It’s no longer news that the present Nigerian Government
under the all progressive congress party (APC) in the Era popularly called
“change” Has encouraged all Nigerians to go into farming at a larger scale. The
only problem being that there is no proper or accessible facilities in place to
handle the outcome in case of excesses. And this is the first opportunity worth
looking into.
Venturing into entrepreneurship in the Agricultural sector has no
better time to thrive than in recession when food becomes the first and most
important priority of every home.
From experience I have discovered that opportunity
abound in every situation both positive and negative. For example when dollar
rises, people make money and when it falls some other people make money. That’s
how things play out in the world. It’s only important that you sit and think
out where the possible opportunity abound. I have decided to bring up a topic
of this nature at this very crucial time to stair you up to begin to think out
possible areas where certain opportunities may abound to make you extra cash.
For some people it may be that they have the money but lack where to invest it
in. please read on and am sure you will find something by the time you are
through reading this article.
Recession as I earlier discussed in my previous post
is not something to be afraid of especially if you have foresight. In that
discussion, I tried to emphasize the need to create multiple streams of income,
save more, invest, cut down expenses and much more, as a way of surviving as
well as sustaining wealth during recession.
Now I will try to look at possibilities that are
available currently in the country and how we can actually tap into the
investment sector to maximize the opportunities that abound to our
advantage. We will also look at the key
areas that have been ignored for a very long time now and all of a sudden seems
to be the most selling presently. And that is Agriculture and agricultural
products.
We all know that not every one that makes money from
agriculture knows how to use the hoe or cutlass. And not everyone certainly
that use agricultural produce has to be a farmer but one thing is sure though;
any one can make cool money from agriculture by one means or the other as I
will explain later in this article. Strawberry business is a very booming
business on the plateau. While strawberry is in surplus in plateau and at very
affordable rate, people in Lagos are willing to buy at high price but can’t
access it “wow!” What of oranges from Benue and many other products.
So how can we
actually make money from Agriculture without even knowing anything about farming?
And remember that farming does not only involve farm produce but also animal
production Like fish farming, cattle rearing, poultry, keeping of dogs and
other animals and so on. These are really lucrative businesses especially in
our present times.
Note that most people have made millions from
farming through several means which involves marketing farm produce, buying low
and selling high, creating a link between farmer and buyers(middle men),
converting farm produce to other useful products, creating rented storage facilities
to farmers, creating chemical treatments to farmers for farm produce and so on.
There is much more to the list.
Grab a cup of coffee; sit back as I unveil to you
the possibilities that abound in the Agricultural sector especially in Nigeria.
You will often times see trucks loaded with oranges,
mangoes, animals like cow, sheep’s, goats, even dogs, most of them are
transported not by the farmers themselves but by investors with foresight.
Take a walk around the villages today and see how majority
of farmer and non-farmers have picked their hoe, people are acquiring more farm
lands, and planting varieties of crops in those farms. But I keep asking this
question, what will happen to these farm products if proper storage facilities
are not in place or industries are not sufficient?. What can be done to the perishable once? What of fertilizer
business?
My “what of’s” have no end. But finally I asked
what of investors?. Are they seeing the opportunities in these sector now that
the sector is about to massively open up? The earlier the better.
Enough talking lets now dive to the matter for the
day.
Let’s begin………….
Please continue reading on the next post and don’t forget to drop
your comments and suggestions. I love hearing from you.
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