₦airaland Forum

Buhari would have been a winner if he had made Agriculture and solid minerals his topmost priority in this whole wasted 8 years of Nigeria. No, instead the old naughty fool went searching for Oil and gas in the arid North. We would have been far better of, had he empowered local farmers with Agricultural inputs and develop the Gold reserves in the North.

Posterity will never forgive Buhari!

Eriokanmi:
We might think they're waking up but they're still joking. If I had the opportunity to being president of this country, my annual budget in agriculture would surpass that of defence and seek more funds in the form of bond or loan. I'd bring up policies that would encourage agriculture participation in every home with incentives, encourage graduates to go into farming with well monitored incentives and loans, invite experts from abroad to give my people the skills needed to grow improved seedlings and exclude all the retired govt officials who have gone into agriculture after making so much money from the govt.

I would also send Nigerian agricultural researchers and engineers to countries like Thailand to learn about rice farming in a modern way, Holland on modern animal husbandry and milk production, the same Indonesia who once came to Nigeria to learn about oil palm plantation and how they did it over the years after they took some of our seedlings along with them after the training, making them now the largest exporter of palm oil in the world and our country is also importing from them...how are the mighty fallen! Agriculture would sell more than oil as we will be exporting.

I've stopped blaming God or asking Him for blessings over Nigeria cos it would be like offending Him. He has blessed us more than enough with everything we need to impact the whole world. I'd rather keep praying God removes all the bad and care free leaders we currently have in government and I believe He's busy working on that.

Talk is very cheap. You can start now by cultivating farmland or buy 3 acres farmland and see what farmers are going through in Nigeria first.

kolaish:
Talk is very cheap. You can start now by cultivating farmland or buy 3 acres farmland and see what farmers are going through in Nigeria first.

I've been exporting cassava for nearly 8 years now and I'm doing very, very well in it. I've got over 20 acres acquired and some on lease in the south (south east, south south and south west ) alone. I'm one of those contributing to the forex the CBN has in its kitty because I'm paid in USD and Euro. I'm also a cassava researcher and I travel all over the country for this purpose, excluding the north east cos of security concerns. I don't have to say much here. I walk the talk

ModestGal:
Lol, how can individual farming help the economy? This people with old non productive thinking

Help me tell ask them..

We r in a country where those employed in ministry if agric r mostly accountant, social scientist, religious experts and public administrators.

Oh my naija

Northerners dey bear names sha, which one be Nanono again? Anyways, honourable minister, dem no dey telli person o.

tensazangetsu20:
Do all this and agriculture won't still make Nigeria a trillion dollar economy. Nigerians will even be poorer than they are now. Check how much agriculture contributes to Netherlands economy despite being one of the top exporters of agricultural produce. No top agricultural nation has a large number of its citizens in agriculture and yet you want every Nigerian graduate to farm

It's appaling to see some youths talk this way. How can you compare the Netherlands with Nigeria in agric potentials? I've had the opportunity of visiting that country a couple of times and toured around, when my friend was graduating from university of twente and secondly on business. Comparing them with Nigeria is like comparing blood with water in tetms of thickness. We simply lost our values as a country because we don't even know what we are worth. Some of our youths have been brainwashed so much by those leaders they worshipas Kings that they speak with bias, those leaders destroying the future of our youths without them noticing. Milk production and export is synonymous with Holland whereas, it's just one of many arms of agriculture which can thrive in this country.

Here in Nigeria, over 500 different export crops can grow unaided...with little or no fsterlizers needed. Over there, they can't grow crops without investing heavily in it. In my house in lagos, the tomatoes water with seeds poured by the gutter brought good yield without fertiliser application. Squirrel would pick palm fruits and drop it after peeling off the edible bark and before you know it, it's germinated. Up north cotton, vegetables and ground nuts would grow with little or no fertiliser application cos of their soil composition. As a cassava exporter, I've never applied a drop of fertiliser on any of the species grown in the south since I started. It grows naturally. I'm also investing in rice farming as I speak and I don't need fertiliser to grow them. You cannot try all these in Holland you mentioned because their land can't do all that, coupled with their weather. Their trees must be injected periodically to retain its stamina. How many trees in Nigeria have we treated that way? They grow naturally. Go to lagos-ibadan expressway, benin-ore expressway and see those trees doing well. Nobody planted them.

Go to the south-south and see the alluvial soil waiting to be cultivated with rice, south east too. The quick oil money being made by our government has made us lazy. They've suddenly forgot the agriculture which once made us comfortable. Cocoa proceeds was used to build OAU and UI in those days. Agriculture made us rich rather than poor back then and we can do that again. America isn't just great in techs they're also great in agriculture. Our weather is another blessing, which Holland doesn't have. We can be rich rather than poor by investing in agriculture. At least I can testify to this.

Agriculture on which land, farmlands are death trap. Marauder roam, to claim land like wolf parks

prinsam30:
after which you guys will send herdsmen to come and kill us abi useless people

The herdsmen will even eat the whole crops before the farmers harvest it and if you complain or try to stop them, then they result to killing the farmers. Worthless country.

Mr Minister begin with ur family especially ur ist son

Is that why they don't want to pay ASUU

Eriokanmi:
It's appaling to see some youths talk this way. How can you compare the Netherlands with Nigeria in agric potentials? I've had the opportunity of visiting that country a couple of times and toured around, when my friend was graduating from university of twente and secondly on business. Comparing them with Nigeria is like comparing blood with water in tetms of thickness. We simply lost our values as a country because we don't even know what we are worth. Some of our youths have been brainwashed so much by those leaders they worshipas Kings that they speak with bias, those leaders destroying the future of our youths without them noticing. Milk production and export is synonymous with Holland whereas, it's just one of many arms of agriculture which can thrive in this country.

