₦airaland Forum

This is what a family life should be like, husband and wife working in agreement and in unison to achieve the common family goal. OP, keep it up. God will bless your family and marriage.

Make we no mind all these useless girls wey full ABJ, always asking for credit and the latest phones and cash...

Ura:
Hallo Nairaland farmers, good to be with you again. Today we will discuss the cost of farm activities. I will use maize as an example. Some of the farm practices involved are quite similar to other crops. Some of the activities are easy enough for you to get a few other people to join you in order to minimize costs while you have to contract some of the jobs like tractorization out.
Before talking about the main topic, I hope that Nairalanders are aware that it is not so difficult for them to secure land for farming from their various communities? All you have to do is to tender your request through the Head of Department, Agric. in your LGA to the Chairman of the Local Government. They will assist you to get it. Or you make a direct request from your community leader. Making land available for you to use is supported in the Land Use Act. Considering the type of country Nigeria has become, you might have to give them a token for it. The good news is that you are eligible for up to 500 hectares. But remember that the land does not belong to you, and after a certain period of time, if you do not utilize it, they are allowed to take it back from you (after 4 years). However, if you are putting it to good use, you can be allowed to use it for a very long time.
Back to our business for the day. Back in the days when our grandparents and great grandparents farmed, they did not spend much money. They had their land (inherited family land), they had seed reserved from previous harvest or they could just ask a brother for some, or in the worst instance, they buy from the open market. Then, they would move the entire family - wives, children and grandchildren to the farm (after all, they will all eat from the harvest). The men will make the ridges and the women and the children will plant the seed, (except in the case of crops like yam). They can plant that very day if the soil is moist, or wait till the next rainfall. They will visit the farm at intervals and do the needful, especially pertaining to weeding. If they have fertilizer, they apply. If they don't, no qualms. Then, they wait for rainfall to do its part.
Nowadays, the practice has changed. Many of us no longer live in our family compounds, so we have to rent or seek permission to use other people's land. Technology has also made it possible that we no longer have to bend over to till the soil. Tractors are available to do such tedious work for us. Also, the kind of activities involved in the farming have also changed. Now it costs more to farm than then, but the end results are also more favorable than it used to be then. Let us take a look at what it costs to farm maize, even though our technology here in Nigeria is still far behind what is obtainable in developed countries.
AN EXAMPLE OF MAIZE FARMING ON A HECTARE OF LAND.
Seeds ----------------------- -------------------- N10,000.00 (20kg)
Plough/Harrow/Ridge ----------------------------- N20,000.00 (on day job basis)
Herbicide ----------------------------------------- N4,000.00
Labour for herbicide application -------------------- N6,000.00 (max.)
Liquid Organic fertilizer ---------------------------- N15,000.00 (4 litres)
Labour for fertilizer application ---------------------- N20,000.00 (max)
Harvesting and Threshing -------------------------- N10,000.00 (or less)
Transportation ------------------------------------ N10,000.00 (or less)
Marketing ----------------------------------------- N10,000.00 (or less)
Miscellaneous ------------------------------------- N5,000.00
Total ---------------------------------------------N110,000.00
Using good seed and carrying out the right practices, You should expect a very high yield. Maize under normal practices will yield about 5600kg per hectare. With a combination of high yielding seeds and adequate organic fertilizer, you should expect higher than normal yield of about 10,000 kg or even more per hectare.
Please give it a try. Most crops will be ready for harvest in 3-4 months. By then you would have started planning for your irrigation farming. So that you can make farming an all year round business.
I look forward to interacting with you guys again. Remember to add your questions, comments and observations. The next topic I will be sharing with you is on accessing government loan.
Cheers.

Mr Ura, I like your posts. It is always good to hear from positive thinking people, not those who emit negative energy throughout the thread. I hate such environments which is why I have not posted in the agric section for some time now.

I have a question: I see you did not make provision for Aflasafe application. I actually want to use it for the first time ever and I was hoping you could shed some light on it. Thanks.

I do not support paying any money to unemployed graduates or vulnerable families. But I wholeheartedly support school feeding. Several models have shown that it increases the enrolment in primary schools astronomically. We need our kids educated. The other day in Abuja, I saw a young boy hawking groundnut close to a garden where I was having lunch with a friend. Almost everyone there was asking the boy why he was not in school. Turned out the boy's mother is a widow who is finding it hard to cater to the family's needs, hence all her kids are being mobilized to hawk to augment what she makes in one of the outskirt markets in the FCT.

