₦airaland Forum

Teeroyzimma:
Bandits and Agberos have really taken over the country. Just 2 months ago 3 Agberos attempted to kidnap me in Lagos, they chased me in the dark alleyways of Ikeja but they didn’t know that I was usain bolt’s cousin, so they weren’t able to catch up. Unfortunately I lost my phone to the bastards.

All I can say is It will not be well with anybody that votes for Tinubu or APC, our country must be better by force. Peter Obi is the only one that can save our dear nation.

It will not be well with your family. Can you compare Lagos agbero with that of your Onitsha?

Keep cooking stories just to get at Tinubu. Since agbero have been disturbing you, you've not thought it necessary to leave Lagos.

Redman44:
Well said. Nigeria also needs its own wholesale b2b website like Alibaba or India Mart. Buyers in Europe, Asia, other parts of Africa etc can then buy directly from Nigerian farmers through this website.

GrainTrust is working in conjunction with FMARD and NEPC on a platform for b2b... All rural farmers must cluster up into cooperatives.

Lassbati222:
I come from Kaduna State, southern Kaduna to be precise. A native of Ham chiefdom who are known to be the top Ginger producing communities and that is why Kaduna State top the five Ginger producing states in Nigeria, which includes Bauchi state, Benue State, Gombe State and Nasarawa.

Farming Ginger is not an easy job, due to the fact that everything is done manually. Starting from clearing the land, digging the soil, cutting the seed into smaller pieces, buying of cow dung and spreading on the land, farming (Which require some to be dropping the smaller pieces of the seed, while others will use hoe to cover the seeds), covering the farm land with leaves, weeding (which can be done two or three times before harvest time), fertilizer application (Applied twice or thrice), harvesting (Done by digging and picking each seed) slicing each and drying.
Note that during last farming season, a basin of Ginger seed was going for N12,000 which will only cover a very small portion. Also note that fertilizer which use to cost N8,000 but last farming season, the Local government offered subsidized fertilizer at @ N21,700

Despite this stress, the local dealers are regulating the prices at will, leaving poor farmers helpless.

From October 2021 to October 2022, a bag of Ginger was sold between N30,000 to N34,000 depending on how clean your Ginger is. A bag is usually 41kg. At least it was a little consolation to farmers.

From November local dealers started bringing down the price, knowing farmers have no option, since they have needs. From 30k to 28k, to 21k to 20k to 18k to 15k and now back 20k.

Whereas I have been following the wholesale price of Ginger online. Let's take the price of Ginger as at 17th December, 2022.
It was sold at $3.58 per kg. Each bag is 41kg, assuming $ is N700, it means it was going N102,746 and if we keep $ at N500, then it was going for N73,390 but as at that 17th December, local dealers were buying from famers @N18,000. HABA

HOW DO LOCAL DEALERS GET MONEY TO PURCHASE GINGER IN LARGE QUANTITY?
I only know few dealers who use their personal money to buy ginger, transport to the wholesale market and sell it.
But must of them have bigger dealers within and outside the country who supply them with money to purchase ginger, while trailers keep coming to pack them away to the person that gave out the money.
My issue here is, most times you here that the bigger dealers pay this local dealers between 45k-60k per 41kg bag(Depending on who is providing the money) then this local dealers will inturn exploit the farmers by buying between 18-25 0r 30k-34k as the case of oct last year to oct this year.
This is really unacceptable.

Please if there is anyone who have an idea on ginger market should help and anyone who have ideas on how we can get out of the grip of these local dealers should please help.

Front page please.

Wei Ham ya rie ?

Yusufisraelj:
Absolutely, provided you know what you're doing (understanding the value chain)

And your farm is not located near bandits camp..

Godfullsam:
I wanted to buy 20 bags of ginger and store but I was told a bag is now 28k - 30k / bag.

It used to be less than that, especially in nov/December.

I was told to still buy it because the harvest was poor this yr and the price may double next year.

Hmm and how do you preserve it for a year?? Wont it get spoilt??

Teeroyzimma:
Bandits and Agberos have really taken over the country. Just 2 months ago 3 Agberos attempted to kidnap me in Lagos, they chased me in the dark alleyways of Ikeja but they didn’t know that I was usain bolt’s cousin, so they weren’t able to catch up. Unfortunately I lost my phone to the bastards.

All I can say is It will not be well with anybody that votes for Tinubu or APC, our country must be better by force. Peter Obi is the only one that can save our dear nation.

