EgusiSoup:
Thank God for GEJ. Delivering dividends of democracy.

Please Do you plant Egusi in your farm?
Egusi Soup

Lol... no be only Egusi soup. what of banga?

kestolove95:
Hope u collct ur money?...no governor for bizness o

you want make task force remember me? as i no dey pay tax? Lol

In 2013, During the 3rd Thai Agro international Agribusiness Summit in Thailand, The Borno state government sponsored about 180 youths to attend the summit. The youths of Borno state spent 3months in Thailand (The longest time spent by a group for training after the summit).

The youths were paid allowances by the government, Paid their feeding, accommodation, training and summit participation fee, including local and international transport.

And when they came back, the government gave each one of them grants to start something.

Today, none of them is practising. I made friends with most of them. The last time I spoke with one of the girls, she said she was getting married. I said, so... the grant given to you by government for agriculture na him you dey use marry, she replied "wetin man go do?"

It's indeed only in Nigeria that people care more about taking fish, getting fish, learning how to fish, eating fish, frying fish, drying fish e.t.c but are hardly interested in actually fishing.

It's hardly about the knowing and talking. It's more about Doing! This training is geared at getting you to do something!!!

I just stumbled upon this pic in my gallery and decided to share... Last year the Imo state government gave land to Thai Agro and Allied to set up a pilot cucumber farm in owerri. Guess who they called to set up and manage the farm? Me! so, yes, it's one in a long lists of farms I co-own or manage.
Imagine my surprise to visit the farm and see the governor eating my cucumber. . Remain small make i shout Ole! Lol. Long story short, that visit has helped me access a lot of ministry of agric facilities in Imo state.

I laugh at people when they queue up in government house to submit proposal. My belief is that if you aspire to be the best, and actually get there. you won't stand on any queues

Moral of this story: Whatever you are doing, be the best at it and watch world Leaders queue up to meet you.

Thanks to Thai Agro for helping me get here o. honestly

I just stumbled upon this pic in my gallery and decided to share... Last year the government gave land to Thai Agro and Allied to set up a pilot cucumber farm. Guess who they called to set up and manage the farm? Me! so, yes, it's one in a long lists of farms I co-own or manage.
Imagine my surprise to visit the farm and see the governor eating my cucumber. . Remain small make i shout Ole! Lol. Long story short, that visit has helped me access a lot of ministry of agric facilities in Imo state.

I laugh at people when they queue up in government house to submit proposal. My belief is that if you aspire to be the best, and actually get there. you won't stand on any queues

Moral of this story: Whatever you are doing, be the best at it and watch world Leaders queue up to meet you.

Thanks to Thai Agro for helping me get here o. honestly

mercylicious:
@jasper, what time will d meeting start?

Friday 3pm
Saturday 8am

will be posting the program of activities from their site soon

donpope1:

hello Jasper, thanks once again for publicizing this training program. i would love to be part of this.. please reply the emails that I've been sending you.

I think this an opportunity that am not gonna miss.

I can't see any mail o. did you send to me? you can pm me tho.

Why is he crying more than every other person? Is he the only one in that party. Jega has clammed them in their rigging plans and they want to cry wolf wolf. Lol. No be only wolf wolf, what of sheep sheep?

I love this.... I am ready to vote change

Kcdojoto:
Nna eeh fear don catch d woman because d chairman of local government inside d man body is like a python

no be only local government chairman. What of Chairman board of trustee?

nationwide1:
T A Orji is an embarrassment to PDP and God's own state

as in eee . worst governor ever liveth. Now he's gunning for senatorial position while his sun is out for house of rep. Looting is hereditry

nationwide1:
From their maturity, tolerance, performances, utterances and actions, I think these governors can adequately perform the responsibilities of the president if opportunity presents itself:

1. Godswill Akpabio

2. Owelle Rochas Okorocha

3. Sule Lamido

4. Babatunde Raji Fashola

5. Mohammed Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso

Any contrary opinion?

I totally agree with this list. What of TA Orji?

Looking for alternative money supply? Try Agric

Where will you be on the 13th and 14th of March 2015?

In 2011 Thai Agro and Allied Industries sent about 20 individuals for their first international Agribusiness Executives summit, to be trained in the areas of Vegetable, shrimp, rice and fish farming in Thailand.

I was opportuned to be a member of the team. Back then I was not exactly financially "comfortable" as I am now. It took every scrapping of penny for me to enroll in the summit. I remember the visa/transport/feeding/accommodation/conference fee cost about $5,000. and then it was really big money to me. It was a 3 weeks training

The training cost me time, money and alot of other things. But I made a conscious decision to go for the training and utilize everything I am taught. A decision which today has changed my life. (I cant say the same for the other 19 participants from Nigeria).
I have not missed a single international Summit ever since then.

