₦airaland Forum

Spicygal:
Just like that? You can live anywhere? So why not move to London? Or Canada?

No you cannot live in another country without documentation and authorization.

So hopefully soon enough, you will relocate

Read the post l responded to get the context of my post you quoted. Even if South East becomes Biafra, l will still have an option to retain my Nigerian Passport!

T8ksy:
@ bolded......................nevertheles, when ibos finally achieve their, you and family will have no choice but to relocate back to your indigenous homeland.

I will always have a choice to live anywhere except there is war!

Hope we get to achieve that target.

E dey enjoy im life!

Walexz02:
Mr. Pavore9 I don't know if you can help, I ma thinking of going into okra farming soon but I am afraid of storage.. Can you please help me check if there is a suitable way of storing okra for a longer time without deteriorating. Thank you

This short video will give an idea what the charcoal cooler structure looks like and ideal for those in the rural areas. I believe it will extend the freshness of your Okra for a week or more.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipqvedQW6a8

It is not only igbos that owns properties in Lagos. Why should anyone need to sell off now, if they didn't sell it in 1993 when there was mass migration out of Lagos because of the June 12 tension. My family happens to be one of the early sets of igbos to settle down in Ojota when it was still regarded as a village way back in the 70's and a plot of land sold for N1,200. No matter the possible situation in Lagos, there is no cause for selling one's property unless one has chosen to relocate.

Walexz02:
Mr. Pavore9 I don't know if you can help, I ma thinking of going into okra farming soon but I am afraid of storage.. Can you please help me check if there is a suitable way of storing okra for a longer time without deteriorating. Thank you

Yes one can without the use of electricity by setting up a room-like structure with the sides covered with wood and charcoal, water is used to moisture the charcoal. Would later upload some pictures and possibly videos as am on the road now,

smallblow:
@ pavour9 thanks for the eyes opening... you can also get the thresher in NCAM @ idofian kwara state...

l have checked their website http://www.ncam.gov.ng/index.php/16-ncam-multi-crop-threshers but their stated price is N350,000 which is rather on the high side in comparison to what the guy l mentioned earlier did it for. I believe his as of today will not go beyond N200.000!

There are rice growing areas in almost all the states in Nigeria, people can come together for the purpose of bulk purchasing the hand held harvesters from a selected manufacturer thus get the chance to negotiate for a lower price per unit and save cost on shipping down to Nigeria than just having a unit sent down.

FATYTOY:
Also importantly you must have installed software/plugins. I will recommend Presonus, the interphase is very user friendly. My brother and I started with Presonus studio 2 professional but upgraded to Studio 3 professional recently.
If you're based in Lagos we may perhaps meet up and take you through a few things

I tried replying your email on the greenhouse stuff but it consistently failed to deliver, so provide an alternate email address.

Every one do have a role to play.

Sickening!

Elysianheritage:
Nice work! Where can one get these thresher machine locally in Nigeria.

I used to know a guy in Awka who can easily fabricate the machine as he did one for us way back for the rice project l was involved in but unfortunately lost his contact but can still recall his workshop was then located at Igweze Street, off Kwata junction in Awka.

baba11:
I see.. thanks for the eye opening

Likewise offering threshing services as against manually threshing with sticks which is energy-sapping and huge loss of paddy rice is incurred.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijIkzPEBAHg

Happy Married Life.

baba11:
I understand you perfectly but what hope does someone staying in an area devoid of land for agriculture
do?

There is cultivation/rearing, processing, marketing. You do not need farmland to process or market. Take for instance, the fish bamdexfarms is processing, there are farms where one can buy off the fish from the farmers and have it smoked and packaged like he does.

There are folks who can key into offering services to farmers. An example is offering harvesting services to rice and wheat farmers. l have done rice farming and do know that harvesting with sickles is not the way to go but how many farmers can afford the big mechanized harvesters? There are hand held harvesters one can buy from Asia and with one operator the daily output would be more than that of 10 farm hands combined. The farmers gets to harvest their crops faster and cheaper, the operator/owner also get his pay!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WIlEC8W2gM

He assured that what he termed the mother of protests would be carried out in the state after the festivities and warned security agents in the state to steer clear of their members during such protests, stressing that the only remedy would be to release Nnamdi Kanu from detention.......Hmmm

Hmm....

