EMMAACHILE:

The momax roots go very deep and doesn't spread like the local one. I will snap the roots of some I still have in the nursery when I want to transplant them. The roots are tuber like just like cassava tubers. They go much deeper than the loca types here.

If there should be an issue, it should be too much water and not low water as you said.

This variety only needs water every 10 days. The ones at the farm will be updated when I get there. I heard they are flowering now.

EMMAACHILE:

It will definitely fruit because the local ones always fruit twice a year. Currently, i have not seen any Moringa in Lokoja with seed pods. All are with flowers.

Treepower2000:

Moringa fruits between November to January and second fruiting is around February to March so if you plant by January your first fruiting will start by November.

EMMAACHILE:

It will definitely fruit because the local ones always fruit twice a year. Currently, i have not seen any Moringa in Lokoja with seed pods. All are with flowers.

Pistotita:

To make good profit from moringa, which is the first product one must run after? Fruits or leaves? And please explain why you choose one over the other.

Treepower2000:

Both fruit and leave production are lucrative depending on your preference. Most of us are into pilot phase of the project.
I keep my options open and I can go into seeds, leave and or even using the leaves for animal feed and other products.

Pistotita:


I think a good market research should be made immediately. Let market guide you. I asked because if leaves are more profitable than the fruits, the method of cultivating it will be different. For example no pruning is required if leaves are what I am after , and should be fed more nitrogen.

If its essential oil one is making, one must cultivate it bearing in mind one want the seeds to be very big. Potassium, Ca, Mg are essential.

The kind of flowers abortion I saw in the pictures is equal to a big loss that can make ones enemies celebrate.

SocialJustice:
Nice, this is what I've been wanting to know from you. How to enhance seed production and get the yields of 8-10 tonnes/4000 litres of oil per plant, per hectare twice a year. That's blood money I'm talking right there.

Pistotita:


Lol. I have a new friend. Hmmm! She keeps saying moringa and I was always like" why this moringa? Well, I have not yet said seed is the way to go. First, I want to look at the two products. Leaves and Fruits.

So, how did you come about 4,000 liters per plant? This is going to be a miracle to achieve. And even twice a year? Are you serious? I doubt it. Please, check again.

How many plants per hectare?

Is there any website one can know about this Moringa Cultivar?

Well, I know that oil is most likely the most profitable, but I did not want to be too forward. But then, the tea can be really profitable too.

SocialJustice:
Seed is the way to go. I'm not just stopping at seeds but I want to produce oil. That's where all the money is. Leaf is just there. You could package in capsules and try getting approval to sell in USA and Europe as organic supplement but anything that human beings swallow needs too much approval. Oil on the other hand is gold. I have my plans.

Google momax 3 yields.

1660 plants per hectare.

Just Google momax 3.

EMMAACHILE:
The leave market is a little saturated worldwide when compared to the oil.

4000 litres per hectare is gotten from 10 tonnes seed harvest. But the extraction method is through solvent extraction which is 40% ratio unlike most other cruder methods used here which is 20-25% efficiency.

EMMAACHILE:

Coldpress is normally around 25% extraction.

EMMAACHILE:

I don't know of it can be done twice. The remaining oil is left with the cake and can be sold to livestock farmers.

SocialJustice:
I read about solvent extraction. It produces low quality oil than cold press. Well, if an hectare is able to produce 20 tonnes annually withUploaded007 4,000 litres. That's not so bad. Even 2000l annually isn't bad.

Is the PKM 2 variety oil yield also lower with cold press? The oil production figure I have is 3000l per hectare.

Pistotita:


I wrote a good analysis yesterday but spam bot erased it. Anyway, petroleum chemical is the main material used for solvent extraction.

Cold press is the best as it retains most of its nutrient. There is also expeller pressed with high temperature.

SocialJustice:
The bot is just hiding posts and banning me any how too. I don't even understand it. Well, when I want to start, I'll be in touch and probably locate you then because I want my farm performing at optimum capacity.

SocialJustice:
I'll source my buyers and even enter into oil purchase contracts before planting my farm. Farming is just another business for me but I really love the prospects of moringa oil. Poor farmers can engage in it and still make money but not at the level I have in mind. Moringa is an emerging cash crop like rubber and oil palm.

SocialJustice:
My focus is cosmetics. I don't intend selling to Nigerian companies unless they meet my purchase terms. Palm olein is the alternative for my target market. Moringa oil is just magic, I don't want to make a long post and it will be wasted by the bot. Please take 10 minutes out and research the market. If I don't find a long term market, I won't even bother starting the farm but that's near impossible.