hybridveggies:
SPRAYING/FERTILIZER PROTOCOL FOR TOMATO AND OTHER VEGGIES IN WET SEASON
Are you a commercial farmer, a gardener or even a newbies interested in vegetable cultivation business? Then you must have your chemical/fertilizer application hand book at the onset of the season. If you don’t, then you aren’t really prepared for business. Waiting for challenges before acting might not be funny as vegetables are highly susceptible to diseases and pest.
Due to the nature of my work, I have seen and interacted with both local and educated farmers and I see many aren’t prepared and are often blind to what and what to use at commencement of cultivation, they only think of this when there is/are challenge(s). Therefore, through my years of valuable experiences in vegetable cultivation, I have developed this simple protocol for wet season vegetable production. Please, do note that in using this for dry season cultivation, there would be little adjustment.
Pesticide Application:
The first thing that would come to a newbies’ mind when he/she heard the word pest is insect. Well, if you think so, you aren’t far from the answer. A pest ranges from insect, to other destructive arthropods (Insect family) like spider mite, aphids, caterpillars etc, birds, rodents, wild animals and even weeds. Yes, I mean weeds.
Weeds control: Before you transplant your veggies from your nursery and even for those that require direct planting, you must prepare your field by getting rid of the weeds. In this case, you would need to spray an herbicide if you aren’t going to do manual weeding. So, you could decide to spray contact herbicide (e.g active ingredient- Paraquat), or systemic herbicide (e.g active ingredient –Glyphosate). Both are post emergence herbicide. You could as well decide to use pre-emergence herbicide but that must be after the beds have been made. In order word, let it be the last thing you would do before transplanting/direct planting proper. Remember that it is important you pay attention to the instruction written on the label of the herbicide particularly the... Visit http://www.hybridveggies.com/2016/08/agrochemical-applicationfertilizer.html to read the rest of this article and other interesting ones. Courtesy Hybrid Vegetable Farms.

oluwabamis:
God bless you @healthilyea. This is the most educative and beneficial post i read this week. I guess the owner of this thread should learn from you. Truelly im also a strong proponent of healing and health living through natural means because thats the way God intended it to be. It's man's inhumanity to man that introduced chemical living to our lives for their selfish reasons. My advice to well meaning nigerians is to keep on researching natural means of staying healthy and sharing practical experiences.

hybridveggies:
It is a pity that an average reader here in this part of the world nowadays always fail to read between the line before jumping to conclusion. This expression alone in this article shouldn't have called for all this necessarily distraction: "We don't sell nor market Glyphosate in our organization, we are only helping out with info on how to increase food security albeit responsibly". If you have an interest burning you at heart, I guess you just go straight to create a tread.

Healthilyea:

You don't have to be insultive to buttress you point.
I'm sure you have heard of the expression "practice what you preach " if you are not an advocate for glyphosphate, why preach it? Seems a bit contradictory to me.
Pesticides and other harmful chemicals used in the production of food today is not the answer to food security,and would never be.
NB, Seun didn't create Nairaland, with the intent of being the sole contributor. Nairaland is a public forum and no single person has the right to any "Thread".
Peace!!!

Silvereze:


I think the problem with agrochemicals co!es with their abuse. Sensible eco friendly application is the key to use of pesticides and herbicides.... If we talk about large large scale agriculture, we need these agrochemicals.