Most are neither practising nor using the wealth of knowledge that has been shared with them. They saw the trip as a field trip or tourist trip and not an opportunity to make change and impart the nation.

Over the past 4years, since my return, I have freely trained over 500 individuals on agribusiness and vegetable farming. I own farms with monthly revenue in millions. Some people on Nairaland, Twitter, Facebook, BBM and whatsapp have also been beneficiaries of that one single sacrifice I made.

Don't get it twisted, the sacrifice was not just the fact that I spent time and money training in Thailand. Not at all, that was the easy part. The Difficult part was coming back home and starting up something!
So, before you answer my question at the beginning. you have to do a brief soul search and see if you are ready to:

1. Start something after the training? (No matter how small)
2. Make the Sacrifice of being at the Training?
3. Humble yourself to learn from practical Agribusiness Entrepreneurs and Be Bold enough to go out there and make some money.
If your Answer to this 3 questions is yes, Please go ahead to register for the training below.
But if it's no. Don't bother coming, because this training will be another money wasted. (Like the 19 participants)
NB: This is the first time the Thai Agro Executive Agribusiness summit will be holding in Nigeria. It might not hold here again after this. You can never be sure.

Where will you be on the 13th and 14th of March 2015?

In 2011 Thai Agro and Allied Industries sent about 20 individuals for their first international Agribusiness Executives summit, to be trained in the areas of Vegetable, shrimp, rice and fish farming in Thailand.

I was opportuned to be a member of the team. Back then I was not exactly financially "comfortable" as I am now. It took every scrapping of penny for me to enroll in the summit. I remember the visa/transport/feeding/accommodation/conference fee cost about $5,000. and then it was really big money to me. It was a 3 weeks training

The training cost me time, money and alot of other things. But I made a conscious decision to go for the training and utilize everything I am taught. A decision which today has changed my life. (I cant say the same for the other 19 participants from Nigeria).
I have not missed a single international Summit ever since then.

Most are neither practising nor using the wealth of knowledge that has been shared with them. They saw the trip as a field trip or tourist trip and not an opportunity to make change and impart the nation.

Over the past 4years, since my return, I have freely trained over 500 individuals on agribusiness and vegetable farming. I own farms with monthly revenue in millions. Some people on Nairaland, Twitter, Facebook, BBM and whatsapp have also been beneficiaries of that one single sacrifice I made.

Don't get it twisted, the sacrifice was not just the fact that I spent time and money training in Thailand. Not at all, that was the easy part. The Difficult part was coming back home and starting up something!
So, before you answer my question at the beginning. you have to do a brief soul search and see if you are ready to:

1. Start something after the training? (No matter how small)
2. Make the Sacrifice of being at the Training?
3. Humble yourself to learn from practical Agribusiness Entrepreneurs and Be Bold enough to go out there and make some money.
If your Answer to this 3 questions is yes, Please go ahead to register for the training below.
But if it's no. Don't bother coming, because this training will be another money wasted. (Like the 19 participants)
NB: This is the first time the Thai Agro Executive Agribusiness summit will be holding in Nigeria. It might not hold here again after this. You can never be sure.

All I see is a Boss and Davido

Kalusam:
Sorry for the late updates.

your cucumber body no fine . I think due to your absence from the farm, which is understandable. Oya share your experience and the lessons you have learnt. so that pthers can learn too. where is mercylicious? carry your pen and paper o. class has started

MsJJ:


Passenger-let her go

. my partner in crime. whatchout for the whatsapp group.

Pavore9:
Now happy that our younger ones are also seeing the beauty beyond the work in Agriculture.

yessir. our father's failed us. we won't fail our children.

Cohsyn:
After reading from page 0 to 18, I will be ungrateful if I don't drop my word of appreciation to Jasper, Jethro, World 1 and all others who have freely given us this billion dollar information. May God reward you in a trillion fold.

Following and you will hear from me very soon, don't blink!

We need.more people coming in the area of agric. I have alot of great friends who have keyed into agric.

@mercylicious. you'd be surprised how our people can be naive at times. I don't want to start sharing experriences because this is a public forum.

But you ask yourself, how functional is BOA in the south east or youwin or yeap or other agricultural loans, grants and programs.

Aside from the fact that land is super expensive in the east, our people have lost interest in agriculture generally.

