₦airaland Forum

sinistermind:
Like I said large scale commercial agriculture. An average southerner prefers building or selling hi piece of land instead of going into agricuture. And besides most youth in the south go into agriculture cos of lack of "whit-collar" jobs, I stand to be corrected.

I know southerners that have large scale farms and have over 20,000 chickens for sale of eggs and chickens.

just because u don't know doesn't mean southerners don't have large scale farms.

sinistermind:
Without prejudice to th original post, I beg to differ. The southern part of Nigeria which includes the south west, south south and south east are capable enough to produce food in commercial commodity but most don't want to go into agriculture. And to say the southerners are dependent on the north is just how Sen. Ben sees it. The south has more fertile soil for large scale commercial farming and can even survive without food supply from the north but can the north survive without the oil from the south?

check nairaland agriculture section.. there are many youths that are into farming in southern Nigeria... Most are already into agriculture.... northern labor is cheap.. so some southerners use northerners to sell their agric products.

sinkhole:
of course Mind you I am not from the north but I am currently at the north central! Beleive me, in terms of food, I dont see how these people will depend on the south! They farm here all year round and the people of the south are already becoming very lazy, they do not really farm in the south again!

North central is not the north... it is only referred to north for northern political gain... it is meant to be called central Nigeria.... when Nigeria was northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria.. the place they call north central was part of southern Nigeria..

ChoCandyDiamond:
Without the discovery of oil, Nigeria would have been a very poor country like Niger and Mali, Cocoa was never a major source of Nigeria income, in the 60's the major source of Nigeria income is from Groundnut and Cotton from the North, Coal mining in Enugu and Palm oil from the East, Cocoa from the Mid West and West. The major contributor then was Cotton, Coal mining in Enugu and Tin mining in Jos.

EasternActivist is right... Cocoa was the major source of income... even today, after crude oil its cocoa... Palm produce is also abundant in the SW.. there is place named Palm Groove in Lagos.... It used to consist of palm trees and other farming activities before the influx of people ruined Lagos farming activities.