Our mission

Our mission in ACFA is to bring together, protect and make financial and moral provisions for  our members. And also to protect them from being lynched or cheated by oppressors. We are very sure that no matter how strong or popular our intending challengers may be, ACFA will never give way to or allow any of its members/affiliates to be victimized.

It Is the duty of the Association to represent, defend or to receive on behalf of all its members/shareholders, to represent, defend, collect, and manage any financial or material incentives directed towards them. Including all kind of grants or other incentives.

 

 

Neglecting Peasant Farmers ..... All Cooperative Farmers Association

Farmers like Ameze, Iyimade, Edemakhiota, Agbonlahor, Madam Isibor and others, un-doubtedly need seeds and simple farming equipment. Food aid alone is of limited value. As the Chinese proverb says: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Generally, African peasants farmers, Most especially Farmers from Edo State are not helped to succeed as farmers, though there are exceptions in some other African countries.

Since colonial times, Africa’s best land has been devoted to the production of cash crops for export. In addition, large farming projects have been developed to provide food for the more affluent cities. Thus peasant farmers have often been pushed off good land and forced to subsist on land that is less productive. Left to fend for themselves, Africa’s peasants have degraded fragile land by over cultivation and overgrazing, and by cutting down too many trees. Large portions of African lands are turning into desert.

Their position has also been undermined by price-fixing. To please city dwellers, many African governments keep the price of farm produce very low. This policy, according to the scientific journal Nature, has “contributed powerfully to the decline of agriculture, the hunger of the same urban populations and the dependence of potentially fertile Africa on food imports.” Working on redirecting this design however, the All Cooperative Farmers Association (ACFA) have concluded to embark on a more tedious kind of farming but with required quality produce from the farm. And this scheme is called REVISITING THE NATURAL FARMING

ACFA Encouraging Natural Farming

COMPOSTING is almost as old as home gardening. Roman farms had their compost pits, where human and animal excrement were piled up along with weeds, leaves, and whatever household wastes had accumulated. From time to time, water was added to assist in the process of decay. A thousand years later, in Moorish Spain, an agricultural treatise described three methods for making heaps of “artificial dung,” as the compost was called—pigeon dung being added to hasten decay.

With the advent of community landfills for waste disposal and no-fuss-no-muss chemical fertilizers for easy use on lawns and gardens, home composting in general became almost a rarity. But composting has recently made a comeback. Landfills were beginning to overflow, states were putting restrictions on what and how much could be dumped, and dumping fees might range from $30 to $100 a ton. Moreover, environmental concerns have increased, and this also has made composting fashionable once more.

Not only is composting back, it is back bigger than ever. Its eye is on landfills as the next target. “Composting is a promising technology that may end up helping to solve the ever-growing waste-disposal problem,” said an article in The New York Times Magazine. “Its proponents believe it is capable of making use of up to half the garbage—kitchen wastes, yard trimmings, even some waste paper—that most Americans now throw out. They believe composting can create farms that build the soil instead of destroying it, that compost can replace eroded or damaged soils, protect young plants from disease and reduce dependence on pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.”

Gofta in its effort to help farmers grow rich and natural food stuff, has intended to imitate his brothers world-wide to also embark on composting as a way of producing natural manure for our plants rather than relying on pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.

OBA OF BENIN DIS-BOUND TWO COMMUNITIES ........ Ugbighoko & .........

W e in All Cooperative Farmers Association through our general Secretary Mr Agbonlahor Osamuyi want to support Otunba Femi Oke to emphatically tell all arm of government in Nigeria that what the farmers actually want is not loan but grants. come to think of it, why is it difficult to approve agricultural grants to farmers in this country? is it because the various government don't see the effort being put in by the farmers or are the farmers not qualified for it?
Even the FADAMA III program does have any positive effect in the lives of the farmers in the state. because the foundation of the structure in Edo state was not well laid. If you doubt this information, conduct a statistical survey and see the fact.

Why Do We Need Farmers?

MAIDEN SPEECH MADE BY MR. AGBONLAHOR OSAMUYI.

THE GENERAL SECRETARY,

ALL CO-OPERATIVE FARMERS ASSOCIATION, EDO STATE.

On the 27ty of July, 2013.

In a Special Reunion Meeting Of All Co-Operative Farmers, And Its Affiliates.

