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RevenuesBoost:
Well said

After electing a useless drug idiot u now start preaching about agriculture. Go and tell ur ronu crew to start agriculture first

RevenuesBoost:
Imagine the subsidy was removed and you have 100,000 tubers of yams in your yam barn, 100 bags of rice from your rice farm, even consider planting maize, plantain and cassava.
My dear, nothing the government does will shake you.
I watched a particular village close to my area that are into deep farming, they do not have basic amenities like good road, water (scarcity of clean water), light, etc. but you can't beat them when it comes to money. You won't hear them complain of hardship, they've got food.
People travel from far and wide to buy food stuffs from them.
If we don't plant, food will get costlier.
Most farmers are old people that are now dying because the young generation has been taught wrongly in school, literatures that discourage farming are studied in schools. What do they expect?
The day Nigerians will understand that the solution to high cost of feeding is in your hands, then they'll know that their farmlands needs attention.

All you wrote here is not possible without security..

Everyone knows the gains in Commercial Agriculture...

But insecurity has messed things up and the government isn't helping

RevenuesBoost:
Most people planting in large scale make use of farm machineries.

And this is what we need not what you said below.

No matter how educated you are, you need food to survive.
This is a state of food emergency for Nigerians and the solution is farming.

Yes the solution is farming but not by every dick and Harry.

Statistic shows population of USA farmers are declining which is just about 2 millions that's is less than 1% of USA population.

India farmers are about 150 millions which is just about 8% of India population.

Ukraine that provided aids to Nigeria has less than 1 million as farmers.

So I repeat Nigeria don't need millions of farmers but millions of mechanised farming method.

Nigeria needs millions of farmers as well as millions of modernized farming methods.

If you can't plant in large scale, have a small garden.
If you don't have a land, use sacs

Let's have this food in surplus so we can export it to other countries and that will also help our economy.

We still import food till now.
We still import green apples when our lands are good enough for red apples.

Food is part of essential of life no doubt about that but food isn't the only items needed to run economy.

The lies that Nigeria needs more farmers is stale and aren't conformed with modern method of agriculture.

RevenuesBoost:
I came across this post on Facebook
It's posts like this that's making Nigerians suffer of hunger right now.

The white men took us out of our farm lands, introduced schools for us to learn how to read and write and churches to us to forgive every bad thing they'll do to us, so we will go to heaven, stole all our treasures, took charge of our crude oil, they made Maths and English compulsory courses instead of Agriculture, that's why Nigerians are speaking English on empty stomachs.
Check out the big rubber estates or palm plantation in most villages, they are owned by foreigners.
While the inhabitants of that village doesn't know what to do with their lands.

If every citizen in Nigeria plant at least one kind of crop, then Nigeria will not be talking about scarcity as well as high cost of food.
People hate farming but farmers are the ones collecting all your monies right now, they have increased the cost of food, so they are sitting on your money, they are even richer than most salary earners, ask a cocoa farmer how many houses he has built, or just look at his account details, you'll faint.

Dey play!
No go plant something mek hunger for Nigeria reduce.

Stupid boy wey mtn just give bonus data come here dey type trash. Very annoying post.

I stopped farming 2 years ago after I escaped fulanis assault. Do you know the number of farmers that have been displaced by the fulanis? Na person wey dey alive fit go farm tomorrow o.

Emusan:
And this is what we need not what you said below.



Yes the solution is farming but not by every dick and Harry.

Statistic shows population of USA farmers are declining which is just about 2 millions that's is less than 1% of USA population.

India farmers are about 150 millions which is just about 8% of India population.

Ukraine that provided aids to Nigeria has less than 1 million as farmers.

So I repeat Nigeria don't need millions of farmers but millions of mechanised farming method.



Food is part of essential of life no doubt about that but food isn't the only items needed to run economy.

The lies that Nigeria needs more farmers is stale and aren't conformed with modern method of agriculture.

