Those plots of land occupying most of the bush you see along the roads have been bought. Some people bought them but have no cash yet to develop them.
Year in, year out, those plots bring nothing to them whereas they can spin them good money. That is my story.
I have an undeveloped parcel of land somewhere. Resident on the plots are rodents, bush, etc.
People living around them even turned them to refuse dumps.
In the last four, five years, a man who lives close to the place planted cassava on the plots and, according to information reaching me, he would harvest about 80 big bags of maize, 300 bags of cassava and about 2000 tubers of yam from those plots every year!
All because, me, the owner would not do anything with the land.
I stopped him from farming on the land in the last two years. I allowed the land to recuperate well so I can use it myself. This year, I went there just before the rain started. It was filled with dry bushes. I called some mallams and it was cleared.
MARRIED AND UNHAPPY: WHERE HAS LOVE GONE?
They cultivated the land and made a good number of heaps on them. I was taken to the market to buy yam heads to plant. I was shocked. A yam head is N200. Multiplied by 1400 heaps..?. No. I can’t afford that in this pandemic.
Someone now suggested cocoyam. I succeeded in getting enough for much much less price. They are now planted, with maize and cassava.
We got some plantain and banana suckers scattered on the land. Same with pawpaw, pepper, tomatoes, pineapples, efirin, ewuro, all over. I hope we are not taxing the land too much. Now they are growing so well.
That is the beauty of Africa. This continent is blessed. Drop a seed anywhere, go there in two days, it has germinated. Some few months, you are harvesting. Biko, Africa is blessed.
Can you imagine the miles upon kilometres of arable land these stupid political leaders would not bother to do anything about?
Same with you my friend, stop blaming the politicians. You have plots of land somewhere overtaken by bush.
Your mum and dad left plots for you in the village.
True, you have no cash to develop them now but to what use have you put them? I became an emergency farmer when I saw what that man was doing with people’s land.
That land that has been fallow for years must yield for me before we start any construction on it.
I speak to you, my friends, if you have any plot of land anywhere, go and put it to use today. We are already in the rainy season. Do something…
Praise the Lord…
