Ijebu Ponmo, what is it really? Is Ijebu Ponmo wholesome? is Ijebu Ponmo really from IJEBU? Is this Ijebu Ponmo from cattle hides?
Lets go into the Ogun community where its all happening.
Inside multi-million naira ponmo business in Ogun community. According to this story in the Nation newspaper published on 1/Oct/2022. One of the merchants, Aliu Adewale interviewed said, “The cow skin comes in containers and a container contains a minimum of 4,000 pieces.Containers carrying small sizes of cow skin cost over N25 million each.“Some people prepare them dry and send them abroad. But I don’t export mine.
Women come from places like Ondo, Lagos, Ibadan and so on to buy it.
“The dry one is even sold in some supermarkets. The number of women involved in this business is very high. ”Quantifying the natives involved in the business, he said: “Fifty per cent of our people are into the business. There are people who only travel to the north and other places like the Sudan to bring in the cow skin. “Another set of people will go and buy from them and process it and another set will come to Ijebu Igbo from different locations to buy it.
“The cows that are killed in Nigeria are not enough to meet the quantity of ponmo that we process, so people go outside Nigeria to get it. “Besides the amount of sunshine in Nigeria cannot be compared with what obtains in the Sudan. The intensity of sunshine in their country makes their cow skin to be different from ours.” read more here.
There really is there is no Ponmo IJEBU, what we have is hides imported to the country and procured from the North and processed in Ogun state. This is then distributed to various states in the country. Is it true that animals slaughtered is not sufficient for ponmo? this is not true: Lagos alone slaughters 6,000 heads of cattle daily, i believe processing these should be enough. There are abattoirs all over the country and i believe the hides processed can be sufficient. watch this video about ponmo ijebu HERE
Economic implications of buying ijebu Ponmo.
1) Butchers are not selling the hides as more merchants are joining the ijebu ponmo trade.
2) Ponmo sellers dealing in authentic ponmo are recording low sales, return investment is low.
3) Legitimate investors in the ponmo business are winding down activities.
What next? tell someone to tell someone that Ijebu Ponmo is not really ponmo. The hides are not tracable, you dont know which animals you are consuming. The ponmo is laced with preservatives making these non-edible.
#support your #local butchers .
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