This is the problem
Everyone believes that not everyone should plant and everyone ends up not planting at all.
That's why there's hunger in Nigeria right now

zombieHUNTER:
All you wrote here is not possible without security..

Everyone knows the gains in Commercial Agriculture...

But insecurity has messed things up and the government isn't helping

Not all states in Nigeria are suffering from insecurity but almost all have good soils.

yemmit90:
Is like you don't get the point, no one say educated people must embrace farming as business, the Idea is to have something planted on your free land at backyard.

I understood your point quite well, and I'm telling you that EDUCATED PEOPLE don't need to plant in their back yard.

Just a modern mechanisation method of agriculture across just 20 states in Nigeria is enough to feed Nigerians. The lies that people should start planting at the back yard isn't comfomed with modern age.

The idea that educated people must not do anything other than handling pens in offices is a total misinformed basis tenet of education.

It's not misinformation rather you're the ignorant one for thinking that way.

Yes! Educated people should focus on what they study in school which will help them to break even and expand more.

Agriculture alone can't drive the economy and any nation that her farmers are more than half of her population is poor.

Those that farm at their backyards then were never illiterates, they just see backyard farming as culture and necessity to eat healthy vegetables and fruits.

And where did it lead us as a country today?

That they did, doesn't mean it's the best.

If more mechanised farming has been embraced then, we won't be where we are today.

If you were a little bit mature in 80's, and 90's, you won't be talking like this. People has backyard farms irrespective of their education level or where they work. I knew alot of professors who has farms at their backyard then. No one is ashame of doing that, go and ask mature people from 70's to year 2000, and be informed better. Many honorable state house of assembly members, local governments chairmen and lot of politicians too has backyard farms back then. Virtually all civil servants has backyard farms or remote ones if they don't own land.

It's evident you're ignorant of the subject matter.

It was even the Russian/Ukraine war that led many Ukrainian into farming which is just about 14% of their population.

Currently, USA number of farmers are reducing since 2000.

India has just about 8% of her population as farmers.

So, it's not until every dick and Harry embrace agriculture that food will be surplus.

I am not advocating for subsistence farming or suggested that everyone must have farm at their backyard, reason I said FG must fund agriculture at local governments level to achieve optimum results in my previous post.

You're advocating for substantial farming and everyone should farm. Why changing your mouth on what you type in black and white?

Yes! FG must be the one to fund agriculture either through the state government or loacl.

Let me shock you, I read an interview of Tinubu sometimes in 2008 shortly after he left office, he was talking about how Nigeria can be sufficient in food supply and provide jobs and he used POULTRY farming as example.

As in, if Nigeria wants to have surplus of eggs, FG should consider giving every Nigerians 1 eggs per day. He then goes further to ask, can you imagine how many number of poultry farm that will need to be set up in other to give each Nigerian 1 eggs per day?

Do you know how many people those poultry farms will employ?

Now, the reason I brought this up is because, he didn't talk about every educated people to start rearing fowls in other to be sufficient in eggs as individual farming can't create any job opportunity and surplus of food.

But mechanisation method of farming will provide sufficient food and a lot of job opportunities.

Think about the storage facility required, number of machineries, manpower needed e.t.c

RevenuesBoost:
This is the problem
Everyone believes that not everyone should plant and everyone ends up not planting at all.
That's why there's hunger in Nigeria right now

The reason why there's hunger in the land is because people have been planting in their backyard all this while and that isn't sustainable.

What we need is a modern mechanised farming that is sustainable, can provide surplus food and jobs opportunity.

Deemas:
St*pid boy wey mtn just give bonus data come here dey type trash. Very annoying post.

I stopped farming 2 years ago after I escaped fulanis assault. Do you know the number of farmers that have been displaced by the fulanis? Na person wey dey alive fit go farm tomorrow o.

You need to learn how to communicate without abusing the other person.
I'm a lady that knows that the solution to food scarcity in Nigeria is farming.
I might be stupid but you will see the sense in my write up someday.
That place you are living right now, you can have a sac farm.

