₦airaland Forum

Agricnovice:
Hello Fam,
I have access to a piece of land beside a stream in Mararaba, Nassarawa State (close to Abj) for 1 to 2 years.
Size of land is 10Hctrs.
My plan is to plant water melon and pumpkin (ugu) on the land since I can use local irrigation on it.

Biggest problem: 1)keeping my cost low 2)everybody I have met claims to be an agric expert but knows nothing when I ask critical questions!.

I had negotiated with some people to clear the land manually but from the various stories, I think I m better off using a bulldozer (yeah yeah, it may destroy the top soil etc). Afterwards, plough and harrow (I need advice here).

Now to the matter:
1) Where can I rent a bulldozer close to Mararaba to clear 10hctrs. Please send contact and likely price if you have
2) How much and how long will it cost to plough and harrow the 10 hectrs? Pls send contact if you have.
3) Is my plan for water melon and ugu a good one? or do I need to rethink my plan?
4) Can I recruit a young agric expert (like a youth corper) who has hands on experience in farming to assist with advice.
5) My irrigation plan is to pump into a tank from the stream and then distribute to the farm using a pressure pump. Will this work on 10hctrs?
6) Will I be able to succeed using organic manure (animal dung) or should I just join everybody and throw in fertilizers?

Please any advice on these matters or any other advice will be welcome. I have been following your topics over the months and the stuff I ve learnt here is very helpful and invaluable.

Thank you all and keep up the good work all.

There is a bulldozer company on the way to Keffi. It is right after Uke and before Gora. Right on the road. You will see them on the right. Go there and make your inquiries.

Cost of ploughing is 30K per hectare in those parts. So unless you have N3million to dash those tractor crooks in that area, I would not advise it. Hello Tractor app can connect you with a bulldozer for 25k (ploughing) or 12.5K (harrowing).

kunleweb:
Two faced, two tongued charlatan

Damn right bro!

There is only one thing a billionaire cannot have more than any other person: 24 hours in a day.

Everyone has it in equal measure. What you do with yours and what the billionaire does with his makes the difference.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Chrisagyei and just30 come see president

Dem no go show.

Asking for salary increase after one week on the job.

You deserve to have been fired on the spot. Crazy!

tony1918:
A bag of imported Rice sells for 15k and local rice sells for 12k before the border closure ..After the closure the local rice the poor masses are meant to buy sell for as high 18k and the imported now sales for 25k..Please what is the gain of the Poor Masses in the border closure

The masses can cultivate rice on even one plot, and get enough rice from that plot in 3 months to feed for 2 years.

We should stop this nonsense we are doing: enriching countries like India and Thailand.

If Nigeria had boycotted MTN during the xenophobic attacks, that company would have lost half its revenues.

At last, one of their ministers don talk true...

https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Ghana-needs-Nigeria-more-than-they-need-us-Minister-792241

southsouthking:
Sir you don't understand how it feels been in a place you have never been before without a place to rest your head, and without knowing anybody.

I just wanna go back home that's it.
Na still the South South friend nah put me in this mess so.
Life

What I cannot understand is how some days ago you were sending betting tips, today you are looking for 1k. Are you sure you are not a compulsive gambler who is now in debt?

LifeQuest:
I guess Ghana is getting it right. I used the airport in May and I can not but agree that it is really what it is said to be. That is Akuaba spirit. Sparkling clean convenience and other facilities. Professionalism of the airport officials. Oh my God. I landed in Lagos MM but could not use the dirty, smelling convenience. I hope we will be able to get it right someday.

Kotoka does not compare with Senegal's Blaise Diagne.

Majlaw:
Suicide ke? Guy u are not alone... All I do is sleep and eat. I can't come and kill myself. Yes I am almost 30, I still dey eat for my papa house. God know say I don find work tire.

You are lucky. I left school at 24 years and my dad cut my allowance to N1,000 a week. I was out of his house forever in 6 months. Nobody told me that there was no way I could survive on N1,000 a week, and there was no way that house could accommodate two captains.

