Aggressive irrigation continued today. I would have updated with pictures but my phone's battery was flat. Irrigation to continue tomorrow. Crops coping and adjusting.....

Great job, you're doing well, I'm impressed, can you share side hustle that's bringing you something? You talked about selling a goat or something like that

Finnish:
Great job, you're doing well, I'm impressed, can you share side hustle that's bringing you something? You talked about selling a goat or something like that

Nothing really much. I'm into livestock production. I keep poultry. Sometimes train them to maturity and sell another time just brood for a month and sell. This Christmas, it's business. I keep local fowls, their eggs are quite expensive than layers, and they move faster than agric in terms of liquidity, I keep rabbits etc. I'm into livestock feed milling. I have a shop where I sell that. I keep goat too. Started from buying sick goats from people who might not be able to afford medical care with good progeny from people cheaply because they're expensive here, treat them myself and add to my flock. I offer vet services within the scope of agriculture, once beyond that, I invite my vet friends to my customers.

And integrity is key in what you do. That has kept me in business. My specialization teaches: don't promise what you can't do to your clients. If you don't know let them know you don't know but you could tell to get back to them later. If you have to invite subject matter specialists, do. Financial integrity is key. And let your clients see that their interests are above money.

Dawson126:


Nothing really much. I'm into livestock production. I keep poultry. Sometimes train them to maturity and sell another time just brood for a month and sell. This Christmas, it's business. I keep local fowls, their eggs are quite expensive than layers, and they move faster than agric in terms of liquidity, I keep rabbits etc. I'm into livestock feed milling. I have a shop where I sell that. I keep goat too. Started from buying sick goats from people who might not be able to afford medical care with good progeny from people cheaply because they're expensive here, treat them myself and add to my flock. I offer vet services within the scope of agriculture, once beyond that, I invite my vet friends to my customers.

And integrity is key in what you do. That has kept me in business. My specialization teaches: don't promise what you can't do to your clients. If you don't know let them know you don't know but you could tell to get back to them later. If you have to invite subject matter specialists, do. Financial integrity is key. And let your clients see that their interests are above money.

Great one, I read you talked about testing land/soil for fertility, before buying a land, how do you test the soil to know if it's fertile or not?

Finnish:


Great one, I read you talked about testing land/soil for fertility, before buying a land, how do you test the soil to know if it's fertile or not?

You'd probably use any of the soil testing facilities in the country but most are usually private and expensive too.

Although you could do it roughly by yourself by studying the kind of vegetation on the land but it's not really realistic as it is not quantifiable and rough as it is not too good by agriculture standard and moreso to me, any kind of soil fertility test that neglets in situ visit to the farmland, is not complete. Soil structure and other in situ characteristics are important too

And if you have a bit of self built soil chemical kit around you or buy one from these companies, they could give a rough estimate of what types of nutrients' ions are in the soil but not their amount, that would get some kind of background to your soil fertility.

The rain has established itself here again. All glory to God. I'll be making a new thread of Cowpea(cowpea) production in the southwest very soon. The variety we are planting is Ife Bimpe and it arrived yesterday but I'm yet to receive its delivery. My partner and I are doing really great about the cowpea. And by God's grace, we're looking at some kind of 1-2 acres or 1 hectare and we were there today to map it out although we want them on different locations so as to manage pest infestation using depopulation strategy.

The planning is still subjected to a lot of considerations due to nature of cowpea interactions with many climatic conditions and climate change is here.

My proposal presentation is coming up very soon too so I might not be available everytime.

More updates coming......

Dawson126:


You'd probably use any of the soil testing facilities in the country but most are usually private and expensive too.

Although you could do it roughly by yourself by studying the kind of vegetation on the land but it's not really realistic as it is not quantifiable and rough as it is not too good by agriculture standard and moreso to me, any kind of soil fertility test that neglets in situ visit to the farmland, is not complete. Soil structure and other in situ characteristics are important too

And if you have a bit of self built soil chemical kit around you or buy one from these companies, they could give a rough estimate of what types of nutrients' ions are in the soil but not their amount, that would get some kind of background to your soil fertility.

Ah, This sounds like rocket science stuff, I just need a simple DIY, normally I would have just gotten a land and plant, but was thinking about testing soil after reading posts here, sounds complicated, I'll just pass, the land you planted maize on, do you do any kind of test?

