₦airaland Forum

tolulinks:
Hmmmm. I agree to a degree some of those agencies have duplicated roles but what do to about them? Closing is not an option.

transfer all the workers to agric ministry and give them tractor

Kingspin:
I always ask my self all these agencies how much do they make for government? Because we end up paying trillions to people for doing nothing. Is there any business that is run this way in this world? The day a Nigerian governor pay himself from internal revenue is the day Nigeria developed.

this is not a business. It's govt. Sharing. Same all over the world.

modath:
What burns my soul isn't that Andrew Yakubu "took" enough for 50 different generations, it is the fact that the idiot borne of a thousand fathers couldn't think of re investing it back into the economy to sustain it & profit!!! !
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Easy money
Why stress himself to invest and potentially lose it when he can just steal another one?
What we should asking is why the remaining 177 million of us do not invest our peanuts in Nigeria ourselves?
Yet we expect Messiah's to do same as if they are not reflection of our societies.
Young ppl see bank or oyel work, how many of them invest?
No be Moet and Chandon den de pop per weekend?

Stupidity & heartlessness is what i see & this is the fool that plans to govern a state? What a joke!!! For all intent and purposes , El-Rufai is a crazed tribalist but this Yakubu isn't fit to take his crown...

A certain chieftain of the ruling party (whom i hold no brief for) that masterninded the inglorious end of a certain IB of a president's ambition is touted by a group of disgruntled bitterness engulfed souls as a thief (jury still out on extent & scope) who has enslaved his tribe...

Fine, but none of the loot has gone beyond the shores of this nation, whatever has been taken is revolving in the economy!!


#OurMumuDonDo!![/quote]

slurryeye:
Unfortunately, I'm not residing in Nigeria. But if I want to invest in Nigeria, it will surely be in Agriculture

neither do I but I'm planning to go back to do my bit a year after leaving. You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. Lamenting never solved any problem. Crocodile tears won't lift a finger.
If e pain you well well you go find solution.
My own children will not be called nigga when they can be kings and queens in their own land.

cr7lomo:
Na only Una de to enrich Una family...i chop finish come bk come chop later...nonsense country

you gree contest?
Who no like awoof?

greatgod2012:
I trust you! Just because he's in APC!

Have you ever thought it is shamelessness that makes politicians switch parties? This Segun Oni was in PDP when he was ousted by Fayemi of APC, he later decamped to APC which made him to become an automatic saint, no wonder you're supporting him!

Your loyalty to APC is total, even if devil himself is contesting for an electable position, once he's contesting under the APC platform, you must support him!


But remember, a party is not a party without its members!

so who will you vote for?
Angels ba?
We have to choose from the crap that volunteers abi you de ready to leave your career to convert?
Be realistic.
Once they realise they will be voted out if they don't perform they will wake up .
At least he will come and spend the loot from last time, win win for the voters.
He could as well just enjoy the loot

SalamRushdie:
If she doesnt marry you will be the first to call her old spinster , now she has married you say she quite old.. Quite old for what sef ?

you de mind the mumu

Dongreat:
So this is news? Ok, I banged a polish yesterday, why am I not making headline?
11 years forum; same years as Facebook and all it can show for is useless 3mil+ Topics, arrogant and not proactive mods, and a founder who look after traffics from tribalism, hate speech and political jamboree. Good luck getting to the $1million mark.

wey Your Own forum

slurryeye:
Federal government is not optimizing northern lands for agriculture

They have massive land area that can feed the whole nation, and even have excess to export for revenue

why don't you? Stop waiting for govt. Theso babas no send us

TonyeBarcanista:
This is one joke taken too far..


@Those saying she will win, we'll see how she can even win the PDP ticket and how she will win the main election.

She should know where to draw the line between sycophants and real followers.

my guy that woman was a calamity to Nigeria but Nna mehn I no go lie you that woman was ten times the politician Jonathan can ever dream to hope to contemplate to be

boluwajokosegun:
You can buy Ram that are good as parent stocks to reproduce for you , there ia an elderly man in Ibadan doing this biz while most young graduates are busy looking for office work. You can get the parent stocks at N20k
or you just buy & fattern the males for 4 months to sell, each one goes for 15k.

Most people have phone that cost them N60k & above but no investment of same amount, most are not even using their phone to make money.

The dry season is the best time to buy the ram.
Goat, Ram & Cow dont like to be wet

what do you do when rainy season comes round

darknetcom:
rice??..realy??..are you kidding me??..

which rice??...basmati rice or parfumed rice??..wild rice?..designer rice??..

what is so special about rice that you most import it?...

you're not a Nigerian are you?

