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iniobong888:
Did you know that Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of cassava, churning out a staggering 63 million tons ? That’s more than double what Thailand, the third-largest producer, grows at 27 million tons. Yet, here’s the kicker: while Nigeria dominates cassava production, Thailand controls 60% of the global cassava starch market, an industry worth over $117 billion! Meanwhile, Nigeria imports over 600,000 metric tons of cassava starch yearly, with local production meeting a mere 5% of our demand.

Let that sink in. We’re the global cassava king, but we’re still importing what we should be producing – and exporting – in abundance.

But wait, it gets even more intriguing. Cassava isn’t just about starch. Another golden opportunity lies in ethanol production, a global market valued at over $100 billion. Nigeria currently imports a whopping $350 million worth of ethanol annually, meeting only 8% of our domestic needs. Imagine the potential if we tapped into our cassava resources to produce ethanol locally. The economic impact would be transformative!

And that’s not all. Every year, Nigeria generates over 15 million tons of cassava peels, a byproduct that’s often discarded. But here’s the twist: these peels are a golden opportunity to produce affordable, high-quality feed for poultry and livestock. This could revolutionize our agricultural sector, reduce feed costs, and boost food security.

The Big Question: What Are We Waiting For?
The cassava value chain is a goldmine waiting to be explored. From starch production to ethanol extraction and animal feed innovation, the opportunities are endless. Nigeria has the resources, the demand, and the market potential. What we need now is action – investment, innovation, and collaboration to turn this potential into profit.

If you’re an investor, entrepreneur, policymaker, or just someone passionate about transforming Nigeria’s agricultural sector, this is your moment. The cassava value chain is ripe for disruption, and the rewards are monumental.

Let’s stop importing what we can produce. Let’s stop wasting what we can monetize. Let’s turn Nigeria’s cassava potential into global dominance.

Drop a comment, reach out, or share your thoughts. The conversation starts now – and the future of Nigeria’s cassava industry depends on you.
What will YOU do to be part of this transformation?
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Who are the buyers of cassava starch in Nigeria?
I understand that corn starch is imported and consumed in Nigeria, but I am not really sure of who imports and uses cassava starch in Nigeria.

I will be interested in producing cassava starch if there is guaranteed market for it.

Lawalsquared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcPpVqzjDQc?si=mEssIMUCMfYgrAbc

I guess you are the one on the youtube video.

You seem to imply that if you are going to plant 100s of acres of oilpalm, then buldozer is required to clear the land.
I think it might be possible to use manual labour for the land clearing to save cost.

I think one can just clear 1m to 2m wide strips of land manually and use the cleared strips as the rows to grow the oilpalm.

The remaining trees and bushes in the inter rows can be cleared manually and slowing afterwards while the palms are growing.

I have seen this done in the establishment of rubber tree plantations.

Rubber trees even have closer inter row spacing than oilpalm, so this can certainly be done with oilpalms.

You are correct about having your own nursery. It saves a lot of cost. However adequate watering is required to prevent the seedlings from dying in the nursery.

Instead of the man using chain link to secure the land, he should have used barbed wires for the fencing.

In the fight between cows and barbed wires, the cows always lose.

The barbed wire is what stopped farmer / herders clashes in the US long time ago.

lagbaja:
Does anyone know where I can get chipper/ shredder machine in Nigeria. I need it to create wood chip mulch for my farm.

Were you able to get a wood chipper in Nigeria?

I am looking for one to buy

This is more like company ownership tussle gone wrong.

What seem to have happened is that she was the 2nd wife of one of the company's owner who had died in 2004.

She tried taking over the company in 2014 by appointing a new company secretary, changing the company registered address, changing the shares structure of the company and then removing 2 of the directors of the company.

Then 5 years later in 2019, the company did a project and was paid some money.

The directors who had been removed 5 years previously went to court because she collected a substantial part of the payment. Some of the paperwork she used in changing the ownership structure in 2014 seems to have been faulty.

They wanted a pound of fresh and seems to have gotten it.

