₦airaland Forum

Blue3k:
GMO cows were approved two years ago. What's wrong with hybrid beef? I dont care if it's a pure bred. Why do you assume the price will double over ranching? It's already assumed the ranchers will be more productive meaning more beef production. Then theirs always the option of allowing more imports to keep prices competitive. When the supply increases the price will drop.

dragunov:
Then go and find another work to do. Learn a skill or something. It is not by force to rear cattle.

9icetoo:
Your analogy no follow.

Cows who are always being marched from one point to another take longer to fatten.

The broiler chicken matures for consumption with enough meat between 2,1/2 to 3 months. Its free range counterpart takes anywhere from 6 months to one year and will have less meat.

Ranching is the way to go. They should go and learn newer husbandry methods.

Thank you.

dragunov:
Don't insult people's sensibilities here. We're not dummies that you can just push around with intellectual dishonesty and crass hubris. Imagine the audacity!

Enskynelson:
Na wa o.
Can you leave Aba and go to Kano and force your shop in a place the community disagree? You pay for the land or you pay for the shop but the Fulanis go to everywhere they like destroying lives and proper ties. The remedy you listed has been tried and it is not working. And... I think u should wake up. Nigeria cannot move forward if we keep thinking like this is the 15th Century. Ranching is the modern thing. The insecurity posed by pastoral nomadism is enough reason to scrap it.

Mindlog:
The core North has very vast landmass. the governors should invest in ensuring all year round irrigation of the fields, where grasses which serves as their fodders should be grown all year round, with universities like ABU, UDU etc multiplying and selling those grass seeds.

tunjijones:
No, Lagos is owned by the Fulani and Hausa

samcolee:
Good Fulani? The ones that raped 13yr old in east when a farmer came for rescue the shot him while lying on the pool of his blood they continue raping the innocent girl, no good Fulani man do the right thing

samcolee:
Okay let's divide the country so you can rest finally

Ttipsy:
can you listen to yourself?
So we should allow Fulani herders continue to kill people and destroy farmlands?? By the way they are just migrants

You really need brain check up

samcolee:
It's not by force to eat cow meat, you can sell it any amount so long as you don't harvest people's farm produce and give to your cows. The poultry, pig and other farmers don't they buy land they use for their biz? Why should you graze on my farm produce and at the end sell same cow to me while I'd be left with nothing at the end of the day?

Blue3k:
ABeef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat

$7.25 🇺🇸

$2.41 🇳🇬

I prefer ranching because I get more beef at a cheaper price than you relative to income. Ranchers are more productive 💪 compared to Nigerian herders. There's less conflict. I don't see how Nigerians are better off. The cost of living is cheaper in Nigeria in general but income is much lower.

imbless:
I ignored your initial response to me, that should tell you that I actually think you are daft, I sincerely apologize for quoting a daft person like you initially.

7upnigeria:
See, Fulani people don too do for this country. There would have been no need for all of these if they were peaceful like they used to be. Fulanis have been with us for a long time, all of a sudden they started killing farmers and abducting people for ransom.

I dont understand the motive behind your questions but be informed that nobody SHOULD BE COMFORTABLE having herdsmen wandering around their forests currently. Many lives HAVE BEEN LOST and many ARE MORE LIKELY TO STILL BE LOST if herdsmen are still legally backed to continue with their ARCHAIC METHOD of raising cattles, Fulanis have messed themselves up in southern Nigeria. Matter of fact, theyve become point and kill object in some parts of the southeast.

Ade3131:
Ordinarily, there's nothing bad in allowing open grazing in any part of Nigeria but the problem you seem to fail to acknowledge is the bloodshed and conflict it has caused over the years. Failing to acknowledge these downsides implies that you place premium on the life of a cow over those who are being killed daily by the herders.

There have to be a way forward. With our current practice of free-ranging of cattles, can you say Nigeria produce more beef and milk than Kenya that practice ranching?

Yes, it's going to be expensive and might seem difficult at the beginning but trust me, it's just the ideal thing to do.

My only reservation with the bill is the clause that specified that ranches be established in the "pastoralists state of origin." I don't think that is 100% appropriate but there's always room for ammendment because what that means is that a Fulani man will need to go back to his state of origin to do his business of cattle raring, and this is not logically correct because people from other trade are allowed to live and do their business in any state of the federation sofar they're Nigerian.

