mikolo80:
my bad, I skipped thru and missed the part. seriously can we talk,

Yes, we can. Call, SMS or whatsapp 08032615423. Compliments of the season. Cheers.

Nice one Glow... really proud of you. Hey folks that's the pork value chain for you. Bred in the most hygienic conditions. Spice up your meals with grilled pork.

La Parole ...all the way . Ooh la la!!

chiomilisa:
I need one bag in Asaba, delta state.

@Chiomilisa.. when do you need it? Contact me via 08032615423 let's discuss the logistics. Thanks.

mikolo80:
em, Erm, beht oga, do,.. land boku na. you sef fit plant rice na. abi?

Clearly, you have not assimilated nor deciphered the crux of my post.

I am a rice producer. We support a thriving targeted cluster of extensive rice plantations in Ebonyi and Abia state. We integrate the value chain through an intricate mix of processing technology and distribution strategies.

So, we are doing our own bit. But, we can not do it alone, which makes the thread imperative. The thread is aimed at enlightening the public and stimulating the inherent local capacity towards action. Dantori, Pavore9 and others are already taking such steps. So, you can either be a player in this or a spectator. Either way, we are poised to contribute our quota to accelerate Nigeria's rice value chain towards economic surplus.

Thanks.

Hi all. Thanks so much for keeping the thread alive on NL front page. But I would like to crave the indulgence of us all to not digress or deviate from the crux of this discourse.

Let us not debase ourselves to the level of uncouthness and crass utterances. We are all entitled to our opinions and preferences. No one deserves to be belittled for his/ her taste, choice and appetite.

Discussions should be kept constructive and salient as possible. Thanks for the compliance.

Regards,

Mykellio

Perhaps you can pick up from our office in Ikeja, Lagos. We move them from PMT office in Ojuelegba there for people to pick up. That's the best we can do from here. Hope that is fine by you.

Call, SMS or whatsapp 08032615423 to discuss further. Thanks @neroflo57.

bawz012:



and as a result of d limited harvest of our rice. it is cost than the imported rice.

A cup of imported rice sells for about N50

While Ofada rice costs double of that.

You are making a point. But you did not consolidate it. See how much our bag of rice goes for cost including delivery. Click here: www.nairaland.com/2782261/nairalands-no.1-large-scale-rice/1#41262423

GrammarNazi:


Who are the 'We'?
How can I be a part of this?
I'd like to invest (financially and technically) in something like this.

Thanks. For further discussions, you can also click here: www.nairaland.com/2782261/nairalands-no.1-large-scale-rice/1#41262423

dantori:

kindly follow me also contact me we need to talk

You can contact me through this:

neroflo57:
Do u sell just 1 bag?
Am a final consumer

Yes we can consider selling one bag to you. But it is N8,800 with transport to your location. So please tell us where you are.

Thank you.

Wow!

I have to thank you all for the very frank, reinvigorating, thought-provoking, and constructive comments. I find them inherently sapient and salient to the discourse. Thanks @misreal, I guess you are happy now. No need to fight Seun. @Pavore9, I am already looking at the handheld rice harvesters. We have to bring them in. I have learnt a lot. @fluffybaby.. Lol. Never mind you will not lose your pearly teeth to stones and I will soon tell you why.

Well, on a personal level, while I am not a graduate of agriculture or related degrees, I am one person amongst others who is very passionate about the pursuit of Nigeria's self sufficiency and national food security. And by food security I imply, the drive and process to make food available, adequate, accessible and affordable.

I believe that, Nigeria can feed itself, Africa and the world. Nigeria can become a continental and global breadwinner. We suffer from gruelling abysmal poverty in the midst of opulence. It is an unfathomable paradox. A paradox made real and infernal by the greed and slothfulness of actors at various levels of analysis.

As I said, you can not be the deceased and be the bereaved at the same time. When you die someone else has to do the weeping and burying. That is the nature of agriculture. Everything is not about the farmer. The farmer can not till the soil, sow the seeds, scare birds, weed grass and harvest, and thresh rice, then still be expected to mill, destone, polish, grade, sort and bag the rice. This is the terrain of the processors. If you read the link in this writeup, the companies are supposed processors to whom federal funds were approved in form of subsidy to first, process local rice and secondly, import rice in order to bridge the demand-supply gap of rice. The first was neglected, they just jumped to the second. Priority should have been first given to our indigenous rice and then importation as a plan B. But, plan B became plan All.

It is the task of our indigenous processors to refine our rice to international standard. Removing chaff and stone, polishing and bagging is their portfolio, not the farmers'. This is what the funds from CBN through the commercial banks in form of Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing Agric Lending (NIRSAL) and Commercial Agric Credit Scheme (CACS) where supposed to achieve since 2009.

