Nigeria's agric sector is destroying Nigerians.

So should they allow the agric sector to destroy Nigerians?

may God destroy you first and that your demonic bank.

So, Nigerians should keep suffering? Even the great USA imports food.

jubrilELsudan:
BUNCH OF IDIOTS

LIKE SAY NIGERIAN FARMERS NEVER USE DIA HAND TAKE DESTROY AM

TELL US WHY A BAG OF LOCALLY GROWN AND PRODUCED NIGERIAN RICE WILL BE ALMOST THE SAME PRICE WITH FOREIGN IMPORTED RICE

TELL US WHY A PAINT OF NIGERIAN GROWN BEANS WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A PAINT OF FOREIGN IMPORTED RICE

TELL US WHY A MISERABLE TINY TUBER OF LOCALLY GROWN NIGERIAN YAM COST 3 THOUSAND NAIRA

TELL US WHY A BASKET OF NIGERIAN GROWN TOMATOES WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A BASKET OF IMPORTED TOMATOES FROM BENIN REPUBLIC

TELL US WHY NIGERIAN KUKUNASE WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN FOREIGN KUKUNASE

What stops you from becoming a farmer and selling your own for far less or even free? Or is there any law that says you should sell at a certain price?

There are so many farmlands lying fallow, free from herdsmen wahala. Cultivate on it and do as you please with your farm produce, instead of sitting somewhere wailing as usual.

People have to be fed Prof, every other permutation can come later. Its uncertain if 150 days would be sufficient to solve the food scarcity crisis.

Oloki:
Make we die of hunger then.

The simple truth is Nigeria agricultural productivity and output can't sustain her population not to talk of the mayhem Fulani headsman were causing everywhere .

Things are so expensive that a single guy can't feed himself talk less of family man.

We need a way out. Not theory!!

And the way out according to you is to import, further weakening the naira while coming back to blame government right?

If you're "too big" to farm, then be ready to buy at exorbitant rate because the way out is for more people to go into farming so that we'll have excess in supply.

And this new government policy will not crash the price of foodstuffs because it's a temporary solution. Even at that, the price of bread will only crash by maybe N100 or N150.

De play

G0odharddick:
Foolish man!

Tell the president to open the boarders for food to get into the country!

Stop starving Nigerians with your stupid policies

I read all the nonsense he said, but couldn't find one single solution coming from him.

These men are over hyped they are a bunch of empty brains. Na just big name and over hyping.

Revolution!

luckyz4rea:


If you were a farmer, you’d understand the long term consequence of dependence on importation whether long or short term.

Go and sit down, I came from Benue state and a son of great farmer.
How many people can Nigeria farmers feed?
Even the farmers are hungry

anonymous1759:
I supported PMB when food importation was banned because I thought it’ll encourage our farmers but today these farmers are taking advantage of us after getting subsidized fertilizers and grant . it is now they remember that herders are disturbing them , and naira have crashed.

We’re not patriotic in Nigeria. I respect Adeshina but I’ve lost all my support to Nigeria farmers.
They complain that herders are disrupting them . It should be a thing of joy that they won’t need to stress again since importation will help bridge the gap.
the reason farmers complain is because they’ll loose out, meaning they’ve. Been exploiting.

Who know you? What is the weight of your support? Plus your support, minus your support, you go still buy beans N2600 for a mudu. Plus Tinubu import, minus Tinubu export, you go still buy garri for N2000 paint bucket. Again, what is the weight of your support? Is it by supplying the farmers farming input or by tweeting and typing on a faceless forum?

You too, go and farm so that you can be exploiting Nigerians. Abi you no want cash out ni?

D truth is naija problem is not food bt security n electricity.fix this two n see most unemployed becos large scale farmers wit tractors n processing facilities.u dnt expect people to go to farm wen they can easily be kidnapped there.

I thought this man was a sensible person. It seems that all he does is to serve his white masters at the world bank. What a foolish and selfish man.

aywagze:
One of the few intelligent ones ..we should rather produce than buy to resell because it will never come cheap ..🤔

I don't know how to even reply you, you call this load of God knows what intelligent?

Bro, almost every country on earth import one type of food or the other. You see Iowa as a state could feed the whole Nigeria despite having a tiny population. Why? Efficient farming methods, infrastructure, subsidy, security, stable economy and so on.

You can't do without import, unless you're North Korea, even they import clandestinly. It's how the global economy works - exchange. US, China, India, Brazil, Russia and so on all this country are so agriculturally advance that they can choose not to import anything, but they don't. It's incredible folly to do so,madness even.

This fool you called intelligent knows firsthand what needs to be done to get Nigerians out of this starvation, but like the typical politician, he barely cares, only his interest. I'm sure he's well fed, but that couldn't be said about millions of Nigerians currently starving.

Wake up! If you don't body go tell you. You see that 1k bread you Dey chop Dey yarn rubbish, it may pretty soon cost 7k.

Impossible right? Your eye go clear.

treesun:

https://punchng.com/food-importation-may-destroy-nigerias-agric-sector-afdb-president/

useless Bastard speaking English from his comfort zone .....remove the job, security from this SATAN'S experiment let's see if his statement will remain thesame

segbanky:
There is no country in this whole world that is self sufficient so just take your advice somewhere else sir.

A simple fact these bastards turn a blind on.

I blame the very indecisive and lazy people called Nigerians. Street suppose Dey shake with serious demonstration and protest.

But , as usual, too timid, too naive, too passive. God forbid.

