INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY IN NIGERIA: February 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

HOW TO MAKE HUGE PROFIT TRADING ON CASSAVA TUBERS.

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HOW TO MAKE HUGE PROFIT TRADING ON CASSAVA TUBERS.

Cassava (Manihot esculenta), also called yuca or manioc, is a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) native to South America that is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates. The flour made of the roots is called tapioca.

Cassava is the third largest source of carbohydrates for human food in the world.Cassava is classified as "sweet" or "bitter" depending on the level of toxic cyanogenic glucosides; improper preparation of bitter cassava causes a disease called konzo. Nevertheless, farmers often prefer the bitter varieties because they deter pests, animals, and thieves.

World production of cassava root was estimated to be 184 million tonnes in 2002. The majority of production is in Africa where 99.1 million tonnes were grown. 51.5 million tonnes were grown in Asia and 33.2 million tonnes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cassava. However, based on the statistics from the FAO of the United Nations, Thailand is the largest exporting country of dried cassava with a total of 77% of world export in 2005. The second largest exporting country is Vietnam, with 13.6%, followed by Indonesia (5.8%) and Costa Rica (2.1%). Worldwide cassava production increased by 12.5% between 1988 and 1990

Its cultivation in Nigeria depends on the part of area of the county. Example, it is profitably grown in the Southern Part of the country between the month of June and August – inclusive.
Many procedures are observed in the process of its cultivation.

They are:

Land Citation: This is the first work to be done because in Nigeria loamy soil is the suitable soil for effective growing of cassava.

Bush Clearing: The bush on the land to be cultivated should be cleared. This may be done using matchets or machines and left for some days before burning to help facilitate burning. This burning can be done by gathering the trash (the cut off plants) at any corner before burning. It is better to get them burnt at a corner than burning them scattered throughout the whole land.
Land Tilling: In Nigeria, land tilling is done by the use of hoe or machine. This land tilling can be organized into mounds or ridges.

Planting: Since cassava cannot be planted using its seed like as in yam, rather it is planted using its stem cuttings (cut stems). This can be obtained from the stems of matured cassava plant. When these stem cuttings are ready in the length ranging from 20cm to 30cm long. Planting can be done by placing the right position of the stem cutting inside the tilled soil.

Weeding: First, weeding is the process of removing unwanted plant from the farm. For this reason that this should be done in the farm therefore care must be taken in order not to destroy what has been planted in the farm. Therefore hoe or matchets or herbicide can be used. The herbicide in used is been carefully added in order not to affect the crop (cassava) negative. Weeding can be started when the weed must have started sprouting. This should be about three weeks after cultivation.

Manuring: In Nigeria, fertilizers and farm yard manure are commonly used. Fertilizers used in Nigeria for effective yield of the crop (cassava) are NPK with high content of potassium. Harvesting: Some types of cassava get fully matured within nine months. Some stays for twelve months before they get matured while some last up to two years before they get fully matured. And this harvesting can be done by uprooting with hand or using other suitable harvesting implements in digging out the tubers.

Storage: There is no other means to store cassava without been processed into cassava floor, processing it into what Nigerians called garri or soaking it in the water and allowed it to ferment and then sieve using a sieve.

The ethanol programme by NNPC aiming at exploring sources of biomass that can be used to produce fuel ethanol to improve automotive emissions in the country, to reduce domestic use of petrol, free up crude for export and position Nigeria for the development of “Green Fuel” which is embedded in the “Automotive Biomass Ethanol Programme” began in august 2005, which focused on the establishment of 20,000 hectares of sugarcane and 10,000 hectares of cassava, which are the two active ingredients in ethanol production. The core aspect of the initiative, is aimed at producing fuel grade that would be blended with petrol or gasoline in proportions not exceeding 10 percent volume, the new product will reduce the volume of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, thereby improving air quality and reducing health hazards associated with environmental pollution.

In addition, the energy sector reform plan of the Nigerian government is targeting 735 megawatts of electricity to be generated from renewable energy as part of the nation’s energy mix by 2015 by stimulating large scale implementation of renewable energy based power project using non-conventional sources, including biomass. However, certain analysts have argued that diverting locally produced crops (cassava in this case) will have dire effects on the food demand of local consumers because the ethanol market would mop up the products meant for consumption by the masses. It is believed that such move may lead to more hunger among Nigerians (Africa as a whole).