So during obi's tenure in anambra as gov.. it was eldorado abi..there was no robbery of any kind??

akaahs:
The problem of this heartwraking issue is coming, first from our traditional leaders who failed to organize local farmers to dictate the prices of ginger. Second, from our representatives at various government, they failed to bring the presence of government offices that can harness this ginger in a deport in Southern Kaduna where all ginger ll export to international markets.
As for me, by God grace I'm gonna register a company responsible for exporting this commodity to international markets.

I can register the company for you

bayplus:
Your claim is partly true. The 3.58usd dollar you used is faulty.

There are so many layers involved in the business.

Before 2020, ginger was selling for as high as 50k per bag of 40kg. Many ginger farmers made good money

After Covid, the international price of most agricultural commodities crashed.

And since then it has been going up and down. Samething for sesame seeds, Hibiscus flower etc.

The prices usually react to law of demand and supply. From your presentation, it started as higher as N34,000 because many (including politicians) created artificial demands. Just to hoard their ill gotten money against the change of old currency.

When the politicians were done buying. The real buyer cannot afford the 34000 threshold anymore, when there are no buyers, the prices will naturally come down regardless of emotions.

Hibiscus flower and Sesame seeds too have gone down by 40%.

The international market this year is very cold to agro commodities all over the world. Not peculiar to nigeria.

Back to your analysis of the so called huge profit.

Most often, the quality we buy from you is not the quality required outside the country.

Sometimes you will need to buy 30tons from Kaduna and after proper cleaning, the real ginger will be 22tons.

8tons will comprises of mouldy, insect infested, or tiny parts. Sometimes pure wastes like stones, sticks, chicken or goat faeces and many other foreign matters delibaretely included to increase the weight will all account for the 8tons.

Now, we all know how much is diesel per litre. Usually you will move the goods to your warehouse mostly outside kaduna because of insecurity (depending on where your warehouse is located) the least i know is about N450,000 to N550,000 if it is kano or neighbouring states.

A truckload of ginger from any northern part be it Kaduna or Kano to the seaport starts from N1,000,000 and above.

Getting your goods to through the seaport is a different story. 4months after the farmers have collected their money, the exporters are still figuring out how to ship the ginger out. You pay many unofficial bribes running into millions.
Then you will pay the custom agents and port charges and most important thousands of dollars as freight to the shipping line.

The farmers sell to local dealers, who also sell to major dealers who now sells to the exporters, the exporters do the re-cleaning for the ginger to meet export standard befor he can sell to foreign buyers, unlike before the foreign buyers no longer trust nigerians, they insist they will pay only when the cargo arrive their country and the quality is satisfactory. Now 7months after buying, the exporter has not gotten back his investment much less profit. If per chance, there is any problem with the quality, he may lose everything because the buyer may decline payment and ask that the cargo be returned to the origin.

Now the foreign buyer sells to local but wholesale buyers in foreign country who then sell to the retail buyer or supermarket who sells at $3.58usd.

If you checked the different stages of the of differnt buyers adding their margins and several costs involved. You will realise the margin is not as huge as the writer wants us to believe. I can understand he is ignorance of the true sitiation.

Sometimes exporters lose serious money. Many i know have burnt their fingers in the business because of several challenges associated with doing business in nigeria including attacks by bandits.

Every business have their lows and highs. Those who cannot bear the heat are advised to leave the kitchen. No buyers who have genuine orders will deliberately refused to buy.

If the writer remove the emotion, he/she will realise it is purely business issue.

Right now, some of us bought the Ginger at 34000 and the price has crashed to 19000 now meanwhile somw foreign buyers too have direct contact with the farmers. Some indians and chinese are all over the markets buying at 19000/40kg. Those cargoes we bought earlier at 34000 are still in our warehouse, we have over 100tons of that, we have lost money already because we will compete with those who have bought at 15000 and are still buying now at 19000. How then can we make profit? Such is the risky nature of agro commodities.

I did this to enlighten others who may be in the writers shoes.

I come in piece

Whats the way forward now sir...
What do you think government can do to improve things further?

Mrsoft3:
The solution to your problem is simple. Let all ginger farmers in southern kaduna have one voice and form a union, dictate price for all and ensure everybody abide by it, proposed a central market this will give you people the power to control price but then again you people in southern kaduna are your own enemies.

