₦airaland Forum

Svoboda:
The govt only took the least path to resistance by massively importing cheap grains as a stop gap measure to food price inflation, with 2027 election in view. Farmers are now left bemoaning their fate like orphans. Under Buhari, farmers were economically empowered because he understood how important they were in ensuring national food security and overall economic stability. I think Tinubu considers taxes more important than massive investment in the agricultural sector.

How doea this economical analysis concern the common poor man, he's buying food cheap- that's what matters. You have sympathy for farmers that aren't up 5% if a popular of over 200M people

Jakarta:
This Agriculture business doesn't move me 1 bit. You are the mercy of virtually everything both nature and humans. From no rains to too much rains, pests, Fulani herdsmen, and even theft, then poor sales after harvest. Nothing is under your control. And same Agriculture is very important. Why can't agriculture be very lucrative with oil and gas?

Those factors can be easily avoided if you have money.

Dotherightthing:
Nothing is impossible. But a lot work of needs to be done and we are making progress.

But to compare this era with subsidy era is lunaccyy taken too far

Hehe progress? Dont make me laugh. If u dont know what is good how can u attain it?

omoredia:
Hehe progress? Dont make me laugh. If u dont know what is good how can u attain it?

Well, you are free to be bitter cum pessimistic all because of 2023 elections loss.

LocalFARMERS:
Nigerian Farmers Are In Trouble: See 2000 Naira Yam In Kaduna

It is no longer news that price of food stuffs has come down to some extent. This is good news to the consumers and bad news to farmers. This price drop is as a result of importation of food stuffs.

This present Government gave improvers the green light to import food stuffs into the Country with zero tax. This has affected Nigerian farmers who invested millions to farm. Nigerian farmers this year will not be able to make 50% of their investments in farming this year.


As a farmer. Whenever I am transporting myself and workers to the farm, I spend 18k on fuel my vehicle. Buy food for my workers. Fertilizer is between 55k to 70k per bag. Herbicide chemical is from 5k to 15k. To rent a tractor for five days will cost over a million. Plus the risk of going to the farm as Kidnappers and armed robbers are everywhere.

After spending all this money and risk taken, you still can't recover the amount you invested.

The best way to bring down the price of food stuffs is by reducing the prices of Fertilizer, Seedlings, Herbicide chemicals, Tractor services and fuel. When this is achieved, prices of food will come down naturally.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0CwxibpDlQ

But right in this same 2025, big time Birnin Gwari farmers in Kaduna State say they are individually making billions of Naira from their bumper harvests due to the improved security and farming implements provided by the FG and Kaduna State Governor. There is a 2025 video which is still online from Journalists Hangout on TVC where many of the farmers were interviewed and they praised the Kaduna State Governor and the Federal Government for the improvement in food production in Birnin Gwari.

Yobe State farmers too are churning out bumper harvests and food prices have dropped in Yobe because of that with low inflation as of the last report I saw in a recent video report.
This is due to the FACT that the Yobe State Governor gave out free tractors to the farmers to use with other farming implements.

All the State Governors of have to do the same thing the Yobe and Kaduna State Governors have done for some of their farmers. The State Governors have more monthly allocations up from N4 billion per month to N11 billion per month on average so they should spend more money on agriculture to crash the price of food to a level where the farmers would earn enough profits for their farm produce while the consumers will NOT be ripped off by paying too high. Most of the State Governors and their Agric Commissioners are NOT serious people and the leading cause of high food costs is insecurity and high cost of transportation and production in the various States of Nigeria from what I have gleaned. Everyone is WRONGLY blaming the Federal Government and the Nigerian President Tinubu but it's the States that MUST take the lead in food production. Again, the Southern States of Nigeria need to CLEAR up more forests so that there will be more land for arable farming in Oyo and Cross River States for instance which are the two largest States in Southern Nigeria with Oyo State being the largest followed by Cross River.