They can wail all they want. That border is staying closed until you are all as old as Methuselah! Case closed. Kaji kwo?

vaxx2:
You guys have a problem......


Nigerians coming into Ghana to buy sheer butter not becuse you don't have it in Nigeria but simply because you don't have the quality obtain in Ghana.


There is a reason Ghana export more sheer butter than Nigeria and the simple answer is quality even Nigeria produce more yam per harvest than Ghana but Ghana still export more yam than Nigerian and. the simple answer is quality . Ghana is also one of the export of tuna fish in africa to Europe. All this are basically because of quality.

Why should we export yam when there is a local demand for it?

vaxx2:
It shows your lack of exposure, go to new york new jersey, Go to Columbia or Jamaica , people buy ready made coconut drink on the street. things that are very strange to Nigerians.


And stop lying , no Nigeria cream in Ghanaians store, it is either the opposite . Nigerians have been coming to Ghana for cream and soap shopping, even sheer butter are purchased by higher demand .....


I know you stupidly don't know , Ghanaian company are in Nigeria exploring your oils ( Springfield) I also know you don't know Ghanaian company are also in Nigeria medical buisness ( kinapharma) guys stop embarrassing yourself . stop been deluded....

The kind of lies you pander around makes me sick. Nigeria produces 10 times more shea butter than Ghana. Nigeria is indeed the largest producer. The only difference is that Ghana exports nearly all the shea butter it makes, while Nigeria only exports 5% of the shea butter it produces.

Of course you have no choice than to export it all. When your population is not even up to that of Lagos state, who will use the product there?

Nigeria can NEVER buy shea butter from Ghana. NEVER!

Tetehjewels:
You keep trying to pass off on Nigerians what Ghanaians are doing to survive. Even 6 to 9 year old Ghanaian kids are everywhere picking up scrap metals and waste pure water satchets so they can sell to recyclers and make some coins for their families. Its is so bad. I witnessed 2 children of not more than 5 and 7 years old in the riverine community of Akateng with bare feet picking up pure water satchets all over the river coast line and packing them for sale.

Charlie you are poor.

Don't mind the fool. The hardship they are experiencing there is second to none. They can only deceive outsiders who don't know what's happening.

Just30:
hahaha funny



oh i think ive seen you before
One of those nigerians hawking sim cards all around

Probably. At least a SIM card hawker is better than a lazy local whose only life mission is to impregnate adolescents and give them fish.

peeps4u:
Do you care to teach bro?

If you have the patience to go through my 36 module course and the money to pay for the training, yes. It is not cheap.

Idonweak:
Please advice. No money to carry olosho

Put your creative mind to work. It will kill your desires.

Meanwhile I made N400,000 from three cryptocurrency trades last week...poverty na bastard.

Imagine pimping your own wife to be ravished by another man. Kai!

vaxx2:
Another ignorance here, anyway let me enlight you a little ...

The depreciation of cedi is structural and not necessarily due to any form of mismanagement of the economy by the government in power. Ghana inflation is going down 7.9 percent, producer price index is going down, economy is growing at 8 percent(one of the highest in the world) Therefore cedi depreciation can never be attributed to weak economy fundamentals because all economy index proves Ghana economy is healthy, so it's structural.

in a nut shell, the main depreciation or appreciation of the Cedi is fundamentally determined by the supply and demand for US dollars. in Ghana. The supply of USD is mainly from foreign reserves which is dependent on the amount of foreign exchange Ghana receive from exports and foreign aid. With Ghana now classified as a lower middle-income country, the foreign aid component would continuously dwindle. unlike Nigeria(lower income country) that still received a larger chunk of foreing aid to support her expenditure.

in millennial , the only time naira has perform better without the support of CBN is 2000 and 2001. since then, naira have been overvalued according to IMf by 20 percent and with constant injection of dollars to back up naira.

naira is not in free flow like cedis. naira is strongly backed by CBN constant dollar injection. cedis is free flowing based on supply and demand. the recent Nigeria recession exposed the weak fundamental of Nigeria economy and the stabilization of naira . when. a dollar is been exchanged for almost 600 naira. Assuming oil price remain at 48 dollar per barrel, naira will have crumble further. check cedi value within 2016 and 2017 and let's talk agian...

