15 Top Farming Ventures In Nigeria

15 Top Lucrative Farming Ventures in Nigeria In Order of Significance:

Note: Before Anything in farming, just be sure to Put in place security provisions on your farmland as top priority for the safety of lives and property before anything else so that you don't toil or labour in vain. To achieve this feat, you can employ the service of community or trusted security persons or the service of ferocious and unfriendly foreign breed guard dogs as such as Pit bulls, Rottweiler, boerboel, German Shepherd, Russian Huskey, or Caucasian. For me I am most comfortable with the use of Ferocious Guard dogs on crop farm with a dog keeper on sight with someone on site to manage the dogs.

As an effort to contribute to the list of most lucrative farming ventures in Nigeria in their relative other of significance and to shed more light in the most seemingly oblique corners of Agriculture in Nigeria and as such not to misguide the members of the public on the viability of these Agricultural inclined ventures. As contrary to a lot of opinions often upheld by a lot of Agriculture enthusiasts should find this useful to avoid the undue pitfalls of Agriculture as a venture. With priorities to the parameters of low input in terms of capital and resources inputs which translates to staggering output.

A lot of us who often want a start in agric and are usually confused on which of the choice of venture to go by for a trial between crop and livestock, and also with capital cost as the top concern. The honest truth is that crop production is by far more cost effective to dabble into as compared to livestock as crop production often requires little or not much inputs. I have carefully chosen to put up these ventures in there relative other of importance or significance.

1. Cassava: remains in competitively top on the Nigerian market as against its comparison to the rise market and also open to low market entrants unlike the rice markets that requires millions worth of naira to land a footing in the market in the course of competing with governments, Dangote, ortedolas, Etc who have the shark like financial muscle to frustrate your effort and push you out of the rice market, for the cassava and garri market, its 100% open to all person from all social class of life. There are tons of processing market waiting to patronize such product in Nigeria. There's a popular cliche in Nigeria that says, "garri no get advert but they sell pass indomie" meaning you can never compare the sales and profit expected or made from garri to indomie and processed spaghetti and all pasta food items despite all its sales, adverts and promos. Don't forget that this is used for the production of ethanol which is a major constituent in all alcoholic drinks.

2. Timber. Think of anything made with woods, house constructions, logging etc. As long as carpentery work is needed, this will continue to make wave. Call in if you need the supply to anywhere in Nigeria

3. Coco, Groundnut, Soya bean & Oil Palm: I put this four as number two because even the multinationals, Dangote, Adenuga and Ortedolas are still blind to these four fields, think of your beverages, Milo, bournvita, Ovaltine, chocolate industry, fish feed, baby food, palm oil, groundnut oil etc, you could become the next billionaire in this field while your rest toil in other agricultural ventures cos only few people indulge in this venture because of its time commitment and persistency or consistency required. if your in this field then your on your way to start rivaling Nestle foods income and profit in Nigeria and in Africa.

4. Yam, Sweet or Irish Potato, Cocoyam, and water yam: This is another open market where you can make a kill and you will be amazed with your turn up in just a year

5. Vegetable, Mushroom, fruits, Watermelon, pawpaw, mango, citrus, pineapple, carrots, spring onion, Spice or Culinary & Maize Farming: This is no doubt the 4th most lucrative venture in agriculture. your vegetables, pumpkin leave, tomatoes, pepper, ginger, spinach, garlic and other items in this field is a get away field that requires less than a 100 thousand naira input on a large hectares and yet you are bound to make your kill.

6. Legumes & Sprouts: Beans, Honey bean, black eye peas, green bean, kidney bean, soybean, bambara bean, groundnut, melon seeds, all falls in this category. not only that this items ranked on number 5th are lucrative but with little or no vulnerability to perishability when duly processed so that your possibility of incurring any form of loss is omitted.

7. Rice, Wheat, millet & barely: out of careful analysis, rice farming is and has never been a Nigerian market, its a market that was sneaked in through the boarders and its bound to wane with time as there are surplus alternative to absorb the Nigerian rice market. For now who ever is going into rice production should understand that it is highly capital intensive as far as industrial or commercial production is concerned. rice is farmed by persons with capacity to farm wheat, millet, barely. if you can do this and break even the market, pasta mill and brewery will always find your audience and product welcoming with enough cash to smile to the bank. I must remind you that before you commit to rice farming, except your into brown rice production, likes of Bizness mogul as such as Dangote are already a million miles ahead of you to readily take advantage of this market while you contemplate it. So the earlier the better you know your competitor.

8. Plantain & banana: This is another but yet untapped promising venture in agriculture in Nigeria who production is only yet limited to Edo, Delta, Osun and Ondo. this sector is by far yet been undermined.

9. Snailery, or Heliculture This is a huge market but yet still very much untapped as only mushroom engagements of it is visible in Nigeria.

10. Piggery: However controversial this venture is due to religious beliefs, piggery is still by far 2nd to snailery requiring one of the least input

11.Fishery:

12.Guinea pig, rabbits & grasscutter: A big market with prospects but yet still crawling in Nigeria

13. Beef Market: Cattle, Sheep, Goat & Ram: This is another lucrative market but always less demanding as poultry though it may seem readily hyphed as a venture for the super rich but the truth remains, its an open market just like the  comparison of the cassava to the rice market in Nigeria, the market makes a kill more than the poultry business in Nigeria in case you dont know, in Nigeria, more consume more beef than poultry products yet these market is always short of supply to meet it demands.

14. Poultry feed mill & Fish feed mill: Requires huge capital and great expertise for a competitive result in the market

15.Poultry: Obasanjo farms Nigeria (OFN), Tunsfarm, Zartatech and Folawuyo farms are still leading names in the Nigerian poultry business: Some of these farms stock up to 5 million birds capacity on each farm and produces up to 2 million high quality day old birds per week, have machines that processes 10,000 birds power hour for day to day market consumption, and also produces 100,000 crates of eggs per day. So when I hear people say they plan to build a 10,000 bird capacity to start a poultry farm, I just laugh but don't be discouraged. God humbles our days of little beginning. To get it right in this market is best you start with a day old broiler or layers so as to cut your proposed cost considerably by 70%

For those wailing and crying that there's no job in Nigeria, I pray and believe that you Dont want to wait a little more for your life to be shattered in the pitfalls and hard blows of recession before you know you have talents and that there are a thousand of promising venture you can find solutions for in agriculture to demystify your financial nightmare and black waters. Thank God for an age of info with mechanized farming so that who won't be having excuses for joblessness nor to continue to believe that farming is for the poor, its never labelled for the poor but as it is for all and sundry irrespective of your discipline. in farming you can only find the salvation cross to your financial bewilderment and needs for a lasting peace of mind. At least you have reasons to worry less about the system not working, The president and politician not living up to expectations and the legislative stealing and looting government treasury or making laws to only favour their pockets and ventures alone. At least, stay sharp and positive.

Written and Compiled by Adewale O

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