The groundnut pyramids of Kano were a sight to behold and told a wonderful story of agricultural sufficiency and of a fruitful nation. It revealed a country that knew the way to sustainable development, through agriculture, self sustainability and hard work.



Over the years Nigeria has gone away from farming as we started to over rely on oil, a resource with a finite life shelf. The land of Nigeria is blessed, sow a seed and it will surely grow. We have the potential to be the food basket of all of Africa. When we produce our own food as we used to do in the past to a larger degree than we do today we can rest assured that no matter the global economic outlook, inflation would always be under control because we would have more than enough internally generated food to feed the population. As our imports grew and grew so did inflation.





It is appropriate to look back and remember the things that made us great back then and agriculture was certainly one of them. As the picture shows, the groundnut industry alone provided employment of many youths, youths today are easily enticed into militancy because of the lack of jobs yet we have resources to create thousands of jobs off the God given fertile land we sit on.


They were viewed as both a tourist attraction and a symbol of wealth. In the 1960s and 70s, as production in Nigeria shifted from agriculture to oil, the groundnut pyramids disappeared.

I am reflecting on the Groundnut Pyramids of Kano and I’m wondering; would we be able to recreate something like this again?

credits http://www.jesus4nigeria.com/comment/discussion_forum.php?id=73, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundnut_pyramids

interesting.....

greed for the oil will never let it happen...

Pavore9
Lalasticlala

That was [size=20pt]300[/size] years ago.
The lost everything to Buhari's children (BOKO HARAM)

Wetin bring me come here?

Do they still exist

WOW

This is part of what change is bringing back. Era of total dependence on oil is gone. Agriculture must be revisited, the work is on and we re waiting. Nigeria go better

Groundnut ke!!

it really make sense.

why u dey tell us?

hakeem4:
Wetin bring me come here?

longer longer

The glory days just before the cursed oil was discovered

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who groundnut don't help...mtcheew

Chai my igbo girls don take over this tho...

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They used the land to build hotel

#BabaBringBackOurGroundnutPyramids

See good old days

I pray we go back to the glory days.
This can only happen through policies and investment into the sector.
GEJ started a good work, I pray PMB will continue..

too much labour doesn't really show u are productive ....

It will come back I believe

chai......... beautiful

Beauriful! Am seeing dis for d first time n I luv d creativity. God bless Fed rep of Nig.

Groundnut PYRAMIDS now replaced with BOKO HARAMIDS

hakeem4:
Wetin bring me come here?

guy u wan finish me with laff o

Does it still exist.

Continue the investment in agriculture and soon we will be back to the glory days