Now sending those kids to school where they are sure of a full stomach for the afternoon will make a big difference. This should be the first social program Buhari should face.

Anyone trying to search me in that instance will end up in hospital with a broken nose. I can guarantee you that.

Operating search wetin? Nonsense. These are the people bringing Christianity into such disrepute it makes the work of the genuine ones very hard indeed.

ochukofortune:
My very good childhood friend Ayo just called me that he missed a job interview that was scheduled for 9a.m on Friday because he didn't have light to press his clothes. I told him he should have given it to laundrymen but he said he got the invite Thursday afternoon and that his area has not seen light for over 2 weeks!

Has this happened to you before? Please share the electricity situation in your area...PHCN a disgrace to Nigeria and yet we keep paying bills

Very lame excuse. Has he never heard of coal irons? Even when we were younger, we would take a clean pot, boil water in it until it was very hot, then drain the water and use the side of the pot to press our school uniforms.

Your guy is a lazy cocoon.

This is a clear cut case of gonorrhea. He had better pray he hasn't contracted the big one too. Stupid boy. So with all the money being pumped into STD and HIV prevention messages on radio and TV, we still have people sleeping with strangers without protection. Dumb mofo!

CHANGE of promises don start.
Tomorrow they will say they never promised to pay unemployed youth N5,000 monthly. Nigerian politicians can never be trusted!

Please, now that he is president, he should tell his fellow Fulani to adopt his own pastoral method of cattle rearing and stop their nomadic movement where their cows go about eating people's crops.

tafrica:
40dogzz don meet bad market. A shit-eating dog.

No mind am. People like him full for Abuja here. They are in cafes making calls and claiming to have oil allocation, or giving people access to Mama Peace and asking gullibles to pay N1m to meet her for contract. I don't blame him. This is what Goodluck Jonathan and his lack of political will to take out the corruption in the system created.

Thank God we are now having a man who has a strong anti-corruption history in Gen Buhari. Let me see how people like this 40dogzz will come out here to ask people to pay money for someone in some ministry to bypass due process. By the time 40dogzz and his accomplice will eat kokoro wey get big eye for Kuje prison he will know that there is a difference between Jonathan and Buhari.

Wike ambiala eeee?

Owee! Wike meka o!

grandlexuz:
I have lived in Cameroon all my life and though I like it here I have always admired the potential of big success in a country as populous as Nigeria. At such for some time now I have been looking at the possibility of settling in Nigeria to do business.

At the moment I sell Tokunbo vehicles in Cameroon's economic capital of 3 million people. The business is a little slow considering the high custom duty rate in Cameroon. A vehicle that will otherwise sell in Nigeria for 2 million Naira would sell for 3.5 million Naira in Cameroon.

That said I think a new environment away from home always encourages productivity. Douala has a large Nigerian population doing well in business; and I think the motivation for most of these guys is the away from home syndrome..Lol

I am considering Lagos as the most likely place to move to because of the population and security of some sort.. I know Lagos is not the safest of places but it is safer than Katsina..Lol I plan to move on my Cameroonian passport.

Coincidentally my Surname is Obi which means I could be taken for an Igbo guy.. However I am 100% Cameroonian from the Ejagham tribe...Lol We do have some name similarities with some tribes in Nigeria.

The advice I am looking for is:

How lucrative is the second hand car business in Lagos? I am also open to other lucrative businesses.

As a Cameroonian do I need a residential permit to live in Nigeria? How much does it cost?

How much can I expect to get a clean apartment? I am married with two kids but will not be relocating with them. Hopefully onila can take care of me while I am in Nigeria..Lol

Guy, you be Nigerian by ancestry. I get like 2 friends wey be Ejaghams from Akamkpa.

40dogzz:
Good news. I got a phone call today that youwin will still countine, a guy from ministry of fianance gave me this info. So just drop the fear that gmb will scrap it. Am so happy coz, niggez will soon be trail blazers.

And your person in finance has the same powers as the new C-in-C abi? The same you saying you will shortlist people at a cost of N50,000? Scoundrel of a scammer.