It is reported that 200 million people in Africa are chronically hungry, meanwhile in 1998 and 2000, more than a quarter of the population were seriously undernourished (202 million people). In sub- Saharan Africa, it is expected that the number of undernourished will increase from 180 million in 1995/97 to 184 million. This is a sharp contrast to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving hunger and poverty in 2015. The picture depicts above, welcomes us into the awesome opportunities inherent in cassava, the most staple crop and a source of food to virtually all Nigerians, I stand to be corrected. The NEPAD Pan African Cassava Initiative referred to it as a powerful poverty fighter by driving down the price of food to millions of consumers.

In any way one looks at, the current wave of national prominence roaring thorough the country about cassava which was prompted by the presidential initiative of 2002, intending to use the crop as the engine of growth in Nigeria and to put the nation in the global context for competition.

However, the country needs to upgrade the use of cassava into an industrial base for further diversification of the country’s economy with a categorization into the farm level by farmers processed into chips, flour and pellets by processors, used by agro industries to produce other products like ethanol, dextrin/adhesives, native and modified starch for the other industrial set-up (e.g. textiles, paper, wood, etc) and consumer (food and beverage) markets.

As at the time of writing these report the local price from ready ,willing and able buyers is N9000/MT and we can provides of the buyers to interested parties.

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Monday, February 22, 2010

HOW TO MAKE HUGE PROFIT TRADING AND EXPORTING OF COCOA BEANS

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HOW TO MAKE HUGE PROFIT TRADING AND EXPORTING OF COCOA BEANS

Providing employment for a large section of the population, agriculture remains a major source of economic activity in Nigeria. Nigeria produced 242 000 tonnes of cocoa in 2008. The National Cocoa Development Committee (NCDC), made up of the 14 cocoa producing states in the country, has distributed new high yield cocoa seedlings to cocoa farmers, and continues to allow the purchase of chemicals and inputs at 50% subsidy.

Cocoa ( Theobroma cacao L. ) is a native of Amazon region of South America. The bulk of it is produced in the tropical areas of the African continent. There are over 20 species in the genus but the cocoa tree Theobroma cacao is the only one cultivated widely.

In the 18th century the Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnaeus, renamed the cocoa tree giving it the Greek name Theobroma Cacao, now its official botanical name, which literally means 'food of the Gods'.

Cocoa trees resemble English apple trees. They grow best under the canopy of tropical rainforests, seldom reaching more than 7.5 metres (25 feet) high. To flourish they need to be shaded from direct sun and wind, particularly in the early growth stages. Young trees are interspersed with new permanent or temporary shade trees such as coconut, plantains and bananas, following the clear-felling of the forest. In large Asian plantations, cocoa trees and coconut trees are planted together and both crops are harvested commercially.

Alternatively, forest trees are thinned out and the cocoa trees are planted between established trees.

Cocoa trees begin to bear fruit when they are three to four years old. They produce pink and white flowers throughout the year, growing in abundance after before the rain starts. However the pods grow straight out of the trunk and the main branches, which is most unusual. Only a small proportion of the flowers develop into fruit over a period of about five months. The trees are carefully pruned so that pods can be more easily harvested.

Each tree yields 20-30 pods per year. It takes the whole year's crop from one tree to make 450gms of Chocolate.

The cocoa tree has broad, dark leaves about 25cm long, and pale-coloured flowers from which bean pods grow.The cocoa tree bears two harvests of cocoa pods per year. Around 20cm in length and 500gms in weight, the pods ripen to a rich, golden-orange colour.

Within each pod there are 20-40 purple, 2cm long cocoa beans covered in a sweet white pulp.
There are three broad types of cocoa - Forastero and Crillo, as well as Trinitario, a hybrid of the two. Within these types there are several varieties.

Forastero Producing the greater part of all cocoa grown, Forastero is hardy and vigorous, producing beans with the strongest flavour. The Forastero variety most widely grown in West Africa and Brazil is Amelondaro. It has a smooth yellow pod and pale purple beans.

CrilloWith its mild or weak chocolate flavour, Crillo is grown in Indonesia, Central and South America. Crillo trees are not as hardy and produce softer red pods, containing 20-30 white, ivory or very pale purple beans.

Trinitario Plants are not found in the wild as they are cultivated hybrids of the other two types. Trinitario cocoa trees are grown mainly in the Caribbean, but also in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea. The mostly hard pods contain 30 or more beans of variable colour, though white beans are rare.

Cocoa, currently one of the market’s best performing commodities, hit a 23-year high in December 2008. The price of cocoa hit $2,581.6 per tonne in January 2009.On small family farms around the world, cocoa farmers harvest the ripe pods by hand, just as they've done for more than a thousand years.

The harvesting of cocoa pods is very labour-intensive. On West African small-holdings the whole family, together with friends and neighbours help out.

