates BUYING phones for the farmers. Is the minister saying that farmers in Nigeria do not ALREADY have phones? Why not get a database of farmers and collect their phone numbers?

And how did they arrive at 10 million? Did they do a census of all farmers in Nigeria?

I tire o!

teezlycrest: U re they mo.ron here. Backyard researcher. Which Ogun state are u talking about? I did my NYSC at the department of planning, research and statistics, ministry of Agric Abeokuta. I and my collegues did the data representation of all the registerd farmers in Ogun state. U re x10 far 4rm the actualy figure. Incase u doubt me, i will name the first person on that list or ask for Mr. Augustine Adekunle (Director of the afore mention department) But we have to bet something

2Legit2Qui: FG not spending N60bn on mobile phones for farmers —Minister

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/2335-fg-not-spending-n60bn-on-mobile-phones-for-farmers-%E2%80%94minister

MINISTER of Agriculture, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has denied news reports that the Federal Government is to spend N60 billion on purchase of mobile phones for rural farmers, describing the reports as false and a misrepresentation of rural farmers’ mobile empowerment initiative.

Speaking exclusively with the Nigerian Tribune, the minister said N60 billion mentioned in the story was almost the entire budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, adding that “we have not arrived at the budget for the mobile initiative.”

According to him, the total cost, when determined, could not be anywhere near the figure mentioned in the story.




“Even if we are to give mobile phones to 10 million rural farmers at N6,000 per one, the cost would still be around N6 billion. How then did they arrive at N60 billion?

“But we have not even taken any decision. I can, however, tell you six reasons why the rural farmer mobile initiative is being sponsored by the Federal Government.

“The first is to reach farmers so that they can access fertilisers and other farm inputs. The second is to ensure financial inclusion by linking the rural farmers directly to banks for farm subsidies and others.

“The third is to enable farmers to get extension services information which they presently have no access to one.

“Fourth is to create alert channel to farmers in cases of flood and draught and, lastly, we want farmers to have access to market information for better returns on their produce,” the minister said.

He further said “I want to assure Nigerians that we are not spending N60 billion on the project. We are yet to take final decision.”

kinisoo?:


You are absolutely misinformed. I don't need any list from you. And for your own perusal, I got mine from the ADP office at IjebuOde. Fine, you were at the headquaters (Abeokuta) but I insists that Ogun state CANNOT have 20,000 farmers. You may want to know that my study covered SW Nigeria. My point ultimately is to suggest that really there may be as much as 10million farmers in Nigeria and that indeed a survey was carried out all over the country to arrive at that figure.

You calling me a mo.ron or a backyard researcher, it's really not your fault. These days, we have many Tom, Dicks and Harry who call themselves 'graduates' too. We all know how JOBLESS, USELESS, LAZY and CORRUPT people who served in the Ministry were. Really, no fault of yours. We can easily guess the universities people like you graduated from.

kinisoo?:


Will you just shut up there? No wonder someone called Nairaland "Nigeria's Online Beer palour." For your information, a comprehensive nation-wide population survey was carried out between 2010 and 2011. I got to know because I worked very closely with the ADPs and the real rural interior farmers themselves when I did my field survey for my just-concluded Masters programme at the University of Ibadan. It will interest you that Ogun state alone had over 200, 000 active rural peasant farmers. I'm not defending spending billions anyhow but let no one come here to spew rub.bish.

naptu2: If I don't get banned by pyguru, then I'll post the articles in full.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/kenyan-farmers-use-sms-to-beat-climate-driven-price-uncertainty


http://ukulima.net/info/

bigass: 6,000x10,000,000= 60,000,000,000(60billion)
Minister you are an olodo

zerocool:

See PhD Holder + Minister in a whole country who can't do simple arithmetic (multiplication). I just continue to love the nuisance this country portray.

FG not spending N60bn on mobile phones for farmers —Minister

“Even if we are to give mobile phones to 10 million rural farmers at N6,000 per one, the cost would still be around N6 billion. How then did they arrive at N60 billion?

“But we have not even taken any decision. I can, however, tell you six reasons why the rural farmer mobile initiative is being sponsored by the Federal Government.

“The first is to reach farmers so that they can access fertilisers and other farm inputs.

The second is to ensure financial inclusion by linking the rural farmers directly to banks for farm subsidies and others.

“The third is to enable farmers to get extension services information which they presently have no access to one.

“Fourth is to create alert channel to farmers in cases of flood and draught

and, lastly, we want farmers to have access to market information for better returns on their produce,” the minister said.

Akainzo:

As someone with added educational polish and training to Masters level, you should have addressed the issue differently in my opinion.

He has asserted the source of his data, which from your response above, you clearly acknowledge is correct and at source. While your own data is from a secondary source, ADP. Now there could be convergence of the data.