At the risk of turning this thread into an advert, we are currently investing in Nigeria's rice value chain, soon to become large scale to turn out 20,000MT of polished rice per annum. Our current test production and pilot marketing phase has shown to us, that it is feasible and viable to have stone-free, chaff free and polished rice at reasonable prices available to Nigerians. It is a long arduous journey ahead, but it is a path we are willing to walk on. We would rather die trying than become spectators to the current feast on Nigeria's populace by cabals of food importers from home and abroad.

So, it is possible but we have to give it a chance. And a lot of will and commitment should go into it not lip service. Together, we can reposition Nigeria from subsistence deficits to national economic surpluses in rice productivity.

N1billion escapes our economy daily in form of jollof rice, fried rice, white cooked with Asian rice we know the brands. We can turn this tide, by buying a Derica of Nigerian rice thrice a week just 1 million Nigerians will see about N5 billion in capital flight restored back to this country.

Once again, thank you all.

ricy20:
I just receive my own bag of rice trust me i zero my mind already thinking it was going to be like other days.

From P/H... I did not even know it was you here at first. Lol @ zero my mind. Please increase your mind to millions now. Thanks.

glowdot4:
hey people,I ordered for 2 bags from Ibadan and am happy to receive my order. Thank you Michael. looking forward for more opportunities like that.

Madam. Thank you very much for the trust. We appreciated you immensely.

@misreal.. Lol. Thanks though.

But this is not about NL front page. This is about the need for a movement of young agropreneurs. A change in mentality. Result-driven actions to build Nigeria's value chain in all crop strata. If we don't talk now, this old men will not allow us survive. They are getting national honors for destroying the economy, while we sit here and struggle for front page.

One after the other we can take a stand against this mega scam from Asia. They need our demographic mass to accumulate the kind of money they are making. Three things will happen. 1) A glut of Asian rice rice in the Nigerian markets. 2) The glut will force a downward pull on price per bag of rice 3) Nigerian rice will stand a better chance in a freer market.

We need a revolution.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195509-investigation-inside-the-massive-fraud-in-nigerias-n117billion-rice-import-quota-scheme.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

First, it was petroleum subsidy scam, now it is our rice. How long will Nigerians sell their destiny for a plate of Thai rice? But, wait whose fault is it? Can they thrive if there is no market and appetite for it?

Last year I was in the UAE, stayed in Bur Dubai. I entered a Tesco Franchise store off Al Rolla crescent and picked up a 10kg bag of premium quality rice for 15Dirhams (1Dirham = NGN50). That's NGN750. This implies a 50kg would have cost about NGN3,750.
Now, this is not just about rice. I took a cab, 2015 model Hyundai Elantra to Al Mahktoum, driven by a young man named Hussein. Out of curiosity I asked him how much the car cost. He smiled and answered 55,000Dirhams with 0% interest bank loan and comprehensive 3rd party insurance. That's about NGN2,750,000. But same vehicle at Stallion Group, Nigeria is about NGN4million. So, what is it about?

This is about our greed and abysmal "long-throatedness". The desire to make colossal profit margins without regard to whose detriment is mind-buggling and infernal. So, this is not about whether Nigeria is importing or producing rice. It's just we are greedy and lazy.

All the companies listed in that scam want to make quick and huge money, whereas agribusiness takes patience and requires a long term investment mentality to thrive. The rice value chain in particular is very long. Several processes, so yes, instead of going through all that to refine the quality, they just catapult the funds out to import and then sell at ridiculous prices. But mind you they spend most of their time in such places as I mentioned above, so the price here is not their business. Go and ask Oba Otudeko how much a bag of rice is? If they have their way, a bag of rice will sell at N20,000 and a litre of fuel for N1,000.

Yes, I produce rice. But beyond that, for the sake of the economy, for the sake of our pockets for the sake of several millions of Nigerians that eat rice as just "a Sunday meal". Let's develop Nigeria's rice value chain. And your own contribution to it is by buying it and eating it. The rice the Thai family eat on their table in Bangkok is not international, it is local to them. So, let's stop the negativity attached to the word local.

It has chaff, it has stone, it is colored. Yes. But, with adequate investment, the indigenous quality will attain and can surpass foreign standard. Stone in the rice is not the farmers' fault. Rice is not planted in the air, it grows from the soil. Between harvest and bagging, rice loses over 20% of its weight in form of chaff, husk and other sediments as well as moisture. This is the terrain of capital-intensive investment, which is significantly lacking. The farmer can not be the one to plant and be the one to process at the same time. You cannot be the deceased and be the bereaved at the same time. There are people that view this nairaland everyday. There is somebody who has access to investment. Do you know that with just NGN50million, a major processor can be installed and operated in a strategic rice zone in the country that will service over 500 farmers and turn out over 300,000MT of quality rice per annum. Did I just say just? Yes, because there are people who spend that on just one or two cars, which become obsolete within a couple of months. Rice has no model, yes the varieties but there is no fashion attached to it just the appetite.