You can't do that in a free market. I have a better idea but it requires a little additional effort. How about this farmer register on B2B platforms and market his gingers directly to international buyers? That way, he cuts off the middlemen and keep all the profit, but it will require him to meet some export regulatory standards which is what the middlemen do before exporting the gingers.

The truth is that most farmers won't concern themselves with the processing and packing part of farming. They just want to harvest and sell.

I sympathize with your plight OP. But to tell the harsh truth, many Nigerians take the easy way out and complain when it's not favorable to them.

Most Nigerians are only about themselves and their family, rather than doing something for their community.

Doing something big and cutting out the middleman is possible with the technological aids around us. Many Nigerians import directly from source. The thing is it will take hard work.

This will include incorporating a limited liability company with the farmers as shareholders, getting bank credit, employing professionals to run the non farming jobs, building warehouses for product storage, and marketing to exporters or foreign buyers.

I can understand, as all these will be expensive to implement. I and my guys did some research on setting up a 5 hectares farm in the mid 2000s and it came to above a million naira. That will be more than six million today.

But if you want something so bad and hate your present circumstances, you won't mind the sacrifice. Many Nigerians don't hate their bad circumstances enough for them to do whatever it takes to get things done, even if it means going out of your comfort zone, sacrificing today's enjoyment, and enduring some pain.

obedience4:
Nairaland has been kind of dull this week

Because y'all were watching football.

syntekelite:
Hmm and how do you preserve it for a year?? Wont it get spoilt??

It doesn't spoil provided it was properly dried and kept away from water.

My only challenge is where to keep it, I don't want to go through the stress moving it to my base in Abuja.

My client have a Haulage truck for Sale, distress sale though. MAN diesel Commander, 12 valve in good condition.
Price is 10m,
Location of the truck is Benin.
Call 07059341864 for further enquires and pictures..

I almost went into ginger farming years back but back pedal because it is manually, capital intensive.no farming is easy I prefer to delve into cashew & cocoa farming.

Godfullsam:
It doesn't spoil provided it was properly dried and kept away from water.

My only challenge is where to keep it, I don't want to go through the stress moving it to my base in Abuja.

Hmm.. nice one.. take the risk then especially if you can negotiate cheap transport fr it..

Ginger has crushed/ground and neither crushed/ground

A little processing can add more money to it

Average price is $2 plus. So expect less than $1 for non processed ginger



My advice is to form a cooperative to add a little processing to the ginger and seek international markets for it like Dubai and Germany.


What quantity do you guys produce averagely in a season in southern kaduna?

I might be able to help if you guys are willing to supply it in kaduna state capital directly

But note US' import price for ginger in 2019 was US$1.40 per kg.

Redman44:
Well said. Nigeria also needs its own wholesale b2b website like Alibaba or India Mart. Buyers in Europe, Asia, other parts of Africa etc can then buy directly from Nigerian farmers through this website.

Please how thus this work?
What and what are the steps? Thanks

Lassbati222:
I come from Kaduna State, southern Kaduna to be precise. A native of Ham chiefdom who are known to be the top Ginger producing communities and that is why Kaduna State top the five Ginger producing states in Nigeria, which includes Bauchi state, Benue State, Gombe State and Nasarawa.

Farming Ginger is not an easy job, due to the fact that everything is done manually. Starting from clearing the land, digging the soil, cutting the seed into smaller pieces, buying of cow dung and spreading on the land, farming (Which require some to be dropping the smaller pieces of the seed, while others will use hoe to cover the seeds), covering the farm land with leaves, weeding (which can be done two or three times before harvest time), fertilizer application (Applied twice or thrice), harvesting (Done by digging and picking each seed) slicing each and drying.
Note that during last farming season, a basin of Ginger seed was going for N12,000 which will only cover a very small portion. Also note that fertilizer which use to cost N8,000 but last farming season, the Local government offered subsidized fertilizer at @ N21,700

Despite this stress, the local dealers are regulating the prices at will, leaving poor farmers helpless.

From October 2021 to October 2022, a bag of Ginger was sold between N30,000 to N34,000 depending on how clean your Ginger is. A bag is usually 41kg. At least it was a little consolation to farmers.

From November local dealers started bringing down the price, knowing farmers have no option, since they have needs. From 30k to 28k, to 21k to 20k to 18k to 15k and now back 20k.

