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rafcrown:
Please how csn I make proper use of 1 acre of land in a place that is far and not yet developed.
I am interested in cash crop trees that can take like 3 to 5 years to mature.Difficult to go there always and I dont want to waste my money by leaving the land like that.Please I need good advice from great farmers.

damoceile:
How far is the land to where you reside? Because no matter what you plant, it still need proper monitoring you can do OIL PALM, CASHEW these are long term crop trees but still they need constant monitoring you can't just leave them for long and not do anything..

rafcrown:
I can be going there once in a month and i am thinking of irrigation,if possible with timer and CCTV will be there plus economical fence.

Richhard:
What you need is a trusted human there,gonna be cost effective than these stuff listed
Farm location?

Richhard:
What you need is a trusted human there,gonna be cost effective than these stuff listed
Farm location?

Redman44:
👆 This is the best answer so far. OP should get a trusted person to manage the farm on his or her behalf. If you plant any cash crop there without someone monitoring the place for you, you will go through lots of losses 😭😭 including theft of your crops and loss of the land itself. The best is to pay someone in the village where the land is to monitor the farm for you.. 35k a month for a start is not bad. Then go there and plant the crops or fruit trees by yourself. Get to know people in the area and be friendly with them. That person you are paying 35k a month will help you guard and monitor your farm. Promise the person a small percentage of the harvest too. Cheers.

rafcrown:
Fantastic.Thanks a lot.I cherish all your great contributions.

rafcrown:
Ogun State, near Abeokuta..

rafcrown:
Please how csn I make proper use of 1 acre of land in a place that is far and not yet developed.
I am interested in cash crop trees that can take like 3 to 5 years to mature.Difficult to go there always and I dont want to waste my money by leaving the land like that.Please I need good advice from great farmers.

Legendguy:
Is it Obafemi Owode LGA or Ewekoro?

olawooro:
Engage me to help you grow the cash crop and monitor it .
I suggest plantain.

rafcrown:
Where are you based?

rafcrown:
I can be going there once in a month and i am thinking of irrigation,if possible with timer and CCTV will be there plus economical fence.

Redman44:
👆 This is the best answer so far. OP should get a trusted person to manage the farm on his or her behalf. If you plant any cash crop there without someone monitoring the place for you, you will go through lots of losses 😭😭 including theft of your crops and loss of the land itself. The best is to pay someone in the village where the land is to monitor the farm for you.. 35k a month for a start is not bad. Then go there and plant the crops or fruit trees by yourself. Get to know people in the area and be friendly with them. That person you are paying 35k a month will help you guard and monitor your farm. Promise the person a small percentage of the harvest too. Cheers.

epainos:
This is the right way. Think innovation. Think tech. But it is not for what you described above. The possibility of making money there with tech is low...but tech is the way forward if you want to do agric in 2026..


This is a traditional effective way; however, it depends on getting a good person. The question is that is how many are good? This will work years back. Not now. I wouldn't even consider it. Do not get me wrong, it is the best for what the OP described, but the Nigeria of today does not have good people.


My recommendation
1. Use the Land to see if you can get a trusted person.
2. Cultivate what you can lose on the land instead of a premium crop or cash crop.
3. Cassava comes to my mind. Do not waste money on it. Buy cheap stems and see if the person you have there will be honest. Mayne on 1 plot only. Do not rush it. Make sure you study the person very well for over a year.
4. You will be shocked that you cant find one person who is honest.
5. If you find one, you don jam jackpot. Hold on to that person and then, you can think of using whatever system and cultivate cash crop or premium crops.


The default is that you will lose money on the land and that you cant find a good person. So, use a cheap project you can afford to lose to invalidate the default. But if the default remains intact, dont fight it. Leave it like that and work towards a place close to you. If you cannot, leave agric for now.