Could there be about 20,000 - 50,000 farmers in Ogun State but we do have up to 2 Million people working at farms across Ogun State. We do need to note that only the owner(s) of the farm are classified as farmers.

emiye:

Man, your approach was wrong, we learn everyday, i don't doubt your figure, in actual fact it is way more than that.

I was in OGADEP, idiaba, Abk, Ogun state in Sep,2012 and i was told there are 360,000 "farm families" in Ogun state, i have presentations to back my claims. Farm families means farm households, if we are to break it down, we would have more farmers.

Distributing 10 million phones at 60 billion naira , then one must ask, where is the Cost Benefit Analysis, it surely is negative.

I dont doubt the 10 million farmers , in fact it might be more than that, some people do not really comprehend the rural and urban nature of the country, which is roughly 50 - 50%. In rural areas, they are virtually all farmers.
That is why some people dont agree that poverty rate can be 70% in Nigeria. All the picture they have in mind of the country starts and end in their urban world.

naptu2: If I don't get banned by pyguru, then I'll post the articles in full.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/kenyan-farmers-use-sms-to-beat-climate-driven-price-uncertainty


http://ukulima.net/info/

bigass: 6,000x10,000,000= 60,000,000,000(60billion)
Minister you are an olodo

60 Billion on phones for farmers. What for. this is a big misplacement of priority. Must federal govt. spoon feed everyone in this country. Anything everybody will look up to Govt. Na wa oh. I weep for my country.....

ola_pluto: If Nigeria still has 10 million rural farmers in 2013, then we're not even supposed to be called a developing nation. We're in stone age! These ridiculous lies from our government is really shameful. We have 774 local governments. If we have over 1,000 rural farmers per LG, then food will be really cheap.
Moreso, If the government provides the phones, will they install the masts for MTN, or glo? Will they come collect the phone every evening to charge for these 'rural farmers'? Will they top up the credit for them? And if we spend 60 Billion of facilitating communications between farmers and banks, how much loans can the banks actually give collectively?
Our government no get sense!

segebobo:

The Kenya case is apt. But what makes these phones so special that they can't use the regular phones some of the farmers use or ask those without phones to go and get a new phone (at least a good rugged phone could be obtained for as low as N2500).
I smell 'rotten fish' in this their project, because I don't think they've mapped-out an effective strategy on the use of the phones.
A major blunder committed by the minister is not knowing the cost of the project... That's a shame on him.

its.me:
Gej government! always scoring offside! Instead of buying these farmers mobile phones (which a large no of them cant even operate effeciently), why not set up 'agric-centric' radio stations or better still convert some of these useless radio nigeria stations to focus solely on agricultural programs (infos about crops, fertilizers and what have you) and other extension services they might want to provide, in our different local languages.* This i believe would even reach more farmers at little cost to d gov. Ah! Naija, i tire o!

kinisoo?:


Will you just shut up there? No wonder someone called Nairaland "Nigeria's Online Beer palour." For your information, a comprehensive nation-wide population survey was carried out between 2010 and 2011. I got to know because I worked very closely with the ADPs and the real rural interior farmers themselves when I did my field survey for my just-concluded Masters programme at the University of Ibadan. It will interest you that Ogun state alone had over 200, 000 active rural peasant farmers. I'm not defending spending billions anyhow but let no one come here to spew rub.bish.

2Legit2Qui: FG not spending N60bn on mobile phones for farmers —Minister

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/2335-fg-not-spending-n60bn-on-mobile-phones-for-farmers-%E2%80%94minister

MINISTER of Agriculture, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has denied news reports that the Federal Government is to spend N60 billion on purchase of mobile phones for rural farmers, describing the reports as false and a misrepresentation of rural farmers’ mobile empowerment initiative.

Speaking exclusively with the Nigerian Tribune, the minister said N60 billion mentioned in the story was almost the entire budget of the Ministry of Agriculture, adding that “we have not arrived at the budget for the mobile initiative.”

According to him, the total cost, when determined, could not be anywhere near the figure mentioned in the story.

“Even if we are to give mobile phones to 10 million rural farmers at N6,000 per one, the cost would still be around N6 billion. How then did they arrive at N60 billion?

“But we have not even taken any decision. I can, however, tell you six reasons why the rural farmer mobile initiative is being sponsored by the Federal Government.

“The first is to reach farmers so that they can access fertilisers and other farm inputs. The second is to ensure financial inclusion by linking the rural farmers directly to banks for farm subsidies and others.

“The third is to enable farmers to get extension services information which they presently have no access to one.

“Fourth is to create alert channel to farmers in cases of flood and draught and, lastly, we want farmers to have access to market information for better returns on their produce,” the minister said.

He further said “I want to assure Nigerians that we are not spending N60 billion on the project. We are yet to take final decision.”