Kcinho:

The new events going on in the ogboli region of uzouwani are the imposition of traditional rulers by ugwuanyi on the people,resultant resistance by the people and fulani herdsmen invasion.
Nothing new in agriculture....the last major investment was the Songhai farmers training under Sullivan's government which was subsequently mismanaged.
Stop all the media propaganda.

Kcinho:

The new events going on in the ogboli region of uzouwani are the imposition of traditional rulers by ugwuanyi on the people,resultant resistance by the people and fulani herdsmen invasion.
Nothing new in agriculture....the last major investment was the Songhai farmers training under Sullivan's government which was subsequently mismanaged.
Stop all the media propaganda.

davear:


Why is our governor not driving an innoson car?

Ogbuefi2020:

I can see you are ignorant of events, Sohghai chose Adani but Sullivan forced them to relocate to Udi

Ogbuefi2020:

As for something new in Agriculture in Adani, read this news carefully

STAKEHOLDERS BRAINSTORM IN ENUGU ON THE REHABILITATION OF ADANI IRRIGATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Alex Alex January 25, 2017

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enuguPlans are on to introduce Sorghum among the crops that will be cultivated under the Adani Irrigation Scheme in Enugu State.

The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Mike Eneh made this known in Enugu during a Stakeholders meeting on the rehabilitation of the Adani-Omor Irrigation Infrastructure. The irrigation project is being funded by the African Development Bank and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Programme, Phase One (ATASP-1).

The aim is to contribute to food and nutrition security, employment generation, and wealth creation along rice, cassava and sorghum value chains. The programme, which commenced since March 2015, will be implemented over a 5 year period in 4 Stable Crops Processing Zones (SCPZs).

Adani-Omor Zone is among the 4 SCPZs. While Adani is in Enugu State, Omor is in Anambra State. Other SCPZs are Bida-Badeggi, Kano-Jigawa and Kebbi-Sokoto Zones.

Enugu State convoked a stakeholders meeting, involving key officers in the State Ministry of Agriculture, state government appointees in agriculture issues and the consulting firm in-charge of the Adani-Omor Zone. There, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Mike Eneh emphasized the need to maximize the potential in Adani farming zones with over 1,000 hectares of ploughed land.

Mr. Eneh said though the Adani-Omor Stable Crops Processing Zone was captured to cultivate cassava and rice, there was the need to include sorghum, as that could boost farmers’ income.

“Sorghum is an industrial crop and it is used by the breweries. The breweries are virtually the only surviving industries in Nigeria. Enugu state is now in the derived savanna zone. There are 6 agro ecological zones in the country. We belonged to rain forest and partly derived southern guinea Savanna and therefore the ecology for sorghum production in parts of Enugu State is good.”

“Sorghum is a crop that is much sought after by the breweries. Anything you produce they are ready to buy. So we want to take advantage of this potential in Enugu State. According to the various staple crop processing zones, Kano is going into cassava; Badeggi-Bida is going into cassava. We can also go into rice, cassava and sorghum. Because what you do is to leverage any opportunity available to you.”

The Agriculture Commissioner also expressed the hope that the realization of the project would increase the capacity of the farmers to go for all year round farming, thereby guaranteeing more production of food and increasing the income of farmers.

“Over 30 years now we have been doing only rain fed rice production but you make money during dry season because that is the time you get clear cloud. During the rainy season you can’t see this cloud. And so the amount of incipient radiation from the sun is now much higher and therefore you are going to get increase yield. If you make 3/4 tons per hectare in rainy season, you can easily each 7/8 tons in dry season. That is why we are placing so much emphasis on the success of these rehabilitation works. So that our farmers will start making money.”

A major problem for farmers in Adani is dilapidated irrigation facility and poor road network. The irrigation infrastructure was put in place in the 1960s by the Dr. Michael Okpara administration of the defunct Eastern Region. But it collapsed totally in 1997.

Reacting to the intervention at the Adani irrigation site, the Permanent Secretary Enugu State Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Ogbonnia Idike cautioned those involved in the rehabilitation process against playing politics with it, as the farmers had suffered so much.

