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#OCCUPYFARMS: It is impossible for me to explain what is Happening in Gaate. Something Different with Challenges. A Youth Corper From Adamawa State, For the Religious Bigots and Sentimentalist, A Christian Corps Member From Adamawa State is Doing Something Unique in Gaate.
2. He is Building a Farm Laboratory to Produce Local Solutions for Farmers as they Battle Insecticides, Pesticides and Herbicides.

I have always said that the Biggest Challenge of Local Farmers is the Solution Capable of Enhancing Our Productivity, Increasing Our Capacity and
3. Nationalizing our Commitments/Dedication 2D Motherland.

I am a Nigerian With Challenges, Many Investors are Not Happy, The Banks Worried, My Partners Believe I am Being Suicidal. What they all may not get is that if Nigeria Wins, They Wins. That is all I need 2B Motivated.
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#OCCUPYFARMS: I have Been Threatened By Investors & Debtors, Called Names By Those Who Should Understand That Agribusiness Can't Be Short-term. Seasoned Businessmen Have Used My Naivety Early on 2Get Rates Impracticable Because I Was Desperate. What is Key, is You Must Never Stop
No Matter The Battles. 2Weeks Ago, A Financial Firm Valued The Farm at About N5billion With Real Asset Value of N2billion Less Transactions and Others. When Completed in About 30days, Our Automated Rice Mill Alone Will Be Worth Around N500million. And I Tell Those Who Must Know,
That We Haven't Started Yet. @NGFarmersGroup Can Trigger a Million Jobs Annually Nationwide, Will Get @NasarawaGovt 2Declare Ga'ate, A Farm Industrial City, Develop 100k Cattle Ranch, 100k Poultry, 100k Economic Trees Plantation, 1,000 Greenhouses & 100Unit Rural Housing Project.
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#OCCUPYFARMS: Dear @MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo @cenbank et al. Nigeria is Sitting on a Time Bomb That is Likely Going to Consume Any Form of Progress Made if we are not Proactive When it Comes to This Herders Farmers Conflict That is Now Snowballing Into a Full Blown Ethnic Crisis.
2. Times are Hard, YES. However, What Govt is Capable of Doing is only Limited by What Govt is Capable of Thinking Backed By The Political Will. The North of Nigeria Holds the Key 2Massive Rural Industrial Revolution Capable of Changing Our National Narrative. Northern Nigeria
3. Have The Land and The The Population to Match. With The Will, There is Nothing We Will Not Achieve, If we are Ready to Drastically Reduce This Continuing Conflict Between Crop Farmers & Cattle Farmers. The Easy Road to Success Never Last. The Easy Option of Herders Heading
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#OCCUPYFARMS: The Streets of Warri is Loaded With Very Young Men, Doing Nothing But Wasting Away. I camped at Agbarho & It Was a Scene That Greeted Me Daily. Plus The Over 50Girls Probably Below 20years Old Looking For Who 2Take Them 4D Night at a Price of Between N5k to N20k. Image
2. I Saw The Future of the Niger Delta Right There and It Was a Horrible Feeling. Those Boys Will Become Armed Robbers, Bandits, Kidnappers & Violent Extremists Tomorrow. Those Girls Will Hardly Be Able 2Become Better Mothers Tomorrow as They Have Giving Birth at an Alarming
3. Rates and Dumping The Kids With Their Parents and Grandparents in the Villages. The Violent Future of The Niger Delta and Nigeria is Right in Our Faces. Every State Can Begin Now to Correct The Insanity of Yesterday, The Wastefulness of Today to Ensure We Don't Become Meal
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#OCCUPYFARMS: The Challenges of Farming are Well Documented Particularly in 2020. You Don't Have 2B A Rocket Scientist 2Know That if you Want 2Build in Agribusiness That Last, You Must Build Rural Infrastructure That States & LGAs Won't Do. Invest in Power, Water Solutions
2. Human Capital, Security, Market Development, Warehousing and Emotional Intelligence to Manage Investors Who Will Wonder Why You are Struggling in a period That Has Seen The Most Stable Economies Bank on Govt for Survival. I do not Expect the Short Term Investors to Understand
3. Because Contracts Have Supposedly Been Signed. What is The Puzzle Though is the Wonderment About Why Businesses in Nigeria Should Struggle, When Almost 50% of Small Business Worldwide are Under Water. The Day Businesses & Expectations Becomes Abstract, The Day Visions Becomes
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#OCCUPYFARMS: Don't Be Deceived Nigerians, No President Has Been As Honest With You as @MBuhari When it Comes to What Agriculture Can Do and The Effort Needed to Make Agriculture Work for Nigeria.