GlorytoGod:
Do not be deceive;,rabbits don't have issues if you don't invite one.In fact,if you do just little things you are supposed to do, none of your rabbits Will die in years and it will be like like a strange thing if you are told someone else's rabbit dies! As for their meat,it's the best meat!You too can google to confirm this but l will discuss further on this soon.

OK thanks
I was just wondering why ppl don't focus on it with all the grass wasting on our expressways. Why it's only grasscutter they talk about. And they are so prolific after swine and poultry

Why do south easterners always come to south west to buy poultry products. I understand heat problem in north but not why it's prohibitive to invest in poultry in South east. Please does anyone know why this is? I thought they're both rain forest

OOAS:
I saw this post somewhere and I thought it wise to share
Anytime I hear Nigerian presidents, ministers, governors, economists, analysts and commentators declare that agriculture is the alternative to oil, and that the solution to Nigeria’s economic woes is to return to the farm, I am tempted to jump up and ask at full volume: “Who agriculture alone don epp?”
Some states have hilariously declared work-free days for civil servants to go to the farm. It would be nice to see those farms and how well the emergency farmers are doing. We’ve been told again and again that agriculture, as Nigeria’s biggest employer of labour, is the magic solution to unemployment, that we will export agricultural produce and earn plenty forex. Well done.
I’ve been hearing this fairy-tale all my life. When I was a primary school kid, Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, then head of state, asked Nigerians to tighten their belts because the oil boom would not last forever. He added drama by tightening his military belt on TV. He launched Operation Feed the Nation. My grandfather responded by setting up a garden in our backyard. President Shehu Shagari did Green Revolution. The structural adjustment programme (SAP) of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida was basically about diversifying into agriculture. In different shapes, forms, sizes and packaging, we have been talking about agriculture, agriculture and agriculture forever.
Since we love glamorising our exploits in the export of cocoa, coffee, palm oil and groundnuts before the oil boom/doom, I will pick on just cocoa to dispel this ill-conceived notion and never-ending campaign that agriculture is the magic wand.
We used to be the biggest producers of cocoa in the world. Chief Obafemi Awolowo utilised cocoa revenue to develop the south-west when he was premier of the region in the 1950s. But we dropped the ball along the line and Cote d’Ivoire overtook us. And now we are lamenting that we are nowhere to be found. The solution, therefore, is for the south-west to revive the cocoa farms. Oh, the good old days!
Okay, let us talk about Cote d’Ivoire’s fabled cocoa wealth. Cote d’Ivoire produces 33% of world cocoa and exports to manufacturers such as Hershey’s, Mars Inc. (both in the US) and Nestlé (Switzerland). You know what Cote d’Ivoire earns yearly from exporting raw cocoa? A whopping $2.5bn. I repeat: a whopping $2.5bn!
So Mars buys Ivorien cocoa and makes several products from it: Bounty, M&M, Mars and Milky Way, to name a few. You know Mars’ net income from chocolate products alone in 2015?
According to the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO), Mars made a pathetic $18bn, compared to Cote d’Ivoire’s whopping $2.5bn. Agriculture, indeed.
If you are wondering how just one company, which manufactures chocolate, can earn seven times more than a whole country, which farms and exports the cocoa input, then you are asking the same question with me: Who agriculture alone don epp?brig
On ICCO’s list of the world’s top 10 companies in net revenue from chocolate, you have three from America, two from Japan, two from Switzerland, and one each from Luxemburg/Italy, Argentina and Turkey. None from Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia — the world’s three biggest producers of raw cocoa. There must be something that Hershey’s, Mars and Nestlé know that we don’t know as we keep planting cocoa.
To be fair, Cote d’Ivoire is waking up. In 2015, French chocolatier Cémoi opened a plant in Abidjan, the economic capital, to produce chocolate. President Alassane Ouattara, on touring the plant, said: “We want to be able to make chocolate for Ivoriens, for Africans and especially West Africans.” Ouattara (pronounced Wa-ta-ra) understands what we still don’t understand here: that agriculture without industry is dead, being alone.
How could I buy cocoa worth $1m from you and make chocolate worth $10 million from it — and you think you are smart? If you are smart, you will start making the chocolate yourself and stop romanticising about the “good old days”.
There was a video that went viral sometime ago. CNN’s Richard Quest visited a cocoa farm in Cote d’Ivoire. Come and see poverty written all over the faces of the farmers, who have been told for decades that agriculture is the magic solution to their problems. Quest gave the farmers bars of chocolate. They were eating the sweet stuff for the first time in their lives!