“My visit to Adani rice is not commendable at the moment but I see that this intervention is going to change the faces of farmers. Our farmers are ready to farm. Lands have been cleared but dry season farming cannot be achieved without proper irrigation services. We are pleading that as the ATASP is starting their projects that the canals will be cleaned. We need to work on the irrigation system. So that not on intermittent basis the farmers will be going to farm.”

“We want these farmers to have a work plan where they can farm for 3- 4 months, after harvesting they go into second farming, because without proper irrigation system our farmers cannot do much.”

“Whatever politics people intend to do in this project should be jettisoned, it cannot work. We have a Governor who is committed to the welfare of farmers.”

The Zonal Coordinator of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Transformation Support Programme (ATASP) for Adani-Omor Staple Crops Processing Zone, Mr. Romanus Egba promised that all relevant communities would be carried along throughout the implementation process.

“The major objective of this meeting is to inform the stakeholders that we have engaged a consultant for the design and restoration of our infrastructure, particularly, the Ada Rice irrigation scheme. So we want the stakeholders to make input to the design. That’s why we called them together, those that have information that will help the consultant to do a good job they should be able to bring it out. They will now interact with the consultant so the consultant will know the areas of our major needs. The consultant will know our feelings because he is working for us. So this is bottom-up approach planning.”

“You can see how the discussion went. A lot of issues came up in Ada rice and then we told the consultant you should be able to do a design that is anticipatory. You should be able to do a design that if we are increasing the capacity, we won’t talk of increasing the volume of water again.”

The Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Programme is designed to be executed in 3 phases. The first phase is “Inception studies,” the second is “preliminary Design while the third phase is detailed design.

The consultant in-charge of the project, Mr. Innocent Dioke explained that they were still in the first stage, which involves meeting with employer, visit to the project sites, inventory report, among others.

He said he had already commenced work in the first phase of the design but that the overall objective was getting the irrigation infrastructure rehabilitated for proper use.

“It will involve rehabilitation of the production infrastructure and processing infrastructure. And this includes the diversion way at the River Obina, the canals: primary, secondary and tertiary canals. It includes also the roads- the canal roads, the feeder roads and the farm roads and then drainage structures within the irrigation area.”

“We have gone and seen the facility on ground. The canals are earth canals that are on line, as a result there is loss of irrigation water when the farms are being irrigated because they are also earth canals there is a lot of burrows by animals such as rat on them which means there will be plenty of sippage and losses. So part of what we want to do is recommend lining of the canals with concrete. Some component parts of the irrigation structure have been vandalized. They have to be rehabilitated.”

Other stakeholders that contributed during the discussion called for strict monitoring of the project to avert its abandonment as was the case in the past.

BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU
http://radionigeriaenugu.com/stakeholders-brainstorm-in-enugu-on-the-rehabilitation-of-adani-irrigation-infrastructure/

Digitron:
For those shouting about fall in IGR, you can now see that we already made 11billion in the first half of the year

christejames:


What a laudable achievement by the government. They shouldn't relax on their oars now that it seem smooth, rather, they should keep making developments visible to the masses who pay this tax to encourage them to do more. I'm equally glad to know our IGR is gradually surpassing the stipends we receive in the name of allocation...

Yeah!!!

I also made it to our 500th page! congrats to us all and I pray our state grow and develop to be the envy of others; not just in the country but beyond.

ChimaAdeoye:


Three things will save Enugu and indeed Igboland

1. Massive agriculture with speacil emphasis on livestock, poultry and fish ponds in literally every village or community

2. Creation of Industrial estates in the 5 SE state capitals, including Asaba, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Orlu, Ihiala, Oguta, Okigwe & Afikpo.
In liaison with EEDC, small gas or coal power station can be built and the power transmitted using the regular NEPA poles directly to the industrial clusters to ensure they manufacture competitively for export. The power must not be transmitted into national grid, else the people manipulating Nigeria will divert it to elsewhere outside Igboland.


3. Building a regional high speed railway network to connect key SE cities. This projects should be funded via a PPP arrangement with a Chinese company and float an Igbo diaspora funding arrangement to enable private individuals to buy shares for the project. This project has been estimated to cost about $2-3 billion dollars and span less than 1,000 KM in total length.

