kkins25:


Juju, you know, is relative. 🤣

budaatum:
I wonder how you think we get those big yams that are desired for dowries.

Cindypresh:


Oga go and grow your 2yrs yam nau, stop mentioning me.

Make it 5yrs sef, it'll grow bigger

Blue3k:


If that's the case why not consider setting up shop In Kano or Kuduna. Alot of Nigerian cows are imported from Niger 🇳🇪. Process it there and drive it South in refrigerated trucks or rail when it becomes available. Contract with the super markets to supply them regularly.

CodeTemplar:
Still churning out useless data to support trashy arguments.

Self sufficiency connotes local production and if there is currently an import trend in that area, then import substitution is just another term for the process that leads to self-sufficiency. One is the goal and the other encompasses the whole process toaards achieving that goal, but in your stone-headedness, you prefer to twist grammar and play the smart debater. All what you presented as argument ended up supporting my point that import substitution is needed in our case because we are currently importing what we can produce locally. We have refinery so can substitute petrol, diesel and jet fuel import with local production. We practice agric so can equally substitute food import with local food if there is increase in production.
We have willing learners that can be groomed to achieve same in medical tourism. Same for education.
Rebrand it all you want and put up your courtroom attitude of never backing down all you want, we still need import substitution.

Seems even your ardent supporting monikers are fed up with petty tactics cos the likes and shares had dried up. Lol.

CodeTemplar:
Still churning out useless data to support trashy arguments.

Self sufficiency connotes local production and if there is currently an import trend in that area, then import substitution is just another term for the process that leads to self-sufficiency. One is the goal and the other encompasses the whole process toaards achieving that goal, but in your stone-headedness, you prefer to twist grammar and play the smart debater. All what you presented as argument ended up supporting my point that import substitution is needed in our case because we are currently importing what we can produce locally. We have refinery so can substitute petrol, diesel and jet fuel import with local production. We practice agric so can equally substitute food import with local food if there is increase in production.
We have willing learners that can be groomed to achieve same in medical tourism. Same for education.
Rebrand it all you want and put up your courtroom attitude of never backing down all you want, we still need import substitution.

Seems even your ardent supporting monikers are fed up with petty tactics cos the likes and shares had dried up. Lol.

CodeTemplar:
beaf and USA is not an appropriate example. I know you don't understand the fact you are hurriedly churning out here. Import of beaf can be for onward processing and re-exporting. That puts a whole new meaning to the data and makes it inappropriate for your argument.

malali:


Thats a good idea, buy 5 cold trucks, kill process and transfer to south daily.But do we have supermarkets that can keep meat refrigerated without power failure ? Most people are use to killing the meat today in abattoir and selling the same day.

AmazingGenius:


Nigerians may soon be importing yam for local consumption from China, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Ernest Umakihe, has said.

Umakihe stated this while speaking at a stakeholders workshop on repositioning yam as an export crop.

He lamented that despite accounting for 67% of global yam output, it was unfortunate that Nigeria is nowhere on the map of yam exporting countries.

He expressed concerns that with China delving into yam exportation, and considering Nigerians taste for imported goods, Chinese yam may soon be found in Nigerian kitchen if care is not taken, thereby pushing more Nigerians into the unemployment market and and reducing income of yam farmers.

Umakihe said Nigerian’s first attempt at exporting yam was by Nasarawa State Government in 2009 with 8.5 metric tonnes and within the same month another 66 metric tonnes were exported in two shipments, followed by Oyo State, but without success.
He also said that the Ministry’s attempt to revive yam export in 2017 was poorly handled.

“It was only in 2017 that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture under the leadership of Chief Audu Ogbeh, then Minister, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development organised the first flag-off ceremony (of yam) with a batch of 72 tons to UK and USA. I believe these were done without proper planning before the execution. Aside the mentioned attempts, nothing much has been heard of the yam export from Nigeria,” he said.

Speaking on the theme of the workshop, ‘Prospects and Challenges of yam export in Nigeria’, he said it is the duty of Nigerians to find out what went wrong and how to address.

https://leadership.ng/nigerians-may-soon-start-importing-yam-from-china-perm-sec-laments-2/

budaatum:
I plant yam in my Osun State farm, planning to leave it in ground to grow for 2 years, then someone comes in the 7-8 month to harvest it in the middle of the night.

Meanwhile Ghana yam boku for Deptford Market at 2 for £5.

Konquest:

The stats here on this thread clearly show that Nigeria is indeed a real underachiever when it comes to expanding the commodities value chains for localized consumption and export to the huge Nigerian Diaspora population.

The Ghanaians have mastered the art of TQM and this is why Ghana yams are widely exported in raw form to the UK and the U.S.

grandstar:


You always choose to be stubborn, just wanting to argue.

