OmidanOyin:

hello everyone. though am new here, and I just want to venture into so, palm oil in my location is 11,000

alryt ma'am... so how can we help?

donparosky:
@sanod, pls ur lines arent going tru. pls assist one mrs ojo(lagos) to the best of your ability sir. i recommended u for her and she said shes started discussions already wif u.
ive been tryna reach u but cudnt. GOD BLESS UR HUSSLES

bossman....yeah...I av discussed with her.

donparosky:
price update: Oil has gone up as fruit scarcity deepens........ 10500 for first grade without keg and transportation as @ today.
menwongo, peeo, sanod whts d update from ur location

haa..bossman? the price no be here ooo.

adexn:


Thanks.

Ur telephone digit please.

pls, this is palm oil thread.. dont let us derail it. if you need anything on vegetable oil, check my profile or tublez profile to get our details and contact us.

God bless our hustles.
Lets keep to palm oil.

adexn:


Re Vegetable Oil. @Sanod Abeg, I want to start this vegetable oil business too and I have been looking for where to source it from with pocket friendly price. Please advise. My email: olasupo17@gmail.com

Oga boss!!! pls becareful with vegetable oil ooo, we have different forms. currently the good one is 102k/drum now which is kings. Many traders can call the oil for you as lower as 96k/drum and make you believe is kings, and ofwhich it is anfop. pls becareful with the people, especially the igbos. we have olein oil too.
If you are ready, and you prefer daleko, I will give you one Alhaja's Number to get it from.. the woman oil is reliable.
Because you cant know the difference until the oil is on fire. thats the risk in vegetable oil now.

TUBLEZ:
sanod I called ur line tire on Monday.. I was at daleko den for vegetable oil

eyah...sorry bro...dont mind me.

sorry for the delay, need to contribute to other thread as well, and like I noted; it is an experience. i write it small small.
so, back to the game.

Just like tanzanian proverb; A wise person will always find his way. Before this, I never for once been to that state, So I spoke with each of my ekiti friends, tried to understand the state from them, their attitude, which one is more closer to farmers. So my purpose and destination could be easily defined.
Then, I chose this friend, he made a call immediately to his town, Ikole Ekiti.
How many days would I use in this town? Thinking this aloud, first time, boredom? Haa!!! Rara ooo..I cant get bored their oo...so I took my fiance along with me. *winks* , not just because of boredom, but in this kind of thing, two or more people should be involved, other person can be judging the farmers from another angle.
We travelled down to ikole ekiti, as my friend was pressuring me to start meeting the farmers immediately, I said, Oga? Farabale jare...shey we no go eat ni...lets eat first jare...If I dont eat, I no fit listen to whatever you say, besides, we have more days with us to meet with them, so why the rush. Ikole is the first and the only place I have seen locust beans-pepper soup...lols...their pepper soup is not normal...it aint like ours. But I took it sha...at least, for the experience.
From their, lodging at Mc Vic Hotel, I think I have recommended this hotel to classictutor before...abi? They have good customer service. I believe is the best in Ikole. yap.
Dont mind my much talk oo, just as I said earlier, "my experience". winkz. I will say everything I experienced.
One woman was doing aproko in that hotel, I think she came to drink ni. Maybe she never saw partners of my age lodging before. she just kept staring at us when we sat at the bar side. Am so sure, if she had a cane, and could have her way, she go don flog us three comot for that hotel...that awon omo kekere yii, wetin dem dey find for here, lols, as that place was full of older people.

Before we could go to sleep, we made some calls to let them know we have landed, and we would come to meet them the next day.