My Comrades,

My Brothers,

My Co-farmers,

Every one present here today,

I want to warmly welcome you to this great gathering. I feel very privileged to be a part of this success. I want to assure you here today that it has not really been very easy for real and sincere farmers to come together like this at anytime. But for the hard-work, dedication and determination of this ACFA pioneers.

 Our mission is to organize, protect and make financial and moral provisions for all our members from being lynch or cheated by our oppressors. We are very sure that no matter how strong or popular our supposed challengers may be; ACFA will never give way for any of its members/affiliates, to be victimized.

This All Cooperative Farmers Association, Edo State; started its operation in January 2013, after many farmers has requested from the first pioneer of this group to look for way(s) to address the abnormality being experienced in other groups that claimed to be representing the farmers. Listening to these cries and looking for ways to address it, Mr. Agbonlahor designed what is now known as ACFA and presented the plan to the second pioneer, Mr. Obasogie, who in collaboration with other farmers established what is now known as ACFA. Which now serves as the only farmers group that will ever make meaningful impact in the life of farmers, due to the sincerity and transparency, part of the founding materials. Why other farmers groups are like a seed yam planted, that need to rotten away for a fresh and better one to germinate from it. In which the new sprout, is ACFA.

Have you not ask yourselves individually at one time or the other why farmers has not been assisted by the various government, and other well meaning Donors? Or why we cannot access what the World Bank, the federal government or other interested international institutions granted for us, is even taken away from us?

The answer is not far fetched. It’s because, Farmers fail to be united.

I want to assure you once again colleagues that the time for all discrepancies to be cleared in now. Please fellow farmers, let us know whether you like what we are doing now, whether you believe in what we are doing now or whether you convincingly want to be a part of this great change we are about to experience in the farming sector.

If you say no to those questions just raised above, quickly ask yourself this personal question “if I choose not to be a bonafide partner in this move to join all farmers together, even when I am aware that this is the solution to our problem, what will I tell my children when they come out tomorrow to ask me, when others were putting in unstinting effort to stabilize the farming industry in the state, why do you allow your slaves to be in charge of your gold “YOUR INHERITANCE” ?.

In agriculture, remember that the new sprout is always better than the one planted. Therefore, affiliating to this Association at its earliest time will put you in advantageous position.

Market women were supported with N100m on Thursday 25^th July, 2013 by the comrade governor of Edo State. Will you say they are more organize than us? Are they more than us? Are we saying that our wives who are these market women are more intelligent than us?

I advise every one of us here to change our negative opinion about ourselves. Believe you are a success.  Come together to work as a team. Since this sincere coming together as a co-operative farmers group is what we must do to succeed as farmers. If we fail to do it how, we must definitely retrace our steps later and come back to do it. And by then we may not be the beneficiaries. My advice is that we better come together now and start enjoying the fruit of our labour. Or else, we will be giving the opportunity to our slave to be in possession of our most cherished GOLD “Our Inheritance”.

I want to ask once again when will you learn comrades, brothers and friends? Have you not made several mistakes before that you can correct yourselves from? If you have not known me by now, since I have been with you, when will you do? Don’t be surprise! Not knowing me till now, shows lack of Intelligence as the only intelligent ones can benefit from the government. But what are some qualities of Intelligence?

Qualities Of Intelligence

1.      Truthfulness

2.      Determination

3.      Optimism

4.      Focused

5.      Sincere love for others

6.      Non-relenting

7.      Working with others

8.      Transparency

As a dedicated farmer, ask yourself; have you ever make sense out of nonsense? Do you want to make sense out of it? Be very well guaranteed that the rotten yam can never rise to live again after decay. Therefore, because other farmers groups that have existed. Never proved to be real or have better plan for its members, they will never have persons/group to penetrate their root, again.

Take Note:

Stay glued to ACFA. The only farmers Association that knows the feelings and plight of the farmers, and wants to make a open door for them in that regard. The benefit we claimed to have derives from the government in the past was not based on our effort but the effort of others. How then can we claim we are intelligent when no one has ever been privileged to benefit from our effort?

These words I’m telling you today are inspired and promising. If you all adhere to it, this will be the open door for all active and interested farmer in this state. It will mean that the key to the door of success has been given to the rightful owners (the farmers).

With optimism, I tell you no one, no officer, no group or organization can ever have a claim on our inheritance anymore.

I am glad to be with you once again.

I thank you all.