Just want to share my experience on my just concluded afada rice production on an acre of farm in Ibadan Oyo state. I will be adding some necessary pictures when needed in the course of the discussion.

This is the picture of the farm getting close to parnicle initiation after tillering

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For anybody who is interested in farming and wants to invest on agribusiness and he or she is a novice as far as agriculture is concern, that person should feel free to talk to me on this thread and I shall gardly advice such person on how to be rich in just 4months after cultivating ofada rice or even other types of rice.
The only difference in ofada rice cultivation and non-ofada rice type is the fact that ofada rice command higher price compare to the common or conventional rice in the market, maybe because of it health benefit and aroma. However, ofada rice produces less than the foreign or conventional rice. From my experience, ofada rice when cultivated under lowland condition, it can produce between 3-4tons per hectare while foreign rice can give you up to 12tons per hectare if well managed.

Let me give a breakdown of the whole process;
I planted my ofada rice on June 9th, 2018 in Ido local goverment of Ibadan Oyo state . The farm is an acre of land and I planted around 25kg of ofada rice seed by broadcast after the farmland have undergone preparation and the land has been manually turned my labourer.
After broadcasting the seed, germination started around 4-5days. We did our first herbicide spraying by the 3rd week, then we repeated this after the 4weeks of the first application. We applied urea fertilizer at two critical stages, first at tillering stage and second at parnicle initiation.
How major challenge is bird, birds control is the major problem in rice production across the world, but we were able to subdue the birds by manual chasing waking up as early as 6:30am upto 7pm in the farm trying to scare them away. The reason we had hard times with birds was because our rice was the first in the vicinity.
We started harvesting on 1th of October 2018 as some rice have completely ripe, so we did a sellective harvesting. The whole harvesting process took us more than 10days and we harvested 1.6tons of rice at the longrun.

For more questions, enquiries about rice farming, indicate by following this thread and let's get to talk. I will still give the full detail on how the whole process went down, all the cost of production and the profit margin at end of the whole process.

I'd like to ask a lot of questions, but i'd let you finish first.

Profit Analysis for ofada rice cultivation on an acre of farm based on my personal experience

Cost of production
Land clearing plus chemical spraying to control weeds #14,000
Ploughing and land turning #13,000
Rice herbicide (2 application) #11,000
2bags of Urea fertilizer #15,000
Cost of buying seed (25kg) #16,000
2persons for bird chasing per month #40,000
Total cost for harvesting rice #30,000
Rice thresshing #7,500
Miscellaneous #15,000
Total cost of productin = #161,500
Yield per acre is 1.6tons or 1600kg
Expected money from sales #799,000
Gross Profit = Sales - Total cost
Gross Profit = #799, 000 - 161500 = #637, 500.

Pls note : these prices are what I personally experience and this is uptainable in my locality. Also note that from the above profit, cost of transportation has not been removed.

i am also interested in selling the ofada rice ,how much is it

Good work here. Pls how do u arrive at this sales price. Ow much per tonne? Am into rice farming too tho.

AgriMax:
Profit Analysis for ofada rice cultivation on an acre of farm based on my personal experience

Cost of production
Land clearing plus chemical spraying to control weeds #14,000
Ploughing and land turning #13,000
Rice herbicide (2 application) #11,000
2bags of Urea fertilizer #15,000
Cost of buying seed (25kg) #16,000
2persons for bird chasing per month #40,000
Total cost for harvesting rice #30,000
Rice thresshing #7,500
Miscellaneous #15,000
Total cost of productin = #161,500
Yield per acre is 1.6tons or 1600kg
Expected money from sales #799,000
Gross Profit = Sales - Total cost
Gross Profit = #799, 000 - 161500 = #637, 500.

Pls note : these prices are what I personally experience and this is uptainable in my locality. Also note that from the above profit, cost of transportation has not been removed.