I remember growing up, every family would have a small garden, cassava or yam farm and a few goats, sheep and chicken hovering around the compound.
At least in the rural areas. but now, they are all eating indomie and bread. Agric in the east is a big shadow of itself.

mercylicious:


hahah. like i said b4, i just have a test farm, not really a farm per se. i planted plantain on 4 plots of land (residential land) and using it to test plantain business. 3 of the plots are together while one already has an uncompleted boysquatters.
i made some mistakes in planting including spacing , late planting and water provision etc .
ive been so busy lately dt ive not been to the test farm for about 2months running.

I also have started a test fish farm behind my house ( a rented apartment). i bought 50 juvenile on the 1st of march and hope to rear them for 4 months. I cut a geepee tank i bought from an ex tenant and use it as the pond. we have a borehole and dt takes care of the water issues. this test is to get me accustomed to fish farming. i need to learn with the test b4 going commercial with it.

Having made up my mind to go into agric, i decided to buy bigger land so dt i can concentrate in one place and mqke it easier to manage. I used all my life savings to acquire this land. Though we had issues as my supposed mentor planned to cheat me and my friend . Thank God we got another surveyor dt couldnt be bribed. He has provided the full land and says d mistake is from his surveyor (which i doubt) . In this location, i will sart with fishery. My office has approved my loan (14.5% , 3years tenor). i plan to use this loan to dig ten earthen ponds. i wil use the remaining money to start off wt 2000fishes in one pond . The other nine ponds will be stocked after the 2nd harvest. i also plan to have a poultry and then piggery in this same land.

A challenge i will face will be getting experienced ppl dt will work for me. i intend to announce in their local churches and also sapiensa fm. Another will be securing the farm. i dont know how we (my friend and i) will secure 13 plots of 60*100.

With time, i will move my plantain from the residential plots to the farm. i may also sell one plot in the residential area to fund d farm. I also pray they dont transfer me in my office for the next two years cos transfer for ppl in my unit is interstate . i fear my next transfer will be to Lagos, bt if dt happens, there will always be a way to manage the farm. Atleast , farmtech is still in anambra.

I will invite you guys when my farm takes shape.

My madam. I duff my hat for you o. You are moving with power and might. with this your job and all. to still have time for agric. I can't help but respect. it's not easy. especially in the south east, were our people trivialize agriculture.

I for invite you for this training, because you are heading to being an agribusiness entrepreneur. but knowing the nature of your job,

cannot wait for first harvest. the crops have been through a lot. especially with pest invasion. but our experienced hands on the field were able to handle it. no we know what to look forward to in the bigger project, that's why it's always good to have a test plot or pilot project

saliubello:
Where are we? Can we progress?

yes o.. sorry, network in saki is just horrible.. it has been a battle all along. we tried planting without mulching film but the area is very vegetative and the grass grows like hybrid. and we have to weed every 3 days. we decided it's not worth the stress, so we decided to mulch.

But our test project has grown and is fruiting. I'll upload the pictures soon.

David Beckham anyday. Dude was a freekick god

hello guys, sorry I have been everywhere except home this year... This thread will kick off again. for the 2015 farming season.

Those I promised sample seeds have gotten and have planted... Una no wan share your results?

hotmas911:
thanks bro. How's the prep going?

everything is excellent. Expect Greatness.

noblefarm:


Jasper no forget my sit ooo, in your farm "Tuesday live" lol, hope the deal still Stands?

You know I can't. my word is my bond.

hotmas911:
Hastom Green City

Nice one coming from my oga at the top. Hastom Green City. I like it.

stagger:


My wife has a PhD and manages a business of her own very comfortably. You are a rat where she is. She will simply stomp you to Saki dust. Don't even go there.

jethro2:

Now that i know your brain has been wired to be wacky. I am not surprise at your senile utterances.
I just wonder the kind of woman that put up with you if you have any which i seriously doubt. She must be a superhuman.
Keep wallowing in your old senile ego

stagger:


My wife has a PhD and manages a business of her own very comfortably. You are a rat where she is. She will simply stomp you to Saki dust. Don't even go there.

Time out guys... you are derailing the thread. You guys are bigger and better than this. Can we move on? Self restraint is very important here. I should believe you guys can ignore each other. yes? no?

darella21:
This 1 na comfirm local ekuke dog

Really?

cut it out guys, this is becoming a bit embarrassing. There's no need to shove our opinions each other's throat. If I object to your beliefs it doesn't mean I am attacking you. For all we know, any of the both parties can be right/wrong. My own belief is that nobody is completely right and nobody is completely wrong.

Personally my spirit doesn't agree with most government grants and all those their program because of personal reasons and experience. but I encourage anybody who wants to try to keep trying, you never know where your help is.

In other news, Thai Agro Agribusiness Summit 13 & 14 of march.