Whereas I have been following the wholesale price of Ginger online. Let's take the price of Ginger as at 17th December, 2022.
It was sold at $3.58 per kg. Each bag is 41kg, assuming $ is N700, it means it was going N102,746 and if we keep $ at N500, then it was going for N73,390 but as at that 17th December, local dealers were buying from famers @N18,000. HABA

HOW DO LOCAL DEALERS GET MONEY TO PURCHASE GINGER IN LARGE QUANTITY?
I only know few dealers who use their personal money to buy ginger, transport to the wholesale market and sell it.
But must of them have bigger dealers within and outside the country who supply them with money to purchase ginger, while trailers keep coming to pack them away to the person that gave out the money.
My issue here is, most times you here that the bigger dealers pay this local dealers between 45k-60k per 41kg bag(Depending on who is providing the money) then this local dealers will inturn exploit the farmers by buying between 18-25 0r 30k-34k as the case of oct last year to oct this year.
This is really unacceptable.

Please if there is anyone who have an idea on ginger market should help and anyone who have ideas on how we can get out of the grip of these local dealers should please help.

Front page please.

Your analysis on the planting and harvesting is correct but you don't seems to understand how ginger market operates.ginger like every other farm produce is sold per ton,farmers sell their ginger in raw bags(unprocessed) with the average weight of bag @44kg while dealer buy and clean and sell standard weight of 41kg after cleaning and probably drying the ginger to 7%moiture.some years back 27bags of raw will give you 25 bags of processed ginger (1.000)i.e one ton but now the weight of raw ginger has reduced and also moisture content increased thereby making the input bags to increase to 30-32 bags as against 27 bags.
On the issues of market value of ginger it's the market force that determines the price based or demand and supply.

Lassbati222:
I come from Kaduna State, southern Kaduna to be precise. A native of Ham chiefdom who are known to be the top Ginger producing communities and that is why Kaduna State top the five Ginger producing states in Nigeria, which includes Bauchi state, Benue State, Gombe State and Nasarawa.

Farming Ginger is not an easy job, due to the fact that everything is done manually. Starting from clearing the land, digging the soil, cutting the seed into smaller pieces, buying of cow dung and spreading on the land, farming (Which require some to be dropping the smaller pieces of the seed, while others will use hoe to cover the seeds), covering the farm land with leaves, weeding (which can be done two or three times before harvest time), fertilizer application (Applied twice or thrice), harvesting (Done by digging and picking each seed) slicing each and drying.
Note that during last farming season, a basin of Ginger seed was going for N12,000 which will only cover a very small portion. Also note that fertilizer which use to cost N8,000 but last farming season, the Local government offered subsidized fertilizer at @ N21,700

Despite this stress, the local dealers are regulating the prices at will, leaving poor farmers helpless.



From October 2021 to October 2022, a bag of Ginger was sold between N30,000 to N34,000 depending on how clean your Ginger is. A bag is usually 41kg. At least it was a little consolation to farmers.

From November local dealers started bringing down the price, knowing farmers have no option, since they have needs. From 30k to 28k, to 21k to 20k to 18k to 15k and now back 20k.

Whereas I have been following the wholesale price of Ginger online. Let's take the price of Ginger as at 17th December, 2022.
It was sold at $3.58 per kg. Each bag is 41kg, assuming $ is N700, it means it was going N102,746 and if we keep $ at N500, then it was going for N73,390 but as at that 17th December, local dealers were buying from famers @N18,000. HABA

HOW DO LOCAL DEALERS GET MONEY TO PURCHASE GINGER IN LARGE QUANTITY?
I only know few dealers who use their personal money to buy ginger, transport to the wholesale market and sell it.
But must of them have bigger dealers within and outside the country who supply them with money to purchase ginger, while trailers keep coming to pack them away to the person that gave out the money.
My issue here is, most times you here that the bigger dealers pay this local dealers between 45k-60k per 41kg bag(Depending on who is providing the money) then this local dealers will inturn exploit the farmers by buying between 18-25 0r 30k-34k as the case of oct last year to oct this year.
This is really unacceptable.

Please if there is anyone who have an idea on ginger market should help and anyone who have ideas on how we can get out of the grip of these local dealers should please help.

Front page please.

cut out the middle man and sell directly to the consumer
form cooperative or association and rent or buy their own vehicle and market directly to consumer

Realists:
This a double edge sword, once the farmers cutoff the middlemen, these cash crops prices will become too expensive for the local consumers buy, due to its direct export.
You remember the price garri sky rocketed when FG, during Obj dispensation started exporting Cassava to the world.

