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Post by colonial pikin on Feb 29, 2016 21:23:06 GMT
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Post by colonial pikin on Feb 29, 2016 21:26:01 GMT
the guy makes sense...I really like the Songhai Rivers Initiative,unfortunately they have a terrible online presence...same for Songhai Katsina and Songhai Delta.I am really surprised that SW States like Osun,Oyo and Ekiti didn't key into Songhai farming methods tho.
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Post by colonial pikin on Feb 29, 2016 21:27:08 GMT
oduabachanal don't forget to comment for Akande and Taiwo  ...Akande 1st o
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Post by colonial pikin on Feb 29, 2016 21:40:13 GMT
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Post by colonial pikin on Feb 29, 2016 21:41:24 GMT
hoping to hear more on this as time pass...
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Post by oduabachanal on Mar 1, 2016 2:49:30 GMT
Shymmex ,, OmoOba , dansoye1 , Belmot , Her Highness , IrekeOnibudo ,, omohayek , AgbongboAkala , I'm personally not a fan of marketing boards, as they are too easily abused by governments to squeeze farmers out of their rightful earnings. Kwame Nkrumah nearly destroyed Ghana's cocoa farming sector through such practices. Cocoa farming in Ghana only really started to recover when Jerry Rawlings finally eliminated the cocoa marketing board in the 1980s. In general, any program that forces farmers to deal with only one seller will be easily abused. Granting a buying monopoly to any party is bad enough, but when it's a government in a country with ethnic divisions, things can easily go south: in Ghana's case, Nkrumah squeezed Ashanti cocoa farmers to fund projects benefiting his own Akan people. Instead of forcing farmers to sell their produce to government monopolies, a better way to protect their livelihoods would be to provide them access to commodities futures markets and teach them how to hedge against price swings; using futures and options, it's possible to lock in product prices many months or even years in advance. Nowadays, with mobile internet access reaching almost everywhere, futures and options trading can even be done from apps on mobile phones.If I see a role for government in the farming sector, it is in - Providing farmers with clear, official title to their land, so they have stronger incentives to invest in improvements, and they can get loans from banks, pay for equipment in installments, etc.
- Improving the transport infrastructure so that farmers find it cheaper to get their products to market, and can do so in less time.
- Enforcing law and order, so farmers don't have to waste their time and energy worrying about marauding fulani herdsmen, crop theft and so on.
Interesting. Thanks for the highlights.@bold part. I thought Nkrumah was a staunch Pan Africanist? Sounds like another Azikiwe. |
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Post by omohayek on Mar 1, 2016 8:03:42 GMT
Interesting. Thanks for the highlights.@bold part. I thought Nkrumah was a staunch Pan Africanist? Sounds like another Azikiwe. Nkrumah and Azikiwe were indeed alike in spouting pan-Africanist rhetoric while practicing ethnocentric politics. That's why I personally find it impossible to take Pan-Africanism seriously: it's not as if Africa was some sort of peaceful utopia before the white man arrived. Igbos like to attack Awolowo for his comments about Nigeria being a mere geographical expression, but at least he was honest about how things were, unlike the great "Zik" who claimed to be above tribe even as he led the Ibo State Union and fed his people a continuous diet of Igbo-supremacism through his "West African Pilot" newspaper. |
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Post by colonial pikin on Mar 1, 2016 12:52:53 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Mar 2, 2016 14:20:53 GMT
FG To Plant 3m Seedlings Of Improved Cashew Yearly – FG
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is to plant three million seedlings of improved cashew every year for the next four years. The minister of agriculture and rural development, Chief Audu Ogbe disclosed this yesterday during the flag off of the 2016 Cashew Festival and National Cashew Season in Ilorin,Kwara state. Represented by a director in the ministry, Mr Titus Efuntoye, Ogbe said this forms part of efforts to boost production of cashew as a foreign exchange earner for the country. He described cashew as a game changer as every part of the fruit was money. The minister said about 30,000 hectares of land in cashew producing states would be covered. “Farmers would be supported in rejuvenating their old cashew plantations by replacing the old plans with the improved varieties.” The Kwara state governor, Alh Abdulfatah Ahmed at the event said if farmers had access to affordable credit, problems associated with the transformation of agriculture into viable agribusiness would be overcome in the country. Leadership |
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Post by colonial pikin on Mar 4, 2016 2:15:37 GMT
Honorebu you no see green is the colour for this thread for post titles eh?  ...   ....anyways Taiwo is at over 200 comments and Akande at 117,him started working for his comments lol...hopefully them go scale through....o edit your post and reduce the spaces between the paragraphs please.
