LiRéPà Agro-Allied Services

Even as Car & General forecast a slow down in the purchase of new motorcycles and see new growth areas to be the Corporate and Courier services where they are employing more motorcyclist to run petty errands, rural farmers could be a new market segment as a smart innovator has designed a pump that can be connected to the motorbike and irrigate farms.    Today, the motorcycle is a multipurpose engine for smart farmers who wants to fully exploit the engine either to transport people, farm produce, pump water for irrigation, spray chemicals on their farms or do car wash business at the nearest shopping center.    All a farmer needs to do is to purchase a special device that is retailing at NGN 25,000 by a local company like LiRéPâ Agro-allied Services and connect it to the motorbike.    The pump is efficient as it can pump 40,000 litres of water using a half a litre of fuel. Watch the video here :  This is a step more in the right direction for farm mechanization and farmer

This post on irrigation is informed by the fact that the dry season is usually a challenging period for farmers especially  in Northern Nigeria. With an average Precipitation that is below 60 millimetres and lack of watering holes, farmers face many challenges in planting. Some farmlands receive yearly rainfall of about 20 inches. Many farmlands in the North have become degraded. Areas that used to be covered by trees and homes have been deforested. Also, the climate is changing the outlook of farming. Farmers face unpredictable weather brought on by climate change. Sometimes the rainy season comes late; at other times, it ends early. Sometimes the rains come late and hard, causing floods. At other times, rains don’t come at all, causing drought. With these weather changes, it is difficult for farmers to plan which crops to grow, when to prepare land, when to plant, and how to plan other farming tasks. Worst hit are those from the North who have  to  respond to serious weather ch

The bank of Agriculture was set up in 1974. it has its head office in kaduna state and has over 200 branches all over the federation. It has changed names over a period of time since inception,from being formerly the Nigerian Agricultural cooperative and rural development bank (NACRDB) to its present day name of bank of agriculture (BOA). The main objective of the bank still remains the same. This being granting soft loans to farmers at favourable interest rates and over a period of time. Since the discovery of oil in the 1970’s before which agriculture was the mainstay of our economy,which we seemed to have neglected. The government has seen the reason to go back to the period preceding the oil boom era,due to such factors as the current continuous sliding of oil price in the international market. We need to go back to the agricultural sector,inject life into it by providing funds to already farmers,help in their expansion,make them more mechanized, provide funds for the agricultu

I think agriculture has enormous potential for eradicating poverty, it needs youthful energy and passionate team players. It is on record that Nigeria has over 84 million hectares of arable land, out of which only 40% is cultivated. Estimated at over 180 million people, it is also emerging as Africa’s largest agricultural market. Supported by nature, the country’s crops that could earn huge foreign exchange include beans, yams, sesame, cashew nuts, cassava, cocoa beans, groundnuts, gum arabic, kolanut, maize , banana, melon, millet, palm kernels, palm oil, plantains, rice, rubber, sorghum, soybeans and yams. These have potentials of commercial quantities. These days rather than hustle to get white collar jobs, a large number of youths yearn to be their own bosses, building their own business from the ground up. This entrepreneurial tendency has led many of them to look into farming and other branches of Agriculture. There are quite a lot of examples of this. What are the reasons b