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banky200:
Palm kernel shells needed in large quantity
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Attit:
Why don't you discuss it here if it is about brainstorming so others can learn. If it is a private stuff, then, drop your email.

northbird:
He means highest pay rate of 1500 naira for every 200 heaps made.

Farmerakinloye6:
heap for cassava should be highest 200 for #1500, planting on an acre highest should be 5k.

Ezeromeoil01:
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Farmerakinloye6:
I sold 5.5-5k this morning. Hmmm... this year work is coming to an end.. preparation for next year loading... open new forest, and expand to 20,000 stand. I have already booked down 30 bags of 100kg manure.

sedulus:
1. 1. Apply NPK 15:15:15 fertiliser after 60days of planting .

2. Make sure mo anyform of weed competion among the Plantain and weed

3. As we are Approaching dry season..make so sure thier is always water on them and dey must not be dehydrated.

4. Always mix super grow with the water whenever you want to wet them manually

5. Prevent them from pest by using Pesticides such as( A.)Perfect Killer (B) .Cyberforce (C). Nopest (D.)Neemsol you can choose any of this and apply all to the Plantain

Attit:
Start up cost for small farms

Someone asked me to assist again with proper start up cost for a small farm. Honestly, it is hard to for me to do. I do not want to do this again since I know my standard is high, and many here run away. But the truth is that what I read here are craps. Do not get me wrong, there are quality stuff if you scrutinize, but hmmmm....

For example, good farmers know a particular (very popular) agro chemical company which needs to be shut down. And these are the useless products farmers run after. The products they sell arent good. They first make them good, and then, they later reduced the quality without making them known to buyers. And many run after these products simply cos they are cheap. There are 100ml content from other brands that can cost over N10k, while 500ml from that place costs N3k. Since you cannot differentiate it, you go for the cheap one. Meanwhile, when told to buy the other, you dont listen.

First let me talk about sales. Let's use the usual 1 acre drip sold. To me, this standard is wrong as the requirements needed depend on the style of farming and the crop. Most use 4,000m drip roll. For this, I will certainly use 8 plots. Meaning if you are using exactly 1 acre, you need less.

Good morning sir. Please do you mean using 4000m drip on an 8 plots of land one. It's best to use 1.25m spacing as the spacing between row , in other to achieve 4000m / 8plots instead of the usual practice of 1m spacing between rows. Please, if I am wrong , I will be glad if you could shed some light to this sir. Thanks. Your boy wants to learn more oo..

Seeds requirement:
You calculate based on your drip. You can use 30cm, 40cm, 50cm. I go as far as 80cm or even 1m for some of my varieties. Anyway, for the usual 30cm and 40cm, cobra, platinum, padma, and the rest in their category.

If using 30cm, you need about 13,333 seeds, but you need to get extra. They tell you to get 10% extra, but if your seeds are viable, no need. 3 -5% could be used. A can of cobra is the cheapest which gives around 15,000 seeds. If you buy directly from the seller, it's around N23K of N24K presently. But can go as high as N27k to N30k from resellers. Meanwhile, per approx 3,000 seeds of Padma, Platinum can be around N6k to N11k.

Then, you need about 10,100 - 10,500 viable seeds for 40cm emitters.

And 8,100 - 8,500 for 50cm emitters.

Now using robust seeds, you need to budget N7 to N11k per seed for most. When you buy Jarrah at N10,000 - N11,500, for 1k seeds, then calculate the cost of one. Oh Yeah! Now you know the reason people run away. Lol. But this should not be so. You dont run away from good seeds. I am not promoting Jarrah at all, infact, it doesnt have resistant to all bacterial infections I know. And if you get any of these diseases, you are a loser. What if you decide to go for Shanty of Galileo of Hazera. That's N28 to N31 per seed. Calculate how much you need.

Let me use shanty, 50cm spacing, 9,000 seeds. That's N234,000 for Shanty. Meanwhile, you spend N23,000 for cobra, and you have excess remaining. Is it worth it? Believe me! It is if you know what you are doing. And we can still even get some cheaper seeds which can resist more and more. Shanty has been around for more than 7 years, while there are those who came out 2 years ago with improved versions. Even, there are 2021 improved versions. But I cannot give info about these cos they arent on the shelves here. You should go for what is there. Again, if you cannot know how to handle some issues like bacterial wilt, your shanty will be crushed, while youe cheap cobra will do well.