Redman44:
I understand your recommendation, bro. However, cassava is just a common crop planted everywhere. There is no assurance that Bush Rats will not feed on the cassava tubers in the ground. Yes, honest people are very hard to find in Nigeria today. However, OP should promise the person guarding the land 10% of the harvest along with a monthly payment of 35,000 Naira. This will encourage the person in the village to be focused on guarding the place since he or she knows something is going to be gained in the Project. OP can plant Bitter Kola right away. Or start a Plantain plantation right away. Plantain Suckers are not that expensive, you know. OP should wait for the next rainy season to commence before cultivating the Plantain and Bitter Kola.

seoxpert:
Both sides of this argument have a point, and the answer is to do both, in order. First secure the land: a simple fence and a caretaker you can reach by phone, because an unguarded acre in the bush will be used by somebody else. Then test the caretaker with cassava on a small portion for one season, it is cheap, it grows almost anywhere, and it tells you whether the person is honest. [b]While that runs, plant a few long-term trees like palm or cashew on the rest. [/b]Pay the caretaker well and visit monthly. Only expand the premium crops after the caretaker has proven himself.

epainos:
Please read the added note in my post up. Your idea about doing both shows you are not an investor in such business, and you are a JJC. You want to use your human brain to combine ideas and say ..yes...this is it. Lol. See eh..you go regret am. And it is better to just leave what you dont understand because people like you who dont understand will be forced to think like this which is destruction.

What happens when the person losses the farm? Do you know the cost of just a seedling of some of these trees? If you can afford to lose around N20million, someone else might not be willing. Some of these things are N5k to N30k per seedling. Population can be 50 to 1,000 per acre depending on the trees. Can you even afford to lose just N500k? Please answer me. Just N10k person lose in this forum, they cry so hard - my hard earned money. Buy 50 seedling of N15k each...and N50k to N100k to clear land. Irrigation of N500k, N100 -N1,000 per plant for sowing, every 2 weeks.....you pay about N100k to weed at the initial stage of the farm, etc. Weekly petrol.....except you dont use irrigation....or you buy solar pump which will be over N3M to install..pr close to N5M sef. Or do you want to spend over N2M and leave out irrigation to depend on rain? Oh do it during rainy season. Lol. Go do it na and dont set irrigation na. Na then after you will know why dishonest seedling sellers always discourage buyers from using irrigation. You will then know that you arent fighting only dishonest workers but also fighting dishonest seedling sellers. The seedling sellers will even introduce you to a dishonest consultants theu will collect percentage from. See eh...You still dont get it at all.

If templates like this are successful, believe me, everyone in diaspora will have one. How many people in disapora have a small agric business that is succesful? They mostly buy already built houses now. Lol. And how many of them can afford to buy already completed houses? Think na. You think many of them didnt pay companies and consultants doing such project some 10 tp 20 years ago? It was common around 2010 to 2017. Go and ask all of them if they made one kobo from such investments.

Short-term rented apartments
I am thinking of writing businesses for people in diaspora sef. Let me give one away here. If you are loaded with cash, buy apartments in a lucrative areas in Lagos, PH or Abuja. Get an AI marketing expert to fill 80% out of 365 days in a year - approx 290 days. Short term let prices for 2 - 3 bedrooms apartments in top places in Lagos (Ikoyi, VI, Lekki Phase 1, etc) - $200 - $1,000+ per day. Lets use only $300 to calculate revenue, and you will get $87,000. Thats N117M revenue a year. Boom! Add services like food and car rent and hit N150M to N300M easily. Just one year, you will get the cost of buying your apartment. Tell me which means of getting back the cost of building or buying a house in Nigeria in one year. People dont recover it back easily....many take more than 20 years, and many dont even recover back before renovating again. Lower ends of Lagos & Abuja where you can buy apartments for $50k - $100k, you can take $80 - $150 daily.

Now, come home with a loaded cash. Buy land for N100M - N500M in an average to lower-high end in Lagos. Monitor your building...get like 3 upper layers plus the ground floor and you have around 8 to 16 apartments (2 to 3 bedrooms), and even 1 room called "self contained". Monitor the project for 6 mths. You dont have to stay here all through. Divide the project into stages and be around when each stage is about to start. Go buy your materials yourself and monitor the contractors bumper to bumper.

Can you figure out yet the amount you will make?

The point I am making here is that there is no more honest person in Nigeria. You must ask for businesses you can do when people around are not honest. These are what you embark on. If you dont, you will lose your money. Such projects are always expensive because the cost of theft is expensive, and if you want to prevent it, you will pay high also. But it is extremely cheaper to pay for high projects like this than to fall into the hands of thieves.

epainos:
Have you done exactly what you recommend for this man? Bitter Kola..how long before he starts making money if it is successful. And plantain? This plantain you mentioned is why I replied your message; otherwise I wouldn't. It makes me doubt that you really know this business well. Even people with fenced farm who are present fight thieves trying to steal their plantain. Thats the last crop I will ever involve myself in. Plantain and banana.


