HOW TO MAKE WEALTH IN CASSAVA FARMING BUSINESS HOW TO MAKE WEALTH IN CASSAVA FARMING BUSINESS | Page 39

A COMPREHENSIVE & PRACTICAL GUIDE ON HOW TO START CASSAVA FARMING & PROCESSING BUSINESS By: Micheal B. O. GET A LAND LEASE FOR JUST N5000 PER ANNUM AND MAKE OVER N300,000 There are a lot of farm settlement in Nigeria where you can get a land lease for you for just N5,000 per hectare and you can make 20,000 heaps on one hectare, you can plant cassava and other cash crops. My research took me to some farm settlement at Babaoba farm settlement scheme at Igbo Ora and other farm settlements in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State where you can get an hectare of land being leased for just N5,000, and you can make about N300,000 if you manage you farm very well by planting other cash crops like maize, melon, potatoes and so on. In Lagos, the areas to lease land are from Sango upward along Abeokuta road (Ilogbo and Ifo), Epe/Badagry and Ikorodu to get a land lease for one year can cost between N5,000 to N7,000. While other farm are available in the east, north and other parts of the Country. About 75% constituting 68million hectares of total land area in the country has potential for agricultural activities but only about 33million hectares are presently being cultivated. Our, policies should encourage the establishment of starch-based industries such that produced cassava is destined for local market and not for export. These actions will further support commercial production, encourage farmers to increase their yield, reduce the mining of soil nutrients and make cassava production environmentally and economically sustainable. In Central Africa, tender young cassava leaves are regularly picked and cooked as a protein-rich vegetable. Hotlines: 09090040011, 09031617999. Fast-growing groundnuts protect soil from erosion and provide cassava with a source of nitrogen. 39. Misshapen leaves, lack of chlorophyll, mottling and wilting: symptoms of cassava mosaic disease E-mail: [email protected]