The insecurity is not in the whole of Nigeria
Many states in Nigeria are still very peaceful and have very good soils but not all are utilizing it.

RevenuesBoost:
Not all states in Nigeria are suffering from insecurity but almost all have good soils.

please mention the region that is immune to insecurity

Emusan:
The reason why there's hunger in the land is because people have been planting in their backyard all this while and that isn't sustainable.

What we need is a modern mechanised farming that is sustainable, can provide surplus food and jobs opportunity.

I know of many farmlands that have been abandoned even with the availability of machineries.
If you tell a Normal Nigerian man, I'm going to the farm, they'll feel you're suffering.
This is the mentality I want to erase.
Farming is everyone's responsibility not the government.
If you eat food everyday, then try and plant something, whether you have the machines or not, it will go a long way.
If everyone has corn, then no one will buy corn and no one will be hungry.

RevenuesBoost:
You need to learn how to communicate without abusing the other person.
I'm a lady that knows that the solution to food scarcity in Nigeria is farming.
I might be stupid but you will see the sense in my write up someday.
That place you are living right now, you can have a sac farm.

The insecurity is not in the whole of Nigeria
Many states in Nigeria are still very peaceful and have very good soils but not all are utilizing it.

I'm very sorry - that's because you are a lady else I would have fired more shots.

zombieHUNTER:
please mention the region that is immune to insecurity

Bandits wahala is mostly in the North and it's now affecting some Yoruba lands, what happens to the rest of the states?
If each state has sufficient food, none will depend on the other for feeding and there will be no hike in food prices.

Emusan:
I understood your point quite well, and I'm telling you that EDUCATED PEOPLE don't need to plant in their back yard.

Just a modern mechanisation method of agriculture across just 20 states in Nigeria is enough to feed Nigerians. The lies that people should start planting at the back yard isn't comfomed with modern age.



It's not misinformation rather you're the ignorant one for thinking that way.

Yes! Educated people should focus on what they study in school which will help them to break even and expand more.

Agriculture alone can't drive the economy and any nation that her farmers are more than half of her population is poor.



And where did it lead us as a country today?

That they did, doesn't mean it's the best.

If more mechanised farming has been embraced then, we won't be where we are today.



It's evident you're ignorant of the subject matter.

It was even the Russian/Ukraine war that led many Ukrainian into farming which is just about 14% of their population.

Currently, USA number of farmers are reducing since 2000.

India has just about 8% of her population as farmers.

So, it's not until every dick and Harry embrace agriculture that food will be surplus.



You're advocating for substantial farming and everyone should farm. Why changing your mouth on what you type in black and white?

Yes! FG must be the one to fund agriculture either through the state government or loacl.

Let me shock you, I read an interview of Tinubu sometimes in 2008 shortly after he left office, he was talking about how Nigeria can be sufficient in food supply and provide jobs and he used POULTRY farming as example.

As in, if Nigeria wants to have surplus of eggs, FG should consider giving every Nigerians 1 eggs per day. He then goes further to ask, can you imagine how many number of poultry farm that will need to be set up in other to give each Nigerian 1 eggs per day?

Do you know how many people those poultry farms will employ?

Now, the reason I brought this up is because, he didn't talk about every educated people to start rearing fowls in other to be sufficient in eggs as individual farming can't create any job opportunity and surplus of food.

But mechanisation method of farming will provide sufficient food and a lot of job opportunities.

Think about the storage facility required, number of machineries, manpower needed e.t.c

You're trying to say mechanized farming is the way.
What if the machines are not available, will you still keep waiting?
Don't shift the responsibility of farming to one person because no one will end up doing it.
Almost everyone is now educated in Nigeria, almost everyone now work in offices.
If you keep waiting for the government to plant on its citizen's behalf, we'll keep complaining of the high cost of food.

Our fore fathers didn't know anything about mechanized agriculture, yet we exported food in those days.
We were rich in palm oil and others.

