I encourage anyone who has access to some Free to Air decoders or DSTV to view Kenya's NTV tonight from 8p.m Nigerian Time to watch Seeds of Gold as it would feature the cultivation of Canola and the extraction of oil from it and its packaging. It is going to be very informative. Canola cultivation will do well in Nigeria.

The finished product.

That's lovely up there... atimes when I saw your post and I saw the beauty of being farmers/agriculture ,I had the thought of migrating to pursue my passionate field=FARMING

baba11:
That's lovely up there... atimes when I saw your post and I saw the beauty of being farmers/agriculture ,I had the thought of migrating to pursue my passionate field=FARMING

You need not migrate as all you need is the knowledge which you can apply in Nigeria as the Nigerian market is so enormous as it is far bigger than the entire Eastern African Market.

Pavore9:


You need not migrate as all you need is the knowledge which you can apply in Nigeria as the Nigerian market is so enormous as it is far bigger than the entire Eastern African Market.

I know but where to get the right knowledge within an affordable means is the problem here

baba11:

I know but where to get the right knowledge within an affordable means is the problem here

I understand what you mean as I know such opportunity is not readily available in Nigeria as it is readily available here in Kenya. There is even a farm about an hour drive from Nairobi that will next week offer a 2 day training on organic farming of strawberries and over 25 different herbs and spices for just N2,000. I will look at it as something to establish in Nigeria in the future, a farm where people would go to acquire practical knowledge as Nigerians are hungry for such knowledge.

Acquiring Agric knowledge (or any knowledge) is so so expensive in Nigeria. It's this high cost that is keeping potential farmers away. Lots & lots of pple on this plaform are out to just exploit other would be farmers in d name of training or provision of inputs, mostly at exorbitant prices.

When can we have cheap but quality Agric training & inputs like Kenya?

Pavore9:


I understand what you mean as I know such opportunity is not readily available in Nigeria as it is readily available here in Kenya. There is even a farm about an hour drive from Nairobi that will next week offer a 2 day training on organic farming of strawberries and over 25 different herbs and spices for just N2,000. I will look at it as something to establish in Nigeria in the future, a farm where people would go to acquire practical knowledge as Nigerians are hungry for such knowledge.

Pavore9:


I understand what you mean as I know such opportunity is not readily available in Nigeria as it is readily available here in Kenya. There is even a farm about an hour drive from Nairobi that will next week offer a 2 day training on organic farming of strawberries and over 25 different herbs and spices for just N2,000. I will look at it as something to establish in Nigeria in the future, a farm where people would go to acquire practical knowledge as Nigerians are hungry for such knowledge.

That's exactly how it is!....I'll be looking for it in the earnest future

Newway2:
Acquiring Agric knowledge (or any knowledge) is so so expensive in Nigeria. It's this high cost that is keeping potential farmers away. Lots & lots of pple on this plaform are out to just exploit other would be farmers in d name of training or provision of inputs, mostly at exorbitant prices.

When can we have cheap but quality Agric training & inputs like Kenya?

That is where the Ministry of Agriculture owes Nigerians the obligation to disseminate information. Year in, year out budget is being made out for extension services but we do not feel anything. Private enterprise do have a role to play, like here in Kenya every TV station has at least 2 agribusiness programmes running every week, There is even one Station called Farmer TV which is a 24hrs broadcast on Agriculture.

There are many international NGOs and Foundations that are into Agriculture that are based here and from time to time offer free trainings. One was held earlier in the week, which l couldn't attend and it was on how to start a small business on processing groundnut into peanut butter and packaging them for supermarket quality. Even Kenyan agricultural agencies offers such free trainings because they know once you set up a business from what was taught, you would need KBS certification (NAFDAC equivalent) to operate, which government would make money from you, also make VAT earnings from your sales.

A Country earns more when more people are economically active.