As l look forward to 2016 as this year winds down, l feel so optimistic that there will be a huge leap from where we are presently at, agriculturally. The words of the President is really inspiring, he did say ''The answers to our problems are not beyond us. They exist on our farmlands........

Agriculture can lift many up, if the will exists as Agriculture as we grew up to perceive is so different from what is obtainable today. The value chain is limitless and can suck up millions of Nigerians into becoming economically active. We live in a world of IT where watching a Youtube video on an agricultural practice can change one's reality, knowledge is a click away. Lots of research papers are online for FREE, it shortens the process!

The Nigerian market is huge and many foreigners salivates for it, we owe ourselves the obligation to creatively disrupt the existing marketing and distribution structures to deliver farm produce in a consistently well packaged and easily accessible way. The Mile 12 market would always exist but the over 20 million residents of Lagos is too big a market to be restricted to the Mile 12 and similar markets structures.

All across Nigeria, opportunity abounds. A resident around groundnut producing areas is in a better position to buy off directly from farmers their harvests and process into peanut butter to serve as bread spread. I recall a programme l watched where a Kenyan rural farmer who hitherto was earning about N16,000 to N20,000 from the sales of a 90kg bag of groundnut but after he was empowered on how to process it into peanut butter he processed up to N80,000 worth of Peanut butter from the same 90kg bag of groundnut! FIIRO Oshodi can easily produce machinery for the processing. The igbos do process theirs adding spices to it and eaten with garden eggs.

Nigeria is the fourth largest producer of groundnut in the world after China, India and the U.S. looking at the value addition is a way to go which is also same for other farm produce. Why should one at this present time be involved in boiling and pounding fresh cocoyam to serve as soup thickener when a packaged cocoyam powder would do the same job, it will serve as a huge relief to urban dwellers. l do have family members who go to oyingbo market to buy sun dried cocoyam, have it ground and send it over to me in Kenya, they can't get it off the shelf!. One can get information regarding cultivation through to processing it from National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike.

We should work towards reducing the use of sacks and baskets in conveying our farm produce, plastic crates are a whole lot better as it reduces loss in post harvest handling and can last for years when properly handled.

Wishing everyone a greener 2016.

More.

The second and third pictures is of a supermarket where the farm produce ends up at. Pick whatever you want, go to to the counter and weigh it. A kilo of Okro costs about N230, l just picked the quantity l wanted which weighed 278grams and paid only 32 Kenya shillings (N64)

Newway2:
STANDARD SELLING CRATES
Yes very bountiful harvest indeed. Oga @Jasper7, I blv with this bountiful harvest, Jireh1 shld hv been dictating how to sell. I blv selling our farm harvest in bags shld be discountinued with. Let's come up & sell in standard crates that will show that Agric is becoming refined & better. If ALL new young farmerprenurs embrace the new selling crates, market pple will have no choice than to accept it. Let come up with (we can adopt & adapt) selling crates for our farm produce. Oga @pavore9 cld help us by sending pix of standard selling crates being used in Kenya.

I guess these can help.

lnsightful.

A hard reality.

He sure knows how lucrative it is to be in the senate thus his doing everything humanly possible to return there!

gaussy:
Hello, Kindly send me a PM or drop your number here and I will call you. I may be able to help with the bags

Do post the material you have.

Deep.

Wow!

Sneer.

What is for one who has a cheating spouse?

ThunderingHooves:
Very well put sir. There is a very long and complex value chain to wildlife tourism. Wildlife can spin off many industries like travel agency, TV documentary sector(think Discovery and Natgeo wild etc), selling curios and mementos to foreign visitors, there is even special safari tourism insurance. All these are direct employers. We have alot to learn from wild animals e.g some scientists say some fauna have an ability to fight cancerous cells from their natural immunity. These tissues can be isolated and studied for human benefit.

I wish and pray that Nigerians wake up and see the Natural heritage God has entrusted them with before its too late.

I didnt spot this post before from one of my fav Nairalanders,always looking forward to your posts. Have a merry christmas.

Also wishing you a Merry Christmas, hoping we will someday nurture a mindset that will benefit us all.

Hian!