Profitable Agriculture Businesses

Agriculture is a very widespread field that involves a lot, from crop cultivation, animal husbandry to processing and selling of agricultural product. It has always been part of life even before man learnt how to cultivate crops and rear animals; nature has played the agricultural part for man.
Most times when we talk about agricultural business, most people just looked at it at just the farming and rearing process, but they are so many aspect in agriculture that from earlier days of men, it has been one of the main source of employment and from of livelihood as well as sustenance for man.

There are many businesses that can be ventured into in agriculture, some of these are;

1. Crop cultivation: this involve the normal we are all familiar with, the process of clearing of land, planting and weeding and harvesting. This involve lots of work and many people are not too interested in crop cultivation as it is labor intensive and time consuming. It is very common in the rural area and few goes into it in large scale production with mechanized farming. The government in America and Europe encourages large scale, mechanized crop production by providing certain incentive.



2. Animal husbandry: this is a form of agriculture business that involves rearing of animals. It includes fish farming, cattle rearing, piggery, poultry and many more. It is very common nowadays especially in the cities.



3. Feeds business: as some people gets involved in animal husbandry and with the rate it is becoming common, a good business to venture to is selling of animal feeds. Companies are coming up in Nigeria manufacturing animal feeds and being a supplier a dealer is another avenue in agricultural field to explore.



4. Equipment leasing: in the process of farming or rearing animals some equipment are needed both in large and small scale production. Tractors, pumping machines, wheel barrow and other small farming equipment might be needed at one stage or the other as some farmers find it easier to hire some equipment as they are needed only on seasonal bases. So investing in agricultural equipment is another form of business especially in areas that areas where agriculture is the main occupation.



5. Financier: now this is one aspect that many people will be interested in as they may not like to go into agriculture directly because of the nature of the job or they have little or no knowledge of running the business. They may decide to finance the project with an agreement of percentage of the profit.

6. Land renting: this is very common especially in the rural area where people decide to rent their land especially for large scale production. Some may draw out an agreement to rent the land for a number of years depending on the type of cultivation or animal to be reared.

7. Consultant: some people based on their expertise especially graduate in the agricultural field can decide to lend their services and consult based on their knowledge and get paid for it.

8. Production of packaged products: this is another kind of lucrative business as one can buy the product cheaply in large quantities and process and packaged them properly after being processed. Recently lots of flour packaged products are flooding the market from yam flour, cassava flour, plantain chips, tomato paste and many more.

9. Production of juice and jam: Nigeria produce lots of seasonal fruits that goes to waste due to lack of proper storage. A good business venture will be production of fruit juice and jam. These fruits in their season of harvesting can be preserved and processed into juice that can be packaged and sold.

10. Agro chemical business: this involve manufacturing of chemicals that can be used as fertilizers, while opening and operating a fertilizer production company can be expensive, one can go into the supply part of the business.

England Names Squad For Europe 2016

The three lions has name their 23 man squad for France 2016. Roy Hugson the coach of England made the announcement yesterday which was the deadline to submit names of players for the competition.

The major surprise to the list was Manchester United new kid on the block, Marcus Rasford. The kid who scored his first England goal on his first game for his country has been on blazing form and is believe to be Hugson hidden weapon at the tournament.

Also Daniel Sturridge made the team after suffering injuries prior to the tournament and did not feature in any of England recent friendly and missed most training session for England due to injury.

Jamie Vardy also made the team after a brilliant season with Leicester City where he was key to them winning the premier league with his goals. He is most likely to play with Harry Keane, premier league top goal scorer, upfront if Rooney is to play a deeper playmaker role as he has been doing of late.

England squad are very young and inexperienced with few national caps to their name with an exception of few like Rooney, Joe Hart and Milner. Roy will mostly work on using pace and strength of the youth to overcome.

Emotions Can Affect Physical Health

Back pain? Chest pain? Feeling angry at your spouse may be the cause.

Research has shown that emotions can have an effect on health, but might how we express those emotions be tied to specific physical symptoms?

This study
Participants in the study included 156 middle-aged and older married couples. Over a 20-year period, they took part in periodic assessments of their emotional reactions to interactions with their spouse — reactions that did and did not involve conflict.

