Types of Vegetables You Can Cultivate to Make Money in Nigeria

Every business in Nigeria shouldn't be about buying and selling, finished goods. Vegetable farming is one aspect of farming in Nigeria that is capable of bringing quick cash to the would be farmer this season. There are so many people in the streets of nigeria who have no business being in nigeria. While they waste away in poverty, hoping for a better tomorrow; opportunity to make good money through farming keep passing them by on daily basis.

In Nigeria of those days, the term 'Farmer' is heavily associated with poverty and illiteracy. But that was then, not now anymore when farmers are becoming the richest people (I heard that one of the richest man in China is a farmer) and leaving the best of life possible.

Vegetable farming happens to be one of the easiest agricultural engagement, and any kind of edible vegetable is always in hot demand all year round. One good example is Fluted Pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) popularly known as Ugu (It's Igbo name) across .

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Ugu vegetable is by far, the most consumed vegetable of any kind in Nigeria. An acre size Ugu farm is capable of turning in above N500,000 and it will take you less than N60,000 to cultivate one acre farm of pumpkin vegetable.

If you are in Lagos, the entire Power Line of hundreds of Acres, that stretched from Egbin power station in Ijede, Ikorodu, down to almost Ikorodu garage are extremely good for Ugu farming and you can get them almost free to cultivate your pumpkin and other vegetables.

Some popular Vegetables in Nigeria that you can Cultivate

Fluted Pumpkin - Like I've said before, Pumpkin vegetable is the most consumed vegetable by Nigerians of all class. It is used to prepare varieties of dishes and it's very nutritious too. When you talk about soup in Nigeria, you are directly talking about ugu because, almost all Nigerian soups are cooked with this vegetable.

Apart from cooking, pumpkin vegetable has been known to increase the volume of the red blood cell when consumed fresh, without being cooked. It's blood enhancing nutrients gives it the ability to expand the volume of your blood at a very short time after consumption!

It is of course natural for a vegetable of these benefits and usage to be in high demand, anyone who can cultivate Ugu, is absolutely going to make good money selling it and can be cultivated in every part of Nigeria due to the plant's tolerant of drought and poor soil.

Green Okra - Okra, which is popularly known as the lady's finger and gumbo, in many English speaking countries is a very nutritious edible green pod vegetable. When sliced, the okra's edible green seed pods produces slippery sticky substance that make the soup tick, smooth, and delicious. My personal experience with okra shows that eating fresh vegetable soup prepared with plenty of okra can relive constipation and increase digestion.

If you are a Nigerian, you don't need to be told about okra soup. It's one of the most popular soup in Nigeria restaurants, usually prepared with Ugu vegetable and smoked fish - very delicious and taste good.

Okra contains good amount of Vitamin-A and is known to be anti-oxidant due to it's good content of beta-carotene. It is also rich in Vitamin-C, Vitamin-K, and some form of Vitamin-B Complexes. Like Fluted Pumpkin, it tolerate all kinds of soil.

Cabbage - Cabbage is another popular vegetable in Nigeria and is popularly used to prepare salads. The only part of the plant that is normally eaten is the rounded leafy head (the spherical cluster of immature leaves) excluding the partially unfolded outer leaves.

Because of it's spicy flavor, Cabbage is used in a variety of dishes, and is widely consumed raw as well. It is in high demand in Nigeria and sells for reasonably good price.

Cabbage really does not like the sun, it grows better in a cold environment but must get at least 6 hours of sunlight everyday. It grows well on a well fertile, well drained manured soil.

Cucumber - As I always says: Great skin starts with Cucumber; If you really want your skin to be happy, your number one answer is cucumber. This is because, cucumber and skin is known to share the same level of hydrogen content, which makes it easier for cucumber to deal with the skin problems by engulfing them. It works well in soothing, softening, and relaxing your skin very quickly.

Cucumber can be eaten and is used for preparation of many kinds of food in Nigeria. Cultivating this vegetable will surely put money into your pockets.

Cucumbers like every other vegetables like soil that is well drained and rich in organic matter, but don’t stress about the soil conditions. Cucumbers are hearty plants and easy to grow. Just make sure they have full sunlight and soil that is rich in organic matter.

Cucumber sells quick to in markets across Nigeria and is widely consumed. It is another vegetable farming that makes a lot of money.