Mayflowa:
Well I appreciate your concern for thinking of a path forward to resolve the conflict between farmers and herders. In reality these action steps will not work because the people involve are not educated enough to engage in civilized cooperation. Any little argument will lead to bloodbath. Moreso, herders just pass through these farms, they are not known and can't be reached - this is the worst part of pastoral herding. I agree with you, no one should be restricted from doing business in any part of Nigeria. Don't just move cattle around. No one move goat or chicken around. And government should not be involved in creating ranches for cattle farmers. They should provide a loan for it that individuals, any individual, can draw from to acquire land for ranches. Cattle farming is no more than a private business like selling gold in Kano or Edo market

Blue3k:
You're assuming the same people who can't feed themselves are going to be the ones starting the business. New players will enter the sector with money. The starving herder can sell off his cattle and move on with their life as a cow hand or something else. Nigerians already do buy Nigerian cows but you're complaining about expensive food while blocking out cheaper options.

If Nigerians can't compete that's tough luck. These ranchers better start learning to feed ther cows hay in the dry season. There's plenty of farms that can and will supply it. Open herding is coming to an end just like the age of the cowboy came to end in the 1800s. I doubt these people will be looked at as romantically as the latter.

PrincessDiana:
This was how you people were hailing the vilification of Emefiele as they claimed he stole all the intervention fund for agriculture and that it was all scam. Now we are seeing unprecedented price inflation in food prices due to the stoppage of those funding.

I will be here when Nigerians start to suffer the consequences of their support for stupid government policies. It is difficult for most Nigerians to understand basic cause and effect events because they hardly read to learn but would rather propagate rumours.

PrincessDiana:
There are only one or two rational people like you on this thread.
The rest are just parroting what the press have made them believe.

tunjijones:
U no get sense. Is Abuja owned by Fulani?

Cattle rearing is a personal business. You can't be using Ur personal business to disturb other people.

WhizdomXX:
Ranching is part of the disciplinary actions.

stacyadams:
Reduce fuel price
Reduce import duties
Open border
Fix insecurities
Mechanized farm


If I talk fix power ,that one na rocket science







Of course we have clueless people leading clueless people



Their major problem na national anthem and cattle rearing

SunMusk:
Thy re eating people crops,damaging life. The law is not restricting them to move. If you can stop your animals from eating people crops. Which is their source of livelihood. U can practice open grazing. But unfortunately you can't stop. So the best way is for animals to stay in a large open shelter and be provided for. This is not discrimination law. This herders men contribute to what we are suffering now in Nigeria. Farmers don't want to farm again. Government protect farmers. Protect their sources of livelihood.

erico2k2:
This is sad coming from a Nigerian
We want beef in the south not cow.
What is wrong in growing your own grass up north for grazing? This is what the west farmers do
How does the selling of spare parts in the North affect the lives of ordinary Northerners?(Pathetic )
If this bills goes ahead, mayB southerners would learn to farm Cows, Goats and ram.
DO not forget,People are allowed to import cows from Niger republic no stress.

WhizdomXX:
Two can't work together except they agree.
Do your cattle rearing in the north.
We that farm don't farm in your land.

erico2k2:
The can Plant grass, this is not hard! Elephant grass can grow

TOPMAN4LIFE:
You don't value human lives like your fellow terrorists and bokoharam in the north.

That's why you don't bother about killings of innocent farmers on their land and farm but bother yourself with amount to feed cow

Rebuke:
Rubbish, is cow meat the only meat available in Nigeria?

What happens to goat meat, chicken etc?

Killing farmers to feed their own cows makes yhu happy, huh?
Let everybody take responsibility for their own private business.

All these nonsense excuses of Easterners having motoparts shops anywhere in the country is becoming stale.

Have yhu ever seen an Igbo man fighting with a landlord, demanding for a shop to display his wares by force?

Have yhu ever heard any landlord get killed for not giving out his shop to an Igbo for business?

WhizdomXX:
He will be disciplined.

nams77:
I don't care if you are itsekiri. This is the 21st century. Your Fulani people should embrace modern trends than roaming through people's backyard and trampling crops.
They should buy/rent lands anywhere they could and do their business in peace. That's what no sentiment and tolerance is all about