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Reasons Why Oil Palm Farming Will Stand The Test Of Time When Other Crops Failed by Karbswell(op): 8:38pm On Aug 18, 2025
Let the government continue to open borders for more grain to be imported to the country while the smart farmers invest in tree crops plantation farming .In the last couple of months the Nigerian farmer as experience a sporadic increase in the prices of farm inputs such as fertiliser,chemicals and seeds however they ended up selling their produce at a give away prices to middle men because the government instead continuing the policy of empowering farmers by subsidizing the regular farm inputs chose to thread the easy way of importing grains that can be produce in Nigeria .

The average Nigerian farmers are now loosing their investment as a result of the government policies but the smart ones are gradually reducing their investment in the farming of stable foods like maize to tree crops plantation farm like oil palms ,cocoa and cashew which is known to not only generate future returns on investment but can create a sustainable agribusiness which will inturn build a generational wealth for the family which start from one person taking the right decision to liberate himself and his family .

If a well planned acre of oil palm farm at full maturity can generate revenue of 1.5million to 2million annually under good agronomic practice I see no reason why a farmer with many acres of land should continue to loose investment to maize and cassava farming but rather dedicate some acres of the farmland to cultivate tree crop like oil palms ,the idea is that if the short term crop like maize and cassava failed you the tree crop like palm tree will reward you in the next couple of years .Let's stop farming with emotion because no one will save your farm when you loose your investment .

Having achieved planting of over 130 acres oil palm and cocoa farm across Ogun ,Osun,Oyo and kwara this year for Nigerians at home and in diaspora we are now programmed to follow up the management of the farms by mentaining them efficiently .The biggest challenges you will face when farming tree crops is to get labour to weed your big farms but instead of allowing weeds to take over the contract farms we opt for cycle weeding of the palms and apply fertilisers, this will ensure that we do not loose our palms to weeds and rodents which are also the greatest enemy of palms trees .

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