Lagos State is already working on a plan to reduce food costs by 50% with the Commissioner for Agriculture Ms Abisola Olusanya in charge to remove the inneficiences and food hoardings caused by middle men so that the consumers can buy directly from the farmers in Agric Food Hubs which are already functioning in different parts of Lagos State. Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu ALSO launched 150 CNG-FUELED 40-feet food haulage trucks to enable food in Lagos to drop. The Epe Central Agro Food Hub has to be completed because it is 5 months behind schedule for launch as promised by the Lagos State Commissioner of Agriculture.

Dotherightthing:
Well, you are free to be bitter cum pessimistic all because of 2023 elections loss.

Its not about pessimism. If u dont read if u like be optimistic u will become an optimal failure. I like to face reality

Bluntemperor:
Where is ' Over here's?
Which State and what Local government?
Always let your Statement be clear,with purpose?

Port harcourt

Dotherightthing:
Well, you are free to be bitter cum pessimistic all because of 2023 elections loss.

If u like be optimistic and give danfo driver to fly a Boeing 767 airplane both u and the driver will crash optimistically lol. I face reality and I dont deceive myself

LocalFARMERS:
*Picture 1- 2000 naira yam
*Picture 2- 3700 naira yam

5 pieces for 2000 Naira?
Is that 5 pieces total in the first picture?

Gerrard59:
Nothing greedy there. It is basic economics. Supply of rice in the market has been restricted as foreign rice has been barred from entry. Restricted supply + increasing demand = higher prices. Now, foreign rice is allowed entry while there is a surplus of local rice. The result? Reduced prices.

How is this difficult to grasp?

Oga l understand the basic laws of demand and supply very well. But 120% increase in prices in just two months is not due to any laws of demand and supply anything. That one is just based on the laws of Greediness and Selfishness

That is the correct price o no be lambda

Gotocourt:
As a farmer. Whenever I am transporting myself and workers to the farm, I spend 18k on fuel my vehicle. Buy food for my workers. Fertilizer is between 55k to 70k per bag. Herbicide chemical is from 5k to 15k. To rent a tractor for five days will cost over a million. Plus the risk of going to the farm as Kidnappers and armed robbers are everywhere.

Guy, your lamba dey too much, b kiaful

LocalFARMERS:
Nigerian Farmers Are In Trouble: See 2000 Naira Yam In Kaduna

It is no longer news that price of food stuffs has come down to some extent. This is good news to the consumers and bad news to farmers. This price drop is as a result of importation of food stuffs.

This present Government gave improvers the green light to import food stuffs into the Country with zero tax. This has affected Nigerian farmers who invested millions to farm. Nigerian farmers this year will not be able to make 50% of their investments in farming this year.


As a farmer. Whenever I am transporting myself and workers to the farm, I spend 18k on fuel my vehicle. Buy food for my workers. Fertilizer is between 55k to 70k per bag. Herbicide chemical is from 5k to 15k. To rent a tractor for five days will cost over a million. Plus the risk of going to the farm as Kidnappers and armed robbers are everywhere.

After spending all this money and risk taken, you still can't recover the amount you invested.

The best way to bring down the price of food stuffs is by reducing the prices of Fertilizer, Seedlings, Herbicide chemicals, Tractor services and fuel. When this is achieved, prices of food will come down naturally.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0CwxibpDlQ

He will not reduce the price of fertilizer,

Atrazine selective herbicide cost 15k plus

Godfullsam:
He is a bloody liar.

He should mention the brand of herbicides he bought for 15k.

You cant buy that yam anywhere for 2k in Kaduna. Not even in the remote villages.

