₦airaland Forum

free2ryhme: you will grow white hair

kingoflag: Please kindly STFU and stop trying to tell me what to say to another imb*ecile that sounds just as idiotic as your dunce self. Thanks in advance.

Now, back to topic.

Bottom-line, if you do not have an inspirational leader to lead the country in the proper direction, NOTHING WILL WORK!

kingoflag: Oh my God! This dude you need to voluntarily sign up for rehab, u sound crazier than a drugged out looney.

Symphony007: a commendable step but the problem in nigeria is not signing MOU's or awarding projects. It's the ability to supervise them to the end. I see no reason why the 16th largest producer of tomato in the world would be loosing 50% of it's harvest to rot. We'll be watching.

awodman: ....“However, to say the President will contest the election, let the heavens fall is not the way to go. No sacrifice is too great to make for the survival of this nation.”....

awodman: “Apart from having the banks recapitalised, when there
were issues in the banks, Mr President came in and
empowered the banks and we now have very strong
banks.

The $3.3 billion that we raised, over 90 per cent of the
money was from the Nigerian Banks and some of them at
low rate. It is from the banks’ dollar reserves that they
gave us $2.8 billion out of the $3.3 billion at 6 per cent
interest rate. Really, Mr President, you have done quite a
lot because, before now, I remember when we built the
cement plant that we are talking about. At a point, we
actually borrowed money and we were paying 42 per cent interest rate.

“From 2004 to 2006, by the time we finished the factory,
on interest rate alone, we paid $210 million. So, this is
something that this government had done which really we need to come out and tell the people that this is what our government is doing,’’ he said.

Dangote, who said the President had also approved some
backward integration policies for sugar, rice, cassava and
palm oil, added that his conglomerate is investing $2
billion on sugar manufacturing in the country which will
generate about 750,000 job opportunities

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dangote-our-corporation-is-now-worth-21bn/158403/

Symphony007: How does the so called perishables get to the airport without spoiling when investments have'nt been made in modern storage facilities in farms and cooling vans, where are you exporting them to? Because no country will buy perishables which are very sensitive from a country like nigeria where there is no organisation.

How many farms have the facilities to pack the perishables in cartons, crates, etc and brand it as an internationally recognised farm. Last i checked, nigeria does'nt have such commercial farms.

And finally i do hope the minister realise that december is just about three months away.

rainbowman: From what I could discern from the Summit, the FG has its own over agenda on Agriculture and its up to states to tap in to this overall programme as it suits them. It is about vertical and horizontal integration and the main beneficiaries are the people. The minister further said that he just organized a meeting with all Agric Commissioners of which the Osun State Commissioner was a participant and 97 % if captured Osun farmers benefited from the GES scheme amounting to 58,000 or so farmers. In my opinion I detect a disconnect between his Excellency and his advisers. More so his speech at the end of the session was at best grandstanding as he contradicted himself so many times. I would suggest State Governments rather that throwing away the baby and bath water should key into this scheme to get credit for the business farmers and generally improve the livelihood of the citizenry. I must say, I was genuinely excited from what I watched however on the downside some of the foreign investors expressed their disappointment on the difficulty in getting import waivers for agric machinery, poor state of infrastructure and some government policies. I felt that this could have been highlighted by the newspapers rather than the Aregbesola issue.

Obiagelli:
@red how else do you measure success of the scheme if not price and availability of our major produce? Is it by grammar.

@ green is the joke not on the minister? Osun has empowered its farmers by creating a market for them, more people are obvious taking to farming and do not be surprised when they start exporting produce. Common sense is set the market rolling, make farming lucrative and let others take the left over (export)

Obiagelli: trust me a commercial farmer does not even bother himself about subsidized fertiliser, because the fertiliser distributed by the FG is of low quality and is not diverse as there are different fertiliser for different crops.

Why subsidise fertiliser anyway, I won't go into farming just because fertiliser is subsidized, what happens to making the market attractive, how about storage and transportation.

Sis mi, the fertiliser is just about the least problem farmers are facing, they want to sell their produce fast at good prices before they perish.

Subsidy is also the reason why private companies shy away from fertiliser business.

Obiagelli: You've got to be kidding me, ask the farmers on ground, do you know there is scarcity of maize as we speak, do you know a kilo of maize cost 88 naira and soya beans 122 naira per kilo.

Obiagelli: Where is the results of the phantom success in the fertiliser distribution in other states, you should discuss with farmers in your state and here from them.

rainbowman: I watched the State Governors session yesterday, though, I missed the keynote address from the Honourable Minister of Agriculture. From what I gathered, however, I discovered that the Minister had all the data including names and locations of all farmers who benefited from the GES programme with regards to fertilizer. Moreso, other state governors including the Governors of Kebbi, Anambra, Kogi and Cross Rivers state all had stories of how successful the scheme was but still pointed out some shortcoming where the Minister ought to improve. So its surprising that if some states recorded such feats while Mr Aregbesola could not.Other Governors were talking about improving value chains, bringing in investors and giving them some incentives such as land and tax holidays so as to readily process cash and food products, Mr Aregbesola claimed that the whole Agric transformation was a sham. For instance the Anambra state governor along with Governor Dakingari of Kebbi mentioned their success stories on rice production, using Sure P funds to purchase the products for storage from the peasant farmers in order to ensure price stability and income for the farmers however out brother from Osun state was just purely negative and obviously had no grasp about the issue at hand. I was really dissapointed with his response when asked what his state is doing differently in order to encourage investors to come and invest all he could point out was that he was feeding 300,000 pupils with one egg per week to which the entire session erupted in laughter. That is not to say that venture is not a good feat in itself, but the real question remains the sustainability of the whole venture since the resounding theme of the Summit is to make Agriculture private sector driven. As for the agriculture transformational agenda, I believe that there has to be cooperation between the Federal and State Governments regardless of political orientation, in that the States identify areas which are favourable to the them, bring in the investors and ask the Federal Government to provide gurantees for funding and policies since the state government more or less own the land.

awodman: .
At one point, he claimed his state had been shut out of the federal government fertiliser distribution scheme to aid farmers in various state, stressing that about N1 billion had been spent from the state purse to procure fertiliser ƒσя farmers.

However, his claim was refuted by the Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Akinwunmi
Adesina, who said it was untrue that fertilisers had failed to reach Osun State, adding that it was beyond the federal government to deliver the product directly to farmers in the states.

Monzuur: We always hear all dis stuffs but y is it dat other presidents dnt pay visit to Nigeria? Maybe dey dnt av any biz wit us abi?........abi I no dey hear d News Ni?

Caleboha: Travelling when your house is on fire!

bilms: Some people just sit in their office to write shit about that hell called train. Take a trip on the hell of a train and will come back to tell us how hot it is.

President Goodluck Jonathan will at the invitation of President Uhuru Kenyatta embark on a three-day state visit to Kenya on Thursday.

A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati, stated that the visit is in furtherance of efforts to boost bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and Kenya which were initiated during President Kenyatta’s visit to Abuja in July this year.

The statement said “the Bilateral talks between Nigeria and Kenya in Nairobi on Friday will focus on the expansion of cooperation between the two countries in the areas of trade, economic development, agriculture and tourism development”.

Mr. Jonathan will be accompanied on the trip by the First Lady, Patience Jonathan; and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs; Agriculture and Rural Development; Industry, Trade & Investment; Interior; Petroleum Resources; and Culture, Tourism & National Orientation.

The president is also scheduled to participate in a business forum with leading Kenyan and Nigerian investors.

He will address a joint session of the Kenyan Parliament and meet Nigerians resident in the country before returning to Abuja on Saturday.