Compare their lives to those of the executives of Mars Inc., who buy the cocoa beans from Cote d’Ivoire. They are flying private jets and holidaying in the moon, while the Ivorien farmers are fighting off flies and bees in the bushes of Koffikro. For your information, Mars Inc. has no cocoa farms!
Don’t get me wrong please. If I have created the impression that agriculture is useless, I do apologise. That is not my intention. After all, agriculture is our culture. Millions of Nigerians are farming rice, beans, cassava and corn. That is huge employment. Also, we certainly can produce many food items that we are importing and burning precious forex on. But is that why governors are declaring work-free days for civil servants to go and plant melon and maize to solve Nigeria’s economic problem and stop the dependency on oil? If only these governors knew that Switzerland does not grow one tree of cocoa, yet makes the world’s most elegant chocolates!
Let us break this whole agric logic into pieces. If we really want to diversify from oil and create proper value, agriculture must give birth to industry. If agriculture currently employs, say, 5 million Nigerians, agro-allied industry can employ 15 million in the value chain. So why do we spend so much time discussing farming and not industry? For example, how many graduates can a tomato farm employ compared to a factory making tomato purée? The factory will employ or engage the services of engineers, technicians, chemists, marketers, accountants, communicators, lawyers, administrators, drivers, and so on. It may even have a sick bay and employ doctors and nurses.
I’m not done. A basket of tomatoes sells for N800 in Kaduna. A 400g tin of purée sells for N300. Look at how many bottles of purée you can get from a basket, and how much value you will be getting. Who, then, is making the real money? The factory will pay company tax, its employees will pay PAYE and the consumers will pay VAT. That is how government will boost its revenue.
The purée bottle makers offer a different business altogether that employs workers and pays all kinds of taxes too. And if we are good enough, we can begin to export purée to other countries, and earn forex. This is just purée. Think of a thousand agro-allied factories. Think of our huge population.
Sure, agriculture is very important in a primitive economy like ours. But we always miss the bigger picture. One, we need full optimisation of the sector to enhance productivity. A country like the US knows this much better: the percentage of the population engaged in farming is insignificant, but it is so optimised that the output is out of this world. For instance, the US produces enough rice for local consumption, for export, for aid and to dump in the sea to “stabilise” market prices. Two, processing is where you find the massive job opportunities. The agro-industry will yield far more output, more jobs and more economic value than Benue Friday Farming.
These things look so simple and doable, but commonsense is not common. Our agricultural output can be far better in quantity and quality than currently obtains. We can do with better technology, storage, conditioning, packaging and transportation. Most importantly, our brains should focus on how industry can bring out the real value of agriculture and spark off a chain of economic activities that will create millions of good jobs and generate billions of dollars in revenue to investors, employees and government. But we seem excited only about preaching and promoting the export of raw produce, and we feel so smart we think this is the way out of our oil dependency!
But how can we add value when, despite the billions of dollars we have made from oil since 1999, we don’t have the basic infrastructure to inspire an agro-based industrial explosion? Where are the roads? Where are the rails? Where is the electricity? Where is the security? Where is the finance? Yet I can point to uncountable private jets, mansions and customised cars that politicians and their friends have acquired since 1999 with proceeds from the oil boom , while they keep preaching stone-age agriculture to Nigerians.
So if your governor joins this craze of declaring work-free days for primitive farming, just ask him politely:Your Excellency, who agriculture alone don epp?

Source:http://blackboxnigeria.com/who-agriculture-alone-go-epp-by-simon-kolawole/

agric can stop import of rice sugar and wheat
Combined 1 trillion
1 trillion can build off grid industrial estate with up to 1000 mw gas turbine
Industrial estate can add the value you speak of.
We will have to manage trailers instead of rail for now. Maybe even dredge Niger (30 billion during yar'adua time) and use barges

Agric won't solve all or even most of our problems but it holds the key to their solution.
Just like a butterfly wing beat starts a hurricane

GlorytoGod:
Well,according to wikipedia, lifespan of rabbits is between 8 to 10 years.However the world record for longest-lived rabbit is 18 years!

heard they aren't rugged like grasscutter with high mortality?
Is it true?
And is the meat similar

Na wa o
Tractor wen dem suppose share for farmers na sell den de sell.
Anyway e go soon reach us

Fabulosdave01:
Nigeria we get walk of shame. I mean our leaders.