Emusan:
I understood your point quite well, and I'm telling you that EDUCATED PEOPLE don't need to plant in their back yard.

Just a modern mechanisation method of agriculture across just 20 states in Nigeria is enough to feed Nigerians. The lies that people should start planting at the back yard isn't comfomed with modern age.



It's not misinformation rather you're the ignorant one for thinking that way.

Yes! Educated people should focus on what they study in school which will help them to break even and expand more.

Agriculture alone can't drive the economy and any nation that her farmers are more than half of her population is poor.



And where did it lead us as a country today?

That they did, doesn't mean it's the best.

If more mechanised farming has been embraced then, we won't be where we are today.



It's evident you're ignorant of the subject matter.

It was even the Russian/Ukraine war that led many Ukrainian into farming which is just about 14% of their population.

Currently, USA number of farmers are reducing since 2000.

India has just about 8% of her population as farmers.

So, it's not until every dick and Harry embrace agriculture that food will be surplus.



You're advocating for substantial farming and everyone should farm. Why changing your mouth on what you type in black and white?

Yes! FG must be the one to fund agriculture either through the state government or loacl.

Let me shock you, I read an interview of Tinubu sometimes in 2008 shortly after he left office, he was talking about how Nigeria can be sufficient in food supply and provide jobs and he used POULTRY farming as example.

As in, if Nigeria wants to have surplus of eggs, FG should consider giving every Nigerians 1 eggs per day. He then goes further to ask, can you imagine how many number of poultry farm that will need to be set up in other to give each Nigerian 1 eggs per day?

Do you know how many people those poultry farms will employ?

Now, the reason I brought this up is because, he didn't talk about every educated people to start rearing fowls in other to be sufficient in eggs as individual farming can't create any job opportunity and surplus of food.

But mechanisation method of farming will provide sufficient food and a lot of job opportunities.

Think about the storage facility required, number of machineries, manpower needed e.t.c

You lacks comprehensive skill, that is the only problem I saw in your replies. It is quite òbvious you don't understand anything from the post.

Let me break it down in a lay man understanding for you. The way educated people think back then is completely different from the way we believes in education now. They see farming as culture or necessary channel to eat healthy, they do their jobs like us, they are professional like us, they are expert like us, they concentrate on their jobs like us, they works in offices, they have careers like us, just that they only embrace backyards farming as a culture and means of eating from mother earth, which eventually translated to less pressure on our food supply.

Go back to my very first post you quoted and read with understand mind again. I stated it clearly that we can no longer follow the same pattern, because the present educated people( even uneducated ones) abhorred farming or anything related to it. I therefore suggested that FG should try to empower each local governments for serious farm business that will ensure mass production, because FG can't achieve her aims and objectives by doing them directly.

In conclusion, it is not actually bad if you have few stands of pepper, tomatoes, orange, pawpaw and plantain, on unused land in your compound. These plants have their purpose to serve in your environment and your health, and I am 100% certain you will know the importance of this in your 60's.

RevenuesBoost:
Bandits wahala is mostly in the North and it's now affecting some Yoruba lands, what happens to the rest of the states?
If each state has sufficient food, none will depend on the other for feeding and there will be no hike in food prices.

There's insecurity everywhere...

for the impact on agriculture you are looking for, all the regions has got to be productive

RevenuesBoost:
I came across this post on Facebook
It's posts like this that's making Nigerians suffer of hunger right now.

The white men took us out of our farm lands, introduced schools for us to learn how to read and write and churches to us to forgive every bad thing they'll do to us, so we will go to heaven, stole all our treasures, took charge of our crude oil, they made Maths and English compulsory courses instead of Agriculture, that's why Nigerians are speaking English on empty stomachs.
Check out the big rubber estates or palm plantation in most villages, they are owned by foreigners.
While the inhabitants of that village doesn't know what to do with their lands.