It is people like you who go around collecting millions from people claiming to give them access to contracts, access to oil allocation, etc. You are a bloody scoundrel scammer.

kodded:
When will this fools called hunters will realize that all this animal are gradually going into extinction

While the white are busy looking for were to preserve this endangered species we black enjoy killing them for money and merry

I wonder what will happen when the hunters kill all of them.........I guess they will start hunting fellow humans

#BabaNowThatYouAreThere please preserve our wild animals from all this blood sucking demons called hunters

Feral pigs are very prolific breeders and they are nowhere near to extinction. You need to see the damage they are causing in Australia, Hamburg (Germany) and other places where their populations have gone unchecked. You should do more research before making your pronouncements.

I wonder who he is paying to write his project for him. I could do that for a few million quids u know...

All these self appointed photo journalists: make una dey careful ooo

In the world of comedy, comedians know that there is a very thin line between a joke and an offensive comment. If that was meant to be a kjoke, then the oba is on the wrong side of that line. He must apologize and clear himself.

Uncle Pat, do not make excuses for him. I do not want to have the same disdain I have for Reuben Abati, one-time member of your Patito's gang, for you as well. You are too decent for that.

sholatech:
Its far better to sell today at bank than via the Black Market. Dont blame them, they want to insure their risks as too many people coming to sell.
But i know today at Sheraton Abuja, BDCs bought in the morning at 185 Naira and this afternoon they are already buying at 190 Naira.

Looks plausible because I got out Naira with my foreign Dollar MasterCard at the rate of N192.37, which is even better than the black market rate. I am baffled myself. Maybe I will wait until month end before I change my dollars.

veraponpo:
It takes two to tango.

Oba Akinolu may not be right on this but the attitude of our Igbo brothers and sisters could frustrate one.

Having helped them more than what their region has done for them, instead of being grateful; their actions seem to be undermining the essence of our existence through their incendiary statements. Calling their hosts cowards- what do you want after that-fight to show we are not cowards.

Oba Akinolu is their match and that is why the situation seems difficult now.

A gentle king could be disobeyed easily but did they say anything at the palace? No. They dare not.

It was after leaving the palace that chest beating, ultimatum , etc started surfacing.

Who then is the cowards? Ta lo fe gbenan woju ekun lai f'eje we ( who wants to put light at the face of a tiger without being bathed with blood)

Remember, 'He who makes peaceful resolution difficult , has made violence inevitable.'

You are an e-diot. Who has ever threatened the Yorubas who have been driving taxis in PH since the 80s, even when they transferred their useless Lagos driving culture to the place? Has any traditional ruler in rivers state risen up to tell them the kind of rubbish oba akiolu was spewing from his mouth? Nonsense. Nobody has the monopoly of violence.

SLIDEwaxie:
Igbos are like nursery school children, give them sweets and they will sing for you

The Ijaws has finished using them, now PDP is using them. They knew it is very very difficult to ask a Yoruba man to start dancing in the sun because of 500 naira.

Igbos are slaves to their empty egos, and as long as you stroke their ego, they are will u.

I dnt think they think for themselves.

Even if u give a Yoruba man 1million, he will still do wot he thinks he wanna do. I can assure u that much. But igbo? Nonsense!!!

You should be at Aro Mental Home now here. The person in focus is the genocidal bigot you have as an oba. He should withdraw that statement before God Himself throws him into the lagoon of hell.

The oba is indeed a big fool. He owns Lagos...yeye man with serious delusions of granduer. He should remember Abacha who was buried as naked and helpless as he entered this world. We enter this world with nothing and leave with nothing.

Volksfuhrer:
Ohanaeze gives Oba of Lagos an ultimatum!

Is this a joke? Insulting the Lagos monarch is thoughtless, insolent and rash! This might make things even worse!

Bastards like you who think with your cocks is why I am gradually hating this place.

Aarenaija:
Before my Ibo brothers begin to abuse the Oba of Lagos, I want them to answer these question:

Can any Yoruba man go to Anambra,Enugu, Abia, IMO or Ebonyi to contest for elections?

Or, can anyone from Yoruba land go to these states to claim ownership of Land or tell an Ibo man that his land is a no mans Land?

the fact that the South west accommodates everyone should not be taken for weakness.

There should be some Cheacks and balances in all you do. You don't come to a mans house and tell him how to run his home.

If you must vote for a candidate,
courtesy demands that you align yourself to the will of the people that is hosting you.

You are a stupid tribalist. Between Agbaje and Ambode, who is the Igbo man contesting? Settlers have voting rights anywhere they are. After all no be your people dey do taxi work for Rivers state, starting from the late 80s? Go hang abeg.