We are not planting enough food and cash crops in Nigeria. Many fertile lands in Nigeria are currently left uncultivated. More Nigerians need to embrace ginger farming. When there is enough Ginger being cultivated locally, the price of ginger locally will be affordable. Garri is still cheap in inner towns and villages in southern Nigeria . This is because many people are still cultivating Cassava in these areas. We must all embrace farming. I planted Sorghum on my plot of land in Ikorodu and it germinated. I was really impressed that Guinea Corn can be cultivated in Yorubaland. I want to find land to lease ( 20 acres at least ) and cultivate Guinea Corn and Millet in South-West Nigeria in 2023. I am thinking of Oyo State or Ogun State for the project. I want to go into Agriculture in 2023.

Onewazobia:
Please how thus this work?
What and what are the steps? Thanks

Check out www.alibaba.com

Check out www.indiamart.com

Check out www.globalsources.com

It won't be an easy project but I believe Nigerians can build b2b websites like the ones above. With platforms like Paystack.com, Flutterwave.com etc, foreigners will be able to pay for crops directly to Nigerian farmers without fear of losing their money to fraudsters and yahoo boys. We can even bring in VISA and Mastercard into the project. When we have our own b2b website like the ones above, global payment systems like Paypal will approach the founders of the websites for alliances. Jiji.com is a b2c platform not a b2b platform for large scale transactions. Cheers.

Redman44:
Check out www.alibaba.com

Check out www.indiamart.com

Check out www.globalsources.com

It won't be an easy project but I believe Nigerians can build b2b websites like the ones above. With platforms like Paystack.com, Flutterwave.com etc, foreigners will be able to pay for crops directly to Nigerian farmers without fear of losing their money to fraudsters and yahoo boys. We can even bring in VISA and Mastercard into the project. When we have our own b2b website like the ones above, global payment systems like Paypal will approach the founders of the websites for alliances. Jiji.com is a b2c platform not a b2b platform for large scale transactions. Cheers.

Thanks Redman, please check my last thread on EXPORT and make your kind input

Lassbati222:
I come from Kaduna State, southern Kaduna to be precise. A native of Ham chiefdom who are known to be the top Ginger producing communities and that is why Kaduna State top the five Ginger producing states in Nigeria, which includes Bauchi state, Benue State, Gombe State and Nasarawa.

Farming Ginger is not an easy job, due to the fact that everything is done manually. Starting from clearing the land, digging the soil, cutting the seed into smaller pieces, buying of cow dung and spreading on the land, farming (Which require some to be dropping the smaller pieces of the seed, while others will use hoe to cover the seeds), covering the farm land with leaves, weeding (which can be done two or three times before harvest time), fertilizer application (Applied twice or thrice), harvesting (Done by digging and picking each seed) slicing each and drying.
Note that during last farming season, a basin of Ginger seed was going for N12,000 which will only cover a very small portion. Also note that fertilizer which use to cost N8,000 but last farming season, the Local government offered subsidized fertilizer at @ N21,700

Despite this stress, the local dealers are regulating the prices at will, leaving poor farmers helpless.

From October 2021 to October 2022, a bag of Ginger was sold between N30,000 to N34,000 depending on how clean your Ginger is. A bag is usually 41kg. At least it was a little consolation to farmers.

From November local dealers started bringing down the price, knowing farmers have no option, since they have needs. From 30k to 28k, to 21k to 20k to 18k to 15k and now back 20k.

Whereas I have been following the wholesale price of Ginger online. Let's take the price of Ginger as at 17th December, 2022.
It was sold at $3.58 per kg. Each bag is 41kg, assuming $ is N700, it means it was going N102,746 and if we keep $ at N500, then it was going for N73,390 but as at that 17th December, local dealers were buying from famers @N18,000. HABA

HOW DO LOCAL DEALERS GET MONEY TO PURCHASE GINGER IN LARGE QUANTITY?
I only know few dealers who use their personal money to buy ginger, transport to the wholesale market and sell it.
But must of them have bigger dealers within and outside the country who supply them with money to purchase ginger, while trailers keep coming to pack them away to the person that gave out the money.
My issue here is, most times you here that the bigger dealers pay this local dealers between 45k-60k per 41kg bag(Depending on who is providing the money) then this local dealers will inturn exploit the farmers by buying between 18-25 0r 30k-34k as the case of oct last year to oct this year.
This is really unacceptable.