And I need to address again the purpose of cassava is recommended cos I have relaised you weren't patient enough to read my post well. Go through my post again. I asked him to do the cheapest thing ever that he can afford to lose. Everything you have suggested to him costs money he cannot afford to lose. But cassava is cheap. Many people dont even add nutrients, and the time they weed is before the plants develop canopies that prevent light from hitting the soil. Let bush rats eat whatsoever they want to eat. Thats agric. The purpose of the project is to study people you asked him to employ. Ordinarily, I would say he shouldn't follow your advice cos I know that thieves are thieves. There is nothing you can use to make them to be honest. You suggested 10% of harvest and N35k monthly pay. Lol. The question is that are you doing this? Is it working for you? Be genuine with yourself. I do not need your answer, but I am just telling you to be honest with yourself.

If I find one honest person today, believe me...I will hold on to that oerson like a gold. With a year after he passes my tests, he will be rich himself, and I will be far richer because I will expand massively. I just need that one honest, hardworking person. Such might be around, but I have not met one.

Today, a friend called me from North America and was hyping his new project a consultant is doing in his home state. He even was saying how it is good to buy from China and bla bla bla. I have spotted many mistakes and I know the project will fail, but I didnt say much. If he cares to listen, I will show him these things, but I know he will care after he has lost everythig which will be late. Na so e dey be. People will always make mistakes. And after losing all, he will run away from agric, and nothing I say will ever make him return. Lol. So, I know that I may not even tell him anything. I may have to console him after his loss. And maybe 5 years after and he sees I am still thriving, he may ask me why I didnt guide him well. This is my blossom friend we hustled together while I was living outside Nigeria.

Also, I cut off a man with two kids 1 hr ago (before seeing your post) because he has changed. I used to know him as a good person, but he has always been the type who thinks he is extremely smart. During those days, he was honest with handling money. But recently, I have noticed he has changed because he has joined boys. He is trying sp hard to hide it from me, but I know a scammer when i see one. So, I asked myself...who can I trust in Nigeria? People are desperate to make money anyhow these days.

It is extremely hard to find a good person now. This is one of the reasons I have refused to expand so BIG in Nigeria. I will rather spend times 100 more to set up in the US and UK rather than in Nigeria as things are going on. People cannot afford to set up farms in the US and UK because of the cost. But they always think they can in Naija. Lol. The truth is that the real cost of setting up in Naija which involves the cost of theft is extremely more expensive that setting up in the US and UK. The most expensive is "time" which is wasted evrytime.

I will say less, and I am not discouraging anyone. Let everyone do what he likes...but the bad thing is that after the losses, people dont return to tell us here and warn others. They move on because they are ashamed of themselves.

In summary, let him find a honest person first and give him what is worth it rather than using what is more than worth it to try make a thief a honest person. And I suggest he should use what he can afford to lose to scout for one. Within a year, he will realise it is like competing in "Gulder Ultimate Search".

If anyone has the recipe of finding a honest veggie worker, kindly let me know. Or if anyone can be a guarantor to a honest worker, kindly tell me. The person will be arrested and made to refund of the cost the worker runs away with. And if the worker is successful, the person will go.away with a huge sum also. This is to tell you how willing I am to spend to acquire a honest vegetable worker.

Goodluck to everyone.

Note
This part I am writing again after I noticed people are mixing up my view. Here is another way to say it. The normal thing and wise way is to look for someone to manage it, and pay the person well. If you choose to find someone in the village, it is a good strategy too to reduce the salary cos there wont be the cost of transport added, and can be a part time job for the person (added income) instead of full time for a non resident. I have no problem about it. However, Nigeria is now an abnormal place. The question is that how many honest people can you find? A nation where parents help their kids cheat to pass exams. Where parents support yahoo businesses of their kids. Nigeria is extremely bad now. A nation where workers feel entitled and they say it confidently now that : "na where person dey work, person dey chop".

So, be wise. Instead of saying you want to get someone in the village because you want to reduce the cost, get anyone and test the person's integrity. Do not limit yourself to the environment cos you arent focusing on salary reduction, but on getting a honest person. While doing this, do not commit to doing that huge project. I did not ask anyone to do anything aside of the cheap crop. So, no one should misquote me. I did not ask anything to run side by side. Just focus on getting a honest worker with a small project like cassava. Thats all. You may be shocked that no one is honest when they are not monitored. Thats why we always say that monitor your project yourself.