Ripe pods are gathered every few weeks during the peak season. The high pods are cut with large knives attached to poles, taking care not to damage nearby flowers or buds. The pods are collected in large baskets, which workers carry on their heads, and piled up ready for splitting.
The pods are split open by hand and the seeds or beans, which are covered with a sweet white pulp or mucilage, are removed ready to undergo the two-part curing process - fermentation and drying. This prepares the beans for market and is the first stage in the development of the delicious chocolate flavour.

Processing cocoa beans ready for chocolate making involves six main steps:
Fermentation During fermentation the cocoa pulp clinging to the beans matures and turns into a liquid, which drains away and the true chocolate flavour starts to develop.

Fermentation methods vary considerably from country to country, but there are two basic methods - using heaps and "sweating" boxes.

The heap method, traditionally used on farms in West Africa, involves piling wet cocoa beans, surrounded by the pulp, on banana or plantation leaves spread out in a circle on the ground. The heap is covered with more leaves and left for 5-6 days, regularly turned to ensure even fermentation.

In large plantations in the West Indies, Latin America and Malaysia, strong wooden boxes with drainage holes or gaps in the slats in the base are used, allowing air and liquid to pass through.

This process takes 6-8 days during which time the beans are mixed twice.

In Nigeria, cocoa is fermented in baskets lined and covered with leaves.

When fermentation is complete, the wet mass of beans is dried, either traditionally by being spread in the sun on mats or using special drying equipment. The cured beans are packed into sacks for transportation to Singapore, where Cadbury processes the beans. After quality inspection they are shipped to the Cadbury processing factory in Singapore, which produces the basic ingredients from which Cadbury chocolate products are made.

On arrival at the factory, the cocoa beans are sorted and cleaned.

Winnowing: The dried beans are cracked and a stream of air separates the shell from the nib, the small pieces used to make chocolate.

Roasting:The nibs are roasted in special ovens at temperatures between 105-120 degrees Celsius. The actual roasting time depends on whether the end use is for cocoa or chocolate. During roasting, the cocoa nibs darken to a rich, brown colour and acquire their characteristic chocolate flavour and aroma. This flavour however, actually starts to develop during fermentation.

Grinding: The roasted nibs are ground in stone mills until the friction and heat of the milling reduces them to a thick chocolate-coloured liquid, known as 'mass.' It contains 53-58% cocoa butter and solidifies on cooling. This is the basis of all chocolate and cocoa products.
PressingThe cocoa mass is pressed in powerful machines to extract the cocoa butter, vital to making chocolate.

The solid blocks of compressed cocoa remaining after extraction (presscake) are pulverised into a fine powder to produce a high-grade cocoa powder for use as a beverage or in cooking.
The cocoa mass, cocoa butter and cocoa powder are then quality inspected and used in the production of chocolate.

South West Nigeria is regarded as the cocoa belt of the country, accounting for 70 per cent of Nigeria's annual production of 242,000 metric tonnes in 2008.

Less than five percent of cocoa flowers will produce fruit. The fruits of the cocoa tree are oval-shaped pods, 8 to 14 inches long, ranging in color from yellow or green to red or violet. The football-shaped pods grow directly from the trunk and main branches of the tree - not from stems like apples, oranges and other familiar fruits.

It takes 5-6 months for the pods to grow and ripen. Unlike trees in the Northern Hemisphere, where fruit ripens at the same time every year, cocoa flowers and fruit can grow side by side on the same tree.

Becuase of the numerous use of cocoa seed and the high demand for the processed seed, the demand for cocoa seeds far outway the supply.

To succeed in this business one needs to be well grounded and take the issue of quality very seriuosly.

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Friday, February 19, 2010

HOW TO MAKE MONEY BUYING AND EXPORTING GOLD ROCK IN NIGERIA

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY BUYING AND EXPORTING GOLD ROCK IN NIGERIA

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (Latin: aurum, "shining dawn") and an atomic number of 79. It has been a highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since the beginning of recorded history. The metal occurs as nuggets or grains in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits. Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile pure metal known.

Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water. Gold is one of the coinage metals and has served as a symbol of wealth and a store of value throughout history. Gold standards have provided a basis for monetary policies. It also has been linked to a variety of symbolisms and ideologies.

Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, or an ounce into 300 square feet. Gold leaf can be beaten thin enough to become translucent. The transmitted light appears greenish blue, because gold strongly reflects yellow and red.[2] Such semi-transparent sheets also strongly reflect infrared light, making them useful as infrared (radiant heat) shields in visors of heat-resistant suits, and in sun-visors for spacesuits.