With 84million Arable Hectares of Farmland and a Population Topping 200million,
2. There is No Sector Capable of Sustainable Economic Growth Outside Farming and Agribusiness. We Have The Ability to Mop up 25million Jobs Even Though Low Paying Within 5years, We Have The Capacity of Becoming independent When it Comes to Food Production in a Decade and That
3. Will Reduce the Demand 4D USD By Over 30%.

We Can Basically Connect Rural Nigeria to Local Markets With Roads and Power, We Can Stop The Nonsense Foreign Dependency Habits & Consume Made in Nigeria and This Will Be For the Good of All not Some Nigerians but All Nigerians.
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#OCCUPYFARMS: How Nigerians Who Produce Nothing Will Complain About Prices of What is Made in NAIJA Beats Me. You Complain About Joblessness, Unemployment, Hunger, Poverty & Harsh Economic Reality & YES, You Are Correct. But Na Wetin Una Dey Produce Wey Fit Make Rice Cheap?
2. Firstly, Let us Start From Rice. Majority of The Machines 2Process Rice are All Imported. That is a Cost Burden 2D Processors & The Nigerian Economic With Regards Forex & Cost of Production. Secondly, DHabit of Loving Everything Foreign When Our Standard of Living Can't Match
3. That is a Burden 2Nigeria. Koreans Saw Consuming Made in Korea in The 1950s as Nationalism & National Pride No Matter The Cost. Chinese Saw Those Who Consumed Foreign Goods as Enemies of The State in the 1940s & Japanese Rejected Foreign Cars for Toyota in The 1950s. Thirdly,
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NFGCS HERDERS FARMERS CONFLICT CHALLENGE RESOLUTION TODAY;

Last Night, About 1,000 of Our Cattle Broke Through Their Barbwire Barriers and Destroyed About 5hectares of Farmland Belonging To A Community Farmer From Ga'ate.

This Was The First Time and The Solution Was Simply...
We Got The Farm Owners and Our Own Herders Including The Traditional Leaders To The Table For 1hour.

Estimated The Cost of What Was Destroyed, The Herders Will Forfeit Their Salary Including Allowances for One Month and That Will Be Paid To The Farmer Today...
Our Herders Apologized To The NFGCSFARMS and The Affected Farmer, Requested For More Early Warning Support From NFGCSFARMS and Right Now are Doing Their Assessment to Figure Our How it Happened and Ensure it Never Happens Again...
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NFGCSPOWER: @NGFarmersGroup NFGCSFARMS is Pleased To Announce That The Farm Will Be Closed For 48hours as We Officially Connects To The National Grid.

Since 2017, The Farm Has Had to Spend on the The Average of N3m Monthly for Diesel and Generator Repair Bills... @ChiefOjukwu
2. That is not Talking of the About N25m Spent in Buying Generators.

Thanks to Kiakia Bits Limited, Farmally Investment Limited and Dedicated Farmrades Nationwide, We Have Succeeded in Building This N50million Worth of 33kva Line Convering About 5km, @DeeOneAyekooto @MBuhari
3. Connecting Three Communities, Touching The Lives of over 5,000 People and Will Reduce The Farm's Cost of Electricity by 50% Immediately.

Gidan Auta, Ga'ate & NFGCS Communities are Now Part of The National Grid With a Dedicated 100kva Transformer for the Communities & Another
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@MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo @akandeoj @Laurestar @FmardNg @cenbank @AishaYesufu @toluogunlesi @DeeOneAyekooto @kiakia_co @FarmallyL @NGFarmersGroup A Lot Has Been Said About N1.5m Being Worth Over N1b in Less Than 3yrs. Let Me Help With A Perspective of What is Possible in Agric...
The Commercial Farm Agro Sector is the Only Sector in Nigeria with the Capacity to Reduce unemployment to Single Digits within 36months, Awakening our Manufacturing Monster, Make NAIJA a Net Exporter and Lift 100million Nigerians out of poverty in 10years. It gets better...
DBase 4Sustainable Economic Growth is in the Development of Rural Infrastructure that are focused & Specially Targeted at Production! Warehousing!! Processing!!! We are Talking Basic Laterite Roads, Rural Electrification, Agro/Farm Centric Training, Warehousing, Healthcare...
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