Dawson126:
The rain has established itself here again. All glory to God. I'll be making a new thread of Cowpea(cowpea) production in the southwest very soon. The variety we are planting is Ife Bimpe and it arrived yesterday but I'm yet to receive its delivery. My partner and I are doing really great about the cowpea. And by God's grace, we're looking at some kind of 1-2 acres or 1 hectare and we were there today to map it out although we want them on different locations so as to manage pest infestation using depopulation strategy.

The planning is still subjected to a lot of considerations due to nature of cowpea interactions with many climatic conditions and climate change is here.

My proposal presentation is coming up very soon too so I might not be available everytime.

More updates coming......

Looking forward to it, your posts have been very educative, we could do with rain here too, planted lil plantain, I've been watering myself, very tasking.

Finnish:


Ah, This sounds like rocket science stuff, I just need a simple DIY, normally I would have just gotten a land and plant, but was thinking about testing soil after reading posts here, sounds complicated, I'll just pass, the land you planted maize on, do you do any kind of test?

Didn't do not really so much of soil test. In as much you're gon apply fertilizer, just understand the nutrient requirements of your crop. In fact you're good to good once your soil is mostly loam. Where the question comes is if it's Sandy loam or clay loam. OK, I'll explain.

Maize, for example prefers silty loam as it is well drained. Organic matter(humus) content too is important not because they will add nutrients, they're even slow releasing. But they improve the Cation Exchange Capacity of your soil. What is CEC? Ability of your soil to exchange nutrients mostly with your crop roots. How does organic matter( humus) affect nutrients availability to your crop? Humus carries those nutrients on their head like bucket of water so that the roots can take them up.

Let me share one tip with you.
Do you know why, if you apply fertilizer to some soil especially the once cropped ones, yield might still be low to expectations? Low humus or organic content. Nitrogen might get leached, phosphorus becomes fixated(added to soil rock mineral structure, the therefore not available for crop use), potassium becomes inactivated because nothing to carry them up like bucket.

You really want to let the manure work? Apply it earlier than planting, usually months. Because they're slow releasing nutrients and if you do this, you won't have issues with micro nutrients(boron,maganese,zinc etc) and by the time you apply the fertilizer, you'd be surprised yourself. One of the reasons monoculture monocroping is successful in developed countries.

If I'd plant any crop on a *humus rich soil*, before I'd use fertilizer at two weeks, I'd observe the old leaves. If purple margin, I know I've got issues with phosphorus, if yellowish beginning from margin, I know I'm in soup for nitrogen, if it's tinny and weak, I begin to look to calcium and zinc, if yellowish from a spot then spreading, sulphur. Light greenish parallel lines, magnesium

So this will give me a rough framework of nutrients I need to add to the soil.
I'll buy NPK fertilizer according to the ratio of what I need most
Get Epsom salt. It's cheap all around us 3 sachets of 25g goes for #50.
I'll get the rest from common source and apply.
Don't be deceived, if you know how much potassium is in NPK 15:15:15 50kg you'll be amazed and that is what you're using on a large or relatively large farmland the rest are just fillers. So you don't need to get those materials much. I use ash as my own fillers

To be continued.....

When New updates?

Finnish:
When New updates?

Academics is holding me down on campus. My project proposal was rejected on lags from my supervisor's part by the research committee. I need to prepare a new one and that's what I'm doing now.

For long now, I've not been to my farm, I miss it and sincerely don't know what might be going on there. I'm just like a soldier in a war front with pregnant wife at home

Dawson126:


Academics is holding me down on campus. My project proposal was rejected on lags from my supervisor's part by the research committee. I need to prepare a new one and that's what I'm doing now.

For long now, I've not been to my farm, I miss it and sincerely don't know what might be going on there. I'm just like a soldier in a war front with pregnant wife at home

Hahaha the last line got me, well done eh, we've all been there!

When I got to farm today, this was what I saw

More closer look..... .

More closer look.......

I checked this for assessment and my results were:
1. Most are on the blister stage

2. Nitrogen remobilization is OK. This is very important because one will think the crop is not growing now but that is not the case. Immediately tarseling sets in (VT stage) , your crop nutrients especially nitrogen and phosphorus demand begins to go up this is used for the growing part until corn kernels (the maize we eat) termination at the tip takes place. This is called nutrients remobilization. The maize cob is a modified branch. What covers them are the leaves, the kernels node sits the flowers, on the branch sits the flower. Adequate water and sunlight is a treasure at this stage.