When you engage in farming, you will have plenty of food to eat, you sell to make good cash, and it gets you closer to nature. These will increase your overall well being as a human-being. So, give it a trial today and see for yourself.

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What’s This Much Talked About Agreement Between The Federal Government and ASUU.

Prologue

“Listening to the agreement that was signed by the Federal Government and Comrade Uche Chukwumerije read out, I was really wondering whether this was signed or it was just a proposal. But when he concluded, he said it was signed. It only shows the level of people the executive sent to go and negotiate on their behalf because ab initio, people must be told the truth, what can be accomplished and what cannot be accomplished. If a leader says I am going to accomplish this, he is morally duty bound to honour it. But even if you decided immediately after that you cannot accomplish it, I think it is only proper for you to go back and start renegotiating. But if you prolong it on the basis that you are still going to honour it and you don’t honour it, then it doesn’t portray us in good light.”

- David Mark, Senate President

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A new ground-breaking study of the
complex politics of kidnapping of oil
workers in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria
is due for its first public presentation on
Saturday, October 26, 2013, at Telus
Centre, Room 150, University of Alberta
Campus, Edmonton, Canada. Entitled
Criminal Resistance? The Politics of
Kidnapping Oil Workers the award-
winning work by 2011 Governor General
of Canada Academic Gold Medal
recipient, Tope Oriola, will be formally
reviewed by Biko Agozino, Professor and
Director, Africana Studies, Virginia Tech,
USA. The event is being sponsored by
the Global Education Program,
Department of Sociology & Faculty of
Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
Recently released by the notable
academic publishers Ashgate, the book is
based on a multi-actor qualitative
research in the oil-rich Niger Delta region
of Nigeria. Crude oil extraction in the
Niger Delta region generates 96% of all
foreign earnings and 85% of state
revenues. However, several generations
of state neglect and mismanagement
have ensured that the Delta region is one
of the most socio-economically and
politically deprived in the country. By the
late 1990s there was a frightening
proliferation of armed gangs and
insurgent groups. Illegal oil bunkering,
pipeline vandalism, disruption of oil
production activities, riots, and
demonstrations intensified and in 2003,
insurgents began kidnapping oil workers
at a frenetic pace. An uber-insurgent
movement 'organization' was formed in
Nigeria in late 2005. Christened the
Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND), it operates as an
amorphous, multifaceted amalgam of
insurgent groups with an unprecedented
clinical precision in execution of intents.
Offering more insight into the book in his
Foreword, Patrick Bond, Professor of
Political Economy at the University of
KwaZul-Natal in South Africa avers that
the “book is a healthy corrective to the
romanticized non-violence fetish of much
social movement scholarship as well as
that of solidarity movements which arose
to support Ken Saro-Wiwa’s heroic fight
against pollution and underdevelopment
of the Ogoni people a quarter of a
century ago.” Bond further notes that: “In
part because of his tasteful stylistic
approach, as well as the extremely rich
information and synthetic capacity, Oriola
has produced amongst the finest works
in the tradition of socio-political framing
narratives. This book is, therefore, a vital
addition to the academic understandings
of the Delta conflict, but much more, it
offers lessons to anyone interested in
Nigeria, Delta solidarity, the oil and
security sectors, social movement
mobilisation, and environmental justice
strategies and tactics”
The book launch event promises to
provide an enlightening narrative about
the production of the book--the
experience garnered in the course of the
research, including interviews and focus
group discussions with insurgents. The
event will bring together (public)
intellectuals, students, human rights
activists, as well as the Edmonton
community and beyond. Guests will be
engaged in a robust conversation on
kidnapping of oil workers in Nigeria’s
Delta region as well as the significance
of the global phenomenon.
Currently an assistant professor in
criminology & socio-legal studies,
Department of Sociology, University of
Alberta, Oriola has authored or co-
authored several refereed journal articles.
His works have been published in leading
journals, such as Sociology, the British
Journal of Criminology, Critical Studies
on Terrorism, and Canadian Journal of
Family and Youth, among others. His
research focuses on kidnapping, police
and use of force, state crimes and the
political economy of crime. Oriola’s on-
going SSHRC-funded book project
investigates the use of “less-lethal” force
options by Canadian police (under
contract at University of British Columbia
Press with Nicole Neverson & Charles
Adeyanju).