You can hire workers for projects in the city or a well structured business with departments. But a one man business with one worker in the bush? You can try it. If you are successful, I will come learn your method. Trust me...I can even pay. And i wrote earlier, if you have a honest worker who can do such for me and you can be the guarantor and pay me back what I am going to demand if the worker destroys my project or run away with my equipment, I will do it and even pay you handsomely. We can draw a contract. No one has come out to do this. I am challenging those who give workers out here on this platform also. Please, no matter where your farm is and you have someone, let me know. So far, no one has come up. Can you see my point? If no one can guarantee this, what does it tell you? The people telling you to do it cannot guarantee anyone themselves. Let them give me one person in their community na. I will buy or rent a farm there. Let them take up this challenge. No one. Absolutely none. Cos they know they cannot trust anyone. So, why are they telling you to trust someone they cant trust?

sultaan:
Best response ever.

I am going through the fire currently and the pepper they showed me with clearing one of my vehicles was not encouraging.

After collecting money for the Cg DC AC Agencies they now broke the fob off my keys to make sure I paid more in demurages so we had to buy the fob back from them.
I know they do these things to roro on Grimaldi but there was now way to drive the vehicle without the security fob.

Clearing my farm vehicles set me back a lot it will take over a year to recover because most of our planting budget was taken at the Apapa ports(welcome to Nigeria)

Mistake was believing duty was almost free based on government announcement on July 1 2026 and pulling the trigger

Redman44:
@Epainos, the seedlings are not up to the prices you have stated, Sir. Bitter Kola, Kolanut and most other fruit seedlings apart from Citrus fruits are much cheaper . Bitter Kola seedlings at wholesale prices are around 700 Naira to 1,500 per seedling depending on the variety of specie of bitter Kola. Same with Kolanuts 🙂. Banana and plantain Suckers are much cheaper ( 200 to 500 naira per sucker ) if you buy in bulk from Nurseries in Ibadan and other places in the Southwest and even from CRIN ( For Cocoa seedlings ). I am a farmer and I know these things I have said are true.

The OP is not even abroad. He is in Nigeria. He can succeed in the farming business with the ideas we have both given him. If he can fence his land, it is even better for him. I have a small farm someone watches over for me. I pay the Aboki monthly ( 25k ) and the farm has been there for close to 3 years now 🙏. My own farm is not even totally fenced and I have harvested plantain, banana, Zobo and pawpaw from there several times 🙂. Please let us encourage the guy. [/b]
Please, if you can show me this trick how you put the guy there...Im game. I am.not discouraging him at all...just preparing his mind.

Sir, why dont you help him find someone like your hausa guy. I told you earlier na. If you say that he can find someone there, assist him with your skill to get the right person. Me sef I want to learn your way. Cos I have tried many ways...and all ended badly. If you truly put Pawpaw, plantain, and banana in a farm there and you said you didn't fence it...sir...I will tell the guy to go for Pawpaw & habanero mixed on his farm. Period. He should put irrigation. Let him do Pawpaw 2m × 2m and put habanero in between. Come back 8 month and make massive profit....then, can do trees.

But you will guarantee the farm. This is my condition. You will pay back the revenue that is supposed to be made on the farm. Pawpaw only... - 50 fruits per tree of 1,000 plants (lets make it 950). At N1,000 per fruit each...lets even make it N800 per fruit....10% mortality. Thats N38M revenue. Lets crash it to only N15M revenue...just for Pawpaw.. are you willing to take this risk. And if you are successful, you go home with N5M. Are you willing cos what you are sure of, you must stand by it and prove it beyond reasonable doubt. This way, I will tell the guy to move in. Lets forget about the higher profit of banana or plantain.....Pawpaw that outside thieves wont even disturb that much.

Are you game?


[quote]Even your Flats/Apartment building and leasing idea is not foolproof. There is no guarantee that it will succeed too. I know you have made your points, but not everyone fails in these Agriculture cash crops ventures if they have someone watching over it for them. OP can plant the seedlings himself to save costs . I planted my seedlings and suckers myself . Thanks.

epainos:
Thanks for the figures. Bless you. I don't doubt you. There is a factor I didnt include. I always go for quality grafted trees...I guess thats the reason. And I go for macro propagated plantain and banana seedlings. If I have someone who can eve. Get me tissue culture ones, I am game. But like I said, banana and plantain are two plants my enemies sef will never cultivate. Lol.

