₦airaland Forum

Putindbutt:
https://dailytrust.com/cassava-producers-take-steps-as-starch-import-crashes-price/

Putindbutt:
See this one... The President was not talking about foods... He had given you enough opportunity to bring down food prices but una no gree. Government will help you crash the price, make una no worry.

sylve11:
The government should also lower the cost of grains.

Putindbutt:
https://dailytrust.com/cassava-producers-take-steps-as-starch-import-crashes-price/

donpata:
Because we are cursed with dumb leaders, we will continue to suffer. It is suicide to support importation against local production. Same thing is happening to maize production. Fertilizer is still very expensive and so are herbicides and pesticides. Rather than addressing these challenges for long term sustainable agricultural development, government is now taking the lazy man's way for temporary gains due to elections.

Even a newborn baby knows that the disastrous level of insecurity in the country especially in the north, is the major cause of high food prices since many farming communities have been displaced. Rather than address this terrible issue head-on, government has resorted to window dressing for temporary gains and more trouble later.

I see ignorant comments where people are blaming the farmers for not using the opportunity wisely. That line of argument is a consequence of zero knowledge of basic economics. The farmers are to a large extent, victims of the situation we find ourselves.

Hoarding is a crime, and most of our farmers lack the capacity to hold onto their produces longer than two to three months cos they simply sell and buy fertilizer and other farm inputs as well as household groceries. The hoarders are the corrupt politicians and biz people with warehouses, and with capacity to store these products for years. Again, rather than targeting these persons, the government is allowing more importation, the lazy-man solution.

The people benefiting from the agricultural value chain locally are large. All these drama will just make them jobless. I understand there is hunger in the land but government should take up the responsibility of tackling insecurity and dealing with their hoarder friends so that food can be cheap. Subsidy for farming inputs are also great. Afterall, the farmers in countries we are importing from are heavily subsidized by their govts. Y not we? Why kill local industry. BUNCH OF MEDIOCRES.

Didijiji:
something APC should have done since 2015

They keep forminf Jagaban till things are as destroyed as they are now

It is now they are trying to do what is NORMAL

Vision101:
What did PDP do before 2015?

donpata:
Because we are cursed with dumb leaders, we will continue to suffer. It is suicide to support importation against local production. Same thing is happening to maize production. Fertilizer is still very expensive and so are herbicides and pesticides. Rather than addressing these challenges for long term sustainable agricultural development, government is now taking the lazy man's way for temporary gains due to elections.

Even a newborn baby knows that the disastrous level of insecurity in the country especially in the north, is the major cause of high food prices since many farming communities have been displaced. Rather than address this terrible issue head-on, government has resorted to window dressing for temporary gains and more trouble later.

I see ignorant comments where people are blaming the farmers for not using the opportunity wisely. That line of argument is a consequence of zero knowledge of basic economics. The farmers are to a large extent, victims of the situation we find ourselves.

Hoarding is a crime, and most of our farmers lack the capacity to hold onto their produces longer than two to three months cos they simply sell and buy fertilizer and other farm inputs as well as household groceries. The hoarders are the corrupt politicians and biz people with warehouses, and with capacity to store these products for years. Again, rather than targeting these persons, the government is allowing more importation, the lazy-man solution.

The people benefiting from the agricultural value chain locally are large. All these drama will just make them jobless. I understand there is hunger in the land but government should take up the responsibility of tackling insecurity and dealing with their hoarder friends so that food can be cheap. Subsidy for farming inputs are also great. Afterall, the farmers in countries we are importing from are heavily subsidized by their govts. Y not we? Why kill local industry. BUNCH OF MEDIOCRES.

sylve11:
The government should also lower the cost of grains.

Putindbutt:
See this one... The President was not talking about foods... He had given you enough opportunity to bring down food prices but una no gree. Government will help you crash the price, make una no worry.

Vision101:
What did PDP do before 2015?

Putindbutt:
See this one... The President was not talking about foods... He had given you enough opportunity to bring down food prices but una no gree. Government will help you crash the price, make una no worry.

donpata:
Because we are cursed with dumb leaders, we will continue to suffer. It is suicide to support importation against local production. Same thing is happening to maize production. Fertilizer is still very expensive and so are herbicides and pesticides. Rather than addressing these challenges for long term sustainable agricultural development, government is now taking the lazy man's way for temporary gains due to elections.

Even a newborn baby knows that the disastrous level of insecurity in the country especially in the north, is the major cause of high food prices since many farming communities have been displaced. Rather than address this terrible issue head-on, government has resorted to window dressing for temporary gains and more trouble later.

I see ignorant comments where people are blaming the farmers for not using the opportunity wisely. That line of argument is a consequence of zero knowledge of basic economics. The farmers are to a large extent, victims of the situation we find ourselves.

Hoarding is a crime, and most of our farmers lack the capacity to hold onto their produces longer than two to three months cos they simply sell and buy fertilizer and other farm inputs as well as household groceries. The hoarders are the corrupt politicians and biz people with warehouses, and with capacity to store these products for years. Again, rather than targeting these persons, the government is allowing more importation, the lazy-man solution.

The people benefiting from the agricultural value chain locally are large. All these drama will just make them jobless. I understand there is hunger in the land but government should take up the responsibility of tackling insecurity and dealing with their hoarder friends so that food can be cheap. Subsidy for farming inputs are also great. Afterall, the farmers in countries we are importing from are heavily subsidized by their govts. Y not we? Why kill local industry. BUNCH OF MEDIOCRES.

