Agric-Kulture (Series 2)

    I am a PROUD mama :d  

Just in case you are wondering what that is, let me tell you. This is the first trial of our (dad & I's) little experiment. This is what is called ....TURKEY INCUBATION.

Yes yes! You guessed right. I am delving into the agricultural sector now. Why? You may ponder. Because there's so much to be done there, not enough people are in it...and because it is a SUPER COOL career.

Let's go on to some fun facts (shall we?!)

Did you know that:

• Nigeria is very blessed with agricultural resources. Hence, the prominent 'green' in the flag.
• Before independence (1960), agriculture was the foundation for the human economy in Nigeria. We were self-sufficient in terms of food.
• Our agricultural sector is divided into - Food Crops, Cash Crops, Forestry, Livestock, Fisheries.
• The Food crops we can produce in Nigeria include: beans, cassava, palm oil, plantains, cocoa beans, sesame, palm kernels, maize, sorghum etc; the Cash crops are: cashew nuts, cocoa, cotton, rubber, kolanuts, groundnuts; our Forests produce: Mahogany, Ebony, Camwood; and for Fishery, we can rear just about any type of fish (besides our natural resources).
• Cash-crop means GROWN FOR SALE/ FOR PROFIT. *hint hint*
• Livestock sub-sector accounted for ~2% of the GDP in the 1980s. In 2001, agriculture in total contributed 32% to the GDP.
• 80% of our land is cultivable.

Now check THIS out...

• Cocoa is the leading non-oil foreign exchange earner (however, production is held back due to the dominance of smallholders and lack of farm labor- due to urbanization). E.g. In 1999, Nigeria produced 145, 000 tons of cocoa beans, despite the fact that we have potential for over 300, 000 per year.
• Rubber is the 2nd largest non-oil foreign exchange earner.

I'm just thinking out loud here. The same way we have revolutionized the use of ankara and other African prints into a HugH fashion statement, we should tap into the agricultural sector... We have every resource in this bountiful land to make us a DEVELOPED NATION.

Are you aware of how much food gets imported into the country daily??? (Me neither, but I keep hearing it's a whole lot and the most ridiculous things too e.g. processed chicken....it's freaking CHICKEN 8-| )

Anyway, WELCOME TO AGRIC-KULTURE once again. Hope you are just as encouraged as you are excited for me on my new venture :d.

See you soon.

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