Shegricho:


Dumb ass, did you read it all?

iamord:
This has been the issue with africans which raises the question as to how we think as a race... It's evident that the Black man thinks towards consumption and not sustainability... Not adding any value but just thinking of today and what ever trends...no grand aspirations.. Just enjoying the menu as it comes.. I read an article about the slave trade era which made me see that in a part of Nigeria... Youths dropped farming to start kidnapping when they saw that the slavery business was booming... When it ended alot of them began to cry fowl.. Same goes to the palm kernel and gold etc... If we want to grow as a people we have to think of sustainability... Adding value to our natural resources and creating brands of it that can compete in the global stage. Else we will keep playing second fiddle...

otunbadan:
For about two weeks this is what has been on my mind,think of Nutella .... Guys just google it. What we need is business savvy systems which will accurately employ financing,production strategy and marketing to create billion dollar companies. Nice write up .

0b100100111:
Would have graduated with a 3rd Class Honors if I could read and assimilate the long epistle.

Can someone please summarize for me in two sentences

EmpresFIDEL:
yeye post. if we can produce agricultural product and process them to finish goods Nigeria will be great. Nigerians are lazy dy don't want to work. am an agricultural student... agric is like blood money.

gemale:

A very wise person i met in nysc camp called we blacks," the Esau race" & the west "the jacob race". Exactly what Op said, this fellow said breaking down & analysing the virus of consumerism & mediocrity in Africans. An average African aspires just to have money and not to make tangible impact in the world. Esau was a hunter & probably came from the bush with some animals yet he didn't think about cooking it 2 eat before foolishly selling his birthright to jacob for a mess of pottage. The same way we as africans do not think about how to convert our resources to finished products but instead turn it over to the west, who process and sell back the finished products to us at a way higher price. We are so myopic that we are contented with the roles we played during the colonial times as a source of raw materials for the industries of the west. We don't even bother about the fate of the raw materials we send over there & what it's being used for. For example, you hear numerous invitations to seminars on how to make millions from the export of wood charcoal. What the people you are selling the charcoal for, we don't know and we don't care to ask. Imagine if by some secret technological intervention, those people have found a way to rearrange the carbon atoms to that of a diamond? But no, we don't think like that. All that matters to us is to get the money. It wasn't until i watched a foreign documentary that i discovered that charcoal was essential in the production of pig iron. I bemoaned our folly that day. We were busy being encouraged to ship materials to boost another country's iron & steel industry while ours was conatose. When we need metals to build, we would then import tonnes from over season and we think we can develop with such intellectual deficiency.

Rick9:

Are you sure you read the post from start to finish ?

This write up is rubbish. Agriculture is the solution, it's just been poorly executed. When you get the said cocoa, the key isn't to import it, you are supposed to pass it down through several production cycles. The skin of the plsnt as fertilizer? The seeds sold to local companies to make their own beverages, chocolate etc. Its the solution, it depends on how you exploit it.

Lifestone:
Seems the writer is not following the drift of Nigeria policy on Agriculture expecially since Dr Adesina, with his value chain approach to agriculture development, that covers his feats and concerns. Every nation should start from her area of comparative advantage, agriculture is sure for Nigeria

MrOdyssey:
As funny as it may sound Africa And Asia seem to be the world's farm. They produce the raw material for virtually all the food consumed around the word but.


These two continents hold the position of the poorest continents in the world.

Trully, who Agriculture alone don epp.

MrOdyssey:
As funny as it may sound Africa And Asia seem to be the world's farm. They produce the raw material for virtually all the food consumed around the word but.


These two continents hold the position of the poorest continents in the world.

Trully, who Agriculture alone don epp.

jagugu88li:
Smart guy.......Value adding old product for new markets, new products for new markets and the the leftover is tendered as an old product for old markets. The returns can tripple the targeted estimation and the good thing is, nothing goes to waste.

gemale:

Sir, i've had similar thoughts too but mine was jump started by skippy's.

This write up is rubbish. Agriculture is the solution, it's just been poorly executed. When you get the said cocoa, the key isn't to import it, you are supposed to pass it down through several production cycles. The skin of the plsnt as fertilizer? The seeds sold to local companies to make their own beverages, chocolate etc. Its the solution, it depends on how you exploit it.

Rick9:

Preaching about Agriculture without Agricultural industries is not the way forward.

Tayeni:
free yourself from ignorance and stop leading other people into you hole....
you wanted to appear wise without reading.....but you ended up exposing how empty you are.

mmsen:


It isn't funny at all, if Europe was so wonderful those people would not have had to engage in genocide to remove the native Americans and the Aboriginal Australians from their fertile lands. Nor would they have had to steal from the peoples of Asia and Africa. You're right that those two continents prop up the world but it explains why the Europeans have been so violent over the centuries.

Tayeni:
free yourself from ignorance and stop leading other people into you hole....
you wanted to appear wise without reading.....but you ended up exposing how empty you are.

EmpresFIDEL:
hmm I did not jhoor. nice observation though

Seungid1:

Kikikikiki, why is this so funny to me? I guess you did not read that intelligent writeup there. South koreans import food, they hardly practise agriculture, do you know where they are in world economy? We are soooo backward around here, jeeeezzzzz!
Nobody is saying agrisulture is not good for us as a country, but it cannot be what the economy will be solely based on.

jagugu88li:
I think it is a matter of population and greed bro. See this....Asia produces more than enough but first has to feed the citizens before supplying for the export market. And their polulation is way above way....... Loss. Meaning they compete amongst the greatest food producers but fail when it comes to exporting.....where the money is

SA produces just enough but the problem mostly is that the export specifications are forever altered by these hungry westerners, making the returns less than -. Its every farmer's nightmare