Please if there is anyone who have an idea on ginger market should help and anyone who have ideas on how we can get out of the grip of these local dealers should please help.

Front page please.

Arrange yourselves and talk to Tinubu campaign. BAT is the only presidentail candidate with a plan for you guys.

Op,kachia is the highest ginger planters...

Lassbati222:
I come from Kaduna State, southern Kaduna to be precise. A native of Ham chiefdom who are known to be the top Ginger producing communities and that is why Kaduna State top the five Ginger producing states in Nigeria, which includes Bauchi state, Benue State, Gombe State and Nasarawa.

Farming Ginger is not an easy job, due to the fact that everything is done manually. Starting from clearing the land, digging the soil, cutting the seed into smaller pieces, buying of cow dung and spreading on the land, farming (Which require some to be dropping the smaller pieces of the seed, while others will use hoe to cover the seeds), covering the farm land with leaves, weeding (which can be done two or three times before harvest time), fertilizer application (Applied twice or thrice), harvesting (Done by digging and picking each seed) slicing each and drying.
Note that during last farming season, a basin of Ginger seed was going for N12,000 which will only cover a very small portion. Also note that fertilizer which use to cost N8,000 but last farming season, the Local government offered subsidized fertilizer at @ N21,700

Despite this stress, the local dealers are regulating the prices at will, leaving poor farmers helpless.

From October 2021 to October 2022, a bag of Ginger was sold between N30,000 to N34,000 depending on how clean your Ginger is. A bag is usually 41kg. At least it was a little consolation to farmers.

From November local dealers started bringing down the price, knowing farmers have no option, since they have needs. From 30k to 28k, to 21k to 20k to 18k to 15k and now back 20k.

Whereas I have been following the wholesale price of Ginger online. Let's take the price of Ginger as at 17th December, 2022.
It was sold at $3.58 per kg. Each bag is 41kg, assuming $ is N700, it means it was going N102,746 and if we keep $ at N500, then it was going for N73,390 but as at that 17th December, local dealers were buying from famers @N18,000. HABA

HOW DO LOCAL DEALERS GET MONEY TO PURCHASE GINGER IN LARGE QUANTITY?
I only know few dealers who use their personal money to buy ginger, transport to the wholesale market and sell it.
But must of them have bigger dealers within and outside the country who supply them with money to purchase ginger, while trailers keep coming to pack them away to the person that gave out the money.
My issue here is, most times you here that the bigger dealers pay this local dealers between 45k-60k per 41kg bag(Depending on who is providing the money) then this local dealers will inturn exploit the farmers by buying between 18-25 0r 30k-34k as the case of oct last year to oct this year.
This is really unacceptable.

Please if there is anyone who have an idea on ginger market should help and anyone who have ideas on how we can get out of the grip of these local dealers should please help.

Front page please.

Lassbati222:
I come from Kaduna State, southern Kaduna to be precise. A native of Ham chiefdom who are known to be the top Ginger producing communities and that is why Kaduna State top the five Ginger producing states in Nigeria, which includes Bauchi state, Benue State, Gombe State and Nasarawa.

Farming Ginger is not an easy job, due to the fact that everything is done manually. Starting from clearing the land, digging the soil, cutting the seed into smaller pieces, buying of cow dung and spreading on the land, farming (Which require some to be dropping the smaller pieces of the seed, while others will use hoe to cover the seeds), covering the farm land with leaves, weeding (which can be done two or three times before harvest time), fertilizer application (Applied twice or thrice), harvesting (Done by digging and picking each seed) slicing each and drying.
Note that during last farming season, a basin of Ginger seed was going for N12,000 which will only cover a very small portion. Also note that fertilizer which use to cost N8,000 but last farming season, the Local government offered subsidized fertilizer at @ N21,700

Despite this stress, the local dealers are regulating the prices at will, leaving poor farmers helpless.

From October 2021 to October 2022, a bag of Ginger was sold between N30,000 to N34,000 depending on how clean your Ginger is. A bag is usually 41kg. At least it was a little consolation to farmers.

From November local dealers started bringing down the price, knowing farmers have no option, since they have needs. From 30k to 28k, to 21k to 20k to 18k to 15k and now back 20k.

