After the hustle and bustle that is filled with the city life, once in a while, it is deemed a necessity for most people over here to travel to a remote village where they find some peace, serenity and tranquility.
Most people have villages where they come from, but inside those villages, there are no white collar jobs. The only jobs found in villages are farm works, weeding, tapping of palmwine, harvesting of palm fruits, picking of palm kernel, working at palm oil mills, clearing of bushes, hunting, fishing and other menial jobs.
Living in the village is interesting but it is only very good when one has worked a lot in the city and made so much money, then you can carry some money to the village.
As education and civilization creeps into rural areas most children go to school and get into higher institutions and no longer want to live in the village because they now search for white collar jobs.
New generations neglect farming, fishing and hunting. They neglect this kind of jobs in the village because they feel it is less profitable.
Farming is a very big job and it is very lucrative. I have a family friend that is practicing commercial farming and he is doing well.
Most of the farmers here in the village only practice mixed farming. With this method, one can plant so many types of crops on one piece of land.
Over here, we plant cassava, maize, yam, water yam, pumpkin leaves, water leaf, afang, editan, bitter leaf, atama, cocoyam, wateryam and other crops in the same farm land.
These are planted and they do not require any fertilizer or too much care. These plants are naturally watered by rain fall. They do not need drip irrigation systems like big commercial farmings do.
The villagers just plant and only do some weeding without having to conduct some spraying of any form of chemicals or anything.
This farming in the village also does not require a green house for successful planting, rather, crops are planted out in the open, the rain falls on them and they flourish naturally without much Ado.