aribisala0:
Guy I can see you are bitter but this thread is about the business of cattle not your pet hate.


Specifically I want to talk about growing casaava to feed cattle.


Numbers
How much land does it take to feed 1 cow to maturity . That is the focus


Yoruba have not and will NEVER seek help from Ibos for security

We know you are bitter about Twenty pounds so stop feeling relevant you will never be

if you want your cow to craze on your land for food then one acre of land per cow but if you are doing zero grazing, then you need less than that for a cow .

omoharry:
if you want your cow to craze on your land for food then one acre of land per cow but if you are doing zero grazing, then you need less than that for a cow .

Grazing just grass?

aribisala0:
We hear all the time that herdsmen dig up people's cassava to feed to their cows.
The question to my mind is what is stopping people in the south from keeping cattle.

There is nothing to say that only Fulani can keep cows

From available evidence they do not even seem to have any scientific understanding of what they are doing

What seems clear is that cows can be raised on cassava.


Cassava is very easy to grow. There is plenty of rain in the south and people have no jobs

The obvious question people will ask is

Where do we get cows from?

Yes a good question

It is not supposed to be easy
but Nigerians are resourceful people

There are so many breeds of cattle that will do well in the south and breeds can be imported or developed

This is what the likes of NDDC and rich states like Delta and and Akwa Ibom should be doing

The truth is the land in the south is blessed and that is why the Fulani covet it.

It is not rocket science.



We have to start somewhere

Why don't you advocate people stop eating beef. That is far easier and has more devastating effect on herdsmen.
No beef eater, no sales, reduced incentive to rear cattle. Be reminded most fulani don't eat beef, so if fulani can avoid eating beef why not you affected by herdsmen

nedu666:



Why don't you advocate people stop eating beef. That is far easier and has more devastating effect on herdsmen.
No beef eater, no sales, reduced incentive to rear cattle. Be reminded most fulani don't eat beef, so if fulani can avoid eating beef why not you affected by herdsmen

My issue here on this thread is not herdsmen it is business and employment for our young people.
I am told herdsmen don;t eat meat anyway.

So there is no contradiction.
Advocating that people don't eat meat is unrealstic.

At any rate beef can be exported. Last year Brazil earned $ 6 billion from beef exports

The same model would work with goats