₦airaland Forum

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

Meanwhile these were mine i harvested from my sack plant

fyneboi79:
wow!! This is lovely.. Open a home farming thread please,I would love to learn too.

Caaz:
After you don insult me tire....



I'll not open any thread kawai.

omoredia:
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

Bizmind95:
Oga forget Lamba. We are just our own problem in this country. I remembered back then in 2019 that Buhari was still planning to ban the importation of foreign rice, l went down to a local rice farming village here to run a market survey, and the farmers were still offering a bushel of rice (25kg) for 3k. And it was around the middle of September then, so they had done the harvesting, and factored everything in. But believe it or not, two months later that Buhari finally banned foreign rice, l went down to the same market and the price of the same one bushel of rice has jumped to 7k with abeg oo, which is over a 100% increase in just 2 months!!! Of course, l understand the basic laws of demand and supply, and that prices will always rise with increased demand and lesser supply. But almost 120% price increase in just two months is not based on any laws of demand and supply anything. That one is simply based on the laws of the Greediness and Selfishness of We Nigerians. So who's deceiving who here

tammie24:
please which rice market is this?

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

omoredia:
It is too expensive jare. During gej time 5 big ones goes for N1300. We are talking about the north where it is produced nah

Mattswaggz:
Yep...food prices are coming down but not yet to the level the clueless Mr grab it and run away with it met it....this may be due to harvest season and other factors though.

Bizmind95:
Oga forget Lamba. We are just our own problem in this country. I remembered back then in 2019 that Buhari was still planning to ban the importation of foreign rice, l went down to a local rice farming village here to run a market survey, and the farmers were still offering a b your own rubber with only 10% price jumpushel of rice (25kg) for 3k. And it was around the middle of September then, so they had done the harvesting, and factored everything in. But believe it or not, two months later that Buhari finally banned foreign rice, l went down to the same market and the price of the same one bushel of rice has jumped to 7k with abeg oo, which is over a 100% increase in just 2 months!!! Of course, l understand the basic laws of demand and supply, and that prices will always rise with increased demand and lesser supply. But almost 120% price increase in just two months is not based on any laws of demand and supply anything. That one is simply based on the laws of the Greediness and Selfishness of We Nigerians. So who's deceiving who here

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

bestman09:
It is well with Nigerians.

By the time you send it to the south, transportation would have added much to the cost and the trader will add his profit, then the consumer ends up paying through the nose!

FaAbData:
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?

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?

safarifarms:
Nigerians don't think that way. They just prefer to blame farmers for high prices of food and tag farmers of being wicked. No one cares what it cost to produce. No one cares about the risk you take while going to the farm.

As you are complaining like this, they'll soon tag you as wicked. They won't even want to pay attention to your alternative suggestion of helping subsidising production cost which will lead to the same result of price reduction. You will hear things like, Nigerians are the problem of Nigerians.

I pity those who took loans to invest in rice milling factories.

AlphaTaikun:
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.

Nah
It's dollar exchange rate


[quote]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


States?
Or local govt?
Or individual voters all waiting for awoof from govt?
Why consumers no enter farm if ede pain Dem?


[quote]
. 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


So no need for forests Abi?
Wetin do the southern farmers axes?

[quote][size=8pt] 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.

Cromagnon:
how much was dollar then
Make una de think before talking

Cromagnon:
Remember what happened when we subsidize fuel
Nta
Ports
Security
Telecoms
Education
Railways
Airlines
Water
Electricity......
Now you want to subsidize food supply


Would just love to observe your mind at work

Bizmind95:
You need rice? Make l help you run am.

tammie24:
tell me the market oga 😁

Bizmind95:
E dey for Anambra here Oga, and prices don fall like madt

tammie24:
Anambra no get rice abeg

Cromagnon:
Cost of production (land, labor, capital,)

Cromagnon:
Cost of production (land, labor, capital,)

Cromagnon:
Haba even with say all youth de ride Keke and okada now, still 60% of Nigerians are farmers o not 5%

FaAbData:
Farmers in the line of the issue at discuss- let's stay within scope.

You'll only arrive at a large % when include fishery, animal farm, vegetables, poultry etc. Even at that 60 is an exaggeration- that means more than half of the people you know or see everyday are farmer

Mattswaggz:
Good point but I still think there is something else..... I've seen some snacks processed in the south that are still cheaper in the North.... could this one be from the retailers or middle men?.

safarifarms:
I don't know where you got the idea of subsidizing food supply from. It's definitely not from my post. The govt is actually subsidizing food supply by waving import duties for food to be imported. What the OP suggested was subsidizing farming inputs instead so that the cost of local production can be less and still achieve reduction in the prices of food which is what Govt wants to achieve.

I'm personally not really interested in subsidies.

Govt is acting on impulse not careful logical planning. There are foods that we have comparative advantage in producing (like Yam, Cassava etc) but govt decided to make a focus on Corn & Rice which we don't have as good advantage on their production.

WIthout thinking they suddenly banned import of the 2 items and encourage local production. Many invested in the 2 areas and many made millions

while the cost of the two and any derivatives (like animal feeds that depend on corn) became too expensive leading to surge in the cost of living for Nigerians.

Now after so much groaning by Nigerians they now began to allow import again leading to low prices that is affecting those that sunk in so much money into production.

Think about it logically. Before you begin to focus on me, I'm not into production of any of those

instead I also bear the grunt of buying expensive feed that stems from wrong govt policies. But I pity those that were encouraged to invest in those areas who are now crying.

omoredia:
As if dollar stole itself. Is it not una wey decide to use our fx to sponsor terrorists?

Cromagnon:
What are we saying what w are you saying
What does stealing dollar have to do with exchange rate
What does terrorist have to do with exchange rate
You well so?