₦airaland Forum

Kukutente23:
Take your time to understand the statistics well young man. There is no decrease in food production from the statistics. What you have is decreas in GROWTH. It grew by 3% then grew by 0.9% BUT THERE WAS STILL INCREASE NOT DECREASE. Even your statistics from usda supports this. Look at that faint grey line. That is the growth trend and you can see that it is positive for 2 out of the 3 crops you posted.

2. The contribution of agriculture to GDP is measured in terms of currency. Surely you can't expect agriculture to increase in value when we are majorly a net importer of food. What volume of food do we export compared to countries like Thailand, Holland, Indonesia even Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire. Contribution to GDP does not mean that food output is reducing. I already gave you the statistics and it agreed with yours as well so what are you on about GDP contribution?

3. That dude you mentioned is easily the dumbest dude in here. He comments offpoint or totally ridiculously negative to commonsense. He simply has no clue about anything. I'm disappointed you see his comments as a worthy validation of your stand.

4. If you are talking of scarcity due to export, that still means food is not scarce but is going to the wrong place. Your earlier claim was that agricultural production has declined and is responsible for increase in price which I rejected. Export is a function of currency devaluation which I already mentioned. That should even increas agric contribution to GDP then.

Kukutente23:
Statista have a branch in Nigeria and they use data from research carried out in-country. The name of the researcher is put in these reports. Go check it out on their website.
You're making a mistake. What is presented in that post is crop production growth rate per quarter. Population growth rate is per annum. To get crop production growth rate, you need to add four of those figures to get the annual. It's about scale not numbers. If you had crop growth rate of an average of 10% over 5 years, it means crop output increased within that time at a rate of 10% from the initial value. That's a good record if you ask me.
The problem is you're looking at only population growth rate without realising that population growth rate CANNOT lead to food scarcity because the food will be available. Except you mean babies consume a lot of food!!
Again, don't forget your claim was food scarcity. You can't have food scarcity when your production is increasing even if marginally.
Mind you, Nigeria is the largest producer of a good number of crops in the world and Africa in some cases such as yam, millet, rice etc. So if Niger, Benin are not facing food scarcity how can Nigeria that produces far more than them have it? Something is missing somewhere

DeepSight:
So a simple fact such as the cost of transportation affecting the cost of food is lost on you.
And a simple fact such as the exchange rate affecting the cost of food is also lost on you.

Well done, Mr. United Nations.

Kukutente23:
I don't know what you think your data represents but it says yield per hectare. It seems to represent improvement in farming technology more than actual crop production but I might be wrong. But how can USA be telling us how much crop we produced in Nigeria?
Anyways, below are statistics of some crops in Nigeria from statista. You can see for yourself that there's no historical drop in production in the last five years at least so Where's the scarcity claim coming from

DeepSight:
There is no short supply of food oga, food boku.
The prices are the issue.

And if you compare the food inflation before subsidy removal/naira float to the one after subsidy removal/naira float, all I can say is maybe you live on the moon.

Kukutente23:
Ok. Maybe UN should tell you the price of yams in village markets in Nigeria today.
I never disagreed with 1
I never disagreed with 2
My grouse is with your claim of food scarcity
You're free to believe whatever fits your agenda

Kukutente23:
You have asked a very good question. Unfortunately, as good as the question is, it is typical of the average APC supporter to develop selective amnesia in a bid to defend their leaders who promise much and deliver nothing close to their promises.
Let me cast your mind back to border closure 2019. This effectively blocked the free movement of goods from across the border of which rice was the biggest casualty. It is no magic that rice has become the most expensive food item per measure. Before border closure and the audio rice pyramid, a measure of local rice used to go for 300 to 350 depending on quality. At the time Tinubu to over it was over 1500. That was a direct effect of border closure. As local rice rose in demand and price, farmers of other crops also sought to increase price as a balancing act. No farmer will see another making so much from his crops and not want to do likewise.
Is North East the main farming belt in Nigeria? That's the north central! To attribute food insecurity to boko haram is the height of ignorance. Boko Haram was at its peak in 2012/13 and it did not affect food availability so how come when it has been largely contained it is being fingered as the cause of food insecurity?
Let me tell you straight up that Nigeria has always had food insecurity. Most of our food supply is seasonal with rainy season for crops that demand moisture like maize, rice, groundnuts, yam and dry season for other types like okro, pepper, millet etc. But it is usually tempered by imports across the border and private storage from offtakers. Let me cast your mind back to Tinubu's announcement of the release of grains from strategic reserve recently. Where are the grains? Most of Nigeria's silos are empty!! I know one in Badeggi, Niger state that has not been used in years yet it is on FMA's website as part of our strategic grain reserve.