3. Fertilization of the corn flower is good too.

I assessed their old leaves and no urgent deficiency of crop nutrients

4. No unusual fruit rot (fungal attack) and malformation

The upper part of the pics was the control (their row not fertilized). Immediately they noticed improper nutrients remobilization, they had to fertilize the crop while at the milking stage, though rain delayed the fertilizer application till the late milking stage but the results were still glaring. Although there is still economics to this, over cost of fertilizer to give the improve yield and the marginal profit the improve yield will give.

The ones at this side of the field from the start had issues. Although the soil structure was well affected due to cassava cultivation but at the end to prevent their shortness which might affect yield , gibberelin was applied and there was improvement at least.

That's all for now. Cowpea (Beans cultivation) loading... ...

This is going to be lengthy but I've got to pour it out.

So this morning I was typing a report given to me by a lecturer I'm very cordial with. There's this project he's on. Someone came from abroad and decided to settle for farming. He had a maize field of about 21 hectares going down the drainage. They just noticed after chemical weeding, some spots on the field started dying off. It started somehow as chemical injury until it began to spread, then they started seeing it as salt stress, later blight but all measures proffered no solution and somehow he met this man, some folks from crop protection began their findings.

It turned out to be the dreaded maize leaf lethal necrotic disease. I was just sorry for the person, multi-million Naira project. Just like that wasting. I was just imagining why someone would have that kind of a project and won't seek help from people from the scratch. There are so many outlets here in Nigeria that would offer awesome service. Maybe they just think because one could get away with small hold farming one could do that for large hold ones, it's wrong. Agriculture upsets the ecosystem, it upsets nature. You're favouring the growth of a specie at the expense of another one, you're interfering with natural law process of life. There are practices no agric experts will never reveal because that's where financial gain lies. And that's the Ecosystem Threshold Level and their concepts. There is a level you reach, nature fights back. Nature is just like the human homeostasis, keeping balance at a fairly constant range but for that to happen many process are involved! I'm just damn disturbed, feeling for that farmer

You can't manage one hectare like one acre, you can't manage one acre like a quarter of acre, a quarter like one plot! There are different. You're providing more food to favour some organisms (humans, armyworm, rodents, pests, pathogens) above the other, which would surely disturbed ecosystem! The more the size, the more the problems you'd see on your farm, and you want to come out with profit, you've got to fight with practical wisdom.

Naturally those thing would grow in the wild, rabbit will eat, rat will eat, pest and disease causing organisms would come eat theirs, humans too will eat, when nature pities them, they evolve to manage the assaults gradually to a level at balance! That's what whites are doing now for Genetically Modified Crops, they saw if you don't help these crops and indirectly assisting nature like an Indian giver, by conferring fighting factors right from their genetic make up, from their genes, you're practically doing nothing, you're causing more harms. See climate change. Over time, selfish human has assaulted nature to the extent nature now had no option but to demise the wisdom of man. At least if you can't guess when the next rain is, you won't go and apply herbicides or pesticides or your chemicals.

When we started poultry, we started with 60 birds thereabouts. And those ones after the pros and cons, we made profits and left. Next batch came, 150 thereabouts and as we were going up there, more issues started coming up and more approaches were needed and applied. An those guys we were together, would say ' shey someone can't finish learning this thing?' I would laugh and say, 'all these researches no go finish?' As a problem comes, in fact before it comes, so many people are already looking at it except it comes with a very great force. We all dey learn everyday!

That farmer now has no option but to destroy the farm, what could have been prevented by buying maize leaf lethal necrotic disease resistant variety.

I decided to on my data and I saw this

About the cowpea production, I want to be very careful considering our climate, disease causing organisms (pathogens) and pests make up here in the south. We have lot of them here ready for cowpea especially if you're doing it on a large scale.

We are looking at 2 hectares but we deviced splitting them up into half acres, that's about 10 parts to reduce the load and impacts of the ecosystem with a minimum of 200m radius apart separated by natural vegetation. And that could be hard but we're making progress even considering weather timing now.