And is using cobra of N23k ok? It depends on you. Do what you know you want to do. It is hard telling you what to do. The condition of the farm and your financial state should tell you what to do. It is just easier to work with a big farm as we can just get huge seeds of like 3 million seeds at once and cut down the prices. I have moved in up to 30 million seeds in a batch a couple of times. But working with small farmers and trying to convince them on going for quality is what I do not want to engage in again. If roma is what works for you, do it well.

So using 50cm drip. And I believe choosing a seed which can give 8 -10kg (though, no one will say this, but you make your investigation well...pilots help), you should get at least 4kg on 80% of the the whole plants. You should have 25tons minimum. This is like me being realistic here. Sales: N12m if you set it at the second quarter of the year.

If you ask me what I will achieve? Lol. This will cover 7.5 to 8 plots (more than 1 acre), and I will definitely achieve 40tons and above cos I go.for the best. As in spend heavily. My sales target is N20million and above. So, I will definitely spend nothing less than N5million on the total cost of production. Can you do it? And by the following year, my expenses will be pushed down seriously cos I wont buy mulch, drip, pumps, etc again. And I farm just once in 2 years or 3 years now. Why? I have so many engagements that to go to farm is hard. And I need super internet connectivity every time which I cannot get on farm. My only prayer at this time is that Space Internet comes to Nigeria. I swear, I do not mind to buy 1,000 acres for fresh vegetables and build a house there with security, and live permanently. This is the only reason I cannot farm continuously. Too bad!

Drip and its accessories are from N250k to N400k. And you have to buy some other plumbing materials. You can just add 10%. I hope that its enough. Then, your choice of wafer pump depending on the kind of water reservoir you have. Also, will you be using generator? Fuel or diesel and what is the capacity. How old is your power system?

Covering 4,000m mulch can cost you around N600,000 for very thin ones which do not last long, but I gat a guy who recently told me about something good which is ok around in Nigeria. This is fine. I think N350k will get this. Not bad. But if you are like me, then, super kind that will last for even 10 years if you use yearly I can use on a small piece of land like up to 10 acres. Wow! Then, this is huge, and can run to 1 million for the calculation we are doing. Most people will definitely choose rhe cheapest. Though, I think the N350k option isnt bad at all, but do you want it last longer and even give you 0.5kg to 1kg extra yield for every 5 plants?

As for foliar sprays, good brands are expensive. This is what I need you to know. There are even some in powder form which are tiny pieces, but are super expensive. Chemicals, fertilizers, nutrients for NPK and micro, immune builders, etc. Many things to consider. Plants are under cold, heat, dry wind? Every kind of climatic condition requires different maintenance. And this is what many do not know. This is how I always push my yield to optimum. Fine, yours is to just get NPK, Lime, etc and dump. I am glad many are using DAP, SSP etc. Of course, I understand my previous articles have redefined many things as sellers read them. For this, I am grateful to God. And that God has used me this way to make changes in Nigeria, I am so grateful and thankful. This way, I give back to the society. So, at low budget, I expect you to spend around N100k max, some even will spend N10k to N20k. But if you are really going to hit it big, you may spend close to N300k or more. There are some things you cannot even get at all in Nigeria. So, people with strict budgets cannot work with me. You are on your own. Sorry.

Soil nutrients are ok. But the choice of what to use is hard. I always use special microbes I formulate based on special scientific procedure. I have tried to do low budget and the result was not good. If I don't do it, then guess work has started which I dont do. But a farmer who doesnt understand this doesnt need to do it. Many battle fusarium and other diseases which could be really prevented or managed. How you treat your manure is vital. Many rush it. Even to get manure is a big issue for many, and they start managing it. Many even delay it for long. These are issues that should be addressed. If you cannot keep to schedule, do not go into it. Dont try it. When you start missing deadlines, things start going wrong. Missing deadlines reduce yield. For this template, I recommend 8, 10, 13.3 tons if using 50cm, 40cm, 30cm respectively. How many of you actually use up to this? Can you even source for it? The manure should be dry. Do the calculation if you are buying. But there should be ways to reduce the cost.

Staking is a must if you want to hit it big. How do you go about it? You need to get the cost also. I cannot give you this.

