₦airaland Forum

bilms:
FG’s agricultural imports policy ‘suicidal’ — Group



https://tribuneonlineng.com/fgs-agricultural-imports-policy-suicidal-group/

na God go punish this man, they said the same rubbish under buhari look at where we are today, hunger wan finished people, una dey raise price anyhow because no competition and also una dey blame bandits for low harvest

Elusive001:
But you supported buhari when he closed borders then? You enumerated all the "benefits" of border closure by him then. We even saw the rice pyramids. What changed? I thought you guys have been posting threads of improvement in price of food commodities.

A lot of you love making stupid, baseless and unfounded statement. Buhari closed the border in 2019 and I was not even a member of nairaland when he did. So I wander how you knew I supported him.

Paraman:
If there's no importation of fuel, Dangote won't be reducing price like he is doing now

Why is he not reducing the price of cement? Government should stop the policy of banning importation

On cement matter i want to believe Dangote is transfering the undisclosed burden govt is placing on him to the buyers.

Local production should be leverage inclined, where we dont have leverages like rice, it is more logical to import

Paraman:
Whether they are giving 1-10m to eacg farmer does not matter, what matter is that Government should lift the ban on food importation.

I honestly don't care whether the government lifts the ban or not, but continually blaming small-scale holders for high prices is just too funny.

We know how to address the issue of petrol prices by begging and giving Dangote billions of dollars in loans, but when it comes to agriculture, we want to achieve the same results with 5 million for small-scale holders. Why didn't we also give 5 million to oil bunkers and miners who extract petrol with 50-liter drums and firewood to compete and achieve low prices?

Williejo:
Ok poor man

And if you loss just 1 naira to scammer, you go open your big teeth crying abi? Useless Offspring of Ape!

Bobodee09:
Wicked people.

One small mango they will want to sell 200naira. Fruit and food made here is more expensive than imported ones, is that not madnes

Fg should import food since some farmers have decided to remain greedy.

mango just dey come out, wait until the mango don tey for market and start to dey spoil before buying, at least that's how I do it this days. Na yesterday I bought the first ụdara/agbolomo and I got it cheaper than what they were selling it initially.
Perishable food na im them want take do shakara for me?

id4sho:
They should gettat arraherrrr

We are too wicked in this country, a pal in taraba told me how farmers were balling. I know middle men(worse) who have made fortunes on sales of rice, beans and corn. Our beef and chicken is too expensive.

We need the imports oOoOO, see as Dangote refinery is giving importers hot hot 🥵🔥💥💣💯. That's the only way to get true value for goods and services. It's only in Nigeria that economic principles are defied 😕

I agree with you, the local farmers in Nigeria are worse than corrupt politcians , they were making 500% profiton their produce!!! causing massive food inflation. Useless bastards

bilms:
FG’s agricultural imports policy ‘suicidal’ — Group



https://tribuneonlineng.com/fgs-agricultural-imports-policy-suicidal-group/

Funny how imported 50kg Bag of rice is cheaper ... Than the local bags of rice...

Even foreign fruits and vegetables are cheaper than local ones...

All these are not ordinary explain... There are supernatural consequences Nigerians are paying for...


So many abnormalities here and der...

We can only plead for mercy.. from the supernatural beings

Don't worry. We don't want your jobs. Let food be cheap. Thieves. As rice is now 65k from almost 100k, you are not happy abi 😡😒🙄

fitinwell:
Funny how imported 50kg Bag of rice is cheaper ... Than the local bags of rice...

Even foreign fruits and vegetables are cheaper than local ones...

All these are not ordinary explain... There are supernatural consequences Nigerians are paying for...


So many abnormalities here and der...

We can only plead for mercy.. from the supernatural beings

Only small holders farmers are in Nigeria.

Foreign countries are into industry based farming.

Why isn't the local agricultural produce cheap? Let's start from there.

Importation should continue i will continue to support all the importation product such as petrol, diesel, rice and bean and cement everything should be imported to this country because every country in the world are imported one thing or the other

id4sho:
They should gettat arraherrrr

We are too wicked in this country, a pal in taraba told me how farmers were balling. I know middle men(worse) who have made fortunes on sales of rice, beans and corn. Our beef and chicken is too expensive.

We need the imports oOoOO, see as Dangote refinery is giving importers hot hot 🥵🔥💥💣💯. That's the only way to get true value for goods and services. It's only in Nigeria that economic principles are defied 😕

Don't mind them!

Bobodee09:
Wicked people.

One small mango they will want to sell 200naira. Fruit and food made here is more expensive than imported ones, is that not madnes

Fg should import food since some farmers have decided to remain greedy.

The problems most times is not the farmers, is only people that did farming that can understand. It's the middlemen, those Babalojas and mamalojas they are the problem. It's synonymous to drivers and the agberos, it's the agberos that tells driver prices to carry it, they inflated it so much.

Many farmers will rather sell even if he didn't make profit that watch his labour on the produce rot, a tomatoes farmer will not want his tomatoes to rot, it's the market people that will come and dictate price for the farmer, if he refuse to sell they will leave and tell themselves not to buy, and if they buy they will take them to market and still dictate price to sell.

Those people are extremely wicked, they will mouth to rubbish a farmer produce and claim no one will buy it but after buying some they will beg you to give them those one they claim nobody will buy as jara, and when they get it they will sell it in the market.