And moreover, we don't want to rely entirely on chemicals and we're looking at biological control agents (Semi organic farming) and currently we have acquired two strains of different fungi for insects control, a bio nematicide, and we're working on rhizobium..... More updates to come

Dawson126:
The ones at this side of the field from the start had issues. Although the soil structure was well affected due to cassava cultivation but at the end to prevent their shortness which might affect yield , gibberelin was applied and there was improvement at least.

Thanks man. This wonderful and sacrificial on your part. Thank you so much Dawson. What is 'gibberelin' and what is its work on maize plant? Thanks

Dawson126:
This is going to be lengthy but I've got to pour it out.

So this morning I was typing a report given to me by a lecturer I'm very cordial with. There's this project he's on. Someone came from abroad and decided to settle for farming. He had a maize field of about 21 hectares going down the drainage. They just noticed after chemical weeding, some spots on the field started dying off. It started somehow as chemical injury until it began to spread, then they started seeing it as salt stress, later blight but all measures proffered no solution and somehow he met this man, some folks from crop protection began their findings.

It turned out to be the dreaded maize leaf lethal necrotic disease. I was just sorry for the person, multi-million Naira project. Just like that wasting. I was just imagining why someone would have that kind of a project and won't seek help from people from the scratch. There are so many outlets here in Nigeria that would offer awesome service. Maybe they just think because one could get away with small hold farming one could do that for large hold ones, it's wrong. Agriculture upsets the ecosystem, it upsets nature. You're favouring the growth of a specie at the expense of another one, you're interfering with natural law process of life. There are practices no agric experts will never reveal because that's where financial gain lies. And that's the Ecosystem Threshold Level and their concepts. There is a level you reach, nature fights back. Nature is just like the human homeostasis, keeping balance at a fairly constant range but for that to happen many process are involved! I'm just damn disturbed, feeling for that farmer

You can't manage one hectare like one acre, you can't manage one acre like a quarter of acre, a quarter like one plot! There are different. You're providing more food to favour some organisms (humans, armyworm, rodents, pests, pathogens) above the other, which would surely disturbed ecosystem! The more the size, the more the problems you'd see on your farm, and you want to come out with profit, you've got to fight with practical wisdom.

Naturally those thing would grow in the wild, rabbit will eat, rat will eat, pest and disease causing organisms would come eat theirs, humans too will eat, when nature pities them, they evolve to manage the assaults gradually to a level at balance! That's what whites are doing now for Genetically Modified Crops, they saw if you don't help these crops and indirectly assisting nature like an Indian giver, by conferring fighting factors right from their genetic make up, from their genes, you're practically doing nothing, you're causing more harms. See climate change. Over time, selfish human has assaulted nature to the extent nature now had no option but to demise the wisdom of man. At least if you can't guess when the next rain is, you won't go and apply herbicides or pesticides or your chemicals.

Thank you once again. We are following. I am a maize, cowpea, rice, yam and groundnut farmer. Happy to read about your experience and your depth of knowledge considering the fact that you are studying agriculture. Can you elaborate more on 'lethal necrotic disease'? and how to detect and deal with it? Thank you and keep up the good work. We your students are following with keen interest. by the way how do you deal with weed on your farm?

Jonnic1:
Thanks man. This wonderful and sacrificial on your part. Thank you so much Dawson. What is 'gibberelin' and what is its work on maize plant? Thanks

What is gibberellin?

Gibberellins are plant hormones and derivatives of gibberellic acid. Gibberellins are the many forms found in plants but the one available for agriculture is gibberellic acid in forms of tablet, powder or solution. They are growth regulators and promoters in plants, and are responsible for apical growth in plants that is, they make plants grow tall, larger tuber settings etc. They're widely used in potatoes cultivation and grasses cultivation ( sorghum ,maize, etc and widely used in rice)

Sometimes our crop don't do well not because the soil nutrients and structure, or our farm practices are bad, normal plant growth could be disturbed too e.g plant coordination (hormonal control). A plant having issues with gibberellins will not grow tall no matter how good other things are, a plant also having issues with Auxins will not do well either. Both with cytokinins are very important growth hormones.

Any effect on human body?