During that time, 45 to 65 percent of the men and 60 to 76 percent of the women experienced cardiovascular symptoms, such as high blood pressure, chest pains or other heart problems. Also, 15 to 29 percent of the men and 30 to 36 percent of the women had musculoskeletal symptoms, such as back pain, stiffness in muscles or joints or severe leg or arm pain. People who consistently expressed anger during interactions with their spouse were more likely to have cardiovascular problems than were those who did not get angry. Those whose behavior during the interactions was described as stonewalling — meaning they suppressed their emotions — were more likely than the others to have musculoskeletal problems.

In both cases, the effect was stronger among men than women. The health problems did not develop immediately; rather, they increased over time. None of the other emotions expressed during the interactions, such as fear or sadness, were tied to either cardiovascular or musculoskeletal symptoms.

Who may be affected
Married couples, which number about 60 million in the United States.

Caveats
Health data came from the participants’ responses on questionnaires. The study authors noted that the findings came from “a thin slice of social behavior” and may not “accurately capture the emotional life of the couple.” Most participants were white.

Source: The Washignton Post

Developer Of Ikeja City Mall In Another Fraud Case

Developer of Ikeja City Mall, Michael Chudi Ejekam in the news again on suspicion of fraud and $1 Billion extortion attempt of Donald Trump

Michael Chudi Ejekam is once again the focus of a fraud investigation. Ejekam has now been linked to former basketball star Tate George’s real estate ponzi fraud scheme for which Tate George has been sentenced to a 9 year prison term. While employed by Bayrock, Ejekam partnered with Tate on several real estate deals. George and Ejekam used Donald Trumps name to entice investors into investing in their fraudulent ponzi scheme.
http://therealdeal.com/2016/04/14/bayrock-group-named-in-tate-george-fraud-case/

Bayrock Group, Ejekam’s former employer is a successful real estate development company, with several high-profile partnership projects with Donald Trump. Bayrock has been at the heart of several scandals relating to their top executives. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/trump-pal-busted-allegedly-running-hooker-ring-yacht-article-1.191136

Ejekam with his partner and college roommate Jody Kriss, a former CFO of Bayrock have been involved in a $1 billion extortion scheme against the Bayrock Group, Donald and Ivanka Trump, and several other high-profile individuals, law firms (including Kriss’ father Ronald Kriss’ law firm Akerman Senterfitt, from which Kriss senior was fired right after the lawsuit was filed) and major real estate companies. Ejekam’s lawyers in that extortion case—Richard Lerner & Frederick Oberlander—were referred for criminal prosecution twice in that case for unethical and illegal practices of the law, by United States Federal Judge Brian M. Cogan. The United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York is currently investigating the criminal referral.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/charges-considered-for-lawyer-who-revealed-witnesss-name.html?_r=0

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Ejekam and Kriss’ questionable business practices are not limited to real estate fraud. Kriss’ has been accused of having connections to the Persico Mafia crime family and is accused of trying to have a former business associate murdered.http://nypost.com/2014/03/16/mob-rat-says-business-partner-tried-to-nail-him-over-2-5m-suit/.

There have also been allegations of money laundering for Russian mafia kingpins. http://georgiatoday.ge/news/165/Jody-Kriss-%E2%80%93-Victim-Or-Gangster%3F

Kriss and Ejekam’s close relationship began long before they worked together at Bayrock—starting when they were both in the same class at the University of Pennsylvania, and lived in the same dorm.

Ejekam is rumored to have fled New York to distance himself from all the illegal activities and lawsuits. He was recently fired from the private equity firm, Actis, as Director of Real Estate for West Africa, when his past became know to the firm. Actis developed the largest mall in Nigeria and has extensive investments throughout Africa.

