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fluentinfor:
Corn silage....hmmmm

2 acres of land .....hmmmm that i can use to rake in the sales of 100 goats in a year with crops. How many goats will 2 acres feed? Just trying to understand livestock operational management in Nigeria.

Legume fodder in addition, plus many other goodies.

Is it really worth the investment and stress? 2 acres of land? For start small, grow big goat business? 2 acres?
Medications not yet included.

I need to really see the start up cost and operational costs of this kind of proposal.

I am not against livestocks, but it seems it is not worth the kind of energy we put in it.

That 2 acres is what I am still trying to see. I think hydroponic fodder is the way forward, and not 2 acres fodder. And I have to install sprinkler during dry season for goats?

Maybe you need to really explain this well. Looks like I am missing many things here.

Even pigs, poultry, fish businesses are all same to me. It is always the extreme high cost of feeding. How can the cost of feeding ONLY be over 70% of total cost of production? And then you start picking up crops and fodder farming to make them work well. Just my concern. One can easily grow corn to make profit. One can easily grow soy to make profit. But one starts growing maize and soy to make livestock businesses profitable is what I still do not understand. Most of these livestock farmers eventually abandon livestock when they see the profit in the corn and soy if sold for human consumption.

Or am I missing anything here?

Maybe we all need to turn to vegetarian. If you get veggie right, I swear, you will never near livestock. You just need them for manure production. Honestly.

This get me really thinking deep again.

Corn silage is affordable & cheaper and can be made available throughout the year.
Hydroponic fodder is not cheap cos you still need to buy the grains and also deal with fluctuation in grain prices locally.
It is suicide to plan your herds need on supply of grain from our local mkt and having a b/ward integration to have your grain needs cover may be a suitable alternative.
The only alternative to the above scenario is to plant specialized grass and maintain the grass. It is said that some grass can give up to 100 tons to 200 tons per acre for a year. It is dirty cheap to maintain one acre of green grass to buying tons of grains in the mkt for hydroponic fodder.

This is the recommended practice for keeping dairy cows in Kenya, Ugandan etc which had been largely successful.
Market is the problem for most livestock farmers in the country, the absence of off takers in this segment is a major factor why farmers abandon their farms.

EMMAACHILE:
Raising a local goat or goats on intensive ranching will never yield profit due to the low reproduction capability and the slow growth of goats. The cost of feeding will kill you even if you decide to use fodder.

It's like raising local chicken in pens. It will always be a loss. Your best bet aside poultry is pig, rabbits or even catfish where fodder can be used extensively for the former two mentioned here and their improved breeds are available unlike goats.

I dont agree with you on this.

Intensive goat ranching is all over India and its sister countries. There is need to have enough knowledge to plan and make profit.
Cost of feeding can be reduced significantly by having control over your feed resources, i.e plant all your forage requirements.

Have corn silage available
Have one or two acre of green fodder grass
Have legume fodder like Lucerne and tree fodder
Make plans to have affordable concentrate

Willie2015:
Belgium is going home

France 2 Belgium 0

Second goal coming soon ...

fecta:
My money is on Belgium
It's time to make back what I lost in the previous match

PLEASE PRAY FOR ME NA BIG MONEY I BET

Your money don enter one chance

Belgium is going home

France 2 Belgium 0

Jejebabaa:
Bear no good ooo. See wetin bear don turn people to. It's so funny that people can't control their emotions in this bear market and we ain't see anything yet. Warren Buffet said
"You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50% decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress."
I pray people won't commit suicide by the time Zenith touches 10 naira similar to what happened in 2015.

Buffet quote is suicide for some folks, our ability to take and manage risk differs.
I purchase common stocks, but I cant watch my portfolio have a 50% decrease.
The rational thing is to exit stocks and place funds in money market instruments to cushion your loss in stocks and preserve your capital.
He that fights and run away will live to fight another day.

Koolking:
Am actually disappointed FFK was one of the rulers running Nigeria.


Clearly, if we look at the bigger pictures, ranching will ameliorate the clashes between nomadic farmers and crop farmers. It will also contribute meaningfully to the Nigeria's economic development and growth. Let shun sentiment and give a try. Government has done it feasibility and cash flow projection.

Where is the bigger picture ?

Why cant FG learn from other African countries ?

We have over a million small scale cattle farmers in Kenya and they are practicing intensive and semi intensive systems of livestock production without any intervention from the govt.

GoTV:
What is the big deal in surrendering lands to save lives? I think this is the best deal we can get from this government if we want this crisis to end. As Christians, the Bible encourages us to be our brothers keeper and love our neighbors as ourselves. Now it's time to practice what we preach. Let's allow the Fulani Herdsmen to have lands and we will enjoy peace. Beef and milk will also be cheaper if cattle rearing is in every community.

