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Good morning my people I need your advice I am a graduate, since when I graduated I have not been able to get a permanent or suitable job and I have wife and two kids, my wife is the only child of her parents ,her father is a farmer almost 85 years old and her mother is dead her father like me so much that there is nothing he can not give, one day my wife called me that since I don't have permanent job why can't I join her father in his cocoa farm I was like do you want me to be like your father and be living in village she said what is wrong there that this is what her father has been doing till now and he can still afford to give us anything we ask, apart from that her father is aged he can't do much of the and since I am a graduate I will know how to modernize everything, but my own problem is that I don't know anything about agriculture, and is normal for me to go and join my father in-law and how can I modernize everything. Note my father in-law has cocoa farm,palm fruit,(he has lease that one out) he has cassava and other small farm but he can't do anything there because his strength has failed him. Please what should I do. How can I turn the project to something else even if I accept

wemzack:
Good morning my people I need your advice I am a graduate, since when I graduated I have not been able to get a permanent or suitable job and I have wife and two kids, my wife is the only child of her parents ,her father is a farmer almost 85 years old and her mother is dead her father like me so much that there is nothing he can not give, one day my wife called me that since I don't have permanent job why can't I join her father in his cocoa farm I was like do you want me to be like your father and be living in village she said what is wrong there that this is what her father has been doing till now and he can still afford to give us anything we ask, apart from that her father is aged he can't do much of the and since I am a graduate I will know how to modernize everything, but my own problem is that I don't know anything about agriculture, and is normal for me to go and join my father in-law and how can I modernize everything. Note my father in-law has cocoa farm,palm fruit,(he has lease that one out) he has cassava and other small farm but he can't do anything there because his strength has failed him. Please what should I do. How can I turn the project to something else even if I accept

U don't sound like you have money to bring new tech, mechanization, and automation into the operation.....just go learn the current working operation from the old man so you can at least know how to manage the place..

know the pple that he works for him and trusts , clients that supplies him needs on the farm and the ones he also supplies with harvest......
And if u need help, hire experienced farm manager...but not before u know the runnings of the place, if you don't want them to run u street

someone is giving u a push not so many pple get in their life ...if u like blow it with this ur uninterested tone

You see free land for agriculture, you no happy, cos na your in-law get am abi.

Where people are paying much amount to buy acres of land just for agriculture.

My brother agriculture is a good idea.

OP, what is wrong with your head?

You don't have a steady job with your pally, and here is an established farming that the man has run for years and an opportunity to become the owner and you are talking "I don't want to live in a village".

Better run quickly and learn the work while the man and the opportunity is still here before it's too late.

Farming is now a good profession these days and many rich people are looking for ways to invest in it.

AND by the way, your wife sounds like a good wife. Hold her tight ooo. Not all these "men are this and that" business only women that are out there now.

Op can pass the opportunity to me if he's not interested.

wemzack:
Good morning my people I need your advice I am a graduate, since when I graduated I have not been able to get a permanent or suitable job and I have wife and two kids, my wife is the only child of her parents ,her father is a farmer almost 85 years old and her mother is dead her father like me so much that there is nothing he can not give, one day my wife called me that since I don't have permanent job why can't I join her father in his cocoa farm I was like do you want me to be like your father and be living in village she said what is wrong there that this is what her father has been doing till now and he can still afford to give us anything we ask, apart from that her father is aged he can't do much of the and since I am a graduate I will know how to modernize everything, but my own problem is that I don't know anything about agriculture, and is normal for me to go and join my father in-law and how can I modernize everything. Note my father in-law has cocoa farm,palm fruit,(he has lease that one out) he has cassava and other small farm but he can't do anything there because his strength has failed him. Please what should I do. How can I turn the project to something else even if I accept

why not lease the other ones too, get a cab or keke napep for transport n get something reasonable doing.

It's not reasonable to work in your in law's farm, one day them go tell u story ooo.

U know how people can b

Reality3080:
why not lease the other ones too, get a cab or keke napep for transport n get something reasonable doing.

It's not reasonable to work in your in law's farm, one day them go tell u story ooo.

U know how people can b

Village people spotted

Reality3080:
why not lease the other ones too, get a cab or keke napep for transport n get something reasonable doing.

It's not reasonable to work in your in law's farm, one day them go tell u story ooo.

U know how people can b

I can't lease it out because my father in-law is still alive he has not handover to his daughter apart from that nobody can tell me any story because it is the man personal property and he has no other child order than my wife even my wife doesn't have step mother

bukkysam:
Village people spotted

this is not about village people but to avoid see finish

To start with

Are u married?

wemzack:
I can't lease it out because my father in-law is still alive he has not handover to his daughter apart from that nobody can tell me any story because it is the man personal property and he has no other child order than my wife even my wife doesn't have step mother

oga boss

God will guide u right, u can proceed if u feel it's d best for u

First go and check the price of a tonne of cocoa. Yea 15 million Naira. Even if na only marketing you go do......

Reality3080:
this is not about village people but to avoid see finish

To start with

Are u married?