Stupid illiterate of an oba. So if all the people running the economy of your state die, is it the cattle herders who will run places like Ladipo market to pay taxes to Ambode? Fool!

Prison is beckoning for Diezani and co...

This woman needs to see a psychiatrist.

She never described OBJ in such lurid terms, when everyone knows OBJ's culture of rigging and systemic corruption, not to talk of his third term agendum nearly sent this country to the precipice. Of course, can we forget he embraced her in a public gathering in a way that smacks of lack of marital decorum?

OBJ sent 3,00 elderly men and women in Odi to their early graves. Madam due process, go siddon abeg. GEJ's move to handover power and concede defeat is unprecedented in Nigerian and African history, and for that he deserves commendation.

It would have taken GEJ nothing to call in soldiers to disrupt the collation and counting at the media centre. Gbagbo did it and plunged his country into a 5-month civil war which France decidedly ended in Ouattara's favour. But he chose the honourable path.

This shows one thing. Left to GEJ, things would have changed in Nigeria long ago. But the hawks around him are the ones who are Nigeria's problems. I was quite disturbed seeing one or two of them going to congratulate Buhari. Buhari needs to identify all remnants of these hawks wherever they are and push them out immediately. A few of them will need to be prosecuted and sent to jail, especially Diezani. If Buhari should prosecute anyone, it should be that woman.

Amaechi will make Mbu his personal project for the first 100 days in office.

Meanwhile, a new government usually ushers new service chiefs and a new IGP. So it is a matter of speculation. I can tell you now that many people will be jostling for positions. If I were Mbu, I will simply go and prostrate to beg for my career. No shame o!

fflamingo:
If it was scrapped, so be it. Afterall the money was ill gotten from the subsidy removal. It was not in anyway from the economy nor affect its the economy fiscal policy in anyway.

If youwin is scrapped, subsidy would be returned. Fuel would be N50per litre. Sure-p and other agency would closed, unemployment will increases. And am most definitely sure APC will not harbour such foundation in its first year.
I think/assume APC will want to portray a bit of continuity.

Yes I agree it may be scrapped but youwin 4 will go as scheduled.

Are you trying to console yourself or what? APC has already said it would pay all NYSC grads a monthly allowance for one year. What stops them creating other similar programs? Even in the YouWIN document, it said that the Federal Govt reserves the right to cancel the program whenever it deems fit without apology to anyone.

There is therefore no likelihood of YouWIN staying. SURE-P itself may or may not go. That Buhari has shown up does not mean that the country will have to think seriously about whether to keep fuel subsidy or not. Not after Diezani and co have cleaned out the treasury.

fflamingo:
lol, you are wrong here, APC wouldn't want to spoil the good work of creating jobs in the federation at their first year in power.
It is remarkable to note that buhari did continue the works before he was overthrown.

This man...

I have seen several presidents come and go. I am yet to see any new government carry on the legacy of the old one except OBJ's transition of 1979 which was a completion of the plan of Murtala Muhammed. APC had castigated the program as a drain pipe of public funds which was not achieving the purpose.

So if you think YouWIN will be allowed to live on in the new administration, I think you are in for a long thing.

GEJ, you are a good man at heart. But your problems and weakness stemmed from the fact that you were too weak to take some defining decisions.

a) You should have exercised your right as a man and kept your wife at home. She embarrassed you and eventually cost you victory by picking fights with governors who could have aided you in the elections.

b) You should have sacked Diezani a long time ago. Her kleptomania was beyond comprehension. Led Sanusi Lamido to make his allegations, then you blundered by sacking him. As Emir of Kano, did you think his people would spare you for choosing to sack their son instead of the woman who was superintending over a den of robbers?

c) How you found it justifiable to dish out billions to brigands and bandits at the expense of millions of Nigerian youths is incomprehensible. The blood of those who died in the immigration test was crying all the way up to heaven for a year. You did nothing. Too bad.

d) God gave you political power on a platter of gold. You failed to live up to expectation and He turned His back on you. Some opportunities come once. A bitter lesson you will no doubt make use of in other endeavours.

e) You chose to romance with the Otedolas and Dangotes; where are they now? They have already started to romance with the new sheriffs in town.

Safe journey back to Otuoke, and thank your stars that GMB is now a reformed democrat. 30 years back you may have had to start planning to take off.

The end of YouWIN...