As he said, importation is largely driven by demand for different tastes.

For instance, there was a year Japan limited imports of US beef due to the outbreak of disease.They turned to Australian beef. However, Japanese were not used to Australian beef. Tastes differ.

Yes, some beef may be imported and reprocessed and exported or used locally if it's profitable to a businessman.

There's so much variety in the meat industry. So many types of steak, hotdogs, burgers and so forth.

My brother's friend buys his steak from South Africa for his hotel in Nigeria.

grandstar:


Economic illiteracy is what's fuelling this your obsession with self sufficiency.

What's concerns Nigeria with self sufficiency in refined oil

We are talking global dominance in oil and gas and you're talking self sufficiency?

N8geria should be the defacto hub of oil and gas on the continent! Refining 4mbpd, petrochemical giant, fertilizer giant, logistic giant, world beating oil servicing firms, generating 100,000mw of piwer etc. You're talking self sufficiency. I dey talk supermarket, you dey talk kiosk.

This is a product the nation has competitive and comparative advantage in has been left moribund due to the subsidies on refined products. If maximized, it would transform the native.

Economists are not in search of self sufficiency. They are in search for the maximization of resources.

Simply being self sufficient in what you can produce is self defeating.

If the resources squandered on rice had been spent on crops the country has comparative advantage in, agricultural expirts would have increased by at least $5bn. It actually be up to This is more than enough the cover the rice imports for a year. Sheabutter and sesame seed can each generat $2bn. And that's only 2 crops.

Cambodia increased cashew production from 100,000mt to 700,000mt within a decade. Nigeria still remains at 100,000mt. When you focus on where you have comparative advantage, you gain many times the return so called self sufficiency goals can ever achieve.

The country should be a dominant player in yams but I forgot all resources have been poured into rice. So, Ghana is a large exporter of yams to the UK than Nigeria

I can not continue to educate an economic illiterate who can not mention a single economist he admires. It is because their names aren't in Yoruba textbooks.

You have also dodged the question of which county today is sucessfully using import substitution policies to drive growth.or industrialization. Is that why you read Yoruba?

budaatum:
I wonder how you think we get those big yams that are desired for dowries.

CodeTemplar:
Where is blue3k and his clique of statistics churners? We are top consumer and top producer, but deficit in supply doesn't mean we should all start celebrating our top producer status as consolation. It all means our status as top producer doesn't automatically position us for export or as the best cultivators around.

Cc: nairalanda1, grandstar.

Exousiang01:


Its amazing that this dude is posting the pictures of a white man to show the nation who is the largest producer of yam on earth an example....

budaatum:

The pity really is the thieves who harvest my yams before I want them harvested, which is precisely why we will be importing yams from China eventually.

Exousiang01:

How many tubers have you bought from Zaki By an that you are talking about importing from China.

You want to start importing yam from China because someone stole your yams in Osun.....

Please quick question: Re you Alright?
I mean mentally

budaatum:


Why do yo ask? Have I asked you for mental help?

Exousiang01:

You first dey talk about 2-3 years for yam wer be annual crops.
Don't you know yam dies after 1 year?

budaatum:

This is what my people say too that makes them come and harvest my yam early.

budaatum:


Why would I not mention you when you mentioned and questioned me?

I'd love to let my yam grow for 5 years, but I'm afraid you wouldn't let it.

Cindypresh:


Kikikikiki

You should go into comedy, you go blow even before your yam😂😂

budaatum:

Exousiang01:


When a man stand by the road side arguing with a mad mad man, soon people will begin to think the man also mad -Prof Chinua Achebe

I don't comot from this conversation Abeg.
I don't want people seeing me in a funny light

budaatum:


The person who has only seen his father's farm would claim his father's farm is the biggest.

https://afrifoods.co.uk/blogs/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-yams

https://plantvillage.psu.edu/topics/yams/infos

Exousiang01:


Keep sending us links from UK websites.
As your brain never tell you say every country get wetin dey grow for there.

budaatum:


You are a very funny individual. Do we not import palmnuts and cocoa seeds to plant in Nigeria that grow quicker and yield more than our local produce?

For your information, you can only grow yam in a greenhouse in UK because the weather is not right for it. It gets far too cold for yam to grow in the open.

Exousiang01:


And it's their text example you want to follow here in Nigeria in Osun state where yams rot in the ground because of heat.

budaatum:

This is what my people say too that makes them come and harvest my yam early.

budaatum:


As I've said:



And I am done with you.

Blue3k:


Lol the clown can't answer that question. Yes Nigeria is the top producer and consumer. He didn't bother posting the correct stats to correct me for a reason. Even when arguing about beef imports, he's still wrong.

grandstar:


No mind am.

Someone that read Yoruba and he's claiming to be an economics guru.