ideepaul:
Kai see matured cane rat! For my area, boys fit tear down your farm just to dig it out form its hole

hahahaha truly sir the meat is worth it.. Already thinking of becoming a hunter self

willybaby:
hahahaha truly sir the meat is worth it.. Already thinking of becoming a hunter self

abeg no change line of business because of sweet meat

I've also started land preparations in readiness for this year planting season. May God reward us with hitch-free production, bountiful harvest and good revenue.

REUBEN010:
I've also started land preparations in readiness for this year planting season. May God reward us with hitch-free production, bountiful harvest and good revenue.

Amen

willybaby:
hahahaha truly sir the meat is worth it.. Already thinking of becoming a hunter self

This is just one of the fringe benefits of being a farmer.

REUBEN010:
I've also started land preparations in readiness for this year planting season. May God reward us with hitch-free production, bountiful harvest and good revenue.

where is your farm.?

Curious345:
where is your farm.?

Obafemi Owode LGA, Ogun State.

willybaby:
Amen

Boss Boss. Abeg how many basins of garri I fit get from 1 ula self? I won check something.

Jamestown123:
Boss Boss. Abeg how many basins of garri I fit get from 1 ula self? I won check something.

depends on how the ula do ? let's say average 4 to 8
Ula = 400heaps planted wit cassava stem

willybaby:
depends on how the ula do ? let's say average 4 to 8
Ula = 400heaps planted wit cassava stem

Thank u sir. Abeg what's the current price of Ula in ur side now sir. I'm just confused on how to sell mine. Like do u have any idea?

REUBEN010:


Obafemi Owode LGA, Ogun State.

drop your number .

REUBEN010:


Obafemi Owode LGA, Ogun State.

drop your number .good evening

Curious345:
drop your number .good evening

Good evening to you too. Check my signature.

good morning house.
hope you all well, at my end yesterday we were blessed with rain, can't wait for the new season to start

willybaby:
TME419 looks to be outdated fa, just last year 5 new improved varieties was produced by IITA and I must tell you they all are dope, yield improved, canopies so weeding is reduced and the vitamin A cassava that has a yellow tuber, no need adding palm oil to fry and it's good 4 diabetic patients too.. kudos to IITA and others sha

Where can one get the improves varieties for producing garri and price per bundle please? For a farm in Benue

Kehfie:


Where can one get the improves varieties for producing garri and price per bundle please? For a farm in Benue

Catholic relief society, IITA outgrower close to d farm, a neighbour willing to sell who has improved varieties, general market, umudike seeds from Abia if you buying in huge quantities etc. This are all ways you can buy stems.
On an average last year a bundle was sold for 1k

farm update, after just a rainfall our cassava is all green and leafy once again

willybaby:
farm update, after just a rainfall our cassava is all green and leafy once again

Sorry I missed your call. I was in a meeting.

Ameboperoo:

Sorry I missed your call. I was in a meeting.

alright sir, call you tomorrow after church

@ wilybaby, please, when are you planning to harvest.

northbird:
@ wilybaby, please, when are you planning to harvest.

early June sir, once the rain is established and I'd be harvesting both farms

amazing thread... followed tru

jeph19:
amazing thread... followed tru

Wow that's awesome

@ wily baby,

1.why are you harvesting during the rainy season? Is it easier to harvest during the rainy season than the dry season?

Or is it a case of waiting to complete the 12 months cycle?

2.If I may ask, from your findings, is there a particular time of the year when cassava is scarce or has more value.

3. From your findings, under normal conditions and good mgt practices, how many tonnes can an acre give one.. Been asking some local farmers here, all they know is Dyna ( mini truck), I need actual figures.....

northbird:
@ wily baby,

1.why are you harvesting during the rainy season? Is it easier to harvest during the rainy season than the dry season?

Or is it a case of waiting to complete the 12 months cycle?

2.If I may ask, from your findings, is there a particular time of the year when cassava is scarce or has more value.

3. From your findings, under normal conditions and good mgt practices, how many tonnes can an acre give one.. Been asking some local farmers here, all they know is Dyna ( mini truck), I need actual figures.....

hahahaha from the Dyna u actually can get the answers to some of ur questions, any way I promise to give you an answer later today, n so you know am a local farmer too

@ wily baby, you are not a local farmer o .

I appreciate the way you gave a chronicle of the events of your project. Figures and all.

The farmers at my end, if I ask questions, they are just using dyna as a yardstick.

I was like, how will you know if you had a bumper harvest esp if you are to look at the performance of the cultivar one planted ( TME 419 or shine shine Bobo).

I was not even expecting them to give me actual figures, but at least a baseline tonnage, that regardless o... under good mgt practice, an acre should give so.. so n so. Na just dyna figures my people they quote.

@ wilybaby.

How can you estimate the size of tubers underneath from one heap. Is it the size of the leaves/ canopy formed or the length of the stem.?

northbird:
@ wilybaby.

How can you estimate the size of tubers underneath from one heap. Is it the size of the leaves/ canopy formed or the length of the stem.?

if the cassava was planted on a heap, you will see the heap breaking apart from the base of the cassava stem.. earlier on this thread I posted a pic showing such cracks

northbird:
@ wily baby,

1.why are you harvesting during the rainy season? Is it easier to harvest during the rainy season than the dry season?

Or is it a case of waiting to complete the 12 months cycle?

2.If I may ask, from your findings, is there a particular time of the year when cassava is scarce or has more value.

3. From your findings, under normal conditions and good mgt practices, how many tonnes can an acre give one.. Been asking some local farmers here, all they know is Dyna ( mini truck), I need actual figures.....

HAPPY EASTER everyone, hope you all had a blissful day, now to the answers....

1. Am harvesting, my Cassava June and yes it's easier harvesting during the raining season the soil is soft and wet so pulling the Cassava out of the soil ain't to difficult, now a little bit of crop science Cassava grows in stages and during the dry season the Cassava generally shuts down, the leafs fall off, and growth partially stunts, this is its way of coping with the drought but once the rain resumes even if it's just a rain you see the Cassava in days looking all green with new stems etc this is the cassava taping starch and water from the tubers underneath to help it grow, it's a very bad idea to harvest just after the rains resume even if your Cassava is up to 12months. you can harvest a month or 2 after the rains by this time, your tubers ain't just back to its former size but it's added in size and moisture content...

2.. I think Cassava is of more value after the very first harvest season.

3. An Acre here I will be using 5plots of a 100 by 100 that's how we measure in my locality.. Dyna is here once again, a plot that does "extremely" well can give you 1.5dyna load a Dyna should be able to produce 6 to 10 basins of garri depending on the kind of tuber, moisture content etc. garri production really has no fixed input to out put conversion rate because no variable is constant. time of harvest, variety, peeling, fermentation all this can affect output..

I chose to use Dyna because you really can't run from it esp if your business would be within your location, you can use the example I gave of a plot to calculate an Acre even heactres. I hope I was of help, thank you..
please my bosses can help out more and correct me if possible too
@ Ameboperoo
@ ideepaul
@ REUBEN010
@ sterlingsolutns

please note, personally have seen where just 4 heaps of harvested cassava filled up a wheelbarrow, the Cassava did "extremely" well but I would advise anybody while making harvest projections, use average yield cause with GAP it might still end in tears.....

@ wilybaby. Thanks Bro. You have done justice to the questions.
Keep up the good work.