DesChyko:


With these sizes

When I do plant yams with my grandfather, we'd be really lucky to get half the length of some of these yams

Lastmessenger2:
nna share yam abeg. Hunger dey Nigeria. Share yam to your nairaland brothers. At all at all na him worse. At least you harvest 25 out of 50.

orogodoganyin:


You use chemicals or dip them in ash solution and dry them

Makowonda:
Welldone.But you don't mulch to prevent water from directly hitting the soil,you mulch to prevent high soil surface temperature that can lead to evapotranspiration.

Moh247:


Only an idiot would see tribalism in my comment

Biafra isn't a tribe, and the person I qouted specifically never denied his affiliation to Biafrans terrorist group

If the slowpoke feels I don't have a right to comment about my sac farming experience on agric section, then it's my duty to put him in his place as the fool he is

You either mind your business or get treated the way you appear

orogodoganyin:



There is a YouTuber that did 10,000 sacs or so ... Very large sacs and his harvest was crazy.

I work with a construction company so cement sacs were free and I was just experimenting

orogodoganyin:
Each one I planted, I mulched to prevent water from directly hitting the soil, parting it and exposing the yam seedlings.

chinonyinye:




Wow. 4 yams per each yam set? Please how is that possible?
Also, while planting was it a shallow planting or you dug a deep hole inside the bag?

BaddestQueen:
A vote for Tinubu is a vote for incompetence,docility, massive bullion van looting and drug peddling.

everything about Tinubu is bad , terrible and evil
Tinubu must be stop so Nigeria can move forward and progress.
thunder scatter Tinubu
thunder scatter Tinubu urchins
thunder scatter Remi
hahahahaha

GodHatesJews:


From what I understand about this sack farming involving yams :

1. You save a lot of space

2. Weeding and fertilizer application is highly efficient .

3. Harvesting is way easier and simpler.


Site is Abuja...

The seeds were rotting because I kept them in a storage container out in the sun... The place was hot n not aerated... And rodents did their bits too.
I put several holes close to the bottom of each sac so that excess water flows out, and what's left is what the soul can hold


4. Its more applicable in areas with low rainfall and so for efficient irrigation and soil moisture maintainance throughout the growing season.

Where is your location ? You said you noticed fungal growth and early rotting of seedlings, this may be as a result of too much moisture.

In southern parts with high rainfall, this form of farming may not be ideal as the sacks can easily get water logged.

Where did the Youtuber who planted over 10_000 bags site his farm?

I think this form of farming yam will be adequate from the ending of the wet season in the south up to the rains begin.

It could also be ideal in waterlogged soil in places like the Niger Delta swampy areas as long as water is highly controlled .

Too much water isn't good for yam cultivation especially during its tuber stage .

So where exactly did you cite your farm?

orogodoganyin:
Anyone who wants to get into it should give it a try too

orogodoganyin:
So the guy still hasn't filled the remaining sacs and I also had to go water the plants today.
The ones that have sprouted seem to be growing pretty fast. I have to start worrying about staking pretty soon...
I should consider that by the weekend.

I don't even know if that's a good idea since less than 10% have sprouted and I want to do a general staking.
I'll see how it goes though...
hopefully the others come out pretty soon too

clockwisereport:


I said she makes use of mounds and not bags

orogodoganyin:
Each one I planted, I mulched to prevent water from directly hitting the soil, parting it and exposing the yam seedlings.

orogodoganyin:


About 50.
But some didn't germinate at all... I think I mentioned how some of the yam seeds were left in a container too long before planting and were already spoilt...
Just planted them like that

clockwisereport:


Nope. The harvest is poor. My neighbour gets at least 4 yams from one yam she plants, though she makes use of mounds and not sacks.

Divoc19:
1. It still falls back on the government for not properly educating farmers and investing in Agriculture like they should.

2. Imagine if this was a project carried out by Senior Secondary School students, bringing this yam(s) home will make their parents vow for a replant and the replants will never end.

3. OP's little challenges are enough to discourage some people from starting to plant. He also didn't make reference to the financial implications of planting 'how many seeds of yam'

seunfly:

We have bad orientation that things that matters has to come easy, we channels our energy into d wrong direction hoping to hit millions overnight.
Corruption at the top makes it difficult for reorientation because it serves as excuses for the people to remain lazy.