MaziOmenuko:
Nice one very adventurous...

Although I am not that impressed. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to bad-belle or anything, from a business-man point of view, you did great but from a scientist point of view, this is still the same 'running around in cycles' that has kept us in the dark.

My point, we need to start thinking of ways to preserve tomatoes! It sold for N300 per basket 3 months ago, now its N14,000 per basket. That is almost 500% increase in just 3 months. If we can get a preservative to keep tomatoes intact for just 4 months, we will be making smart profits without dodging bullets, dodging thieves, sleeping in the forests, taking flights upandan

Anyone that can pull this off should contact me with a proposal and funding.

Charpell:

This is the best counter post to the topic. Sir I bow to this initiative and would love to take part in agriculture but I have no experience in practical farming. Is there any way you can help me in mentorship?

Charpell:

This is the best counter post to the topic. Sir I bow to this initiative and would love to take part in agriculture but I have no experience in practical farming. Is there any way you can help me in mentorship?

boladale:
i've been wondering about this since ppl started talking of tomato storage all year round vis-a-vis d nigerian situation i.e is it really impossible to grow tomato thru d year? Thx kayjegs!, onwards to your thread!. xw

Charpell:

Its possible. like he mentioned, it takes 3 months for tomotoe to grow and mature.
I am looking for a way people can pull resources to set up a farm

x240:


And I work in a firm that audits financial institutions, banks, and allied institutions . I am trained to detect bullshit and I call this tale bullshit.

Local transfers to which BDC? The BDC in Nigeria or in Cameroun. If in Nigeria, how do you ferry 76million naira or whatever Cameroun spends across the border? I do FX transactions with dorm accounts, cards and underground channels and you would be a maestro to move such cash around. Do you know what money laundering even is?

Do you know why most people rich people buy artworks, Jewelries , diamonds and so on? It is because you cannot possibly move cash around with such ease.

People who buy from China use domiciliary accounts to push such large funds and they take 3 business days minimum.

x240:


Leave all of them make them dey feed us with inaccurate information like say we never Waka pass lagos. Markurdi to Ogoja alone is more than 4 to 5hours. Ogoja to Ikom with the terrible bad roads last I passed through there was up to 5hours. We left Ogoja around 7pm and got to ikom around 2am. Poor visibility and the rains also contributed to it though

owagbeba:
There's definitely a pattern of mentality something akin to crab mentality here on NL. These folks would rather tie down ops personality and ridicule him than praise him for trying the alleviate the current tomato scarcity. They would rather be up here screaming, tomato is now 6 pcs for 750 naira; calabar to ikon is not 4 hours, etc..

My question to these folks with this mentality is this, what have you done to make tomato available?

owagbeba:
There's definitely a pattern of mentality something akin to crab mentality here on NL. These folks would rather tie down ops personality and ridicule him than praise him for trying the alleviate the current tomato scarcity. They would rather be up here screaming, tomato is now 6 pcs for 750 naira; calabar to ikon is not 4 hours, etc..

My question to these folks with this mentality is this, what have you done to make tomato available?

ubcandid:



In a country where people and the society don't pay attention to research am not surprised at your direction of thinking and countenance.

most threads like these usually end up in fraud and from my deduction going through this thread, people are asking question because they either have business they run or they understand how border trade works.

its a nice initiative by the OP but the story sounds too swift. the OP has his phone number on his profile, do you know how many people have contacted him and what has transpired behind?

it is your duty to guard youtlrself and your finances through accurate thinking. if you are as smart as you think you are, you would see that the questions directed to the OP where technical and from people who have deep knowledge about transactions.

I have tried dealing on Gold before from India to Brussels to soulk in Dubai. my dear there is no such free walk into established businesses.

GOLDWELL:


My advise, do that thing that sounds like a lie to the 'intellects' and the dullards.

frankzone:
. I work in a bank, I understand everything he said about transfers, he's quite right, he's making local transfers to bdc agents and you can send as much as he stated. Most times some banks set the limit transfer as 1mil but you can upgrade to unlimited and I remember when he said his bank's customer care were calling him to verify the transfers. So in terms of his transfers bro, that's a non issue. Na d risks and logistics where wahala dey. I've known ds young man and he's a genius

owagbeba:
There's definitely a pattern of mentality something akin to crab mentality here on NL. These folks would rather tie down ops personality and ridicule him than praise him for trying the alleviate the current tomato scarcity. They would rather be up here screaming, tomato is now 6 pcs for 750 naira; calabar to ikon is not 4 hours, etc..

My question to these folks with this mentality is this, what have you done to make tomato available?

Ymodulus:
5. BANKS RESTRICTIONS: GTBank Needs to step up her Game. In Diamond Bank, a savings
account holder can transfer up to 10M a day
without hassles all from Mobile App. Gtbank
restricts transfers to N1Million. Also Gtbank
Tramsfer is very slow as compared to Diamond.
My Friend Had a hard time transferring Funds.

remsonik:
Mr macaroni riding on a bicycle........................,.......

gannycute:
@ ymodulus, are you still importing the Tomato? If I want to buy from you in Lagos, how do I go about it. I need like 20 baskets for an event. Will I pay on delivery or I will pay before you bring it down. Thanks

Acidosis:
You're a REAL businessman, a risk* taker!

Doing Business in Nigeria is tedious, I can imagine all you passed through settling those area boys & incessant 'tax' collectors.

I would like to see your expenses, ROI, etc.

MaziOmenuko:


Please do send me the idea. I've received 2 already and it's not inspiring at all. How can a Nigerian think of refrigerating tomatoes? How is he even going to power the cold room?

Please make consultations and get back to me.

onatisi:

Thanks for throwing more light on this issue. We all know that tomatoes is a perishable product that gets spoilt after 3 days . Moving them from Cameroon to states in the west will most definitely cause financial losses. The best thing for anyone to do will be to sell to states near the border .the risk involved in this business far outweighs its gains. The only exception is if one is buying unriped tomatoes

lordhugo:


All you need is a Greenhouse (rows and rows actually to be commercially viable) growing indeterminate variety of heat and humidity resistant tomato.

You can pick fresh all year round.

Read up on the idea (do your research) and reach me for implementation.

08030964896

Why buy, when you can grow?

70,000,000 to buy tomatoes? No sir.

I will rather setup the biggest tomato greenhouse project in the south with that amount.

growing indeterminate variety of heat and humidity resistant tomato

MaziOmenuko:


The Greenhouse was the first on my mind and I did a bit of research and got discouraged. Its a wonderful thing, but controlling humidity, temp and replicating favourable weather conditions for tomatoes inside the greenhouse was going to make the project not to be cost-effective.



This could be the solution; are there such seedlings that are humidity and heat resistance?

karlxavier:
@ lugo, I would like to know more about the seedlings you are referring to. Thanks

gannycute:
@ ymodulus, are you still importing the Tomato? If I want to buy from you in Lagos, how do I go about it. I need like 20 baskets for an event. Will I pay on delivery or I will pay before you bring it down. Thanks