Kukutente23:
UN is not operating any farm in Nigeria that I know of. And I am not wrong. It is you who is assuming that rise in prices is due to food scarcity in your cocoon in the UK. I am on ground and I am telling you that farm markets are selling a tuber of yam between 2200-3000. What about beans? Beans is farmed mostly in the North Central and Southern part of the country. Why is it having rise in price with other foods that come from core North?
Before subsidy removal price was rising not soaring. But subsidy removal just removed the brakes totally. Until Tinubu happened to Nigeria, you could get a wheel barrow filled with yam at 15k to18k. Right now, you can't get it less than 35k.
Another angle is the currency devaluation which has made it unattractive for countries like Niger to bring food across the border into Nigeria, coupled with the recent fracas over the ouster of their President which Nigeria behaved belligerent. Niger Republic used to be a sure plug for food supply in Nigeria before. But with the currency devaluation, they don't see Nigeria as an attractive market

AntiChristian:
Na John talk am not Jesus!

Wetin Jesus talk be say "The father is greater than him"!

AntiChristian:
Na Jesus talk that one?

ahmedio2017:
Give us the verse that Jesus said he's God? Or even part of gods?

Jeboy:
While I agree with you that it is not ideal to claim a situation you cannot defend the ask here is NOT for proof of hometie but proof of Purpose.

Probing Purpose cones first before hometies because even if you are worth over 200 million naira and all the people in your village are your parents and siblings...if your purpose isn't strong you will be rejected. Purpose determines the first reason why you should be considered for the admission so it is very strong.

What he can do here is to approach someone who has an IT company let him get a backdated offer of employment letter with the companys letter head for an entry level IT role and back it up with salary payment to your account which you will also print that you work there. At least 2 months salary payment evidence before you apply.

Also include Leave of absence that shows your employer support your study abroad detailing how it is going to help the company and that your job is guaranteed when you return back. This letter must be written by the company HR or MD. That's how to improve your purpose for applying for the course. This is what I have used before that works. I come in peace.

Also be ready for the HR or MD to be emailed in case there will be need to prove.

ahmedio2017:
Jesus Christ PBUH said there is only one God and it is only him that you should serve, so if Jesus is a God why is he commanding us to serve only one God? You are the most stup.id and dumb fellow on earth

Kukutente23:
You're just regurgitating what you hear online without having the facts.
There is no food scarcity in Nigeria. What we have is astronomical price increase. If you want tomato and pepper of 10 baskets today, I'll get it for you as long as you're ready to pay.
It is virtually impossible for all food items to become scarce at the same time. From garri, millet, water melon, bananas which are domestic to yam, rice, beans which are commercial, all food items are very expensive now. Down from the rural areas, an average tuber of yam goes for between 2200-3000 something which used to go for 300-500 before. So imagine what the price will be like when it gets to Lagos or Abuja.
So there's general price increase in Nigeria which is caused by the fuel subsidy removal which has ballooned transport costs and naira devaluation which has ballooned cost of imported goods.
So it's nothing like supply. Cost of goods has increased.

kaltonga:
You dey see the new version of mumu wey dey Nija now abi ?

aguluobi:
Waiting to see what our obidient Igbo brethren will wail about over this video.

ShinnBet:
It's now you know that the economic downturn is universal and knows neither tribe nor region.

Tueh!

aguluobi:
Tales by sunlight

Tflex01:
But if this thread was about South West your people would have filled it up to 10 pages now with mockery of the Yorubas and chestbeating 😂

😂

ShinnBet:
Lolz.

You no get response .

APC , Buhari and Tinubu did not drive you into baby rearing for sale.

Even during the prosperous years under PDP, baby factories were booming in your ye@st.

Try another lie to justify your barbarism.

ShinnBet:
Baby factories predate both Buhari and Tinubu.

They have been rearing babies like goats in a barn for sale long before APC calamity hit us.

So that's not a valid excuse.

ShinnBet:
The hunger is more in your shithole SE because parents are selling their kids over there just to feed.

Terrible people , evil material culture with horrible society.

SonOfDSoil01:
shut up, your delusional clannish tribemen will be all over the place insulting the rest of us and chest beating that they are better than the rest of us and there is no poverty in sad yeast, but here you are preaching Abeg direct you frustration to your empty noise making tribesmen…..shameless pigs😂

Kukutente23:
Shut up. You're thinking like a zombie
What do you mean by labour should ensure INEC does the right thing. Is INEC answerable to labor? Why should Labour go on strike for election irregularities? They haven't done that and some of you are already accusing them of working for Obi.
The last minimum wage can't sustain us due to economic mismanagement. Stop writing rubbish and grow a brain

Rossikk:
Insecurity nko?

Or we should just leave Boko boys and bandits to take over the country?

SonOfDSoil01:
the chest beating billionaire region…cursed region, nothing wey ibo man no fit sell😂😂

soccerlite:
You painstaking want to prove your point for food prices Astronomical increase

Which to you is the recent grains taken to CFA countries and even UK

No problem

You try

soccerlite:
Lolzzzzz 🤣

Niger, Mali, Chad abi

soccerlite:
Which food is been exported

See you

dermmy:
It is only church Nigerians are opening in the UK. Indians, Pakistanis have care homes, businesses and they employ their own people then give them sponsorship.

Godons1:
The richest online abi? Apart from chest beating, wetin una know? All these women wey dey sell their Children to enable them buy food, they are the billionaires in your region abi?

That man from Abia, that killed his only son. When the Son ate the last food that is left in their house is also a billionaire.

The other Woman who committed suicide because of hardship is also a billionaire. Everybody for East na billionaire