@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...
All The 774 LGAs in Nigeria Must Have 4A Start, 10 Buldozers, 10 Combine Harvesters, 100 Tractors Bought by Govt & Managed by a Qualified Private Agro Structure. Every Geo Political Zone Must Have a Seed & Animal Research Institution That is Primarily Focused on High Yields...
Banks Must Be Forced 2Lend 2Farmers/Agro Processors at about 5%/Annum, @nirsalconnect Must commit 2Collaterizing Banks Aggressively & @cenbank must be more Aggressive with Punitive Measure when Banks Fail2Led. Groups Like @kiakia_co must be used as Access2Farmers Platform...
A Lot of LGAs are Not Working, While Most States Govs Are Just Siren Terrorists. That Must Change. ALL States Must Be Forced & Supported 2Develop What is Agricultural Viable Like is Happening With @elrufai. Every Zone Must Become Productive Because The Alternative is Hell...
Bandits, Kidnappers, Extremists are not going anywhere anytime soon. DKaduna-Abuja Road WILL Mutate all over NAIJA. Prayers Won't Work & GOD Won't Help. We Have Failed Rural NAIJA For Decades & That Failure is Hunting us Now. Our Failure As a NAIJA is Our Fault as Nigerians...
Now 2D Business of Farming. Let's start with Mellon (Egusi) that Cost About N200k 2Cultivate per Hectare. With An Expected Yield of 500kg Per Hectare & Mid Peak Price of N70,000/100kg, That is Roughly N350,000 on a Hectare. It's Sold Northwards of That When Demand is High...
2nd on DFarm Conversation is Sesame Seed. It cost roughly N200k to Plant & Manage a Hectare. Yeild comes in at about 500kg/Hectare. It Peaks around the N60,000/100kg. That is About N300,000 Gross. While Egusi is Consumed Locally, Sesame Seed is Mostly an Export Driven Crop...
Lastly on Crop Cultivation is The KENAF Plant That Cost About N250k per Hectare. With Expected Yeild of 1tons per Hectares 4Seeds & 20tons Per Hectare 4Fibre. A Ton of Kenaf Seeds Today is Selling for N2.5m & a Ton of Fibre is Selling for N300k, That is N6m per Hectare Yield...
Very Important is the Challenge of Good Seedling 4Farmers & Good ANIMAL Hybrids. Majority of DNAIJA Seed Companies are Just Colouring Seeds & Enough Research is not Being Done 4Farmers 2Truly Explode. That is Something that Must Be a Priority Focus For Govts at All Levels...
Let's Head 2Animals & Cows 2B Precise. If Your Business is Just Breeding, 10 Female Cow With a Good Bull Will Average 7 Calves for 10yrs. Now DFemale Calves Are Expected 2B Ready 2Begin Breeding Within 3Years. You Can do DMaths. Rural Naija Can Become a Mega Breeding Fields...
From Dairy Alone, Australia Made Over $50b in 2018. NAIJA Can Make Over $100b from that Industry within 5yrs if we get Our Execution Right, Not DPolicy. DFriesan Yields about 50liters Daily, The Sokoto Gudali Does about Half of that. Cross Breed Both & Have a Nigeria Friesan...
There are More Cows in Australia than People, We Must Adopt a Similar Approach & Create Ranches All over the North with One Goal in Mind in the Next Give Years, Make Cow Milk The New Crude Oil. We Can Achieve This in Five Years With an Investment of Just About $1billion...
A Litre of Fresh Cow Milk Cost About N200 Now. Let's Assume a Takeoff Number of 10k Sokoto Gudalis That Cost N200k each (N200m), With a Capacity of 20litres Daily. 10k Sokoto Gudali will Yield 200k Litres Daily. At Even N100/litre That is Above N20m Daily for 5months A Year...
Cowmeat is one of the Cheapest Source of Protein & Nigerians are Consuming Over 100k Cows Daily. The Business of Cow Fattening Requiring Young Jobs, Mechineries, Technical Know How, Rural Naija is IMMENSE. Businesses Related to Cow, from Dairy to Fattening are Very Profitable...
Then There is Processing. What are We Doing Importing Rice, Yam, Cowpea (Beans), Soyabeans, Ginger, Turmeric, Groundnut and Sesame Seed Finished Food etc. The Crude Oil Mistake Must not be Repeated in Agriculture. We Have The Capacity 2Turn Rural NAIJA into a Processing Hub...
Every Rice Producing State Should Have The Capacity 2Process 1,000tons of Rice Daily. Everyone of Those State Should Have The Capaciry 4Irrigation Farming that is Capable of Sustaining 10,000 Hectares of Rice Even During The Dry Season. We Must Stop Waiting for Rains to Farm...
I am Both Marxian From My Dad Professor Moses EU Tedheke of The Nigeria Defence Academy & Keynesian in Economic Thoughts. The Real Bailout from The FG Must Head 2Rural NAIJA. @ProfOsinbajo @Trader_Moni Must Be Expanded to #RuralFarmMoni With Objective 2Support Rural Farmers...
Our Forex Reserves Will Go from $45b to Over $200b in 5years. States IGR Will Grow by Over 1000% Within 5yrs. Unemployment will Collapsed 2Single Digits Within 5years & We Will get Over 50m Nigerians Out of Poverty Within 5years. We Will Have a Double Digit GDP within 5years...
To Make Nigeria Great Again #MANGA, We Must #OCCUPYFARMS and #FARM2FEEDNAIJA. It Must Be #NIGERIAFIRST, #NIGERIAONLY & #NIGERIAALWAYS. There is No Nation on Earth Greater Than This Nigeria. This is Where I DIE and This is Where I Will Grow! The Battle to Grow This Country...
Must Be Seen as War. A War to Separate Those Who Believe Talking Can Be Productive from Those Who Believes When You Talk, You Match those WITH Action. I am Retson Tedheke, The Son of An Urhobo Father and Ikwerre Mother From Ubima. Born in Jos, Raised in Warri & Kaduna...
Married From Anambra to a Sweetheart Born in Kano, Served in Akure, Ondo State, Suffered Catastrophically When Stocks Collapsed in 2008. The Man Who Move to The Creek For Illegal Businesses, Co Convened #OCCUPYNASS with Dr. BUNMI AWOYEMI & Dr. IDRIS Ahmed and Now A FARMER....
In GAATE, Kokona LGA, Nasarawa. My Adopted Home. I am The SARKI YARKIN GAATE. I am The Fly That Follows The Dead Body to The Grave. I am The Man Who Puts His Hands into The Plough and Never Looks Back No Matter the Challenges. 4BABA & NAIJAMATA... WE DIE HERE!!!
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