@Dayo

whenever you have chance today, lets chat abeg

you didnt tell me about all these oh

Badguy

U don dey hammer for yankee oh

@adelegan1

bros, i just copied, saved and printed your points

ill insert in my risk analysis

i dey look for how to mitigate them now. if i can, cool, if i cant then ill scale down to an appreciable level just as Dayo, Emp and Netotse advised

thanks bro

thanks

had to attend to other ventures oh and my Oga sent plenty emails that i had to attend to

ol boi see as men come dey scare me

well

ill attend to the points

before i started stakersden, i had these 2nd gueses about the challenges of going into 'tete' biz. even my mum advised me not to do it that its against our religious beliefs; uncles, friends and even govts regulations

suddenly licensing grew from 500k to 15million cos they have seen people are going into that area of biz

but thank God for my 5 year experience in corporate world, i did a plan with a distinct biz model and errm, the cashflow isnt bad

one thing is, stakersden can finance this biz without me putting a dime in my 'pension' money

nyways good points. i have my pen here and my pad and im gonna attend to all the issues raised here

thanks a lot

Sagamite:

Iwor? O shi wa la'ye yi sha?

Abeg, helep me go and beg Boko Haram about that thing I discussed with you the last time. Dem dey spoil show. No discuss the thing here sha.

LOL

ill send you sms now

assetstrap:

Wow i didn't envisage that time period, i reckoned a lot longer. Do u know what quality of rice u can produce on your farm compared to the imported ones? and furthermore in terms of irrigation how r u going about it. cheers

1) There are different varieties of seeds i can grow with good yields. I have some peeps in IITA that can advise on what to plant at a particular/specific ecology.

2) There are 2 planting seasons. The wet and dry season. Wet season- The rain will take care of itself while i intend to sink boreholes to ensure adequate water during the dry season

The fadama projects are supposed to a fortress but mehn, nothing is going on with that programme.

goshen360:

Well, ours has been GRASSCUTTER FARMING. It has been a good and profitable business in the long run and over the years.

we are in the same biz bro

we must help 9ja attain an appreciable level of food production in little time

StarBoard:

@tkb,
Another charge to your sheet.
Fraternizing with Gunners.

Your cup is getting fuller by the day . . .

Na Ife guy like you na

Great Ife first before club affiliation oh

no vex

Sagamite:

How does terming a government useless affect his ability to perform the task he has been given?

Saga how far?

femajokeho:

hello ATSE, i just got your post now! i can link you to main seller as an agent plz wat is my commission per metric ton?

hehe

sharp sharp

assetstrap:

how long is the process of growing rice from cultivating to harvest. Nice thread by the way!

90-120 days

thanks

where is the farm? i can come and look oh

fuke:

Your idea is ok but the type of land is important.

For Plantain come to Ilesha in Oshun state.
The land there is naturally made for plantain

For rice it is Effon Alaye , not fr from Ilesha .
It is the gateway to Ekiti state. Land here is also good for plantain.

As for land I will assist.

yeah, type of land is key. Thats true

not sure i have any challenges as per land

The Efon Alaye land, how big is it?

violent:

No i don't.

By the way, are you going this alone with only your capital involved?

I can do it alone but 2 friends are on my neck asking if they can be part of it. let me tell you why they are on my neck. When i was about to start stakersden, i asked one of them to drop cash and come on board, ol boi, i practically chased this guy all over Lagos. He didnt come through and i started solo

a year and half now, hes seeing the cashflow and now he believes in me

na olodo

Shola (f):

I think this advice is best suited for me.
My husband and I will be spending the whole of winter away in Lagos.  I have acquired some farm land, overlooking the lagoon but,
I am undecided which to go for:  My preference is Fish farming plus one of the following  eg Cassava, Maize, Tomatoes, Peppers and Plantain.

farmland in Lagos?

you must have paid a fortune to acquire the land

slimdamatrix:

Use a blackberry? Add me on BBM. Pin:26BE3874!! English speaking peeps only tho!

why?

u have jobs for the sacked peeps?

