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If you have a few hundred cattle heads, you should be able to get land and ranch them, sink a borehole or have a water source and then procure a few vehicles to be collecting hay or grass. That is how they do it in other countries in Europe and Asia and the cattle grow faster because they don't roam about.

You will be selling meat and dairy products and with five hundred heads you will be able to employ a graduate manager.

In my view, cattle ranching is straightforward and the only problem is the will power to start.

lawani:
If you have a few hundred cattle heads, you should be able to get land and ranch them, sink a borehole or have a water source and then procure a few vehicles to be collecting hay or grass. That is how they do it in other countries in Europe and Asia and the cattle grow faster because they don't roam about.

You will be selling meat and dairy products and with five hundred heads you will be able to employ a graduate manager.

In my view, cattle ranching is straightforward and the only problem is the will power to start.

Ever backward north stuck in the past is the problem

Kdon2:
Ever backward north stuck in the past is the problem

Why have we in the South not shown how it's done with all our Agric professors?

Do not underestimate the centuries-old knowledge of cattle-rearing in the North. We should have merged their old ways with modern-farming to create the very best template.

Our grandmothers had the native smaller/stockier cattle in those days. They reared them quite well in the South.

It was far tastier than Northern cattle we have now.
How come we have none of the native cattle now?

We can't blame the North for everything.

AreaFada2:
Why have we in the South not shown how it's done with all our Agric professors?

Do not underestimate the centuries-old knowledge of cattle-rearing in the North. We should have merged their old ways with modern-farming to create the very best template.

Our grandmothers had the native smaller/stockier cattle in those days. They reared them quite well in the South.

It was far tastier than Northern cattle we have now.
How come we have none of the native cattle now?

We can't blame the North for everything.

Traditionally cattle is not the business of the south. We are not cattle rearer per se though we keep domestic animals but not cattle.

Kdon2:
Traditionally cattle is not the business of the south. We are not cattle rearer per se though we keep domestic animals but not cattle.

You talk like GenZ.

So all the cattle our grandmas had were in Kano, Chad or Burkina Faso ba? You probably know far less than Southern 9ja than you like to believe.

Time was we had herds of native cattle across the South. In Edo people call it Edo cow, Igbo cow in Igbo land. Local cow in Western Region. That is how native to the areas they were. They had reared them as long as anyone could remember. Hausa cows were considered to be of poor quality, which was true.

I doubt if you have even seen those native cows before.

Obas and nobility used to have large herds. Some commoners even had according to economic strength. Big ladies of the land would own a few each at least.

I remember a burial in 1981, the olori ebi/okaegbe (head of family in the burial) specifically asked the children of the deceased not to buy any Hausa cows, only native cows. The man who died was over 100 years old.

Women used to put a small bell around the cattle's neck. To help trace it if it goes into the bush.

We were not always this poor in innovation and imagination in the South.

Farming in crops and livestock is everyone's responsibility. We have no contract or law that says only the North should produce cow meat.