Here in Nigeria, over 500 different export crops can grow unaided...with little or no fsterlizers needed. Over there, they can't grow crops without investing heavily in it. In my house in lagos, the tomatoes water with seeds poured by the gutter brought good yield without fertiliser application. Squirrel would pick palm fruits and drop it after peeling off the edible bark and before you know it, it's germinated. Up north cotton, vegetables and ground nuts would grow with little or no fertiliser application cos of their soil composition. As a cassava exporter, I've never applied a drop of fertiliser on any of the species grown in the south since I started. It grows naturally. I'm also investing in rice farming as I speak and I don't need fertiliser to grow them. You cannot try all these in Holland you mentioned because their land can't do all that, coupled with their weather. Their trees must be injected periodically to retain its stamina. How many trees in Nigeria have we treated that way? They grow naturally. Go to lagos-ibadan expressway, benin-ore expressway and see those trees doing well. Nobody planted them.

Go to the south-south and see the alluvial soil waiting to be cultivated with rice, south east too. The quick oil money being made by our government has made us lazy. They've suddenly forgot the agriculture which once made us comfortable. Cocoa proceeds was used to build OAU and UI in those days. Agriculture made us rich rather than poor back then and we can do that again. America isn't just great in techs they're also great in agriculture. Our weather is another blessing, which Holland doesn't have. We can be rich rather than poor by investing in agriculture. At least I can testify to this.

Okay then let's compare Nigeria with Brazil. People refer to it as a shithole and they are amongst the top 4 when it comes to agricultural exports. How many billions of USD do they make from agriculture and how much effect does it have on their GDP.

Make this government just turn everybody to farmers nae. Very useless government

And what are you doing about the Herdsmen

Eriokanmi:
We might think they're waking up but they're still joking. If I had the opportunity to be president of this country, my annual budget in agriculture would surpass that of defence and seek more funds in the form of bond or loan. I'd bring up policies that would encourage agriculture participation in every home with incentives, encourage graduates to go into farming with well monitored incentives and loans, invite experts from abroad to give my people the skills needed to grow improved seedlings and exclude all the retired govt officials who have gone into agriculture after making so much money from the govt.

I would also send Nigerian agricultural researchers and engineers to countries like Thailand to learn about rice farming in a modern way, Holland on modern animal husbandry and milk production, the same Indonesia who once came to Nigeria to learn about oil palm plantation and how they did it over the years after they took some of our seedlings along with them after the training, making them now the largest exporter of palm oil in the world and our country is also importing from them...how are the mighty fallen! Agriculture would sell more than oil as we will be exporting.

I've stopped blaming God or asking Him for blessings over Nigeria cos it would be like offending Him. He has blessed us more than enough with everything we need to impact the whole world. I'd rather keep praying God removes all the bad and care free leaders we currently have in government and I believe He's busy working on that.

u most become our president by god grace, well done sir.

Eriokanmi:
I've been exporting cassava for nearly 8 years now and I'm doing very, very well in it. I've got over 20 acres acquired and some on lease in the south (south east, south south and south west ) alone. I'm one of those contributing to the forex the CBN has in its kitty because I'm paid in USD and Euro. I'm also a cassava researcher and I travel all over the country for this purpose, excluding the north east cos of security concerns. I don't have to say much here. I walk the talk

Tell me and others on the forum the challenges you are having. I am a farmer as well and I know it is not as rosy as you are painting it. Challenges of insecurity; invasion of farmlands by herdsmen, kidnapping, high cost of farm equipments, chemicals for fumigation, bad rural roads etc. Even the cassava you are talking about, thieves usually invade farm to steal cassava before full maturity.

To make things worse, government support for farmers is virtually non existent in the south west except in the northern part of the country

kolaish:
Tell me and others on the forum the challenges you are having. I am a farmer as well and I know it is not as rosy as you are painting it. Challenges of insecurity; invasion of farmlands by herdsmen, kidnapping, high cost of farm equipments, chemicals for fumigation, bad rural roads etc. Even the cassava you are talking about, thieves usually invade farm to steal cassava before full maturity.

To make things worse, government support for farmers is virtually non existent in the south west except in the northern part of the country

I agree with you. Even living is challenging but with God nothing is insurmountable. You're also right on the inequality on the part of the federal government in funding agriculture in Nigeria. North is always the biggest beneficiaries and I don't even need them to survive. In every business, feasibility study is key. We have done this years back on kind of land and region in which our cassava could thrive . Some of those challenges as herdsmen attack, thieves invasion, pest control, farm implement and loan haven't been part of our challenges, so far, in the part of ekiti where we have acquired vast land, we hardly hear of any herdsmen invasion. Cassava doesn't require any chemical to grow especially in a place like ekiti and environs. The only challenge was pest control which was surmounted by clearing of surrounding bushes. Harvest time is also short.

If you have challenges on loan to finance your agric business, talk to them at first bank. I'm sorry in case mod is seeing this as advert but there's nothing bad in being our brother's keeper. Govt of the day isn't ready to grow any economy especially , the agric sector. We didn't buy farm tools including tractors , we rented and its always a one-off thing each year. Cassava is better going in the south, especially the south west.