Gold readily creates alloys with many other metals. These alloys can be produced to modify the hardness and other metallurgical properties, to control melting point or to create exotic colors. Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity and reflects infrared radiation strongly. Chemically, it is unaffected by air, moisture and most corrosive reagents, and is therefore well-suited for use in coins and jewelry and as a protective coating on other, more reactive, metals. However, it is not chemically inert.

The color of pure gold is metallic yellow. Gold, caesium and copper are the only metallic elements with a natural color other than gray or white.

Gold has been widely used throughout the world as a vehicle for monetary exchange, either by issuance and recognition of gold coins or other bare metal quantities, or through gold-convertible paper instruments by establishing gold standards in which the total value of issued money is represented in a store of gold reserves.

However, the amount of gold in the world is finite and production has not grown in relation to the world's economies. Today, gold mining output is declining. With the sharp growth of economies in the 20th century, and increasing foreign exchange, the world's gold reserves and their trading market have become a small fraction of all markets and fixed exchange rates of currencies to gold became unsustainable.

At the beginning of World War I the warring nations moved to a fractional gold standard, inflating their currencies to finance the war effort. After World War II gold was replaced by a system of convertible currency following the Bretton Woods system. Gold standards and the direct convertibility of currencies to gold have been abandoned by world governments, being replaced by fiat currency in their stead. Switzerland was the last country to tie its currency to gold; it backed 40% of its value until the Swiss joined the International Monetary Fund in 1999.

Pure gold is too soft for day-to-day monetary use and is typically hardened by alloying with copper, silver or other base metals. The gold content of alloys is measured in carats (k). Pure gold is designated as 24k.

Gold has variuos uses amongst which are

Investment:

Many holders of gold store it in form of bullion coins or bars as a hedge against inflation or other economic disruptions. However, some economists do not believe gold serves as a hedge against inflation or currency depreciation.

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle, the British gold sovereign, and the South African Krugerrand continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

The special issue Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin contains the highest purity gold of any bullion coin, at 99.999% or .99999 finess, while the popular issue Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin has a purity of 99.99%. Several other 99.99% pure gold coins are available. The Australian Gold Kangaroos was first coined in 1986 as the Australian Gold Nugget. Its kangaroo theme appeared in 1989. In addition, there are several coins of the Australian Lunar Calendar series, and the Austrian Philharmonic. In 2006, the United States Mint began production of the American Buffalo gold bullion coin with a purity of 99.99%.

Jewelry:

Because of the softness of pure (24k) gold, it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties. Alloys with lower caratage, typically 22k, 18k, 14k or 10k, contain higher percentages of copper, or other base metals or silver or palladium in the alloy. Copper is the most commonly used base metal, yielding a redder color. Eighteen carat gold containing 25% copper is found in antique and Russian jewelry and has a distinct, though not dominant, copper cast, creating rose gold. Fourteen carat gold-copper alloy is nearly identical in color to certain bronze alloys, and both may be used to produce police, as well as other, badges. Blue gold can be made by alloying with iron and purple gold can be made by alloying with aluminium, although rarely done except in specialized jewelry.

Blue gold is more brittle and therefore more difficult to work with when making jewelry. Fourteen and eighteen carat gold alloys with silver alone appear greenish-yellow and are referred to as green gold. White gold alloys can be made with palladium or nickel. White 18 carat gold containing 17.3% nickel, 5.5% zinc and 2.2% copper is silver in appearance. Nickel is toxic, however, and its release from nickel white gold is controlled by legislation in Europe. Alternative white gold alloys are available based on palladium, silver and other white metals (World Gold Council), but the palladium alloys are more expensive than those using nickel. High-carat white gold alloys are far more resistant to corrosion than are either pure silver or sterling silver. The Japanese craft of Mokume-gane exploits the color contrasts between laminated colored gold alloys to produce decorative wood-grain effects.

In Nigeria,there are proven reserves of both alluvial and primary gold in the schist belt of Nigeria located in the south-western part of the country. Gold Occurs in different form namely gold bar,gold dust ,gold rock and gold dore.Gold can be found in the following states Niger,Osun,Kebbi,Kaduna,Kogi,Kwara,Zamfara,Katsina,Kano and the Federal Capital Territory,Abuja. The deposits are mainly alluvial and are currently being exploited on a small scale and they occur in minute quantity that has to be processed in order to produce gold bar.

Throughout the centuries, gold has been recovered from its ores in many ways.Any method of treating gold ores must take advantage of the natural characteristics of the metal.

The return on investment in the trading and export of gold rock in Nigeria is between 10-15% depending on the quantity of gold contained in the rock sample.

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