Throwback to 2019 when I donated $14,000,000 to @savechildrenuk to support children across Northern Nigeria.
True wealth is not measured by what we keep, but by the lives we change 🕊️ … F.Ote💲
Yesterday, Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria posted on Twitter that Nigerians can now export cow bones duty-free to China.
Under the comment sections, some Nigerians were asking the ambassador to tell them what they are using the cow bones for😁
Some were telling the ambassador to tell his people to come and setup the processing facility here in Nigeria, so they can create jobs.
Funny people. I laughed at our inability to do simple Google search.
As a livestock farmer and Agro commodities trader, I already know the uses of cow bones.
And about building a factory here in Nigeria? Nigerians are the ones to do it, but sadly everyone is building hotels😁
Let me tell you a few uses of cow bones.
Here are 4 major uses of cow bones you can mention in your content;
✍🏻Bone meal fertilizer: Cow bones are processed into bone meal, rich in phosphorus and calcium, used to improve soil fertility.
They prefer this to fertilize their soil not the chemical sold to our rural farmers.
✍🏻Animal feed supplement: Processed bone meal can be used as a mineral supplement in livestock feed, especially for calcium and phosphorus.
We use this for chicken feed, pig, and fish feed production.
Verify the price per kg and you’ll be shocked.
✍🏻Gelatin production: Cow bones can be processed to extract gelatin, used in food, pharmaceuticals, capsules, and cosmetics.
Just imagine the volume of cow bones wasting in your village?
Pharmaceuticals companies are paying billions of dollars to buy it from those processing it.
And I believe those Chinese companies will focus more on this.
It is big money wasting away in Africa because we don’t know anything about value addition.
✍🏻Activated carbon / bone char: Burnt bones can produce bone char, used in filtration, sugar refining, and water purification.
Pause here and think deeply with me. They use bone char for water purification in their country.
But they produce capsules and sell to us for water purification😳
Let’s not blame them. We take responsibility.
Now, let’s be honest. This is a golden opportunity for us. Let’s export the cow bones and cash out.
Also, let’s learn how to process the cow bones locally and export the finish product too.
If I tell you now that chicken feed producers in Nigeria import bone meal, you won’t believe. Research it yourself.
A ton of bone meal is around $200 - $750 currently.
Bro, just imagine earning over $200 from wastage thrown around our local markets in Africa.
Business opportunity for you. Do your research and see how you can position to serve this market
The fastest way to fail in farming is trying to know everything by yourself.
Recently, me and 4 other ginger farmers tested different selective herbicides from different companies simultaneously.
Everybody sacrificed a tiny portion of land for testing.
Within one week…
We already knew:
which one worked
which one stressed the crop
which one was a waste of money
and which company was just selling packaging.
That’s the power of community in farming.
Alone, it could have taken months of trial and error and a lot more money to figure out.
That small collaboration saved all of us from making expensive mistakes on large scale applications.
Some farmers see other farmers as competition.
I see them as data sources.
I know a lot of farmers like to move in silence.
But agriculture is one industry where the right network can literally save your season.
Find people growing what you grow.
Share information.
Share updates.
Share failures too.
Your farming circle matters more than people think.
One good farming circle can increase your profits more than another acre of land.
Tag a farmer that gives you useful information.
In 2025, we invested ₦200,000 into our cassava farm. With the market price crashing, we made the tough call to process everything into garri. Processing and logistics took another ₦270,000.
Last month, we sold the garri and realized ₦143,000. That’s a painful loss of ₦327,000. My personal human capital is not included.
Still, one thing is certain, we will smile again.
Olasunkanmi Akapo you once asked, “Should food be expensive?” Well, food is now cheap but it’s coming at the expense of the farmer.
To every farmer out there, keep going. Keep growing, even if it’s at your own pace.
The tide will turn again and when it does, it will favour us.
Farmer Adeoye
Dear Young Agropreneurs and Farmers.
Please APPLY for the FG MSMES Funding initiative at N1 Billion.
Please give it a chance and apply because our sector is the most sort after in any nation economy because without us there is no Food. So please apply!!
https://t.co/qzJOk8pG5Q
@Nairametrics Hello good evening
My concern is for the Rice farmers and how is it economically viable to go into Rice production now that most open field farmers are entering into the farming season.
These are scenes only manufactured in Africa….
Lions chase a buffalo… buffalo runs into a river…. Lions camp on the banks waiting …. A crocodile in the river goes after the buffalo…. The drama unfolds ….
Cucumber market majorly this year was so volatile most especially in South West Nigeria.
Farmers came prepared for the Q1 dry season farming but the glut was patiently waiting to crash the price.
I can't believe a bag of cucumber was sold for 5k in January, 2026.