You knkw I asked you earlier. Do you really have these plants? Forget about you are a farmer. Have you ever gotten yourself involved in plantain and banana? Cos if you have..you will know the theft in it. Even fence your farm with blocks, they will break in. Unless you are unground and you monitor your farm...plus you coordinate well with the security of the place...thats when you can secure your plantain and banana farm. But you live in another place and you think your farm is safe....

Redman44:
Yes, I cultivate Plantain and Banana on my farm . I truly cultivate them 🍌🍌. And I have an Aboki who watches over the farm as there is accommodation at the Place. I also plant Pawpaw and Zobo there on a small scale. I am not into consulting and don't want to consult for anybody. Commercial seedlings like Cashew, Cocoa, Bitter Kola, Kolanuts , Pawpaw and banana and plantain Suckers are not that expensive when purchased in bulk. I have given you the prices. I also plant my seedlings and suckers by myself 🙏. Cheers.

Redman44:
👆 This is the best answer so far. OP should get a trusted person to manage the farm on his or her behalf. If you plant any cash crop there without someone monitoring the place for you, you will go through lots of losses 😭😭 including theft of your crops and loss of the land itself. The best is to pay someone in the village where the land is to monitor the farm for you.. 35k a month for a start is not bad. Then go there and plant the crops or fruit trees by yourself. Get to know people in the area and be friendly with them. That person you are paying 35k a month will help you guard and monitor your farm. Promise the person a small percentage of the harvest too. Cheers.

epainos:
Have you done exactly what you recommend for this man? Bitter Kola..how long before he starts making money if it is successful. And plantain? This plantain you mentioned is why I replied your message; otherwise I wouldn't. It makes me doubt that you really know this business well. Even people with fenced farm who are present fight thieves trying to steal their plantain. Thats the last crop I will ever involve myself in. Plantain and banana.


And I need to address again the purpose of cassava is recommended cos I have relaised you weren't patient enough to read my post well. Go through my post again. I asked him to do the cheapest thing ever that he can afford to lose. Everything you have suggested to him costs money he cannot afford to lose. But cassava is cheap. Many people dont even add nutrients, and the time they weed is before the plants develop canopies that prevent light from hitting the soil. Let bush rats eat whatsoever they want to eat. Thats agric. The purpose of the project is to study people you asked him to employ. Ordinarily, I would say he shouldn't follow your advice cos I know that thieves are thieves. There is nothing you can use to make them to be honest. You suggested 10% of harvest and N35k monthly pay. Lol. The question is that are you doing this? Is it working for you? Be genuine with yourself. I do not need your answer, but I am just telling you to be honest with yourself.

If I find one honest person today, believe me...I will hold on to that oerson like a gold. With a year after he passes my tests, he will be rich himself, and I will be far richer because I will expand massively. I just need that one honest, hardworking person. Such might be around, but I have not met one.

Today, a friend called me from North America and was hyping his new project a consultant is doing in his home state. He even was saying how it is good to buy from China and bla bla bla. I have spotted many mistakes and I know the project will fail, but I didnt say much. If he cares to listen, I will show him these things, but I know he will care after he has lost everythig which will be late. Na so e dey be. People will always make mistakes. And after losing all, he will run away from agric, and nothing I say will ever make him return. Lol. So, I know that I may not even tell him anything. I may have to console him after his loss. And maybe 5 years after and he sees I am still thriving, he may ask me why I didnt guide him well. This is my blossom friend we hustled together while I was living outside Nigeria.

Also, I cut off a man with two kids 1 hr ago (before seeing your post) because he has changed. I used to know him as a good person, but he has always been the type who thinks he is extremely smart. During those days, he was honest with handling money. But recently, I have noticed he has changed because he has joined boys. He is trying sp hard to hide it from me, but I know a scammer when i see one. So, I asked myself...who can I trust in Nigeria? People are desperate to make money anyhow these days.

