The agric business is not as cheap as government and others make it look on television. We over-romanticise agriculture as a cheap business. No. Real agric business costs money, demands patience and demands massive support by government. In any countrywhere it has succeeded, government has had to back it heavily. We are not seeing that here. if you have a farm manager who is lazy, sloppy, shoddy or dishonest, you can’t succeed. Most of the older generation doing agric now may realise they have lost too much money and withdraw, for three reasons - management, capital and the quality of seeds, which is very low in Nigeria. The worst of the reasons is the quality of management. Most of the big-time farmers go to Israel or India to bring experts, but the arrangement never lasts. These people can’t understand this society. But I don’t see why we can’t train young Nigerians to be our own farm experts. A farm manager can come as expensive as a bank manager, and under him, a farm venture can never fail if he knows his onions. At 200 million population in 10 years’ time, assuming that every Nigerian eats N100 worth of food every day - and that’s very small - we’ll be eating N20 billion food per day. A fairly decent eating account should be N1,000 per day. That will be N2 trillion worth of food a day for all Nigerians. Some people have to produce the food and we can’t continue to believe there will continue to be oil money to satisfy that demand. You need Agric Business Plans, feasibility study, Manual and farm Architectural Drawing/ Design Farm Business Setup Pin::2841F941 Whatsapp: +2348036320607 CALL: +2348036320607 SMS: +2348036320607 opeyemi.lamson@farmingbizsetup farmingbizsetup
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