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Posts tagged with "cassava"

Nigeria’s presidential candidates should use the occasion of Father’s Day to draw up radical food programmes such as the growing of 20 foot high sugarcane crops African News

Nigeria’s presidential candidates should use the occasion of Father’s Day to draw up radical food programmes such as the growing of 20 foot high sugarcane crops

Ayo Akinfe I have always dreamt of Nigeria being part of a nation that accounts for about 20% of global food production We are already the world’s sixth largest farms goods producer and have a key advantage when it comes to producing tropical crops As we speak we are the world’s number one producer of cassava, yam, shea...
It is amazing that Nigerians are not bothered about the fact that their presidential election has so far been totally devoid of policy. Can Obi or Kwankwaso please take the initiative and come up with a Nigerian Corn Plan African News

It is amazing that Nigerians are not bothered about the fact that their presidential election has so far been totally devoid of policy. Can Obi or Kwankwaso please take the initiative and come up with a Nigerian Corn Plan

Ayo Akinfe When it comes to corn production, we are not doing too badly as we are the 11th largest maize producer in the world with an annual crop of about 11m tonnes However, our production costs are too high, making imports from countries like the US, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and India cheaper. If you are a Nigerian food...
With it looking increasingly unlikely we will get an Igbo president next year Ohanaeze should now focus on putting together what I have dubbed the Atilogwu Proclamation 2023 African News

With it looking increasingly unlikely we will get an Igbo president next year Ohanaeze should now focus on putting together what I have dubbed the Atilogwu Proclamation 2023

Ayo Akinfe Under this scheme, the five states of the southeast geo-political zone will float a finance house called Ogbunigwe Bank. It will hand out loans to small businesses with a maximum interest rate of 5% Every year, at least 200 Abriba and Ohafia cobblers will be sent to China to be trained on modern shoe production. The...
Nigerians should set themselves the target of getting the following 10 basic machines patented over the next five years African News

Nigerians should set themselves the target of getting the following 10 basic machines patented over the next five years

Ayo Akinfe A double decker molue that can rival Volvo buses in terms of quality A pepper grinding and corn milling machine A cocoa shelling machine Air conditioned bus stop booths Double decker railway carriages An egusi shelling machine A machine that removes maize from the cob A cassava and yam peeling...
Despite the hopelessness people sometimes feel here are 10 things that make Nigeria a potential superpower any day African News

Despite the hopelessness people sometimes feel here are 10 things that make Nigeria a potential superpower any day

Ayo Akinfe We have a 60% literacy rate today. At independence, I doubt if up to 5% of the population was literate. I am sure that for many middle aged Nigerians today, their parents were the first people to get an education in their families Nigeria currently has 150 universities. At independence we only had one because the...
I dare any of the presidential candidates to come up with a manifesto with these 10 manifesto pledges, which although unpopular are what is required to kick-start Nigeria's economy African News

I dare any of the presidential candidates to come up with a manifesto with these 10 manifesto pledges, which although unpopular are what is required to kick-start Nigeria's economy

Ayo Akinfe Tell all the state governors that as from October 1, we plan to scrap the federal allocation regime. They thus have to get their states self-reliant Scrap government subsidies on all religious pilgrimages. If you want to go to Saudi Arabia or Israel, you are on your own Scrap all government payments to traditional...
Were I of Igbo extraction I would have run for Nigeria’s president next year with a promise to deliver the following pyramids by 2027 African News

Were I of Igbo extraction I would have run for Nigeria’s president next year with a promise to deliver the following pyramids by 2027

Ayo Akinfe Yam - 80m tonnes Onions - 10m tonnes Coconuts - 10m tonnes Groundnuts - 5m tonnes Cocoa - 2m tonnes Kolanuts - 300,000 tonnes Cassava - 80,000 tonnes Millet - 20,000 tonnes Sorghum - 20,000 tonnes Whether we like it or not, we have to become a major manufacturer in the agro-allied sector. We need...
Some nations have no other options than to become world powers simply because they are too large to be carried African News

Some nations have no other options than to become world powers simply because they are too large to be carried

Ayo Akinfe The largest black nation on earth with a population in excess of 200m Africa’s largest economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) estimated to total $514bn in 2021 by the IMF Estimated to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050 behind China and India The one nation that can rally the 1.2m...
10 unpopular decisions I would take at the start of 2022 to stimulate the Nigerian economy were I in President Buhari’s shoes African News

10 unpopular decisions I would take at the start of 2022 to stimulate the Nigerian economy were I in President Buhari’s shoes

Ayo Akinfe I would tell all the state governors that as from October 1, we plan to scrap the federal allocation regime. They thus have nine months to get their states self-reliant I would scrap government subsidies on all religious pilgrimages. If you want to go to Saudi Arabia or Israel, you are on your own I would scrap all...
Would you not just love it if President Buhari declares 2022 the Nigerian Year of Agrobusiness in his New Years Day address African News

Would you not just love it if President Buhari declares 2022 the Nigerian Year of Agrobusiness in his New Years Day address

Ayo Akinfe Nigeria is estimated (we do not even have exact figures) to earn about $37bn a year from the sale of petroleum products. I for one have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that if we turned off the oil taps today, agriculture alone could generate that figure. We are the world's sixth largest agricultural producer for a food...
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