This is more like finding a way to criminalize a civil matter and succeeding.

DoinggroupLisa:
On Dec, 13 2024, a Nigerian customer successfully ordered a single screw palm oil press machine from Henan Glory Company.

This client from Nigeria grows palm plantations and wants to buy palm oil equipment. On October 26, the customer contacted us to understand the palm kernel and palm fruit pressing production line, but did not determine the specific equipment. After half a month, the customer said that he wanted to pay for the screw oil press, but the goods of our Nigerian branch were being cleared and the equipment needed to be upgraded, so the customer did not order. On December 9, the equipment upgrade of the warehouse in Nigeria was completed, and the customer purchased a single spiral palm oil press. In the process of communication, we showed him the single spiral palm press of Henan Honor Company, various project cases and video demonstrations, and provided Nigeria localization services. He expressed his trust in our company and was satisfied with the price, quality, efficiency and after-sales service of our machines.

In addition to single screw palm oil press machine, we also manufacture other palm oil processing machines and various edible oil processing machines. Henan Doing Company has projects all over the world. If you are interested in the edible oil processing machines, please feel free to contact us!

Your writeup is not very clear.

So you have a warehouse in Nigeria where you stock your products for people to buy?

You talked about an upgrade of your warehouse in Nigeria but did not state what role the warehouse played in this transaction.

Itzlinda:
Do we have castor in Nigeria?

Yes.

MemoriesAndMe:
How can cutting her hair, taking her pant and pouring her water lead to her death? I don't understand. Did he poison her to death?

In Nigeria of today, many of the people are very stupid.

If someone comes to your house and falls sick and dies, you will be arrested for murder. Majority online will say you used the person for rituals. No autopsy, no investigation, just quick conclusion that you are a murderer, most especially if you are a man, and the dead person is a woman.

The police are the most useless of them all. Very dull.

There need to be a law that all deaths that are not natural deaths must be followed by autopsy, paid for by the government, to know the actual cause of death.

I read through lots of the comments here and no one asked why no autopsy or any investigation by the police.

The Constitution requires the man accused of the crime to be brought before a judge within 24 hours, how will the police be able to take the man to court within 24 hours when they have not done any prior investigation before arresting the man? Dull police tramping on people's rights and messing up investigations.

Love800:
What is a drone?

A drone is an unmanned vehicle.

It could be an unmanned aerial vehicle like an unmanned plane or an unmanned helicopter that can be piloted remotely. It can also be an unmanned remotely operated ground or sea vehicle.

The unmanned aerial drones are more common.

just a few search and rescue drones per state of the federation will stop this nonsense.

But will the government agree to procure drones that cost less than 20,000 usd a piece? Even local governments can buy these drones.
Will they even allow private individuals to own and operate search and rescue drones.

Attempt to bring a drone into Nigeria now, they will tell you that you need national security adviser approval.
Will national security adviser give you approval to bring in a drone that will stop the kidnappings perpetuated by his Fulani brothers?

Nigerians need to take back their country. Since the powers that be might not allow you to import surveillance drones, build these drones locally.
Equip the drones with thermal cameras and normal cameras and track the kidnappers from the sky, relay their position to the police and the local vigilantes for them to be taken out.

Do these and see how this nonsense kidnapping stop.

Mrsoft3:
For Retirees Only: Starting An N11 Million A Year Orchard With N40,000 and Only One Hectare

- Ibraheem Dooba

(Here’s how to earn more than 10 million yearly from your orchard with as little as N40,000. And you only need one hectare.)

At the end of last year, when I consulted for a former head of service (HoS) on the management of his farm, I thought every retiree should do the same for financial security - planting a tree that’s never enough for global consumption.

- Get one hectare of land.

- Plant Brazilian cashews because they have huge nuts. That’s what we’re interested in, the nuts.

-The tree is very tolerant of drought and can survive a 2-5 month dry season (Duke, 1983). Usually, one rainy season is enough.

- It will start flowering in a year and get established in three years.