What is the see finish in this case? Except he isn't going to add any value that is when he can be disrespected. The man indirectly funds his lifestyle, this is the time for him to learn from him.

The only thing you should be bothered about is security because, I can assure you that your father in law is way richer than you or his daughter can imagine (fear those old cocoa farmers with their raggedy clothes)
You already have a smartphone with internet and you're a member of nairaland so why not browse through the agric section and ask questions there while learning a thing or two from baba ? It's a shame people here have to advise you on accepting a sitting goldmine, a friend changed his life story with ordinary ugwu and corn planted in Ogun state, he's now based in Europe while you have cassava (assuming we forget about the cocoa). Baba, abeg use your head na

wemzack:
➜Good morning my people I need your advice I am a graduate, since when I graduated I have not been able to get a permanent or suitable job and I have wife and two kids, my wife is the only child of her parents ,her father is a farmer almost 85 years old and her mother is dead her father like me so much that there is nothing he can not give, one day my wife called me that since I don't have permanent job why can't I join her father in his cocoa farm. I was like do you want me to be like your father and be living in village she said what is wrong there that this is what her father has been doing till now and he can still afford to give us anything we ask, apart from that her father is aged he can't do much of the and since I am a graduate I will know how to modernize everything, but my own problem is that I don't know anything about agriculture, and is normal for me to go and join my father in-law and how can I modernize everything.
➜ Note my father in-law has cocoa farm,palm fruit,(he has lease that one out) he has cassava and other small farm but he can't do anything there because his strength has failed him. Please what should I do. How can I turn the project to something else even if I accept

The man never even hire you, but you don already dey plan as if it dey guaranteed say the old man go hand things over to you. Nonsense! 🙄🙄🙄

Look, you need employment, and working on a farm in order to make ends meet is not such a terrible idea at all. Go there and learn the trade first. If and when you have sufficiently done that enough to realize what may need modernizing, then you can use your graduate skills to research best practices and ways forward at that point. Right now, your priority should be obtaining gainful employment and obtaining the basic skills necessary for the job. 🙄🙄🙄

wemzack:
Good morning my people I need your advice I am a graduate, since when I graduated I have not been able to get a permanent or suitable job and I have wife and two kids, my wife is the only child of her parents ,her father is a farmer almost 85 years old and her mother is dead her father like me so much that there is nothing he can not give, one day my wife called me that since I don't have permanent job why can't I join her father in his cocoa farm I was like do you want me to be like your father and be living in village she said what is wrong there that this is what her father has been doing till now and he can still afford to give us anything we ask, apart from that her father is aged he can't do much of the and since I am a graduate I will know how to modernize everything, but my own problem is that I don't know anything about agriculture, and is normal for me to go and join my father in-law and how can I modernize everything. Note my father in-law has cocoa farm,palm fruit,(he has lease that one out) he has cassava and other small farm but he can't do anything there because his strength has failed him. Please what should I do. How can I turn the project to something else even if I accept

son,
there are some professors living in that village. what is so special about dt your university certificate if you think you are too polish to live there ?

secondly, for now forget that you have a certificate. Go there asap and learn Frm that man. He wil be your professor(teacher) on the farm and you wil be his student. Just see it as you entering another school of real life agricultural studies.

I dnt know if it is agric you studied in school but dnt deceive yourself with dt your statement dt you will modernize everything. your agric professors and commissioners of agriculture you have in your school's and govt level do learn Frm dis our old farmers.

It is most certain dt when teaches you and shows you the rope, you wil nt wnt to work salary wrk esp when the proceeds of cocoa starts coming in. cocoa money is like oil money if you know the current price of 1tonne of cocoa.

If you delay too long and that old man goes to the other side of life and you miss out, you wil understand beta what you have lost.

wemzack:
Good morning my people I need your advice I am a graduate, since when I graduated I have not been able to get a permanent or suitable job and I have wife and two kids, my wife is the only child of her parents ,her father is a farmer almost 85 years old and her mother is dead her father like me so much that there is nothing he can not give, one day my wife called me that since I don't have permanent job why can't I join her father in his cocoa farm I was like do you want me to be like your father and be living in village she said what is wrong there that this is what her father has been doing till now and he can still afford to give us anything we ask, apart from that her father is aged he can't do much of the and since I am a graduate I will know how to modernize everything, but my own problem is that I don't know anything about agriculture, and is normal for me to go and join my father in-law and how can I modernize everything. Note my father in-law has cocoa farm,palm fruit,(he has lease that one out) he has cassava and other small farm but he can't do anything there because his strength has failed him. Please what should I do. How can I turn the project to something else even if I accept

I think you have to think twice

First is are his other children aware of this plans, what is their interest in their father's farm, especially the make children

Secondly, can you take six months break to join him and see if uts something you can join in future and start your own, even if you relocate, you can still come around to visit your family when you are free

While with him, you can think of a more modern way of farming and find out the cist of acquiring those methods and weigh the benefits of it

The good thing is that, if it's profitable then you will be in payroll as you will be thr one controlling everything

But bear in mind that other members of the family may not find it comfortable, so seek for their involvement through your wife or through your father inlaw

This is to avoid problems with the whole thing