Whereas I have been following the wholesale price of Ginger online. Let's take the price of Ginger as at 17th December, 2022.
It was sold at $3.58 per kg. Each bag is 41kg, assuming $ is N700, it means it was going N102,746 and if we keep $ at N500, then it was going for N73,390 but as at that 17th December, local dealers were buying from famers @N18,000. HABA

HOW DO LOCAL DEALERS GET MONEY TO PURCHASE GINGER IN LARGE QUANTITY?
I only know few dealers who use their personal money to buy ginger, transport to the wholesale market and sell it.
But must of them have bigger dealers within and outside the country who supply them with money to purchase ginger, while trailers keep coming to pack them away to the person that gave out the money.
My issue here is, most times you here that the bigger dealers pay this local dealers between 45k-60k per 41kg bag(Depending on who is providing the money) then this local dealers will inturn exploit the farmers by buying between 18-25 0r 30k-34k as the case of oct last year to oct this year.
This is really unacceptable.

Please if there is anyone who have an idea on ginger market should help and anyone who have ideas on how we can get out of the grip of these local dealers should please help.

Front page please.

Is it dry or wet ginger that you guys sell?

SIRTee15:
Nigeria needs it's own b2b online platform. It will eliminate all these greedy middlemen.
Nigerian farmers also need to embrace new ways of doing business, which means getting the right information and embracing modern technology.
If jaja of opobo could sell his palm oil directly to traders in Liverpool in the 19th century by buying his own ship, I don't understand why Nigerian farmers can't organise themselves in 2022 and market directly to foreign buyers.
Even the so called middle men are mainly Lebanese and Indians. U rarely see Nigerians in that sector despite the huge opportunities and wealth in area. These foreigners cash away while Nigerians languish in penury.
Nigerian problem isn't poverty but poor education and lack of foresight.
I once asked a 500 level agric economics student in uniben to tell me about commodity market, her response was shocking- they've not been taught in school.
The above is why Nigerians can't develop the agricultural value chain while our farmers are stuck in poverty.

The bolded is more than shocking.

Lassbati222:
I come from Kaduna State, southern Kaduna to be precise. A native of Ham chiefdom who are known to be the top Ginger producing communities and that is why Kaduna State top the five Ginger producing states in Nigeria, which includes Bauchi state, Benue State, Gombe State and Nasarawa.

Farming Ginger is not an easy job, due to the fact that everything is done manually. Starting from clearing the land, digging the soil, cutting the seed into smaller pieces, buying of cow dung and spreading on the land, farming (Which require some to be dropping the smaller pieces of the seed, while others will use hoe to cover the seeds), covering the farm land with leaves, weeding (which can be done two or three times before harvest time), fertilizer application (Applied twice or thrice), harvesting (Done by digging and picking each seed) slicing each and drying.
Note that during last farming season, a basin of Ginger seed was going for N12,000 which will only cover a very small portion. Also note that fertilizer which use to cost N8,000 but last farming season, the Local government offered subsidized fertilizer at @ N21,700

Despite this stress, the local dealers are regulating the prices at will, leaving poor farmers helpless.

From October 2021 to October 2022, a bag of Ginger was sold between N30,000 to N34,000 depending on how clean your Ginger is. A bag is usually 41kg. At least it was a little consolation to farmers.

From November local dealers started bringing down the price, knowing farmers have no option, since they have needs. From 30k to 28k, to 21k to 20k to 18k to 15k and now back 20k.

Whereas I have been following the wholesale price of Ginger online. Let's take the price of Ginger as at 17th December, 2022.
It was sold at $3.58 per kg. Each bag is 41kg, assuming $ is N700, it means it was going N102,746 and if we keep $ at N500, then it was going for N73,390 but as at that 17th December, local dealers were buying from famers @N18,000. HABA

HOW DO LOCAL DEALERS GET MONEY TO PURCHASE GINGER IN LARGE QUANTITY?
I only know few dealers who use their personal money to buy ginger, transport to the wholesale market and sell it.
But must of them have bigger dealers within and outside the country who supply them with money to purchase ginger, while trailers keep coming to pack them away to the person that gave out the money.
My issue here is, most times you here that the bigger dealers pay this local dealers between 45k-60k per 41kg bag(Depending on who is providing the money) then this local dealers will inturn exploit the farmers by buying between 18-25 0r 30k-34k as the case of oct last year to oct this year.
This is really unacceptable.

Please if there is anyone who have an idea on ginger market should help and anyone who have ideas on how we can get out of the grip of these local dealers should please help.