Ever8090:
how about crashing the cost of farming the cassava .like chemicals, cost of labour, transportation etc ...if those areas are not taken care of, the famers will have to lay down their tools or only farm for household consumption and people like you who can't even farm one cassava stem will go hungry or buy imported commodities at high cost which is exactly what those imports are fighting to achieve...

Didijiji:
something APC should have done since 2015

They keep forminf Jagaban till things are as destroyed as they are now

It is now they are trying to do what is NORMAL

Esthered:
Why didn't they crash their prices earlier?

Putindbutt:
See this one... The President was not talking about foods... He had given you enough opportunity to bring down food prices but una no gree. Government will help you crash the price, make una no worry.

zero8zero:
When prices come down, farmers, transporters, oil marketers & others will be crying.

NOETHNICITY:
Buhari did all this in the name of promoting local production, yet he failed most disastrously

adonainana:
Nigeria

Prices are high we complain

Government opens up borders for cheap substitutes to come in

Prices crash and people are still complaining

Besides if the ton of cassava fell by half why is a kg of garri being sold in the market still the same price

donpata:
Because we are cursed with dumb leaders, we will continue to suffer. It is suicide to support importation against local production. Same thing is happening to maize production. Fertilizer is still very expensive and so are herbicides and pesticides. Rather than addressing these challenges for long term sustainable agricultural development, government is now taking the lazy man's way for temporary gains due to elections.

Even a newborn baby knows that the disastrous level of insecurity in the country especially in the north, is the major cause of high food prices since many farming communities have been displaced. Rather than address this terrible issue head-on, government has resorted to window dressing for temporary gains and more trouble later.

I see ignorant comments where people are blaming the farmers for not using the opportunity wisely. That line of argument is a consequence of zero knowledge of basic economics. The farmers are to a large extent, victims of the situation we find ourselves.

Hoarding is a crime, and most of our farmers lack the capacity to hold onto their produces longer than two to three months cos they simply sell and buy fertilizer and other farm inputs as well as household groceries. The hoarders are the corrupt politicians and biz people with warehouses, and with capacity to store these products for years. Again, rather than targeting these persons, the government is allowing more importation, the lazy-man solution.

The people benefiting from the agricultural value chain locally are large. All these drama will just make them jobless. I understand there is hunger in the land but government should take up the responsibility of tackling insecurity and dealing with their hoarder friends so that food can be cheap. Subsidy for farming inputs are also great. Afterall, the farmers in countries we are importing from are heavily subsidized by their govts. Y not we? Why kill local industry. BUNCH OF MEDIOCRES.

NOETHNICITY:
Nice one from government

Nigerians are wicked, I support the government policy on this one

They should eat their cassava

donpata:
Because we are cursed with dumb leaders, we will continue to suffer. It is suicide to support importation against local production. Same thing is happening to maize production. Fertilizer is still very expensive and so are herbicides and pesticides. Rather than addressing these challenges for long term sustainable agricultural development, government is now taking the lazy man's way for temporary gains due to elections.

Even a newborn baby knows that the disastrous level of insecurity in the country especially in the north, is the major cause of high food prices since many farming communities have been displaced. Rather than address this terrible issue head-on, government has resorted to window dressing for temporary gains and more trouble later.

I see ignorant comments where people are blaming the farmers for not using the opportunity wisely. That line of argument is a consequence of zero knowledge of basic economics. The farmers are to a large extent, victims of the situation we find ourselves.

Hoarding is a crime, and most of our farmers lack the capacity to hold onto their produces longer than two to three months cos they simply sell and buy fertilizer and other farm inputs as well as household groceries. The hoarders are the corrupt politicians and biz people with warehouses, and with capacity to store these products for years. Again, rather than targeting these persons, the government is allowing more importation, the lazy-man solution.

The people benefiting from the agricultural value chain locally are large. All these drama will just make them jobless. I understand there is hunger in the land but government should take up the responsibility of tackling insecurity and dealing with their hoarder friends so that food can be cheap. Subsidy for farming inputs are also great. Afterall, the farmers in countries we are importing from are heavily subsidized by their govts. Y not we? Why kill local industry. BUNCH OF MEDIOCRES.

Guestmale:
Your submission is great, but I don't want to put the blame completely on government,we citizens on our own have our own problem, most Nigerians are unpatriotic ,we always misused opportunities and also as bad as the those people in power. Secondly we don't have enough patience and a government that is coming back for a reelection will not be folding its arm and be talking grammar,the hungry man on the street doesn't understand grammar.

CHAQUR:
Because everyone now has access to the Internet, every Tom, dick and Harry now comment from the comfort of their rooms and believe that they too are correct given economic advice.
Like every other things in Nigeria, whenever the government regulate a sector by checking importation so as to improve the production in the sector, people will start taking advantage & decided to export instead of supplying the home needs. The home consumers will again shout to the government of unavailability & high cost... What else is expected of government than to relax the regulations and resume importation. Remember when dollars was rising, paint rubber of garri was almost dragging out of the reach of the poor despite being a complete local food. They were sending it to surrounding Africa countries for high exchange cefas.

Ever8090:
how about crashing the cost of farming the cassava .like chemicals, cost of labour, transportation etc ...if those areas are not taken care of, the famers will have to lay down their tools or only farm for household consumption and people like you who can't even farm one cassava stem will go hungry or buy imported commodities at high cost which is exactly what those imports are fighting to achieve...