It is extremely hard to find a good person now. This is one of the reasons I have refused to expand so BIG in Nigeria. I will rather spend times 100 more to set up in the US and UK rather than in Nigeria as things are going on. People cannot afford to set up farms in the US and UK because of the cost. But they always think they can in Naija. Lol. The truth is that the real cost of setting up in Naija which involves the cost of theft is extremely more expensive that setting up in the US and UK. The most expensive is "time" which is wasted evrytime.

I will say less, and I am not discouraging anyone. Let everyone do what he likes...but the bad thing is that after the losses, people dont return to tell us here and warn others. They move on because they are ashamed of themselves.

In summary, let him find a honest person first and give him what is worth it rather than using what is more than worth it to try make a thief a honest person. And I suggest he should use what he can afford to lose to scout for one. Within a year, he will realise it is like competing in "Gulder Ultimate Search".

If anyone has the recipe of finding a honest veggie worker, kindly let me know. Or if anyone can be a guarantor to a honest worker, kindly tell me. The person will be arrested and made to refund of the cost the worker runs away with. And if the worker is successful, the person will go.away with a huge sum also. This is to tell you how willing I am to spend to acquire a honest vegetable worker.

Goodluck to everyone.

Note
This part I am writing again after I noticed people are mixing up my view. Here is another way to say it. The normal thing and wise way is to look for someone to manage it, and pay the person well. If you choose to find someone in the village, it is a good strategy too to reduce the salary cos there wont be the cost of transport added, and can be a part time job for the person (added income) instead of full time for a non resident. I have no problem about it. However, Nigeria is now an abnormal place. The question is that how many honest people can you find? A nation where parents help their kids cheat to pass exams. Where parents support yahoo businesses of their kids. Nigeria is extremely bad now. A nation where workers feel entitled and they say it confidently now that : "na where person dey work, person dey chop".

So, be wise. Instead of saying you want to get someone in the village because you want to reduce the cost, get anyone and test the person's integrity. Do not limit yourself to the environment cos you arent focusing on salary reduction, but on getting a honest person. While doing this, do not commit to doing that huge project. I did not ask anyone to do anything aside of the cheap crop. So, no one should misquote me. I did not ask anything to run side by side. Just focus on getting a honest worker with a small project like cassava. Thats all. You may be shocked that no one is honest when they are not monitored. Thats why we always say that monitor your project yourself.

You can hire workers for projects in the city or a well structured business with departments. But a one man business with one worker in the bush? You can try it. If you are successful, I will come learn your method. Trust me...I can even pay. And i wrote earlier, if you have a honest worker who can do such for me and you can be the guarantor and pay me back what I am going to demand if the worker destroys my project or run away with my equipment, I will do it and even pay you handsomely. We can draw a contract. No one has come out to do this. I am challenging those who give workers out here on this platform also. Please, no matter where your farm is and you have someone, let me know. So far, no one has come up. Can you see my point? If no one can guarantee this, what does it tell you? The people telling you to do it cannot guarantee anyone themselves. Let them give me one person in their community na. I will buy or rent a farm there. Let them take up this challenge. No one. Absolutely none. Cos they know they cannot trust anyone. So, why are they telling you to trust someone they cant trust?

epainos:
Have you done exactly what you recommend for this man? Bitter Kola..how long before he starts making money if it is successful. And plantain? This plantain you mentioned is why I replied your message; otherwise I wouldn't. It makes me doubt that you really know this business well. Even people with fenced farm who are present fight thieves trying to steal their plantain. Thats the last crop I will ever involve myself in. Plantain and banana.


And I need to address again the purpose of cassava is recommended cos I have relaised you weren't patient enough to read my post well. Go through my post again. I asked him to do the cheapest thing ever that he can afford to lose. Everything you have suggested to him costs money he cannot afford to lose. But cassava is cheap. Many people dont even add nutrients, and the time they weed is before the plants develop canopies that prevent light from hitting the soil. Let bush rats eat whatsoever they want to eat. Thats agric. The purpose of the project is to study people you asked him to employ. Ordinarily, I would say he shouldn't follow your advice cos I know that thieves are thieves. There is nothing you can use to make them to be honest. You suggested 10% of harvest and N35k monthly pay. Lol. The question is that are you doing this? Is it working for you? Be genuine with yourself. I do not need your answer, but I am just telling you to be honest with yourself.

If I find one honest person today, believe me...I will hold on to that oerson like a gold. With a year after he passes my tests, he will be rich himself, and I will be far richer because I will expand massively. I just need that one honest, hardworking person. Such might be around, but I have not met one.

