Please guys I want to invest in agriculture but my uncle advised I invest in plaintain business that it is good for a long term investment plan .please nairalnders I need your advice if plaintain is a good agric business to go into . We talking about 4 acres of plaintain plantation here. And mind I’m still in school my second year ‘ I need your advise and suggestion brothers and sisters .any good advice will be welcome and appreciated.

I want to look into it too

I can set it up for you. I am setting up a 40 acres Plantain plantation at the moment

Try cassava Bro... It has good prospects and less cost than plantain. Plantain requires alot of money which also includes Irrigation or water source... If u can get 10 acres, I will hell u out including getting buyers

606thearena:
Please guys I want to invest in agriculture but my uncle advised I invest in plaintain business that it is good for a long term investment plan .please nairalnders I need your advice if plaintain is a good agric business to go into . We talking about 4 acres of plaintain plantation here. And mind I’m still in school my second year ‘ I need your advise and suggestion brothers and sisters .any good advice will be welcome and appreciated.

Don't just dump all your money in a business because you heard people sy that it's lucrative, make sure you first do a trial run so you can understand the business.

If you rush into agric with no experience you're likely to make mistakes that will result is serious losses to you

Depending on area where you are and maybe you want to practice irrigation system; plantain plantation is not that as costly as stated in above comments. Here in Ekiti; one can rent a piece of land for a particular time bound at lower rate, Vary per owner but affordable. Where most amount of money will be spent is on clearing of the land and getting plantain sucker; with a sucker sold at rate of fifty naira. It's then best to plant it during the period of heavy rain fall (may,June, and July) so as to sustain the plantain during dry season. It ll started producing immediately rain started falling in following year, so total period of planting and harvesting is months less or more than a year. Weeding also is once or twice preferably.

Thanks very much I will start with one acres then can anyone tell me how much it will cost to survey four acres of land . What do you advise nairalanders I need more advice and suggestions mods can you kindly push to front page so more people can comment on it and give me more suggestions . A friend told me that it will cost me up to 200k to survey it don’t know how true it is