Front page please.

The problem is simple. Start writing about ginger and the quality of the product you grow.

If you are lucky, you will get someone to order or partner with for a new market.

What you guys need is a new market. You wish to call it some new experience.

Thank God for the internet. So you know what to do?

You have serious work to do and stop trying to organize pity parties for yourself and your folks.

Who says you cannot get access to an Oversea market if you become the number marketer of your products online?

This is a new sea of opportunity if you know what to do. It may be shark infested. But it won't be a Sea or Ocean if it wasn't shark infested.

Just wear a pair of good earrings that are good enough to procure you the "dead man's curse" while at sea.

geraldo077:
I can register the company for you

My elderly brothers are lawyers, they can always do that for me.
Thanks

akaahs:
My elderly brothers are lawyers, they can always do that for me.
Thanks

Okay, that's fine.

Please send your details
I'm interested in ginger wholesale market.

bayplus:
Your claim is partly true. The 3.58usd dollar you used is faulty.

There are so many layers involved in the business.

Before 2020, ginger was selling for as high as 50k per bag of 40kg. Many ginger farmers made good money

After Covid, the international price of most agricultural commodities crashed.

And since then it has been going up and down. Samething for sesame seeds, Hibiscus flower etc.

The prices usually react to law of demand and supply. From your presentation, it started as higher as N34,000 because many (including politicians) created artificial demands. Just to hoard their ill gotten money against the change of old currency.

When the politicians were done buying. The real buyer cannot afford the 34000 threshold anymore, when there are no buyers, the prices will naturally come down regardless of emotions.

Hibiscus flower and Sesame seeds too have gone down by 40%.

The international market this year is very cold to agro commodities all over the world. Not peculiar to nigeria.

Back to your analysis of the so called huge profit.

Most often, the quality we buy from you is not the quality required outside the country.

Sometimes you will need to buy 30tons from Kaduna and after proper cleaning, the real ginger will be 22tons.

8tons will comprises of mouldy, insect infested, or tiny parts. Sometimes pure wastes like stones, sticks, chicken or goat faeces and many other foreign matters delibaretely included to increase the weight will all account for the 8tons.

Now, we all know how much is diesel per litre. Usually you will move the goods to your warehouse mostly outside kaduna because of insecurity (depending on where your warehouse is located) the least i know is about N450,000 to N550,000 if it is kano or neighbouring states.

A truckload of ginger from any northern part be it Kaduna or Kano to the seaport starts from N1,000,000 and above.

Getting your goods to through the seaport is a different story. 4months after the farmers have collected their money, the exporters are still figuring out how to ship the ginger out. You pay many unofficial bribes running into millions.
Then you will pay the custom agents and port charges and most important thousands of dollars as freight to the shipping line.

The farmers sell to local dealers, who also sell to major dealers who now sells to the exporters, the exporters do the re-cleaning for the ginger to meet export standard befor he can sell to foreign buyers, unlike before the foreign buyers no longer trust nigerians, they insist they will pay only when the cargo arrive their country and the quality is satisfactory. Now 7months after buying, the exporter has not gotten back his investment much less profit. If per chance, there is any problem with the quality, he may lose everything because the buyer may decline payment and ask that the cargo be returned to the origin.

Now the foreign buyer sells to local but wholesale buyers in foreign country who then sell to the retail buyer or supermarket who sells at $3.58usd.

If you checked the different stages of the of differnt buyers adding their margins and several costs involved. You will realise the margin is not as huge as the writer wants us to believe. I can understand he is ignorance of the true sitiation.

Sometimes exporters lose serious money. Many i know have burnt their fingers in the business because of several challenges associated with doing business in nigeria including attacks by bandits.

Every business have their lows and highs. Those who cannot bear the heat are advised to leave the kitchen. No buyers who have genuine orders will deliberately refused to buy.

If the writer remove the emotion, he/she will realise it is purely business issue.

Right now, some of us bought the Ginger at 34000 and the price has crashed to 19000 now meanwhile somw foreign buyers too have direct contact with the farmers. Some indians and chinese are all over the markets buying at 19000/40kg. Those cargoes we bought earlier at 34000 are still in our warehouse, we have over 100tons of that, we have lost money already because we will compete with those who have bought at 15000 and are still buying now at 19000. How then can we make profit? Such is the risky nature of agro commodities.

I did this to enlighten others who may be in the writers shoes.

I come in piece

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