Kenya produce above five billion liters of milk annually from cows and yet we don,t have any threat of death between cow farmers and crop farmers.

This is not the best deal from this govt if we want to end the crisis, this is just a tip of the iceberg.

Let FG learn from Kenya and Uganda how individual farms manage their cows without any clash & death threat in the country.

Pavore9:
Just watched it on instagram, how much is it going for?

All within 200k.....

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Pavore9:
It is not so. Go read up on zero grazing, hydroponic fodder, urban diary farming etc

I work in Kenya and one of our centres has 9 cows and they are in their stalls where they are well taken care of and each averages 24 litres of milk daily without stressing them with roaming about.

@Pavore

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pp802:
We played 4-5-1 with Croatia and we were beaten!

Which format do you think would do the magic?

Let them play our traditional 4 4 2
Naija team always lose concentration, thats a fact
Dont think our midfield is experienced enough to always come back to support that 3 defencers
Need those 4 defenders always on ground

oluwasegun007:
With this selection and formation we should do well... If not let's forget football...

Why are they playing 3 5 2 ? This is a recipe for disaster.

I am with Iceland on this ga

adekolaelect:
If you are giving the opotunity to be a president of Nigeria what will you do to solve this issue of Fulanis bcs I can see many coment s of condemnation but they can not bring any Idea but Ranting on the internet .we Nigerian people only know how to complain !complain !! Complain!!! But no single idea of solving the problems we should lean not to be LAZZY .

People will complain because it wont work the way it is being planned.
The permanent solution to Fulani solution is to have a 3 years framework to eradicate the local Fulani cow specie through free artificial insemination.
Hybrid cows don't have the strength to move from one location to another, they are automatically restricted to a location.

Egypt will score back.

Salah will score

helinues:
3 own goals from Africa out of the 5 own goal at the 2018 world cup

Too bad

Poor defending

Wnen your village people follow you to World Cup

This is the way to go if FG is serious about this.
If we can follow it down to the letter, We will eradicate the local Fulani cow specie and stop movement of herdsmen all over the country as the improved cows won't be able to walk long distance.
Nigeria should be able to eradicate its over 80 percent importation of dairy products and illegal import of cows for beef from neighboring African countries.

Nahum777:
The back passes from Switzerland is just too much.

Not too much, u are playing against an excellent team that dont give space

userplainly:
Germany na flop!.... I dey talk am since!.......... Goallll!...... deh gt mind drop Sane

Sane is good but more of an individual player...you need a team player

Eh be like say Iceland no get people for bench..

Na wa oooo

maverickdude:
This Argentina team looks ordinary, nothing stops super eagles from defeating them

Argetina team dont looks ordinary ooo

This Iceland team are just organized , they had a game plan and they are executing it perfectly.

I dont think eagles can do this ...

Naija don enter one chance... See how Iceland dey organized.

N Power program is not sustainable and will end once another administration come on board.
We have abandoned farm settlements all over the Nation.
Put them in modern shape, provide modern agriculture tools.
Let the 200,000 youths move to these farm settlement and focus on a particular agricultural produce.
Give them good extension services
Partner with experts in Songhai to monitor and ensure each farm settlements can take care of their bills within 2 to 3 yrs.
Connect them with processors all over the country and have a guaranteed pricing with processors.
Just imagine 200,000 youths on a tomato farm with an acre assigned to each person means 200,000 acres of land under cultivation.

DTOBS:
Sir, you have registered, just log in (The log in box is just beside the registration box) and continue you application.

@Dtobs,

Any other advise on this, ve been on this for 3 days now in the nite.
Cant find details after getting to the last stage, no preview
Uploaded passport wont upload even after resizing to 4kb
Application wont save and you can,t find it again.

femmy2010:
I love PMB and I very much love My Nigeria

e PM

Can someone tell PMB to face the economy ?

Folks are loosing jobs with unemployment rate moving at a fast speed. SMES are closing up as a result of hostile biz environment.

lahify:
the idiots (marketers) would soon be here telling you about how you can make millions from exporting but they need your #2500 for ebook

Ugosample:
na wa.

But Nigerians dont like to pay debt that they owe.

Conditions of loans are scary
How do you pay interest of 30 percent pa on a loan and expect Nigerians to pay back?
Local govt tax dey, state govt tax dey, agbero tax etc etc dey.
No infrastructure in place to aid business...
Thats why most buz have short life span,
you just have numerous challenges that will kill biz faster in Naija.