Let's wake up and stop our nation from being the global dustbin of everything. From rice, to frozen foods, cars etc. Let's make our nation great. Instead of looking for quick money invest in long term agricultural infrastructure. Every other thing may change, but we will always eat. That's the secret behind the lucrativeness of agriculture. Only that the Thai are using their "loaves of bread to pack our stew", crass exploitation of the highest order.

If 1 million Nigerians buy 1 Derica (small unit that measures 64 times in a 50kg bag) of Nigerian rice for N100 thrice a week. We will succeed in retaining at least NGN300million in the economy per month, and NGN3.6billion per annum that should have escaped as capital flight in importing rice.

Food for thought.

Regards,

Mykellio

@sanmibukunmi ...thanks for the very inspiring comment. Nigeria's agriculture is a sector that given the current momentum and sporadic investment impetus we foresee in the nearest future, Africa will be fed from Nigeria.

Marginalisation and relegation from individuals to private sector even banks, and government have been the key impediments to increasing Nigeria's agricultural productivity.

We have talked so much about it, it's high time somebody actually gets up to do something about it. So here we are.

Every organism is endowed within its environment everything required for its sustainability. It is an anomaly to have millions of hectares of arable rice paddy field yet we import rice. Instead of investing in our rice value chain, we are busy enriching Thai, Indian and Philippino rice farmers. Yet, we join in the denigrating chorus of "no money in the economy". The money that should be in the economy has gone to Asia to bring the same rice you have in your country. It's a sorry case of having a bag of rice at home but your son takes a cab to eat jollof rice at an eatery. When, that very jollof rice can be cooked at home.

It is all about the value we place on ourselves as a people. It is the mentality. They call it local rice. When the Thai is eating his own rice on his table, in his own country, is the rice not local to him? But, we have attached a lot of negative energy to local that it suffocates the value in every effort and resource invested in producing anything indigenous.

Thai families will never enrich Nigerian farmers, I don't know why Nigerian families should be enriching Thai farmers. Food for thought.

Regards,

Mykellio

thanks @ricy20.. when are we supplying your 1 truck of rice bags.

@world1... thanks for the PR.. our rice is not ofada. It is 100% pure Nigerian long grain rice, fully destoned and polished.

Thanks.

It's time to get rich. We'll give you large scale rice dealers 20 bags @ N8,500 each. Delivered to anywhere in Nigeria.

Let's do business.

Thanks @world1... we certainly have a lot to do together. Ogun state government has approved 500ha to our company for large scale rice plantation and processing in Ogun state.

With regards to your 5 bags, 22nd is too close to Xmas. You may not get your goods until 27th or so. You have to consider logistics and transport availability. We have other clients too.

Adexomuo has paid his balance.
Nice doing business with you. Stay blessed.

nwarosa:
How much per bag?

N8,500 delivery and logistics inclusive to Lagos, Ibadan, Ife, P/H, Lokoja, Abuja, Aba and Enugu.

Minimum order 10 bags. We deliver within 24-48 hours. We offer flexible payment terms provided integrity and accountability is your watchword.

Follow this thread: www.nairaland.com/2782261/nairalands-no.1-large-scale-rice and see how we serve our clients in a hitch-free and stress free manner.

Call, SMS or whatsapp 08032615423 to seal your deal.

Thanks

Click here: www.nairaland.com/2782261/nairalands-no.1-large-scale-rice

- Distributors
- Wholesalers
- Retailers
- Event planners
- Household consumers

Adexomuo's bags of rice have been successfully delivered. And he has confirmed it. The PMT driver too has called.

Well done Peace Mass Transit. More deals to come.

Patiently awaiting the payment balance.

Adexomuo's rice is on the way to him in Osogbo..

My message to Adexomuo last night 14/12/12 :

Coy: Peace Mass Transit. Fleet no.: 1134. License no.: AKL607YY. Drop zone: Ife junction. Tomorrow. The driver ll call u. Please credit Yewa Rice Mill & Plantation Ltd. 5610035708 Fidelity Bank Plc. N43,000 balance for 10bags.

Consignment loaded last night hence could not get pics. But pics of work in progress as at yesterday afternoon.

@adexomuo did an advance payment on the 10 bags.. he ll pay balance once he receives proof that his consignment has been loaded.

Good the world is watching

Just got off the phone with adexomuo... 20 bags going to Kogi state right now for Shiloh 2015. Wake up.

Let everything about the transaction be uploaded here. No hide and seek.

Bump

@adexomuo... Thanks for your interest. I shall reply you via SMS. You will get your rice within a reasonable time frame of 24-48hours depending on logistics and transport availability. Please place your order via SMS to us or send email to michaelosinaike@gmail.com.

Follow this thread constructively as viewers will be notified once your goods have been sent and shall present proofs here. Best of luck in the pending deal. Look forward to a hitch-free transaction. Cheers.

Very soon you will know this is not a joke..