Hello
Nigerians, this one is for you.
For some
years now, have been chewing on the possibility of starting something of my own
in the areas am about to disclose to you, as you can imagine I failed, partly
due to time factor and partly due to capital factor, reason owned to the fact
that am handling a project already in one of our schools. Then so, it is my
pleasure to share these ideas with you, you might want to try them out.
In the
present state of our country you know so well that you cannot ask what your
country can do for you but what you can do for your country, in this light what
can you do for your country? The country is recessing and we don’t blame
anybody for that. I strongly believe it is a carried forward in our economic
history and so we must take it or watch the country fall, which is not going to
happen anyway. So taking it is the correct option.
First,
where in history did we carry forward? In the beginning of times before the
advent of crude oil in Nigeria, we strongly survive on something else natural
to our environment. We still had international trade. The advent of crude oil
made us to drop our hoes. I mean weeding hoe. And now the crude oil is going
down, our country is going down, it is time to look back and stand up from the
point we fell.
What can
you do for your country? Feed the Nation. Yes, get paid feeding your country.
Be a good citizen feed the nation. This three business ideas will be telling
you areas in which you can uniquely become rich feeding the nation despite the
current atmosphere in the country. Let me jump right into it.
Agriculture
is wide, but I’ll suggest three areas you might not have noticed, starting with
the oil palm.
The oil
palm: if you are anywhere located in the southern or eastern region of the
nation this one is more for you. Oil palm tree is mostly found in the south
eastern regions of our country, its extract which is the red oil is used on a
daily basis almost in all families across the nation for different purposes. In
factories it could be used in the production cosmetic and toiletries like soap
etc. Everything from the plant which includes the nut seed, the nut shell, the
nut fiber, and the leaf is economically important making it one of the highest
required commodity in the country.
Are you
thinking this sounds good but will required a lot of capital and time to start?
The answer is no. The reason for bringing this on is because I know a way and
am about to tell you. Listen up.
Do you
know that you do not need to start planting palm to be an owner of a palm farm?
Yes. There are different families in the rural community who needs immediate
money to solve their immediate problems, most of these families give out palm
farms or more specifically the palm trees for a certain period of time and for
certain amounts, always as cheap as two thousand Naira a stand. And to add to
that, the money paid to the family must and can only be returned at the end of
the contract. Failure to refund loaned cash you are free to keep harvesting and
selling till you are paid back in full.
Heads Up: Make sure you get a legal
backing, otherwise keep your cutlass by your side, I don’t have to tell you
about ruralities.
Palm trees
are capable of supplying you stocks of fruit in a month which is at least worth
N3, 000 per stand. So if you had ten stands you know what that would be at the
end of twelve months. At the end, needing family gets cash for their problem,
you get palm for your money and the nation gets food for their survival, case
close.
The next
idea is the one I’ll call the pathfinder. Because it is almost like a new path,
although it has been done before, it has never been colorful and sufficient enough
as we deserve. So I give to you;
Bee
keeping: I can see myself smiling as am writing this. This is my favorite, I
will tell you why. I don’t know how to package this information to you but
believe me, it’s the best idea you can ever get with less or no price and still
make very high income while also feeding our nation.
Our old
people do not taste the sweetness of our world anymore for fear of diabetics,
our crops stand not pollinated because of the absence of our bees and so we are
generally losing because of our careless attitude. Honey is a product gotten
from the bees, in some part of the country people kill bees to take honey and I
call that honey robbing. People who engage in honey robbing do not understand
the potential cost the country may have to pay in the future and more, they do
not know of any proper way of getting clean honey.
Honey gotten from robbery is
often not very clean, it is often as wild as the forest it is gotten from,
sticks and particles from burnt bushes are everywhere in it.
But
there is an accepted way of getting honey, it is called bee keeping or if you
like bee owning. Most people get so scared at the word bee, you are wise to
fear bees, it is dangerous if you miss rules, that is why you cannot embark on
proper bee keeping without learning the techniques.
Ignoring
the phobia for bees there is a lot to make out of it while feeding the nation.
Bees are as natural as they are, you don’t buy them like you would buy chicks
to start a poultry farm instead you attract them. That is one of the reason why
you need to learn how to keep bees. Each bee keeping container which is called
“Hive” could cost you less than N5, 000 depending on if you have the necessary
materials like wood and some carpentry skills. But the outcome is likely going
to be between 15,000 and 20,000 if you were giving out each bottle of your
honey at a thousand naira.
The good
news about this tip is that you don’t need a specific land, you can use any
abandoned bushes after taking proper permission of course. But for commercial
purpose which you could need up to fifty hives or more, then you need a farm of
your own. But it is good to start small and expand. The world needs honey and
our country have bees, tap into this natural life and make good money for just
giving the bees a place to stay.
Heads up: you don’t feed bees, if you try
you may have to run a longer mile than the one you came by, especially African
Bees, that is why it is my favorite.
The
third suggestion will require a little planting skill and a farm, but little
startup fee. This is the;
Plantain
plantation: have you ever thought about a large hectare of land cultivated with
just plantain what it would bring to the owner? I personally love eating
plantain ripe or unripe so have thought about it, let me tell you about it.
Plantain
is becoming expensive even more than yam itself in our country today. Sometimes
you don’t even find it to buy, which makes it one of the highly wanted
commodity in the country. Plantain do not need any secondary processing except
that you have to cut it from its tree and rub the stalk to the sand and there
you go, sell it or eat it. Obviously not raw except for ripe ones.
The good
thing about plantain plantation is that the plant has a way of multiplying on
its own. If you began with three at the end of two years you could have extra
nine growing without your permission, they don’t follow rules. The only farming
skill you need is trimming the grass, molding the plantain based with soil and
the harvesting skill which is simply to cut the fruit down. You could chose to
sell it yourself or you could channel it to some local or international
sellers. Job done. so you feed the nation, watch your farm expand without your
consent and get paid doing so. How simple.
Our
country is filled with many and different potentials some of us fail to see it,
others see it but can’t tap from it. I see, so am showing you. Tap from it,
let’s grow again Nigeria.