- The spacing should be between 6 to 8 meters between trees. That means you should plant 165 to 175 cashew seedlings on one hectare. But just go for a round figure of 200.

- A cashew seedling costs from N200 to N1,000. So that’s between N40,000 to N200,000 investment per hectare.

In three years, your one hectare will give you one ton of cashew nuts. Using the current market price, that’s N3 million for your one hectare.

- Just contact the National Cashew Association officials in your state, and they will buy from you or connect you to buyers.

But if the cashew plantation will take up to three years to give you money, what can you plant between the cashews that will earn you money within a year?

- Plant papaya.

- Each papaya tree will earn you N30,000. Since you can plant up to two papayas between cashew trees, you will be tempted to plant a lot, but limit it to 200.

- So, from 200 papayas, you will earn N6 million yearly.

- Papaya should take only seven months before you literally start enjoying the fruits of your labour.

But is there a plant that you can benefit from monthly, even before the papayas mature?

- Yes. But that’s for another day. Stay with this page for an update.

P.S. Plant the trees in straight rows because we need the spaces between rows to plant other crops that will give you daily or at least weekly income.

Very interesting business idea. But this shouldn’t be for the retirees alone 😁
It’s equally a promising venture for our teeming youngsters and women. Agroforestry is a decent poverty alleviation mechanism. I challenge us to put more efforts in shaping the mindset of our people. It means a lot.

Nice writeup. But I doubt some of the things you wrote. I don't think cashew can flower in 1 year after planting unless it is grafted cashew plants.
But if it is grafted cashew plants, then it will be difficult to get it at 200 naira per plant.

Moreover at the early stage of the life of the plantation, the yield is normally very low until the plant grows big enough to support heavier production, so I don't think you can get 1 ton of cashew nuts in the 3rd year. Maybe later in the life of the plantation.

Anyway it is still a good writeup and establishment of tree crops is a good way to ensure future financial stability.

Is there large market for pawpaw? Inter cropping pawpaw with trees can easily lead to production of large quantities of pawpaw and if the market is not there, then the farmers will lose.

I am interested in the other crop you hinted that can generate monthly revenue from the plantation. What crop is that?

mcjohny:
yes, It should be more than that
Based on how it's done over here, it can be watered atleast every 2 weeks until rain comes, even after the rain it can take up to 3 months that's if you will water it again before maturity.
12 months is enough to cashout on sugarcane I love it because it has unending market demand
Ask people, I mean experienced farmers ooh not those University lectures
Go to the farms, ask questions and you will be amazed

If I pay you, can you get the sugarcane planting materials for me? I am thinking of growing some sugarcanes

iamwhat:
My brother used his bare hand to mix Force Up weed killing harbiside.
Unfortunately, he had a wound in his hand and I think through the wound the herbiside with an active ingredient of Glyphosate has entered his blood stream (I might be wrong but this is how we think the herbiside entered his body).

It's been about 3 months now and his kidney function test shows it has been degrading. He feels nobness in his hand and his eyes is also getting affected.
He has gone to many hospitals and they didn't believe it's the herbiside. After conducting many tests, they just leave him in limbo.

He has spents so much money at Evercare hospital in Lekki and they also just stopped attending to him.
We have been looking for Toxicology and Poision control centre but we have not seen any reputable one.

His body is geeting weak everyday and his organs function are degrading.... Do you know any good hospital that can handle this or any posion control centre we can take him to?
Thanks!

there are 3 layers of medicare in Nigeria. You have the primary health centres, which give primary health care like immunisations, antinatal care, treatment of simple illnesses like malaria. Next you have the secondary health care centres, these include the General Hospitals you have in most cities and towns. they are design to manage the more challenging illnesses and routine surgeries.

next in line are the tertiary health centres. these are specialist health centres designed for research and treatment of the most difficult health challenges. examples of these are the University Teaching Hospitals and federal medical centres.

from what you have described, your brother has a medical condition that needs to be handled by the tertiary health care system, unfortunately he has been going to the secondary health care centres. I deally, they should have referred him to a tertiary health care centre. I wonder why he has not been referred.

