TheNigerianPers:


How much is this and how many do you need for a hectare?

TheNigerianPers:


Will you repeat this every 3 months?

willybaby:
rooter powder basically stops weed germinating on d soil and has an effect on d soil for as long as 3months.. they are other products such as rooter powder the general name for them is premergence powder or chemical... Now the liquid herbicides is used to kill already growing weed.. so in combining them your basically killing already growing weeds and preventing new ones to grow also... I hope you understand

ideepaul:

do this pre emergence herbicides affect transplanted crops heavily

willybaby:
Remember the total number of heaps to be formed is 6,000

Psalmy2cute:

pls what's the size of your land? 1 acre? how many heaps do you think can fit in 1 acre?

willybaby:
Hello everyone, so before I give a break down of today's farming activities, I think I should drop more information about the land.. The proposed cassava capacity to be farmed locally here is called ULA anf we farming 20 ULA... An ULA is basically 400 heaps so that means the farm land will contain a total of 8,000 heaps and we plan to plant 2 cassava stem per heap... So I think that should give u guys a basic idea of land size... It's almost an hectare.......

willybaby:
Good afternoon everyone, some of you must have noticed a little bit of quiet from my end, well it was due to a little challenge we experienced and that's sourcing of cassava stem in particular TME419 VARIETY it's crazy currently in benue even seeing local variety of cassava to buy is hard..

The good news is our cassava has landed.. although quiet expensive a bundle of 50stems is sold for 1000 but it's well... Cassava is sure gonna be expensive next year so plant plant plant.. below are pictures

safepaulooo:
Please did you buy the 1 hectare of land outright or you rented it? How much is a hectare if one is buying and if renting? Which option is better and what factors will determine which option to go for?

ideepaul:

N1000 a bundle? That's expensive o. Maybe it's due to the fact that you planted late sha...time was sold btw 500& 700 depending on the credibility of your source and distance around February/march

willybaby:
renting and buying are two different things and they are both good.. if you buy it becomes your to use as you deem fit and you saving the cost of consequent rental while renting on the order hand gives you more profit in a farming season because must surely be cheaper, it's up to you.. rented my hectare 20,000 and it's due to my relationship with the land owner can b cheaper can be costlier..

ideepaul:
I saw that thing but did not know it's name. But why didn't you employ the services of a tractor? I think it would have been cheaper. There was a farmer paid me to join a team of cassava planters while I was on school break, the spacing was nothing like I have ever seen before. it was so compact we had to call his attention to the spacing instructed by the supervisors, he told us that it's the standard spacing for the cultivar he had, we were never told the cultivar as they were so secretive about everything, including the names of the fertilizer used, they went as far as emptying bags of the unknown fertilizer into rice bags so we won't know the type of fertilizer. Maybe someone experienced in this compact spacing using tractor rigde could help explain the benefits and dangers here

willybaby:
Amazing story now am curious what they were up to