I feel like giving up, I establish about 0.25ha plantain farm last year. The crop grew rapidly, good soil etc. The issue is that fruiting have started in earnest but alas some people will go their and harvest it even before maturity. My uncle told me to go African way by marking the farm spiritually, the baba that leased the land to me is saying the same thing, the question is what about myself who knows nothing about spiritual marking, I told police DPO of the area, he only laughed at me, saying he doesn't have enough men and vehicle for towns in the LG not to now talk about patrolling a farm that is like 3.5km from town, I am angry, I can shoot someone on that farm if I have gun. I don't really know what to do.

Mark some plantain trees near the gate or fence and poison the plantain. Your next topic will be quite interesting.

But really is there no way to fence it? Extra expense but might be necessary

jazz the fvckers, it has no effect on u, my landlord did the same when they kept burgling his house, they stopped when they started dying of protuding belly one by one.......meanwhile, is your farm in i.b?

Hmmn, see another unforeseen dillema for the entrepreneur & budding investor? There's hunger in the land and honesty has flown out the windows!

Anyway, is it possible to set traps in some of the thieves' access routes that you yourself don't patronise?

And have you tried making some loyal friends in that immediate community? So, that you could use their vigilance in your own little "Neighborhood Watch" kinda thing? A couple of friends and I resorted to that in 2012 when we got dabbling in Catfish Farming and the fishes kept growing legs and disappearing. A friend did the same with his yam plantations and the indigenous gbagyi groups in dobi side, Abj also.

You secure the loyalty of some of them and use theme to watch your farm, and the rest of their peeps otherwise they all might turn deaf ears and blind eyes to whatever's going on in your farms.

The Police definitely gave you a candid but depressing answer reflecting their own hopelessness and lack of ingenuity because your banana-thieves can't be too far from that community itself. And starting investigations from plantain sellers and banana marketers in the area might've helped in getting some clues but since they're mentally lazy and wouldn't even wanna make any effort as you're not a rich politician bribing them, well, you have to go it the manual way!

I don't subscribe to hodge-podge fetish razzmatazz dabblings and deals-with-the-devil all in the name of securing plantain; pls, ignore your land-leaser abeg!

Anyhow, God dey! Take heart and Godspeed, bro!

Its a serious issue. We have the same problem and we are considering installing cctv or employing guards , opc in mind

Guy its simple go to the market buy red cloth, white cloth colanut egg calabash dry corn, red thread and broom cut the cut and tie them at the four corners of the far, use the thread to cirlce the farm, make sure u place this stuff in areas that it can easily be seen.

Just hope the plantain thief is not on nairaland to know this advice is a scam

chachanga:
Hmmn, see another unforeseen dillema for the entrepreneur & budding investor? There's hunger in the land and honesty has flown out the windows!

Anyway, is it possible to set traps in some of the thieves' access routes that you yourself don't patronise?

And have you tried making some loyal friends in that immediate community? So, that you could use their vigilance in your own little "Neighborhood Watch" kinda thing? A couple of friends and I resorted to that in 2012 when we got dabbling in Catfish Farming and the fishes kept growing legs and disappearing. A friend did the same with his yam plantations and the indigenous gbagyi groups in dobi side, Abj also.

You secure the loyalty of some of them and use theme to watch your farm, and the rest of their peeps otherwise they all might turn deaf ears and blind eyes to whatever's going on in your farms.

The Police definitely gave you a candid but depressing answer reflecting their own hopelessness and lack of ingenuity because your banana-thieves can't be too far from that community itself. And starting investigations from plantain sellers and banana marketers in the area might've helped in getting some clues but since they're mentally lazy and wouldn't even wanna make any effort as you're not a rich politician bribing them, well, you have to go it the manual way!

I don't subscribe to hodge-podge fetish razzmatazz dabblings and deals-with-the-devil all in the name of securing plantain; pls, ignore your land-leaser abeg!

Anyhow, God dey! Take heart and Godspeed, bro!

I forgot to mention it that the DPO actually promised to keep an eye on plantain sellers around the area but he insisted that might not produce much result since he cannot arrest plantain sellers randomly, he did promise to help, I wouldn't mind paying for fuel and other tips if he give me better assurances, this vigilante/OPC angle is good, I'll work on it today, thanks.

solace2013:
I feel like giving up, I establish about 0.25ha plantain farm last year. The crop grew rapidly, good soil etc. The issue is that fruiting have started in earnest but alas some people will go their and harvest it even before maturity. My uncle told me to go African way by marking the farm spiritually, the baba that leased the land to me is saying the same thing, the question is what about myself who knows nothing about spiritual marking, I told police DPO of the area, he only laughed at me, saying he doesn't have enough men and vehicle for towns in the LG not to now talk about patrolling a farm that is like 3.5km from town, I am angry, I can shoot someone on that farm if I have gun. I don't really know what to do.

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solace2013:
I feel like giving up, I establish about 0.25ha plantain farm last year. The crop grew rapidly, good soil etc. The issue is that fruiting have started in earnest but alas some people will go their and harvest it even before maturity. My uncle told me to go African way by marking the farm spiritually, the baba that leased the land to me is saying the same thing, the question is what about myself who knows nothing about spiritual marking, I told police DPO of the area, he only laughed at me, saying he doesn't have enough men and vehicle for towns in the LG not to now talk about patrolling a farm that is like 3.5km from town, I am angry, I can shoot someone on that farm if I have gun. I don't really know what to do.

the next thing to take note is your farm security.i will advise you to employ security watch man/men to be watching it for you at day time and another one/sect at night hours @affordable price you will be able to be paying them monthly.
Only this can safe your farm without loosing more plantains.i will be glad to read another post of yours on a short run glorifying God for finarly getting ride of your farm thieves.

ironheart:
Guy its simple go to the market buy red cloth, white cloth colanut egg calabash dry corn, red thread and broom cut the cut and tie them at the four corners of the far, use the thread to cirlce the farm, make sure u place this stuff in areas that it can easily be seen.

Just hope the plantain thief is not on nairaland to know this advice is a scam

op abeg do this one make then leave your farm....abeg fake juju

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Put very ugly & scary scarecrows in yur farm & see d thief flee like a demented pig frm hell.

Put very ugly & scary scarecrows with wooden guns in yur farm & see d thief flee like a demented pig frm hell.

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solace2013:
I feel like giving up, I establish about 0.25ha plantain farm last year. The crop grew rapidly, good soil etc. The issue is that fruiting have started in earnest but alas some people will go their and harvest it even before maturity. My uncle told me to go African way by marking the farm spiritually, the baba that leased the land to me is saying the same thing, the question is what about myself who knows nothing about spiritual marking, I told police DPO of the area, he only laughed at me, saying he doesn't have enough men and vehicle for towns in the LG not to now talk about patrolling a farm that is like 3.5km from town, I am angry, I can shoot someone on that farm if I have gun. I don't really know what to do.

Hi. How did you later handle the theft issue?

solace2013:
I feel like giving up, I establish about 0.25ha plantain farm last year. The crop grew rapidly, good soil etc. The issue is that fruiting have started in earnest but alas some people will go their and harvest it even before maturity. My uncle told me to go African way by marking the farm spiritually, the baba that leased the land to me is saying the same thing, the question is what about myself who knows nothing about spiritual marking, I told police DPO of the area, he only laughed at me, saying he doesn't have enough men and vehicle for towns in the LG not to now talk about patrolling a farm that is like 3.5km from town, I am angry, I can shoot someone on that farm if I have gun. I don't really know what to do.

Can you explore the idea of hiring a security guard ?