Bloody liar

Bizmind95:
Oga l understand the basic laws of demand and supply very well. But 120% increase in prices in just two months is not due to any laws of demand and supply anything. That one is just based on the laws of Greediness and Selfishness

It is because there would be panic buying, thus increasing the demand astronomically, simply because supply has been restricted. Now that supply restrictions have been removed, aren't food prices so cheap? 20K for a bag compared to over 100K for the same quantity?

chat gpt

Svoboda:
The govt only took the least path to resistance by massively importing cheap grains as a stop gap measure to food price inflation, with 2027 election in view. Farmers are now left bemoaning their fate like orphans. Under Buhari, farmers were economically empowered because he understood how important they were in ensuring national food security and overall economic stability. I think Tinubu considers taxes more important than massive investment in the agricultural sector.

LocalFARMERS:
*Picture 1- 2000 naira yam
*Picture 2- 3700 naira yam

I am a Kaduna resident. Please in which of the market in Kaduna did you buy this yams for 2k?

I bought it 2500 in Kaduna here last week.

Saladdin:
Yam and other foodstuffs are insanely cheap in KD and other northern states.

Ok. But not what the OP posted. Me self go Monday market this week. U can't buy 5yams for 2k. Never unless na potatoes

Caaz:
Very cheap....down south here,10k nor buy that yam.

Meanwhile these were mine i harvested from my sack plant

Kai. I like your harvest o. I planted too in sack but my yams are not big. I used cement bags and tubers if yam I divived as seeds for the planting but my harvests are small. What would have caused the small yeilds?.

Bluntemperor:
Where is ' Over here's?
Which State and what Local government?
Always let your Statement be clear,with purpose?

Right here in iluju ogbomoso.

12 big tubber of yam na 5k

Mattswaggz:
But why is it that even some things more produced in the south are still expensive in the south compared to north?.

Like what

Celestialsword:
Like what

Palm oil, some biscuits and soft drinks,even yams(if I am right that they're grown more in the south compared to the North) and others.

Hop3:
Over 5 yams for 2k?
One of that yam is going for 2k over here in Port Harcourt

in the part of port Harcourt where II live, one of the yam is 4 thousand naira

Caaz:
Very cheap....down south here,10k nor buy that yam.

Meanwhile these were mine i harvested from my sack plant

I like you for being very hardworking. 1 out of millions of ladies can be this hardworking and you are among the 1.

Keep it up

Haydens:
I like you for being very hardworking. 1 out of millions of ladies can be this hardworking and you are among the 1.

Keep it up

Oh...thanks for the compliment.... I ve a diary on diary section,you can follow up.
My diary name is ewoma.


Thanks

Svoboda:
The govt only took the least path to resistance by massively importing cheap grains as a stop gap measure to food price inflation, with 2027 election in view. Farmers are now left bemoaning their fate like orphans. Under Buhari, farmers were economically empowered because he understood how important they were in ensuring national food security and overall economic stability. I think Tinubu considers taxes more important than massive investment in the agricultural sector.

ii suspect you to be yusuf buhari, because no right thinking Nigerian will say buhari empowered farmers or invested in agriculture. The man that was travelling up and down and achieved nothing through out his eight years in the office and won medal for being Nigeria worst president, Abi another buhari dey?

Caaz:
Oh...thanks for the compliment.... I ve a diary on diary section,you can follow up.
My diary name is ewoma.


Thanks

Okay.

The yam is very cheap.

Svoboda:
The govt only took the least path to resistance by massively importing cheap grains as a stop gap measure to food price inflation, with 2027 election in view. Farmers are now left bemoaning their fate like orphans. Under Buhari, farmers were economically empowered because he understood how important they were in ensuring national food security and overall economic stability. I think Tinubu considers taxes more important than massive investment in the agricultural sector.

Farmers had the chance to grow Nigeria food output under Buhari but they greedily misused the opportunity. They harvested and hoarded their products waiting for the price to skyrocket since the govt has banned import of food. Nigerians regardless of their positions are naturally wicked. We don't care about the progress of this country, everybody just wants to enjoy life at the detriment of others.

I'm currently selling in Lagos. 5 bigger ones than this for 4,000 naira only.

Caaz:
Very cheap....down south here,10k nor buy that yam.

Meanwhile these were mine i harvested from my sack plant