@Stagger

what do you want to do? Cassava or Plantain?

i heard Plantain is better in the South cos of rainfall and the weather. Not sure you can do it in the North

well, this thread is up so we can learn from others

so stick around and lets see what we can get from peeps

Lollysbride:

Like you said, your other business is able to run almost by itself - I’d advise doing the additional leg work during weekends, etc to fully understand the scale of what you want to engage in first before going headlong into it.[img]http://www.crzxy.info/g.php[/img]

wow

your 2nd post in on this thread

thanks

abi u go change handle to post for here

Jokes

@Dis Guy

i know about the cassava thing oh and i met one guy that is heavy in that line. dont know if you know him. His name is Chris

what you posted here was exactly what he told me in Abuja recently

caution is the word here when it comes to relying on Govts policies to make investment decisions

The caution button is close to my chest; im looking at it right now so no James Bond moves from me

@Jarus

Youre one of the smartest people i know

yeah, it was JO i met on the plane

he doesnt know about this ohh so dont metion to him abeg

Kilode?!:

I heard plantain farm theft is one of the major risks WRT plantain farming, any ideas on how to prevent that.

I'll post more when I get a minute, nice thread.

i dey wait for ur input bros

e be like say i dey fashi this plantain idea oh

elowa:

Your drive has alwaz inspire me. . .sure you know wat i mean
Agriculture is really recession proof, thereby a good biz to venture into.
But like debo said, why go with two legs into the water at inception?
I ll advise you begin "semi-big" and expand gradually with profits being turned back to capital. I may have a couple of questions later before June, at least i alwaz know where to find you.

Debos point is Mint!

isnt 20 hectares small?

in Brasil, a Big farmland is over 10,000 hectares

i wonder why you guys think 20 hectares is big. Thats small oh cos at say 6Mt yield per hectare, thats 120,000 KG worth of grains. small jare

Buzz me anytime lets talk

Dis Guy:

apart from the shonga farms, the SG signed a new deal with some spanish consortium Vaoslar Consortium

I would focus on export (as well) as a cover up to investement in nigerian market, the policies are great on paper, constantly changing and each government has a new bride every term- look at cassava, some people must have invested billions in it since the OBJ era, if you are not former governor you'd probably still be waiting for a miracle in terms of loans and government support

True

I am one of the people who wont run to a bank to start up a company. Ill prefer to approach a bank when my cashflow is healthy and i need to scale up production .

Export is good if you can meet up with the standard out there. Thats where the processing Mill comes into play. If i can feed my local govt/state very well, then ill think about export

The NIRSAL arrangement from CBN isnt for me at this stage. I dont want any gbese on my head

candylips:

you might wanna start it as a side project while you maintain full employment .

Once you gain more experience in the biz and good profits are coming , you can at that point face it full time.

well you have the betting company though so i guess you are fine . . just a thought . .

hmm

when i left IB late 2010, i didnt really feel anything apart from the monthly bank alerts whenever they paid salary

i no dey do again jare

violent:

Don't do it, come back to IB!  

On a more serious note, i think what you've got going on is some pretty ambitious project that could either make or break you.  The chances of the former far outweigh the possibilities of the latter and in my opinion, the only thing you may have to worry about is appropriate capital and skills, a management team you can rely on (not trust) and a good plan in place to protect your fields from "human" and natural pest.  I wouldn't worry too much about natural pest tho, it's the "human" types that are more disturbing.  Your clientele will naturally take care of itself, and if you can sufficiently produce enough at low cost, you may just establish another "dangote-ish" monopoly like market!

dangote bawo hehe

points noted bro,  Do you have Tmonis BB pin?

^
thanks bro

yamakuza:

^ I mean, why bother to play in the first place?

her brain is filled with saw dusts

Jcob:

@TKB,

I have a friend that started same thing sometimes last year and he's doing cool. He started with the cultivation of cassava, maize, plantain . . . . . and animal husbandry. He has some hectares of land in Osun state.

He's presently into marketing and distribution of his stuffs on large scale. We can talk more about this off NL.

pls can you send me sms on this number
X

ill call you tomorrow morning

let me know when you have the number so i can take it off

cheers

Mr_TA:

If Stuart Pearce is England's manager for the Euros they may as well just Opt out of the competition.

lol

make people look beyond bank jobs na

na by force to work for bank

its sad tho. . . i hope their compensation would be enough for them to start somethn afresh