Digitron:
For those shouting about fall in IGR, you can now see that we already made 11billion in the first half of the year

ChimaAdeoye:


Three things will save Enugu and indeed Igboland

1. Massive agriculture with special emphasis on livestock, poultry and fish ponds in literally every village or community

2. Creation of Industrial estates in the 5 SE state capitals, including Asaba, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Orlu, Ihiala, Oguta, Okigwe & Afikpo.
In liaison with EEDC, small gas or coal power station can be built and the power transmitted using the regular NEPA poles directly to the industrial clusters to ensure they manufacture competitively for export. The power must not be transmitted into national grid, else the people manipulating Nigeria will divert it to elsewhere outside Igboland.


3. Building a regional high speed railway network to connect key SE cities. This projects should be funded via a PPP arrangement with a Chinese company and float an Igbo diaspora funding arrangement to enable private individuals to buy shares for the project. This project has been estimated to cost about $2-3 billion dollars and span less than 1,000 KM in total length.

Kcinho:

So we should fry plantain abi.
I can copy and paste news from 1999 till date on "proposed" projects (federal and state) in the area that never came to light.
Till they start please stop the media propaganda.

davear:


At least they have decided to tell us the truth, that 14billion generated in 2016 was a NO NO. I know we can even do better than the 24billion target, we must raise our standards.

Kcinho:

So we should fry plantain abi.
I can copy and paste news from 1999 till date on "proposed" projects (federal and state) in the area that never came to light.
Till they start please stop the media propaganda.

Ogbuefi2020:

how much did you contribute in the said IGR?

Ogbuefi2020:

what stops you from driving innoson. Just negodu? innoson is private business and he has to find customer for his products by himself. meanwhile, Enugu state has patronized innoson more any other state

davear:



Kudos to you brother. Sometimes I ask myself what these governors discuss during SE-Governors forum. We must unite and voice out these kind of brilliant ideas to them.

They must sit-up and do better.

davear:



If you know how countries like Japan made a name for theselves in the auto industry you wont saying things like this.
I ll advice you to go and readup how the government of southkorea and japan made it possible for their local cars to become world brands.

Ogbuefi2020:

There is nothing brilliant about this idea, its a delusional idea that has been bandied on the cyberspace for a long time. Constructing high speed train through many economically nonviable villages within a tiny geographical enclave is rubbish, the states can never muster the financial muzzle, It is too isolationist and nobody will invest in it. What we need is a high speed train connecting us to the rest of Nigeria, modernization of PH/Maiduguri and completion of Lagos-Calabar line are both the most viable and the most realistic at the moment. THis is why the governor used the opportunity of the south east and south south governors forum meeting in Enugu to rally his colleagues for the inclusion of PH/Maiduguri line in the rail modernization funded by chinese loan

ChimaAdeoye:


Three things will save Enugu and indeed Igboland

1. Massive agriculture with special emphasis on livestock, poultry and fish ponds in literally every village or community

2. Creation of Industrial estates in the 5 SE state capitals, including Asaba, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Orlu, Ihiala, Oguta, Okigwe & Afikpo.
In liaison with EEDC, small gas or coal power station can be built and the power transmitted using the regular NEPA poles directly to the industrial clusters to ensure they manufacture competitively for export. The power must not be transmitted into national grid, else the people manipulating Nigeria will divert it to elsewhere outside Igboland.


3. Building a regional high speed railway network to connect key SE cities. This projects should be funded via a PPP arrangement with a Chinese company and float an Igbo diaspora funding arrangement to enable private individuals to buy shares for the project. This project has been estimated to cost about $2-3 billion dollars and span less than 1,000 KM in total length.

Cjrane2:


This guy is either an abooki or afonja. Their stock in trade is to call Igbo cities unviable villages. Please stop deceiving yourself.
The regional high speed rail are very viable and will work very well in boosting commerce and economic development in the region. To begin with, we don't have any reliable road network in the zone. The project is very bankable because it involves a relatively short distance connecting highly commercial or agricultural cities and towns.

Nobody is stopping Nigeria from extending the Port Harcourt to maiduguri line if they will ever do it. The problem with northerners is that once they don't see how something benefits them, they try to fight it and stop Nigeria from developing. The SE regional rail network will even help northerners more because they can now move their products on train from maiduguri to Onitsha going on the regional rail network.