If every citizen in Nigeria plant at least one kind of crop, then Nigeria will not be talking about scarcity as well as high cost of food.
People hate farming but farmers are the ones collecting all your monies right now, they have increased the cost of food, so they are sitting on your money, they are even richer than most salary earners, ask a cocoa farmer how many houses he has built, or just look at his account details, you'll faint.

Dey play!
No go plant something mek hunger for Nigeria reduce.

Keep writing nonsense.
Nigeria has more farmers than the US and the EU combined yet much more hunger. Have you asked yourself why there is more poverty in the rural farming communities than in the towns and cities?

yemmit90:
You lacks comprehensive skill, that is the only problem I saw in your replies. It is quite òbvious you don't understand anything from the post.

When it's obvious you're the one who lack the depth index of the subject matter.

Let me break it down in a lay man understanding for you. The way educated people think back then is completely different from the way we believes in education now. They see farming as culture or necessary channel to eat healthy, they do their jobs like us, they are professional like us, they are expert like us, they concentrate on their jobs like us, they works in offices, they have careers like us, just that they only embrace backyards farming as a culture and means of eating from mother earth, which eventually translated to less pressure on our food supply.

That method didn't reduce any pressure on our food supply, that is why we can see the effect today.

And I've given many instances to support my point.

Educated people don't need to plant in their backyard.

Go back to my very first post you quoted and read with understand mind again. I stated it clearly that we can no longer follow the same pattern, because the present educated people( even uneducated ones) abhorred farming or anything related to it.

The point in correcting you for is at the @underlined, that statement is very very wrong. Educated people should focus on their field of study that's how the economy can be diversified.

I therefore suggested that FG should try to empower each local governments for serious farm business that will ensure mass production, because FG can't achieve her aims and objectives by doing them directly.

I believe we both agreed on this.

In conclusion, it is not actually bad if you have few stands of pepper, tomatoes, orange, pawpaw and plantain, on unused land in your compound. These plants have their purpose to serve in your environment and your health, and I am 100% certain you will know the importance of this in your 60's.

It's not bad but it can never address food shortage.

tctrills:
Keep writing nonsense.
Nigeria has more farmers than the US and the EU combined yet much more hunger. Have you asked yourself why there is more poverty in the rural farming communities than in the towns and cities?

That's is the question they failed to ask and still believe more educated people should go into farming.

tctrills:
Keep writing nonsense.
Nigeria has more farmers than the US and the EU combined yet much more hunger. Have you asked yourself why there is more poverty in the rural farming communities than in the towns and cities?

Really? You can brag about Nigeria having more farmers in those days not now.
Every young child wants to write jamb and go to the university.
I didn't know what a farm looked like till I was 21, back then I wasn't even interested in farming.
Not until now that I see great benefits.

You feel the rural people are poor?
They are rich in food and money.

While the Urban people are buying everything from the market, they get theirs from their farms.

Maybe the day you'll see the sense in my writing is the day you'll buy a small cup of Garri for 500 Naira and a cup of rice for 1000 Naira

RevenuesBoost:
Really? You can brag about Nigeria having more farmers in those days not now.
Every young child wants to write jamb and go to the university.
I didn't know what a farm looked like till I was 21, back then I wasn't even interested in farming.
Not until now that I see great benefits.

You feel the rural people are poor?
They are rich in food and money.

While the Urban people are buying everything from the market, they get theirs from their farms.

Maybe the day you'll see the sense in my writing is the day you'll buy a small cup of Garri for 500 Naira and a cup of rice for 1000 Naira

Oga just a small google search is all you needed. In this age a day, we don't argue much. Just put in some effort, make your research and educate yourself.
But since you refuse to put in the work, let me help you.
Nigeria has over 35 million farmers.
The EU has 9 million farmers and the US has 22 million farmers.

tctrills:
Oga just a small google search is all you needed. In this age a day, we don't argue much. Just put in some effort, make your research and educate yourself.
But since you refuse to put in the work, let me help you.
Nigeria has over 35 million farmers.
The EU has 9 million farmers and the US has 22 million farmers.