Let it destroys it. Nigerian farmers wants to destroy us

smart

Gbajabiamila1:
He is protecting his and AfDB's interest with the statement. They have given Nigeria millions of Dollars for Agric development in Nigeria. If you import food, how will they justify giving such money to us if the purpose is not achieved?
However, he should consider that people are hungry and need some relief at least for the 6 months they are planning to import. Within the period, if all hands are on deck and their grants are well utilized, then we should be able to boast of abundance and affordability in Agric sector.

the man is talking sense. they gave nigeria millions and we reverse turn. if na insecurity they cause am, then has tinubu has failed.

Anatolia:
I thought this man was a sensible person. It seems that all he does is to serve his white masters at the world bank. What a foolish and selfish man.

anonymous1759:
I supported PMB when food importation was banned because I thought it’ll encourage our farmers but today these farmers are taking advantage of us after getting subsidized fertilizers and grant . it is now they remember that herders are disturbing them , and naira have crashed.

We’re not patriotic in Nigeria. I respect Adeshina but I’ve lost all my support to Nigeria farmers.
They complain that herders are disrupting them . It should be a thing of joy that they won’t need to stress again since importation will help bridge the gap.
the reason farmers complain is because they’ll loose out, meaning they’ve. Been exploiting.

I have never thought of it this way. I knew something was wrong somewhere. In essence, these farmers are getting the fertiliser and subsidy, yet not producing are in a way embezzling the funds. Naija problem na citizens walahi.

Adesina I go slap you. So it is when we die you go get sense. Waka there

SmartPolician:
Local farmers are not helping us in this country. How can locally grown rice be almost as expensive as imported rice?

Transporting their products is part of the high prices.....

Police go collect, soldiers go collect and lazy youths go collect money.....and you expect them to sell it cheap?
Fuel and diesel prices also a major factor. Do you know how much transporting those goods

treesun:

https://punchng.com/food-importation-may-destroy-nigerias-agric-sector-afdb-president/

These external advisers should just leave us alone. Can they allow us to breathe in peace. Already, we have economic saboteurs, the farmers and the business market themselves sabotaging and taking advantage of the process to make excess profits.
They even take the produce to neighbouring countries to create artificial scarcity just to drive the prices up.
They corner the FG for funds and fertilisers support to enhance productivity yet use this to impose unnecessary hardship on the populace.

We all are aware that Nigerians across the divides and sectors takes naturally advantage over the masses, causing artificial hardship. Thereby enabling themselves as our benefactor, seeing us at their mercy for survival.

In order words, we need the market to be flooded with excesses to help drive the cost of food to the barest minimum, it is what fits our people. When we are moved by compassion rather than quest for money and oppressive mentality, we can begin to think of what is harming our economic sectors. We are not ripe for that.


In the Uk, US etc, go in the store, you will find fruits and food items imported from all over the world - it creates varieties and options, and healthy competition.

And hunger will distroy Nigeria

treesun:

https://punchng.com/food-importation-may-destroy-nigerias-agric-sector-afdb-president/

Show us the Video where he shared is own opinion... But then Food importation is temporal measures... To keep the economy stable... Are those imported food shared to Nigerians for Free?

We will still purchase them with our Naira ..

All this high ranking profile... Who probably don't buy a paint rubber of Beans or Rice... Will come to social media and spill rubbish...

The reality here is it's no longer funny .. Food is inaccessible and expensive.

oluwaseyi0:
All this external advisers should let Nigeria breath

We urgently need food importation at the moment, the local ones are simply not enough

See price of pepper and rice, why can't we import if we can? Then gradually on the side we continue to massively ramp up production

That's how IMF and world bank are both shouting we should unified exchange rate and remove subsidy at the same very time, now we see where that has taken us

Tinubu should open the border and let some food item comes in to lower food cost, then the governors should budget heavily for food production why FG also support massively

Food prices are directly linked to insecurity across the country, such as the lack of mechanised farming and fertiliser. Food importation will not reduce the cost of food, and Nigeria will be too poor to afford the imported food.

Nigeria needs better leaders than the rubbish in APC government.

Is this one no what him saying in mouth

Buhari gave the same agric sector the opportunity for Nigerian to patronise them by stopping importation of foreign rice, but what did they do ? increase the price of local rice.

These are some of yoruba brightest minds I don't know why they choosed to be worshipping a notorious drug lord?

jubrilELsudan:
BUNCH OF IDIOTS

LIKE SAY NIGERIAN FARMERS NEVER USE DIA HAND TAKE DESTROY AM

TELL US WHY A BAG OF LOCALLY GROWN AND PRODUCED NIGERIAN RICE WILL BE ALMOST THE SAME PRICE WITH FOREIGN IMPORTED RICE

TELL US WHY A PAINT OF NIGERIAN GROWN BEANS WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A PAINT OF FOREIGN IMPORTED RICE

TELL US WHY A MISERABLE TINY TUBER OF LOCALLY GROWN NIGERIAN YAM COST 3 THOUSAND NAIRA

TELL US WHY A BASKET OF NIGERIAN GROWN TOMATOES WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A BASKET OF IMPORTED TOMATOES FROM BENIN REPUBLIC

TELL US WHY NIGERIAN KUKUNASE WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN FOREIGN KUKUNASE

Probably because of the cost of production the farmers provide electricity for themselves some of them in the north even pay heavy amounts to bandits before they can even access their own farmlands.

Which Nigeria’s Agric Sector is he talking about the one Fulani and bandit have destroy already

treesun:

https://punchng.com/food-importation-may-destroy-nigerias-agric-sector-afdb-president/

Can someone please tell this man to wake up. Since he left , the economic has dive nosed and everything within its reach has followed suit. How can rise be sold for almost #100k a bag and you don't want the country to import food stuffs. Abeg near wall