For instance, If it will cost a truck N100,000 naira to transport yams from Abakaliki to Port harcourt and take an entire day's journey of sharing money to Policemen, and the same trip will cost N5,000 renting one freight container of high speed train and the trip takes 4 hours, then every yam trader will use it. Not to mention the importers can put their containers on train and avoid sharing money at ever checkpoint.

Cjrane2:


The only sad thing is that it is so easy to do this, yet our governors will just sit there and keep planning how to share rice for election.
If they set up a planning committee to break up the steps required and set up a roadmap, these things can be achieved with four years. Afterall, the financing can come from international banks, Diaspora bond floated by the SE and SS states or the Chinese EXIM bank.

Apart from boosting the economy of the region, Imagine the number of good paying jobs these projects will create! I am praying for a time we will have great leaders in the SE that will look onto building a greater tomorrow that will compete with the developed world.

ChimaAdeoye:


Three things will save Enugu and indeed Igboland

1. Massive agriculture with special emphasis on livestock, poultry and fish ponds in literally every village or community

2. Creation of Industrial estates in the 5 SE state capitals, including Asaba, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Orlu, Ihiala, Oguta, Okigwe & Afikpo.
In liaison with EEDC, small gas or coal power station can be built and the power transmitted using the regular NEPA poles directly to the industrial clusters to ensure they manufacture competitively for export. The power must not be transmitted into national grid, else the people manipulating Nigeria will divert it to elsewhere outside Igboland.


3. Building a regional high speed railway network to connect key SE cities. This projects should be funded via a PPP arrangement with a Chinese company and float an Igbo diaspora funding arrangement to enable private individuals to buy shares for the project. This project has been estimated to cost about $2-3 billion dollars and span less than 1,000 KM in total length.

kettykings:


i like the post but my view about creating numerous tiny industrial estates remains that each of the industrial estate will not be so effective and there will not be a lot of bandwagon effect but if the the whole east can pull resources and manpower to create a single industrial hub that would be what shenzheng is to china where all the heavy industrial processes will be carried out like steel production , silicon plant , machine tool manufacture etc , this heavy industrial city will now feed the light industries in Asaba, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Orlu, Ihiala, Oguta, Okigwe & Afikpo industrial estates with semi finished goods , igbos will be able to compete with china, also igbos shoudl concession river niger and river Aba river nand partner with Niger delta for a deep sea port project otherwise vultures will sabotage their efforts

Ogbuefi2020:

Aba is already favoured to be the industrial hub of Ndigbo, with two rail lines intersecting and linked to PH and calabar ports, this is why Barth Nnaji chose to solve power problem in Aba instead of Enugu, his home state. I am still surprised that despite his failure in Aba because of Abuja some are still calling on the governor to build power plant. What Nnaji should do now is to disconnect the gas pipeline supplying his plant and extend it directly to the factories to power their generators, that is the secrete of Ogun. I keep saying it, others are maximizing every little opportunities while we are dreaming. Abuja has refused to balkanize the national grid and there is nothing you can do, just maximize what is available now and wait till things change

Ogbuefi2020:

Aba is already favoured to be the industrial hub of Ndigbo, with two rail lines intersecting and linked to PH and calabar ports, this is why Barth Nnaji chose to solve power problem in Aba instead of Enugu, his home state. I am still surprised that despite his failure in Aba because of Abuja some are still calling on the governor to build power plant. What Nnaji should do now is to disconnect the gas pipeline supplying his plant and extend it directly to the factories to power their generators, that is the secrete of Ogun. I keep saying it, others are maximizing every little opportunities while we are dreaming. Abuja has refused to balkanize the national grid and there is nothing you can do, just maximize what is available now and wait till things change

Ogbuefi2020:

There is nothing brilliant about this idea, its a delusional idea that has been bandied on the cyberspace for a long time. Constructing high speed train through many economically nonviable villages within a tiny geographical enclave is rubbish, the states can never muster the financial muzzle, It is too isolationist and nobody will invest in it. What we need is a high speed train connecting us to the rest of Nigeria, modernization of PH/Maiduguri and completion of Lagos-Calabar line are both the most viable and the most realistic at the moment. THis is why the governor used the opportunity of the south east and south south governors forum meeting in Enugu to rally his colleagues for the inclusion of PH/Maiduguri line in the rail modernization funded by chinese loan