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Monarch Wife Give Birth At Kidnappers Den

Esit Eket (Akwa Ibom) – Mrs Ubong Assam, the wife of the traditional ruler of Esit Eket in Akwa Ibom, was delivered of a baby girl on Friday, May 13, while in custody of her kidnappers. A family source, who pleaded anonymity, said in Esit Eket, Esit Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, on Saturday that the monarch’s wife gave birth to the baby in an unknown hideout of her abductors The kidnappers abducted the traditional ruler’s wife and her four children in the Akpautong neighbourhood of Esit Eket on April 29. The source said that the kidnappers quickly released the woman and her four children due to the birth of the baby in their den. Reacting to the development, the Police Public Relations Officer in Akwa Ibom, ASP Cordelia Nwawe, said that the command expressed appreciation to God for the safe delivery of the monarch’s wife. She, nonetheless, said that the command had yet to receive any information about the release of the kidnapped woman and her four children. The traditional ruler’s wife and her four children were released on May 14. (NAN)

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com

Why Saraki Must Resign

The Senate President Bukola Saraki should resign or be pressured to for the respect of the position.

Nigeria should no more encourage corruption and any government official found wanting should resign and face the law. Many will argue that he has not been found guilty yet and thus no reason for him to resign, but as it stand if not that Saraki ambition and doggedness to attain the highest office at his reach he would not have been in this situation.

Recently the Icelandic prime minister resign after he was implicated in the Panama Paper Expose, we can say he did that to respect the office he was holding. But with the case of Saraki, as it stands Nigeria politicians has no respect for the office they hold, they cannot be disgraced out of office but forced out. And I can see the only way Saraki is leaving that post is to be forced out by the law and that might ultimately end his political career.

Now, Saraki should not only resign and go fight his case not just for the respect of the senate office, but also for his political career because this CCT case might surely leads to the end of him if he fails to compromise.

Naira Fall Against The Dollar

The Naira has been on free fall against the dollar for some time now, falling as far as a dollar to N350 of the parallel market. The question most people are asking is why the dollar is falling at such a pace now, who is to blame? Is it the present government? While the present government should assume responsibility and find a way to fix the economy, it should be noted that it is not a situation created by the present government, rather a situation they find themselves due to global market demand and Nigeria lack of investment in other sectors of the economy overtime. Nigeria major export is known to be crude oil which makes almost 75% of the country income. Over the years the oil market has been booming and Nigeria oil has been of great demand thus the country has lots of foreign reserves and can cater for the demand of foreign currency by Nigerians. It should be also noted that Nigeria is a major importing country. We import lots of good from luxury items such as wine, clothing’s, beverages, to food such as rice, tomato paste, canned drinks and so much more. Nigerians are also funds of sending their family abroad for various reasons from education, holidays, shopping etc. And through all these we spend foreign currency to cater for these needs or luxuries, depending on how one look at them. Now during the oil boom the effect of these luxurious spending drift was not felt because there were more dollars coming in for the sales of crude. The excess profits made from goods were enough to balance the outflow of foreign currency. The cost of producing a barrel of oil is below $30 and during the oil boom; a barrel was sold at more than $100. So you can imagine the excess profit being made. It would have been prudent to invest in other sector of the economy and make them grow with the excess profit being made then and to watch and find way to plugged the excess foreign exchange leaving the country for that would have set the country in the right direction and prepare us for tougher time rather to looking for emergency solution now. Fast forward to present, and Nigerians still have the culture of spending foreign currency, importing goods, and spending so much abroad and the shortage in foreign currency due to fall in oil prices and lack of buyers for Nigerian crude, there is not much foreign currency coming into the system as it is going out, thus the simple economic explanation of the situation, supply and demand. The demand for foreign currency is high and the supply is low. The CBN tried pegging the naira to the dollar at just below N200 but it keeps rising on the parallel market as the dollar is scarce. The governments have implemented some measures to curtail the spending of foreign currency by placing ban on the importation of some goods and restricting some bank transactions abroad. But the situation seems not to be subsiding. Now sensing the situation at hand, one expect further rise of the dollar to the naira as it seems crude prices are not going to rise anytime soon, at least not to the extent we had seen it before as speculated by experts in the field as can be assume by recent OPEC meetings. In view to this the government need to set up a highly technical and active economic team to try and savage the economy as we have gone beyond the blame game and we need to be proactive and face the present situation we find ourselves. No doubt they will be sacrifices to be made and it has to start with the present administration as they try to build the economy away from oil