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Post by Honorebu on Mar 4, 2016 2:43:22 GMT
Honorebu you no see green is the colour for this thread for post titles eh? ... ....anyways Taiwo is at over 200 comments and Akande at 117,him started working for his comments lol...hopefully them go scale through....o edit your post and reduce the spaces between the paragraphs please. Lol I didn't even notice that |
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Post by dansoye1 on Mar 4, 2016 17:43:14 GMT
colonial pikin , oduabachanal , omohayek , Honorebu , Nigeria: Climate Change, Major Challenge to Agriculture Development - Don
Professor of Geography, Mr. Francis Adesina, from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has identified climate change as one of the greatest challenges facing agriculture in the developing countries, especially Nigeria. He made the statement while delivering a lecture on the topic, 'Some Thoughts on Climate Change, Agriculture,' at the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) Implementing Partners workshop. He noted that the impact of climate change is felt most on "exposed systems, "which he said include rain-fed agriculture. Adesina traced the genesis of global warming to 1880, noting that successive years since the 19th Century have been hotter, with 2015 being the hottest year. He regretted that Nigeria and other developing countries are most susceptible to the harsh effects of climate change due to poor water storage system, which he said has grave implication for agriculture. "Considering the very high consumption of rice in Nigeria, nowadays, if you must control climate change, one of the crops you need to control is rice because of its high water demand," he said, while emphasizing the need for farmers to be climate smart. He noted further that climate change signs are evident and cited the example of the absence of an August break in 2015. Earlier in his address, a BATNF Technical Committee member, Prof Chidi Ibe, reiterated the need for farmers to develop the capability to adapt to climate change. One of the achievements of climate change adaptation, he noted, is the development of a drought resistant rice variety. Other contributors to the climate change discourse also called for greater agricultural water management programme and the development of a water harvesting culture. The Implementing Partners were also advised to regularly access information from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and interface with farmers in disseminating information on climate change. A case was also made for the proper inspection of beneficiary farmers by the Implementing Partners in some of the BATNF crop enterprise implementation projects to ensure greater compliance. allafrica.com/stories/201603020721.html
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Post by dansoye1 on Mar 4, 2016 17:48:05 GMT
colonial pikin, oduabachanal, omohayek, Honorebu, CBN Agrees 5% Lending Rate to Farmers – OgbehThe Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had agreed to five per cent interest on lending rate to farmers in the country. Ogbeh made this known on Tuesday, while delivering a keynote address at the opening of a two-day national workshop on a “New Agricultural Policy for Nigeria.” The workshop was organised by the National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria (NAFN) in collaboration with the ministry and All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN). According to the minister, the agreement followed discussions with key officials of the apex bank on Tuesday morning. “Just this morning, I have talks with key officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria to bring the lending rate to five per cent. “How they do it, how the finance institutions want to cope with it, they have to or we impose severe penalty on anyone who defaults, otherwise we will not survive. “There is no country on earth in or outside Africa, where banks demand 25, 18 or even nine per cent interest rate for agriculture borrowing. “With those rates, I assure you as man, who have been in this business – agriculture since the age of seven years, you cannot make profit in agriculture,” Ogbeh said. The minister said that agriculture and solid minerals remain the alternatives sectors to which the country could diversify now to survive current economic situation. He said: “The challenge before us is how to make this happen. The time for lamentation is over. The time for action is here.” Ogbeh said unless this was done, the problem of youth unemployment and youth restiveness would continue to plague the country. “We have 100 million young people in the country who are below the age of 50 years and if we do not give them job, they are likely to take care of us in a very rough manner,” he said. Ogbeh said outbreak of bird flu and pastoralists/farmers clashes remained challenges to the sector, adding that in the last two months, the flu had killed between five and six million birds. He, however, disclosed that a vaccine had been found for the virus. “I have been calling friends across the globe. “Just yesterday, I received a message from Egypt and they informed me that they have found a vaccine which they injected the chickens with which is working perfectly well. “We will not immediately rush in and bring the vaccines, we will ask our research institutes to take a look and see if they can fit into our needs. “Every January, we have this problem of avian flu, it has destroyed many farmers; we are looking forward to finding some resources to compensate them. “We do not have enough money right now even to pay arrears of certain debts which were piled up before now but we will do what we can,” the minister said. Earlier, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, suggested the creation of a forum where farmers and the ministry could regularly dialogue in formulating agriculture rebirth policies. Adamu, also the chairman, NAFN, said this was necessary as farmers were the one to really implement agriculture policies. He said they needed to be brought on board for proper education on policy objectives and direction. Adamu also suggested that there should be clear policy on the procurement and sale of fertilisers at the right time during farming season. www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/02/02/cbn-agrees-5-lending-rate-to-farmers-ogbeh/
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Post by colonial pikin on Mar 11, 2016 0:51:55 GMT
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Post by colonial pikin on Mar 11, 2016 0:54:27 GMT
nice one....hope they will see the importance of value addition than just merely exporting unprocessed cashew.
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....anyways Taiwo is at over 200 comments and Akande at 117,him started working for his comments lol...hopefully them go scale through....o edit your post and reduce the spaces between the paragraphs please.