AgriMax:
Profit Analysis for ofada rice cultivation on an acre of farm based on my personal experience

Cost of production
Land clearing plus chemical spraying to control weeds #14,000
Ploughing and land turning #13,000
Rice herbicide (2 application) #11,000
2bags of Urea fertilizer #15,000
Cost of buying seed (25kg) #16,000
2persons for bird chasing per month #40,000
Total cost for harvesting rice #30,000
Rice thresshing #7,500
Miscellaneous #15,000
Total cost of productin = #161,500
Yield per acre is 1.6tons or 1600kg
Expected money from sales #799,000
Gross Profit = Sales - Total cost
Gross Profit = #799, 000 - 161500 = #637, 500.

Pls note : these prices are what I personally experience and this is uptainable in my locality. Also note that from the above profit, cost of transportation has not been removed.

please who did you sell your rice to? was it to a mill or straight to the consumers?
also wasnt bird scaring very laborious? i understand birds become a pest when the rice starts bearing fruit. how long is the duration till when you harvest?

AgriMax:
Profit Analysis for ofada rice cultivation on an acre of farm based on my personal experience

Cost of production
Land clearing plus chemical spraying to control weeds #14,000
Ploughing and land turning #13,000
Rice herbicide (2 application) #11,000
2bags of Urea fertilizer #15,000
Cost of buying seed (25kg) #16,000
2persons for bird chasing per month #40,000
Total cost for harvesting rice #30,000
Rice thresshing #7,500
Miscellaneous #15,000
Total cost of productin = #161,500
Yield per acre is 1.6tons or 1600kg
Expected money from sales #799,000
Gross Profit = Sales - Total cost
Gross Profit = #799, 000 - 161500 = #637, 500.

Pls note : these prices are what I personally experience and this is uptainable in my locality. Also note that from the above profit, cost of transportation has not been removed.

A little contribution on how to scare away birds.


1. Erect wooden poles in the farm. At the top of each pole, tie about five bottles with rope, allowing them to freely dangle. When breeze blows, the bottles hit one another and make noise scaring the birds away


2. Make several crosses from wooden sticks. Wear clothes for the crosses to appear like humans(you can use worn out cloths of no use) . Place them at different points in your farm. They will appear like humans

3. Get cassette player and remove the brownish "thread" in it(I don't know what the thread is called). Tie the thread on vertical sticks and run them horizontally at various points in the farm under some tension. When breeze blows, the thread vibrates and make noise scaring the birds away.

A few questions

What are the available options for fast sale of rice and how is demand for ofada rice?

How much did you sell per kg or per 50kg to arrive at the above calculation(I want to be sure if my calculation from above figures is truly what you got)

AgriMax:
Profit Analysis for ofada rice cultivation on an acre of farm based on my personal experience

Cost of production
Land clearing plus chemical spraying to control weeds #14,000
Ploughing and land turning #13,000
Rice herbicide (2 application) #11,000
2bags of Urea fertilizer #15,000
Cost of buying seed (25kg) #16,000
2persons for bird chasing per month #40,000
Total cost for harvesting rice #30,000
Rice thresshing #7,500
Miscellaneous #15,000
Total cost of productin = #161,500
Yield per acre is 1.6tons or 1600kg
Expected money from sales #799,000
Gross Profit = Sales - Total cost
Gross Profit = #799, 000 - 161500 = #637, 500.

Pls note : these prices are what I personally experience and this is uptainable in my locality. Also note that from the above profit, cost of transportation has not been removed.

AgriMax:
For anybody who is interested in farming and wants to invest on agribusiness and he or she is a novice as far as agriculture is concern, that person should feel free to talk to me on this thread and I shall gardly advice such person on how to be rich in just 4months after cultivating ofada rice or even other types of rice.
The only difference in ofada rice cultivation and non-ofada rice type is the fact that ofada rice command higher price compare to the common or conventional rice in the market, maybe because of it health benefit and aroma. However, ofada rice produces less than the foreign or conventional rice. From my experience, ofada rice when cultivated under lowland condition, it can produce between 3-4tons per hectare while foreign rice can give you up to 12tons per hectare if well managed.

I am interested in this business. Can i meet you please?

AgriMax? Are you still available on this platform because this post was last year

AgriMax:
Just want to share my experience on my just concluded afada rice production on an acre of farm in Ibadan Oyo state. I will be adding some necessary pictures when needed in the course of the discussion.

pls whatapp me or call me on 08032432089,am seun and i lives in ibadan

How much does ofada rice sell per 50kg?

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