Take your brother to a tertiary health care centre, somewhere like the teaching hospital of a federal university should be able to diagnose and handle his problem. take him to the federal university teaching hospital close to you. Any teaching hospital of the old generation federal universities should be fine.

Ade3131:
What title do you have?

Deed of assignment.

I have had the land for 8yrs and we planted cashews on it

Ade3131:
There's nothing that guarantees rest of mind like buying directly from NIFOR.

Google is your friend anyday on that. Buying from independent or private individuals comes with loads of risk due to the "Nigerian factor" we all know about.

I'm currently searching for a very good large land that can be used for the project within and around Ogun and Oyo state.

Nasarawa would have been a good idea too but security challenge is my greatest setback on any northern state.

NIFOR : https://nifor.org
Walk into any of their office and make enquiries. You'd be surprised at the wealth of knowledge these guys have.

I have 100 acres of farmland at Ogbomoso, Oyo state. I can sell it to you if you are interested.

blackpanthar:
I need water purification..... for borehole, first before I buy a big tank for storage

You need someone to setup a water purification system for your borehole water or is your borehole contaminated and you want someone to decontaminate the borehole for you? Or you just supply of chemicals for purifying your borehole water?

kawasng:
We are working on that.
When we perfect it we will let Nigerians know.

Ok.

kawasng:
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Can you construct cassava peeling machine?

This is sad

Joyglo:
Say 50 - 150 acre

Your best bet will be to buy private land. Getting government land is not that straightforward in my experience.

I will check around for private land in Delta state and get back to you. Send me an email so that we can communicate by email.

I have 100 acres of personal land at Ogbomoso, Oyo state, that I could have sold to you, but that land is too dry for oilpalm. It will be good for things like cashew.

Joyglo:
Hello, I am so much interested in agriculture. I’m looking at palm plantation and I understand you do not want such as stated on your advert. However, I would like to know if there’s any government program that made provision for land to those who wants to go into farming extensively. Please direct and advise me I have money to do this business extensively but securing land is my major issue. How can the government help with this

Thank you

What size of land are you looking for?

ebilize:
Is this offer still available

Yes. It is still open

LandMann:
You cannot legally marry two wives in Nigeria unless you marry under Sharia law.

Those who marry more than one wife in Nigeria, outside of Sharia law don't do court marriage.

You are wrong.

There are 3 marriage systems in Nigeria. 2 out of the 3 systems permit polygamy.

Of the three marriages systems in Nigeria (Statutory (English) law, Customary law, and Islamic law, only the statutory law forbids polygamy. The customary law is used by non Muslims in southern Nigeria to marry multiple wives.

Stephen2324:
Politely I want to know why many see sleeping with someone's wife as a curse but sleeping with someone's husband is not a curse.

The man can legally marry the extra woman sleeping with him. So the single woman might be sleeping with the married man in the hope that he marries her as his second wife.

But a married woman sleeping with another man can not be legally married to both men at the same time in Nigeria.

I am just trying to find a logical reason for a nonsense situation.

Sleeping with another man's wife is a foolish high risk venture.

So sad.

Why did he not just look for a farm and become a farm worker?
At least that will feed him for the time being until things improve.

Temmytee321:
We sell refractory materials for the building of good and lasting furnaces

Where are they located?

okoroemeka:
you have two painless options either

It is not right to assist someone to commit a crime.
Suicide is a crime. Moreover some folks look up to you as an old member of NL, don't show them that this type of advice is normal.

Please take down that you comment. Even others might apply what you have suggested with tragic consequences.

agbekoya:
Thank you for this useful post. With the many uses of peppermint as a natural pest deterrent I am very tempted to plant some peppermint on my farm next season especially to repel rodents.

Does peppermint repel rodents?

Obatobi1:
These seedlings were produced with potting soil, but there's a possibility of adding sterilised loamy soil at a certain ratio to your grow media (potting soil, cocopeat, peatmoss)

Thanks for your response. It is helpful