What now happened the next day with the farmers?

donparosky:
Frequently Asked questions
1: which part of d country is best to sale my oil
ans: North.
Like it or not, d best region to mk it in Oil biz is North. admist d insecurity trolling d region, it still remains d best option.
Presently Oil is sold for 11/12k in lagos when it's going for 14/15k in Jigawa, Adamawa,Gombe and most northern states.
caution: if u aint ready to take risk, then u are still comfortable with ur status.
question 2: how do I get clients in Oil biz
ans: d best way to get clients is by visiting bulk dealers, markets, companies, etc with samples. mk sure ur samples are good enuf @ a good price and u will be shocked on how receptive and ready d clients will be.
question 3: how do I get good quality Oil
identifying good Oil cud sometimes be tough for newbies. while d local Mills remains d best place to get good Oil at fair prices, d tax of validating d quality requires d assistance of dealers or experts. u can always contact them for assistance while learning from them until u r perfect.
On Naiaraland, I know a few like: peeo, sanod,menwongo, clasictutor, tublez etc.
question 4: whts d cheapest means of transportation
ans: it's d railway, but u must contact d management to help u out. they charge as low as 150 per cake.
hope I've answered most of ur questions, u can post unanswered questions here too.
God bless our hussles

lols.. I know what my people would be thinking now is how to strike a deal in the north.
thats very simple. I believe you have someone that knows someone in the north, if you cant go. the category of people that can do that hustling for you are Corps members (corpers, as fondly called). Just give it a try. send a sample down to the corper.
God bless us all.

Privates/individuals intervention in some sectors in this country can help boost the growth, not necessarily from the government. As I always remember my favorite quote from steve jobs; "everything around you that you called Life, was made by people not smarter than you".

This is what I tot before I finally concluded to start this agricultural infrastructure project.
So with my keen interest in palm oil, I looked around, chose south-west states to begin with, atleast, proximity to my base (Lagos), lols. So I did funny thing; wrote out the states in south west, lagos excluded. abi nao, palm oil no dey lagos nao. Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, and Ekiti. Wrapped each differently; threw it out and picked one. kidy right? lols...yeah, thats what I did. Opening the one I picked; guess the state? It is Ekiti oooo.

Sigh, I looked at the sky and said to God, so am going to begin this project in Ekiti State. Ekiti? here I come oo...

Then I scan through my brain, wrote out the friends I have that came from ekiti, met with them one by one......
***My Iftar is ready ooo...let me quickly eat. continue later.

menwongo:
Farmers need a functioning palm oil mills (improve mill) not this one in Nigeria that encourage drudgery.

Most mill break down in the middle of production. This reduces the quantity and quality of oil as most time the boil fruit will be inside pot till when the machines are repaired.

Most locals would have engage in palm oil production but due to the drudgery involved they run away from it. This can be solved through the full application of engineering principles in palm oil production from harvesting to milling.

In a nutshell improve milling machine use in Foreign countries need to be imported.

am so glad with this your input. and funny enough, we dont even need this complicated machines to be imported before we can have a good and functioning mill.

Good day, my fellow nairalanders, I created this thread to share my experience so far on the common challenges rural farmers face in this Nigeria, and what personally i am facing in going into this deal with these farmers (both with the good and the bad ones).

Before going into the koko;
Let me rapidly explain what infrastrure is;
Infrastructure is a basic physical and organisational structures and facilities needed for an enterprise to operate.
Bringing this into agriculture?
What these farmers needed for full farm operation to exist, which inturns bring good returns for the farmers and the investors in the sector.

So with my experience in palm oil business, I decided to start with the farmers involved in this part of farming, because I see beyond just buying and supplying palm oil to clients.

Let me quickly call on my co-dealers in palm oil such as; iyalode gbo-gbo-gbo (peeo); donparoski the Don; mbok Menwongo; ClassicTutor; and Tublez baba. As this thread is incomplete without their presence.

Also my favorite man (basalt), your queries are like jokes to me, as they always make me smile. Your contributions and criticism are highly needed on this also. Lols.

So let us all begin!!!

donparosky:
Happy weekend to everyone, pls am begging us, if any testimony about me is to be shared, good or bad, it should be done on this thread, I am not after popularity/wealth by force. am very contented with wht I hv.
No offence to @vickyjohn, richiez,and so many who testified when @macodollar asked them for such in peeo thread.
while Everyone is striving to excel, I do not wish to be seen as a trait to others pple business.
Despite my busy schedules, I promise to be updating d house on d price changes every day henceforth. God bless our hussles.

donparosky? you dont av to disturb yourself over this. God bless our hustle.