One might say, 'you're feeding us hormones' but the truth is that hormones are over exaggerated. Plants hormones are not like animals' even in structures. Most of animals' are proteinous while those of plants are simple structured organic compounds. And do you know? Most herbicides we used are actually hormones, growth hormones e.g 2,4-D etc. It is a type of auxins. Grasses don't seemed affected because non grasses are very sensitive and susceptible to it even generally auxins e.g Indo Acetic acid. If you use it at more than the recommended dosage, it can harm your grass even at a certain growth (especially fruiting) stage of your grasses, yield could be affected but unnoticeable and danger of leaving the weed or cost of manually weeding could be more than that of applying the chemical

Therefore Gibberellins could be used to treat dwarf plants and human bodies have no receptor for them.

What kind of crops can it be used on?

Virtually all crops and even trees but some respond better to it while some respond better in the presence of Auxins. Tubers respond well to it (widely used in yams and potatoes, usually rubbed with tuber sets from seed companies), grasses, vegetables also do well

Where can I buy it?
It is readily available with agro dealers especially those dealing with rice and potatoes cultivation inputs. Some go by the name, UJALA or so, Zibberelins etc

Jonnic1:
Thank you once again. We are following. I am a maize, cowpea, rice, yam and groundnut farmer. Happy to read about your experience and your depth of knowledge considering the fact that you are studying agriculture. Can you elaborate more on 'lethal necrotic disease'? and how to detect and deal with it? Thank you and keep up the good work. We your students are following with keen interest. by the way how do you deal with weed on your farm?

Maize lethal necrotic disease

I won't bore you with unnecessary talks. It is caused by a group of viruses, each with their havoc and could be interpreted as a curse in African culture. Lol. It can attack maize at any growth stage, any growth stage means any, the worst being during tarseling because it will damage the inflorescence, caused them to malform. Just any stage maybe while fruiting or preparing to fruit, while setting kernels etc.

How can I identify it roughly on spot?
The maize leaf begins to dry from the blade till it get to the main rib. That is, from outside the leaf to inside the leaf resembling a chemical burn. The spot affected will be scattered, one spot here, another there, another somewhere else and even a sick one might stand with a healthy one. So reasonably one would think chemical burn or salt stress and not even blight or any other type.
It is also quick to spread and the results are bad reason for the lethal

How can I prevent it?

Seed sanitary (Usually seeds are screened for it if from genuine supplier, seed could be treated against it too)
Farm sanitary (controlled movement of workers, choose a uniform mainly used in the farm for workers, instructions to be careful visiting places where maize monoculture is practiced, most importantly, extend the knowledge to commercial operators of farm machines, so as to keep the machines clean after each use)
Crop rotation
Not known effective chemical control
Plant resistant variety

Dawson126:


What is gibberellin?

Gibberellins are plant hormones and derivatives of gibberellic acid. Gibberellins are the many forms found in plants but the one available for agriculture is gibberellic acid in forms of tablet, powder or solution. They are growth regulators and promoters in plants, and are responsible for apical growth in plants that is, they make plants grow tall, larger tuber settings etc. They're widely used in potatoes cultivation and grasses cultivation ( sorghum ,maize, etc and widely used in rice)

Sometimes our crop don't do well not because the soil nutrients and structure, or our farm practices are bad, normal plant growth could be disturbed too e.g plant coordination (hormonal control). A plant having issues with gibberellins will not grow tall no matter how good other things are, a plant also having issues with Auxins will not do well either. Both with cytokinins are very important growth hormones.

Any effect on human body?

One might say, 'you're feeding us hormones' but the truth is that hormones are over exaggerated. Plants hormones are not like animals' even in structures. Most of animals' are proteinous while those of plants are simple structured organic compounds. And do you know? Most herbicides we used are actually hormones, growth hormones e.g 2,4-D etc. It is a type of auxins. Grasses don't seemed affected because non grasses are very sensitive and susceptible to it even generally auxins e.g Indo Acetic acid. If you use it at more than the recommended dosage, it can harm your grass even at a certain growth (especially fruiting) stage of your grasses, yield could be affected but unnoticeable and danger of leaving the weed or cost of manually weeding could be more than that of applying the chemical

Therefore Gibberellins could be used to treat dwarf plants and human bodies have no receptor for them.

What kind of crops can it be used on?