Today, a friend called me from North America and was hyping his new project a consultant is doing in his home state. He even was saying how it is good to buy from China and bla bla bla. I have spotted many mistakes and I know the project will fail, but I didnt say much. If he cares to listen, I will show him these things, but I know he will care after he has lost everythig which will be late. Na so e dey be. People will always make mistakes. And after losing all, he will run away from agric, and nothing I say will ever make him return. Lol. So, I know that I may not even tell him anything. I may have to console him after his loss. And maybe 5 years after and he sees I am still thriving, he may ask me why I didnt guide him well. This is my blossom friend we hustled together while I was living outside Nigeria.

Also, I cut off a man with two kids 1 hr ago (before seeing your post) because he has changed. I used to know him as a good person, but he has always been the type who thinks he is extremely smart. During those days, he was honest with handling money. But recently, I have noticed he has changed because he has joined boys. He is trying sp hard to hide it from me, but I know a scammer when i see one. So, I asked myself...who can I trust in Nigeria? People are desperate to make money anyhow these days.

It is extremely hard to find a good person now. This is one of the reasons I have refused to expand so BIG in Nigeria. I will rather spend times 100 more to set up in the US and UK rather than in Nigeria as things are going on. People cannot afford to set up farms in the US and UK because of the cost. But they always think they can in Naija. Lol. The truth is that the real cost of setting up in Naija which involves the cost of theft is extremely more expensive that setting up in the US and UK. The most expensive is "time" which is wasted evrytime.

I will say less, and I am not discouraging anyone. Let everyone do what he likes...but the bad thing is that after the losses, people dont return to tell us here and warn others. They move on because they are ashamed of themselves.

In summary, let him find a honest person first and give him what is worth it rather than using what is more than worth it to try make a thief a honest person. And I suggest he should use what he can afford to lose to scout for one. Within a year, he will realise it is like competing in "Gulder Ultimate Search".

If anyone has the recipe of finding a honest veggie worker, kindly let me know. Or if anyone can be a guarantor to a honest worker, kindly tell me. The person will be arrested and made to refund of the cost the worker runs away with. And if the worker is successful, the person will go.away with a huge sum also. This is to tell you how willing I am to spend to acquire a honest vegetable worker.

Goodluck to everyone.

Note
This part I am writing again after I noticed people are mixing up my view. Here is another way to say it. The normal thing and wise way is to look for someone to manage it, and pay the person well. If you choose to find someone in the village, it is a good strategy too to reduce the salary cos there wont be the cost of transport added, and can be a part time job for the person (added income) instead of full time for a non resident. I have no problem about it. However, Nigeria is now an abnormal place. The question is that how many honest people can you find? A nation where parents help their kids cheat to pass exams. Where parents support yahoo businesses of their kids. Nigeria is extremely bad now. A nation where workers feel entitled and they say it confidently now that : "na where person dey work, person dey chop".

So, be wise. Instead of saying you want to get someone in the village because you want to reduce the cost, get anyone and test the person's integrity. Do not limit yourself to the environment cos you arent focusing on salary reduction, but on getting a honest person. While doing this, do not commit to doing that huge project. I did not ask anyone to do anything aside of the cheap crop. So, no one should misquote me. I did not ask anything to run side by side. Just focus on getting a honest worker with a small project like cassava. Thats all. You may be shocked that no one is honest when they are not monitored. Thats why we always say that monitor your project yourself.

You can hire workers for projects in the city or a well structured business with departments. But a one man business with one worker in the bush? You can try it. If you are successful, I will come learn your method. Trust me...I can even pay. And i wrote earlier, if you have a honest worker who can do such for me and you can be the guarantor and pay me back what I am going to demand if the worker destroys my project or run away with my equipment, I will do it and even pay you handsomely. We can draw a contract. No one has come out to do this. I am challenging those who give workers out here on this platform also. Please, no matter where your farm is and you have someone, let me know. So far, no one has come up. Can you see my point? If no one can guarantee this, what does it tell you? The people telling you to do it cannot guarantee anyone themselves. Let them give me one person in their community na. I will buy or rent a farm there. Let them take up this challenge. No one. Absolutely none. Cos they know they cannot trust anyone. So, why are they telling you to trust someone they cant trust?