Omo na fantastic idea be dis. We arrange voting for worst politician/leader and cement his name on walk of shame

whistlee:
Feed alone is apr N900,000.ie
@POL,12kg feed is consumed.
12kg/bird * 500=6000kg of feed,
6000kg divide by 25kgbag=240bags,
240bags *N3,500 a bag=N840,000.
In their whole life on ur farm(17-18 mths),
each bird will consume approx 50kg of feed. Calculate. Meanwhile drugs not included.

Nice calculation by the way
Always wondered how to do it.

CHM11:
I think its shitty... No privacy

which mumu privacy. He already has your number

Sunnymatey:
Which no. do they used to call me? l dont pick calls from those 4 or 5 digit nos. why not text ME? Anywhere would ve given the money to charity.

like all those 419 ppl abi. Very. Stupid behaviour not picking phone

shobroy10:
The boy is opportuned God PLS remember us soon

remember wetin. Why you sef no go learn barber

Love Machine:
Did you see him obtain anyone?

so you expect them to wait till somebody obtains ppl so that you lot will still complain that they are allowing random ppl to besmirch their name. Look I have been harassed by soldier for wearing camo and I thought because I used to be one of them I can do anyhow. He asked for Id I no get, I asked him for I'd he produced.
Look this is not America
There is no rule of law yet
But if you want to keep trying experiment without the necessary back up, continue and we will continue watching your videos for entertainment. Never carry a knife to a gunfight

stack1:
Its all bullshit and our messed-up over militarized system, in developed countries no one gives a fuss whatever material you where, so far you do not carry a fake ID-card, or affix Millitary ranks to the camo, honestly its us still just living in dark-ages

is this a developed country?

Love Machine:
Na only army uniform wey him wear dem won pai am.What is so special about that uniform?U.S civilians dey wear their personnel army uniform and nothing dey happen.Soldiers should be giving orientation on how to handle civilians.

us civilians don't use the uniform to obtain ppl.

Stupedinluv:
But you can tolerate "foul languages" from your fellow men abi.

why you sef de use foul language wen you know you no get power.she no calm now finally

PrettyCrystal:
when will some men learn

when women stop marrying them because of money or societal pressure or desperation

igbo2011:
We have two groups of people holding us back from that. The domestic greedy politicians who make money from importing generators and the international politicians who want Africans to depend on them forever The main thing is that if we don't export raw materials then America or China would probably just kill us all to be honest.

Europe/America does business with us with a gun to our head. They kind of force things on us. We don't give, they TAKE. There isn't much money in extracting, it is all in processing, that is where jobs are created. We don't need anything from the west, we can make everything in Africa. But they have a HUGE army and they will just TAKE. Most wars are fought over resources of some sort.

they couldn't take Vietnam?
So I think we're good if we decide to go head to head with them

PapaBrowne:
Ambode is the best. This guy should be given all the necessary support and in the next 10 years Lagos would be a world class city.
The guy has proven that Fashola was just a propaganda governor who did more on newspapers than on the streets.

The impact of Ambode is real. Journey from VI to Ajah has been cut from 3hrs to 20mins by the application of a simple smart solution that saw him knock off roundabouts and use a traffic channeling method that's just world class. On third mainland traffic, similar smart solutions and previously chocking traffic that lasted hrs was literally eliminated.

Shey you Know he will steal that money and you and your children will be left paying the debt

cooljude:
Rice was never our major food, it started growing more popular this 21st century and it has now replaced Yam as the most consumed meal. So naturally we didn't cultivate Rice in quantity to meet up with the growing demand for it all-over Nigeria.
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So?
Before fire man ate raw meat
Adapt and stop whining

Secondly, the technical know-how of Rice farming is low in Nigeria.
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How technical is putting seed in the ground?
E mean say rocket science no go be your grand chudren portion abi
[/quote]Basic amenities to grow this sector is better left to the god's to explain because me being a mere mortal can't explain how a country after 50 years of existence can't provide the most basic things for growth.
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But basic amenity to grow yam and maize de? No be so

[/quote]In short we just can't seem to get the simplest things done.[/quote]we can
We refuse to

erico2k2:
Cos of greed

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dadavivo:
Let them break down that nonsense gate. Zombies are useless

. You de hide for nairaland you say make dem face stray bullet? For your mind you wise ba?