Will it interest you to know that Yam was placed on the Export Prohibition List by Customs?

Which effectively meant it was illegal to export Yam just like it is still illegal to export Maize, Scrap Metal etc.

But that ban had been lifted because yam is aplenty in Nigeria and there is growing international demand for the commodity.

Do you think Government is completely insensitive to have done this?

seems the only time our erudite tribaist is able to make a halfway coherent argument is when he is citing obscure events and pictures as a basis for tribal superioroity

oyb:

seems the only time our erudite tribaist is able to make a halfway coherent argument is when he is citing obscure events and pictures as a basis for tribal superioroity

That is his forte and the reason why he is champion in that segment is because no one in his/her right mind will spend his/her time researching on totally redundant, irrelevant, and caustic subjects.

~Bluetooth:

roflmao, sometimes i just dont know how that guy reason.perhaps,i wont blame him since he doesnt eat balance diet.

LWKMD

knotty:

Will it interest you to know that Yam was placed on the Export Prohibition List by Customs?

Which effectively meant it was illegal to export Yam just like it is still illegal to export Maize, Scrap Metal etc.

But that ban had been lifted because yam is aplenty in Nigeria and there is growing international demand for the commodity.

Do you think Government is completely insensitive to have done this?

Nigeria has zero food security (thus, 100% food insecurity). FACT. This was evident in the recent protest by food suppliers and the rippling effect on the entire nation. Thus, the thinking that we have started producing more yams than we usually did may not justify exporting the yams when clearly the smallest deviation from the existing production systems spells hunger and even starvation. I remember that Ethiopia once exported its excess corn to South Africa, only to have 35 million of its citizens starving to death the very next year and going cap in hand begging the UN for food aid. Reasonable countries plan their food security system not by exporting the little they have, but by processing any little excess for longer shelf life. A sizable number of Nigerians go hungry and only self deniers will refute that. We have an abundance of non-food raw materials we could export to diversify our economy (though I still prefer some value added to any of those via processing, even if partial). By next year, I pray  we do not come back to this topic to analyse the price of yams in the local market.

~Bluetooth:

roflmao, sometimes i just dont know how that guy reason.perhaps[b],i wont blame him since he doesnt eat balance diet.[/b]

That is funny!!

Even the WB knows we have issues with food security in Nigeria, hence the credit facility.

Food Security: W’Bank Earmarks $45m for Nigeria, 2 Others
From Dele Ogbodo in Abuja, 05.27.2010

Fct

The Sector Leader, Sustainable Development of the World Bank in Nigeria, Mrs. Shobha Shetty yesterday said the bank has set aside the sum of $45 million credit for Agricultural Productivity Programme in three West African countries as part of its Global Agricultural and Food Security Programme for Africa.
The benefiting countries, she said, include Nigeria, Cote D’ Voire and Burkina Faso. She said "We are working with Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria basically to improve agricultural productivity in the three West African countries.”
She expressed optimism that the project will soon be approved by the Board of World Bank and then start implementation in few months time.

Shetty, spoke when she led a delegation of the World Bank team on a courtesy visit to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Sheik Abdullah and the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Najeem Awodele in their office.
Underscoring the reason for the USD45 million credit and her visit to the minister, she said, the World Bank is ready to work with the ministry to help develop a workable proposals under the scheme.
She explained that Nigeria is expected to develop a National Agricultural Investment Plan as part of the process that the country endorsed last year.

Identifying the key challenge in Agricultural financing Nigeria, she said, "I think that the key challenge is for the Ministry of Agriculture to really have a well resourced and well costed investment that really identify the funding gap and how donors can align themselves to it."
However, she said the key issue was to improve agricultural productivity through knowledge support system, getting the right technology to the rural farmers and connecting linkages between researches and extension services in these countries. Beside improving life and contributing to food security, she said the World Bank intends to use the model for similar projects elsewhere in Africa.
She expressed happiness that the Fadama programme is on course in 12 states of the Federation while the Fadama 3 is also currently on in 35 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

lol

But why is yam not into western menu like potato?

Everything african tend to be on the sideline even when they are naturally the best.