And to your suggestion about hyper inflation


cedi was not redominated because of hyper inflation, infact at the time of redomination in 2007, Ghana inflation was 12 percent. it was simply redominated as part of the government’s efforts to convince citizens and markets that hyper-inflation is a thing of the past. Inflation was as high as 116% in 1977, 117% in 1981 and 123% in 1983.

Absolute garbage.

Go to any supermarket in Ghana. Filled with foreign goods. An import-dependent economy with a devalued currency. How does this work?

Nanatrendy:
same way you may be a scammer, kidnapper or an armed robber since thats the latest trend for lazy youths in your country. You mentioned those girls fall prey to foriegners oh yes foriegners like yourself it explains why you are taking care of some teenagers putting them through school and feeding them ofcourse if you get someones daughter pregnant thats the price to pay. Once your likes leave the country teenage pregnancy will decline

You should be ashamed as a woman to be talking this nonsense.

A country that has adolescent girls opening their legs shamelessly for fish is in dire straits. E never reach like that for Naija.

Nanatrendy:
agreed all is not rosy in Ghana so why have you people joined us to suffer in ghana they come for holidays and they don't wanna leave what's up with that

I don't live there. I go there to spend my money and lately to expand my business, since foreigners are the ones sustaining your economy.

joeGH:
Boss, On any day n every condition being equal, Ghana will beat Nigeria in any indicator or parameter of consideration; whether per capita income, standard of living or even the infrastructure development u made mention of.. If u doubt let's start something, ll be waiting.. Below are images of university of Ghana (legon), drop ur best for purpose of comparism.. Picture no lie

You are a liar. I will upload some pics here of some of your roads in Accra. Ghanaians are suffering. They just cover up the cracks.

Please, anyone who can go to Ghana and spend some time there should do so. Then come back to compare and contrast.

joshjc:
School that majority of their members cannot afford

Please, how much is school fees in UK or America?

Just30:
hehehe

i heard Nigerian rice feels like rock in the mounth

Smuggler. You have never eaten Nigerian rice. Your rice in Ghana gums together. I have seen and eaten it.

Try to travel so you see things, not just hear things.

Just30:
story of my life

just this year alone, you've had 2 or 3 shortages


we pay 5.3 because we can afford it
that is the international price without subsidizes


youre too poor and wont be able to pay the same amount we pay for fuel.
it will cause a revolution in nigeria

that is why your government cant even increase the price of fuel in your country
evn though they know that the subsidizes are making Nigeria bankrupt and causing fuel smuggling.

Where in Nigeria? Please quote where you saw any fuel shortage and the dates with evidence.

Just30:
You think Ghana is useless like Nigeria where every week, there is fuel shortage



how dumb can you be

when was the last time you heard of fuel shortage in Ghana?

we produce 80% to 90 % of our own diesel and petrol oo

Nigeria has not had a fuel shortage in three years. And we pay the equivalent of 2.17 GHS per litre, not like the crazy 5.35 or 5.4GHS per litre that is forcing everyone to use all those tiny 1.0 l capacity engine cars. Be enlightened.

Iriruaga100:
Bros, you just have to get first hand experience to know life is not organized in Ghana... Life is very hard in Accra, businesses are closing up. They now use a section of Accra mall as church on Sundays and during midweek..

You are spot on. Things are very hard in Ghana now. Everyone who is on ground there knows the truth.

Just30:

funny
this guy is another dumb nigerian clown


no amount of insult will make you sound reasonable


Even in the villages, everyone cooks with LPG
unlike your poor country where LPG is not even affordable .

In the villages, Ghanaian households build their own toilets and bath in their houses to feel comfortable living aaaaaaaaat home
pit latrines stopped being a thing in the 80s

hope your country manages to change the bushy lives of it 100 million extremely poor citizens like Ghana have done.
where they dont have to result to open defecation or cook with tree logs.