Virtually all crops and even trees but some respond better to it while some respond better in the presence of Auxins. Tubers respond well to it (widely used in yams and potatoes, usually rubbed with tuber sets from seed companies), grasses, vegetables also do well

Where can I buy it?
It is readily available with agro dealers especially those dealing with rice and potatoes cultivation inputs. Some go by the name, UJALA or so, Zibberelins etc

Wow! What a detailed expose. Thanks man. Really grateful

Dawson126:


Maize lethal necrotic disease

I won't bore you with unnecessary talks. It is caused by a group of viruses, each with their havoc and could be interpreted as a curse in African culture. Lol. It can attack maize at any growth stage, any growth stage means any, the worst being during tarseling because it will damage the inflorescence, caused them to malform. Just any stage maybe while fruiting or preparing to fruit, while setting kernels etc.

How can I identify it roughly on spot?
The maize leaf begins to dry from the blade till it get to the main rib. That is, from outside the leaf to inside the leaf resembling a chemical burn. The spot affected will be scattered, one spot here, another there, another somewhere else and even a sick one might stand with a healthy one. So reasonably one would think chemical burn or salt stress and not even blight or any other type.
It is also quick to spread and the results are bad reason for the lethal

How can I prevent it?

Seed sanitary (Usually seeds are screened for it if from genuine supplier, seed could be treated against it too)
Farm sanitary (controlled movement of workers, choose a uniform mainly used in the farm for workers, instructions to be careful visiting places where maize monoculture is practiced, most importantly, extend the knowledge to commercial operators of farm machines, so as to keep the machines clean after each use)
Crop rotation
Not known effective chemical control
Plant resistant variety

Thank you for this scholarly breakdown sir! Those of us who are viewing and following this highly informative write ups should please comment to keep this thread alive.

Jonnic1:
Thank you for this scholarly breakdown sir! Those of us who are viewing and following this highly informative write ups should please comment to keep this thread alive.

Thank you sir, I am glad you are able to get something sir.
I've been very busy so far. My final year research proposal got accepted by the research committee yesterday after many palavas, and I'm working on an ancient agriculture. The agriculture of indigofera species (those plants used in making dyes)

The maize is ready for sale and I'll be creating a thread towards that also I have been supervising the cowpea cultivation which I'll be making a thread for that too.

@Dawson126

Quite detailed. I am very impressed with your work. Hmmm! Seems you have a very good teacher cos of your style. But I am sure you are talking in parables to many. It's why you do not have comments here. This is a good thread. Anyway, for future threads, keep it simple. Do not use technical terms too much. Most people are lost. But you nail it.

Bro, could you kindly give me brands of gibberellin acid available? There are fakes around.

Also, please, are there auxins around too? I am looking iba, iaa and the rest.

I am doing a project (relating to tissue culture), and I want to try and get these hormones here. I usually import, I want to try buy here as I need small quantity. You can imagine the cost of 1kg of 99% gibberellin acid. You should understand me. There are periods one needs small quantity like in your case. In fact, I need it now. Maybe we communicate via email. I can shoot you one.

God bless bro.

Attit:
@Dawson126

Quite detailed. I am very impressed with your work. Hmmm! Seems you have a very good teacher cos of your style. But I am sure you are talking in parables to many. It's why you do not have comments here. This is a good thread. Anyway, for future threads, keep it simple. Do not use technical terms too much. Most people are lost. But you nail it.

Bro, could you kindly give me brands of gibberellin acid available? There are fakes around.

Also, please, are there auxins around too? I am looking iba, iaa and the rest.

I am doing a project (relating to tissue culture), and I want to try and get these hormones here. I usually import, I want to try buy here as I need small quantity. You can imagine the cost of 1kg of 99% gibberellin acid. You should understand me. There are periods one needs small quantity like in your case. In fact, I need it now. Maybe we communicate via email. I can shoot you one.

God bless bro.

I grab bro. Concerning the hormones, for growth stimulation purpose, I think gibberellins are in more in market than auxins, auxins being much as herbicides. Yeah, there are a lot of fakes out there and usually I use a lecturer influence in getting some of these things but I have a contact that is very versatile at securing this stuffs for farming purpose, I will get across to them soon and give you a reply

Dawson126:


I grab bro. Concerning the hormones, for growth stimulation purpose, I think gibberellins are in more in market than auxins, auxins being much as herbicides. Yeah, there are a lot of fakes out there and usually I use a lecturer influence in getting some of these things but I have a contact that is very versatile at securing this stuffs for farming purpose, I will get across to them soon and give you a reply

Thanks bro.