And if farmer takes their produce to the market they will not allow you to sell, they must be the one to buy from you at their price, if not they will ask you to leave the market. If you dare to sell yourself by force they will spoil your produce. They are like mafia and they have mastered this act so much that it doesn't even seems like a bad thing to them but market strategy

bilms:
FG’s agricultural imports policy ‘suicidal’ — Group



https://tribuneonlineng.com/fgs-agricultural-imports-policy-suicidal-group/

Nigeria is the only that subsidizes imports and have problems with subsidizing local products

Enemies of progress.

donself9:
Even @high cost of living, still on still most of the price hikes are greed incline,

i dont know of a time we agreed cost of living was low in Nigeria, before Buhari close our boarder to foster local production, our local farm products were more affordable

Even if FG bring down inflation and all, Our farmers n middlemen greed wont let it yield, in Nigeria," ise kekere owo nla" is what we all desire

During buhari tenure How much was school fees and house rent compared to now?

These farmers pay the same high bill everyone is paying, where will they get the money from? Definitely from their produce.

Tackle the root of the sickness, the symptoms will vanish

Sugarboyy:
Agric products that are produced in your state, just like mine, why are they not cheap then? Abi Boko haram and bandits still they affect my Edo State farmers and your state too?

Both of you are saying same thing from different context. Read again.
He's not supporting the farmers

OfficialP:
During buhari tenure How much was school fees and house rent compared to now?

These farmers pay the same high bill everyone is paying, where will they get the money from? Definitely from their produce.

Tackle the root of the sickness, the symptoms will vanish

You are deviating, house rent and school fee under buhari is lower compared to now. agreed

We are not denying the necessity for prices increase But the bone of contention is our local market are "OverPriced , what i find more annoying is the fact that; For every increase in price comes with a decrease in quantity and quality of any local product.

cost of production should be the one dictating Prices, not lifestyle, taste or family problem which seems to be the case

The favorable solution to meet standard of living is upscale productivity, producing more increases your turn over rate but Nigeria trader see overstating price as a sure path to make quick profit

inflating prices to amass turnover is like pooing where you sleep .. the smell will affect people around and You tew.
if you sell yam nd inflate price you will meet me that sell egg there even gas seller they wait for us its a vicious cycle of karma

where their is inflation, a hike is tenable but Over pricing as we have seen here is what i condemn

techaboki:
When we talk, they say farmers are greedy.

They claim farmers are cashing out big, but they themselves don't want to go into the farming

It's a very bad policy and farmers are already counting out their loses

But buhari govt share moni five una N300B. Come give us acct how the money go.
Greedy farmers selling ordinary onion that was once worthless penny for a significant price. Oga farmer you greedy.

Sugarboyy:
Agric products that are produced in your state, just like mine, why are they not cheap then? Abi Boko haram and bandits still they affect my Edo State farmers and your state too?

that is the scarcity i spoke about, the few agric produce from these other peaceful states can't feed us all.

This is why I keep saying that small Cameroon despite having just 2 Presidents since 1960 is better than Nigeria with uncountable number of military and civilian Presidents.
Why do I say so?
Paul Biya is 93 years old and if he wins this year election will be 100 years by the end of his next 7 year mandate.

How could Buhari give 300 billion to 4 million farmers with the effect not being felt?
Both the government and citizens na same same.

In Cameroon, the government does not give money to farmers, but establishes tens of thousands of hectares in which it employs citizens to work on the farms and the produce sold locally at fixed government prices.
If you like go open your own farm, at harvest na then we go know whether ur price cheap pass government price or not and customer go choose who to buy from as per price and quality.

SODECOTON - Cotton for clothing, cotton seed oil for cooking, cottonseed cake for animal feed.

CDC - Rubber, Bananas, Palm Oil

SOCAPALM - Palm Oil

SEMRY - Rice

SODEBLE - Wheat

MAISCAM - corn, sorghum, millet

NOSUCA - Sugarcane

SODECAO - Cocoa and coffee

etc etc

There are more than 20 such companies operating on thousands of hectares of land, employing citizens and feeding the nation.
It is worth noting that the CDC mentioned in this list is the 2nd highest employer in Cameroon after the State.
The products from these state owned companies cannot be exported out of Cameroon except by the State itself after ensuring local supply.

Na land no dey Nigeria? Abi workers no dey?
You know how many of such companies could have been created with that Buhari 300 Billion which ended up with a rice pyramid?
Rice pyramid wey don suddenly turn to rice stampede in less than 4 years.

I still dey find the babalawo wey swear for Nigeria, na im god I wan dey worship now.
Tufiakwa Nigeria.

techaboki:
He told you "farmers were balling" but you don't want to go into farming. Don't you want to "ball" too? The rains will soon start, get one hectare and cultivate. Make sure you write every penny you're spending down. Then at the end of harvest, FG should allow massive imports of what you produced, then come back and make this comment. In fact, even if they don't allow import, just farm one year so that you too can ball. Shebi e easy? Or better still, be a middle man yourself. Be on Nigerian roads 24/7 since you think they are "balling".

A friend of mine just told me "he's balling" from Web 3, and I am already learning it online. I intend to travel to his place and be his mentee. Me sef want "ball".

Nobody asked to farm for them, it's your decision.

You locally farm produce must not be more expensive than imported foods.

Why should I buy a bag of locally made rice for 120k when I can get a better foreign rice with better quality for 50k or 40k?

They should open the boarder let's import, imported foods are cheap than local food.
Nigerian farmers are uselessly greedy.

We don't need them

Am a farmer and I must say what the fg are doing will not last. We the local farmer are spending too high on purchase of seed, cost of labour, chemicals. The fg should look into these.....

uzhiyeka:
Am a farmer and I must say what the fg are doing will not last. We the local farmer are spending too high on purchase of seed, cost of labour, chemicals. The fg should look into these.....

This is the reality