100 dollars can buy you very little in the US
but when you bring it to both Nigeria and Ghana
it is big money, isnt it ?

that is how value is measured

if i bring 100 cedis to Abuja like ive done before, it is big money
because your country is so worthless and i can buy the entire Abuja.

Your 10K will do very little in Ghana
even electricity bill will finish your worthless 10K

Another fool talking.

The Ghanaian economy is a highly dollarized one. Why? the currency has become more worthless in the last three years.

100 GHS cannot even buy 20 litres of fuel. Fuel in Ghana is pegged to the US dollar.
How much are hotel rooms in Ghana? You cannot get a hotel in Osu area for anything less than $100 (540 GHS) a night. This is for a cheap hotel. The high end ones are far more expensive. In the hotel, they will even tell you to pay in US dollars if you have.

Infrastructure: apart from better electricity and a better educational system, where are the infrastructure? Is it the roads? The roads are narrow and many have craters, not potholes.

Tax: Ghana pays VAT of 13.5% to 17.5%. A bottle of Malta Guiness is on the average, 3.5 GHS. N245 on the average; what we buy N150 here. Very expensive. One egg costs 80 pesewas for a small one and 1 GHS for a big one. That is between N56 to N70 for one, as opposed to N30 for a raw one.

Things are bloody expensive in Ghana and even cost of foodstuff is high. Enter the streets of Ghana and ask the average Ghanaian if their living costs are low. They are all complaining and their standard of living is definitely not higher than in Nigeria.

People like this fellow can talk lies thinking they can deceive everyone. I go to Ghana and stay sometimes a month there and I know what's up.

psychologygh:
****

When Ghana locked just 400 Nigerian shops in a town in Kumasi alone,your government and trade unions were organizing protest at the ECOWAS office crying xenophobia and free trade buh you're here shouting Giant of Africa because you have unilaterally closed your borders to starve yourselves to death. GUTA had always hated you since Kwame Nkrumah and you have foolishly gave them a chance to eliminate you from Ghana. For your information millions of Nigerians live in Ghana and do trade of imports and exports. GUTA was the one who locked all your shops in Kumasi. Now tell me,Ghana exports goods worth just 80 million dollars to Nigeria for a country who exports 17 billion dollars worth of goods outside, less than 0.5% goes to Nigeria buh Nigeria exports goods worth 303 million dollars to Ghana in a year.If Ghana bans your goods,tell me who loses more.The minister is just a diplomat who knows how ugly it will be if Ghana retaliates so she's going diplomatic first to tell you to comply ECOWAS protocols .Warning to your country if you refuse her diplomatic settlement. Ghana never needs Nigeria.

The entire population of Ghana is not even up to Lagos alone. So what nonsense are you talking?

Starboytwo:
I knew after the xenophobic experience with south Africa when they disrespected us, something must be done... Something must be corrected asap... Imagine telling NIGERIANS to go home(cuz house no good) now all hands must be on deck to redeem the image of the country...

Let's close the border to achieve self sufficiency, most of the things we import can be produced locally.. food products etc...

One man yesterday said "na stone full naija rice", I challenged him, and told him maybe his wife did a mistake or something... I have yet to eat any "stoney rice" since... So that was obviously a lie.... Besides i prefer to eat my own stone rice, than have all these countries disrespect us anyhow, yet they depend on us for one thing or the other....

In Africa we should relate like the USA... No more "agbaya BIG BROTHER anything, now we Don see all of them for what they are, all na wash, eye service.... They can't do without us, yet openly loathe us, who does that....

Naija shall be great... Just watch..

Don't mind the man. My mum has been eating local rice for 4 years now. Not one stone inside which I can attest to. The grains are also fuller.

I am now eating it. On this one, I support Buhari 10,000%.

Deola2020:
Praying to who?He never saved Emiliano sala though...

There were lots of safety breaches that doomed Emiliano Sala's flight. Go read. Dont blame God when people cut corners.

So Toyota that was pulled from the Toyoda family name, or BMW that is known as Bavarian Motor Works (used to make airplanes until after WW2 when they were stopped)...are those names more appropriate than BMW?