Do you want to compare Nigeria's population to another country?
That is just 20% of our population.


What can 20% of food planted by small holder farmers do to it's country?

Nigeria still imports food.
We still rely on other countries to feed when we have very good soils.

RevenuesBoost:
Do you want to compare Nigeria's population to another country?
That is just 20% of our population.


What can 20% of food planted by small holder farmers do to it's country?

Nigeria still imports food.
We still rely on other countries to feed when we have very good soils.

The US is over 350 million and the EU is 450 million. We don't need everyone to become farmers, We need more productive farmers

RevenuesBoost:
Do you want to compare Nigeria's population to another country?
That is just 20% of our population.


What can 20% of food planted by small holder farmers do to it's country?

Nigeria still imports food.
We still rely on other countries to feed when we have very good soils.

Did you read the data he presented? Nigeria has far more farmers than the USA and the whole of Europe combined... is our population more than that of the USA and Europe?

Doesn't that tell you that the method you are promoting is not the solution?

The FG has failed over the years to support agriculture and Tinubu is doing the same...

Brendaniel:
Did you read the data he presented? Nigeria has far more farmers than the USA and the whole of Europe combined... is our population more than that of the USA and Europe?

Doesn't that tell you that the method you are promoting is not the solution?

The FG has failed over the years to support agriculture and Tinubu is doing the same...

Let me add 2 it by saying that even the state governors/senators/lg chairman av no regard 4 these things

Theres need for a chemistry btw all levels of govt 2wards the support needed by the agric sector.

HellVictorinho6:
Let me add 2 it by saying that even the state governors/senators/lg chairman av no regard 4 these things

Theres need for a chemistry btw all levels of govt 2wards the support needed by the agric sector.

You are right too, but I believe if the president is showing leadership by example, most likely others will follow...

tctrills:
The US is over 350 million and the EU is 450 million. We don't need everyone to become farmers, We need more productive farmers

Are you comparing Nigeria with USA?
We are still underdeveloped
We need to help ourselves and not wait for the government.

That's my point

Brendaniel:
Did you read the data he presented? Nigeria has far more farmers than the USA and the whole of Europe combined... is our population more than that of the USA and Europe?

Doesn't that tell you that the method you are promoting is not the solution?

The FG has failed over the years to support agriculture and Tinubu is doing the same...

It's the only way out.
It worked for our fathers, it will work for us.
Our fore fathers didn't joke with agriculture.


If we keep blaming the government, food will keep getting costlier even as the country's population is increasing everyday.

I support the fact that the Government have to improve the agricultural sector, but we shouldn't fold our hands while waiting.

We are already feeling the heat of food scarcity.
My own is, as the food is getting scarce, plant something. You feel it's nothing but it will go a long way.

If Tinubu doesn't take farming seriously, the next president might just do same and then what happens?

Some persons in Nigeria are even richer than the federal government but can't venture into agriculture because of reasons known to them.

So don't wait for FG, help yourself.

HellVictorinho6:
Let me add 2 it by saying that even the state governors/senators/lg chairman av no regard 4 these things

Theres need for a chemistry btw all levels of govt 2wards the support needed by the agric sector.

My exact point!
They import the food they eat.
They will never complain of hunger.

If we keep waiting for our leaders, we will keep complaining of food scarcity.

Brendaniel:
You are right too, but I believe if the president is showing leadership by example, most likely others will follow...

the issue is none of them believes in it

They are not waiting 4 tinubu as govnus

They dont even expect him 2 do it


But i dont even think their chemistry 2wards that means everybody must plant

They should be able 2 do it without everyone planting

RevenuesBoost:
My exact point!
They import the food they eat.
They will never complain of hunger.

If we keep waiting for our leaders, we will keep complaining of food scarcity.

We cant all be farming

We need and deserve 2 av them deprived of as many things as possible 4 being useless politicians