Salary or casual workers pay should be standby. This one reason is why I do not talk to small farmers. If I work on farm or I give you waht to do, just know that your workers will complain cos they are used to doing rubbish work. How many workers will enter bush and cut bamboos and be happy with you after? But then, you will spend more buying. What do you do? How many will smile at you after packing manure? You are looking for trouble if you dont know what to do after. Yet, many small farm owners tried to push blame at me like 6 years ago when I was still attending to many of them. You made them do what they arent used to, and you didn't and still dont m know what to do to motivate them, and you blamed me when they start messing up your farm. The person is not OKAY at all. So, I quit talking to these people. Managing big farms where machines are available and workers take far more than minimum wage, and they beg to work on the farm is ok for me to work with. I hope you are following me. And then, sacking workers that start stealing is easy on big farms while small farms continue to manage crazy workers. How do you expect to make it? Those making it on NL manage their farms themselves. Some of them are even their own labor, amd they get help only when needed. Lol. Cant you see? If you cannot manage your farm yourself, you are the joke if you do not know how to motivate your workers. That is on you and not on anyone else. And since I know many small owners are fault pushers to others, there is no point to even work with them anymore.

But I look for team players everytime. If you are busy, find a trust worthy person. To get a trust worthy person is hard, and they can come anytime. So, get all your materials ready first. You can spend 4 months to source for these items (perhaps you import them yourself). Also, you may need to buy from sellers here and not wait till you are ready to sow seeds. If you find yourself in a situation a particular item is not available and you have to manage, it is your fault and no one else.

Do not go for loan for a small scale farm. Use your money so you do not start rushing it cos of the interest you have to pay. Or go for annual interest, and take your time. Don't go for weekly or monthly interests oooo.

I think I have mentioned the basic things necessary here. If you are on the farm and you are the farmer, you can easily do things like what you read on NL. But if you arent on farm, you better use your head and do what is right.

1. Get quality you can use and reuse so that even you fail the first year, you go again the following year. Learn from the mistake of the first.

2. Always rest. Do not injure yourself.

3. Go for big yield, make it one time, and move out to return and make more.

More points & Recap
1. If you have resources, install cameras and monitor everything. Let the person you have on your farm know this. If possible, get real time ones. The challenge is always online connectivity. Ooops! I think, mor options are available. You can make investigation on this

2. Invest heavily on soil ammendment. People do not knkw about it. All they do is just do "sharp sharp" job.

3. Invest heavily on foliar sprays for high yield

4. Invest heavily on drip and mulch. Very important.

5. Make your supervisor or your manager your right hand man. He determines your success or failure. Make sure that he is a good person who is dependable. You are the one solely responsible for this. If you don't get it right, you are in a big problem.

6. You do not have time cos you are busy; yet, you want to buy inferior quality, so you buy everytime. How is this efficient?

7. The choice of making 0.5kg per plant and have 13,000 plants on an acre is before you. It is fine and good. Though, you can make 2kg per plant and shoot it to 26tons per acre instead of 7.5tons. But can you really manage it? Can the person you put in charge manage it? Can you really pay for 13plants side dressing fertilization, staking, and pruning if needed? Can you easily maintain free air flow? Can you really manage it well? The choice is yours to make.

8. Looking at 8 above, the choice of having your equipment now and no need to buy in the next 10 years is before you in comparison to buying now and buy again next time. If you do not make it now, are you sure you can be motivated to buy again next year? The choice is yours to make. I tell people, if you do not have the money, do not do it. I have even tried to assist people in the past to manage their resources, but I have realised it is a gesture which turns evil everytime, and I dont need to never get involved again.

So, if you want to make N12million to N20million sales using an acre drip (Nigerians sellers standard) on 9 plots of land, dont you think it's worth investing 5 million naira the first while your cost drops drastically the following years? I am sure after the first round, you can make even better decisions on how to reduce your cost of production much more even you want to expand or set up in new places. Sure, you can. And if you see the potential in the farm is huge, it can motivate you to take vacation and go for bigger land and hit it bigger.

But please, I am talking more about quality and big farms more in this thread. Also, keep in mind that the main motive here is to make you decide better which variety you should go for. You dont buy N10 per seed and just use any damn cheap stuff out there to grow them.

Attit:
Milestone in Plant Breeding

Crop domestication started a long time ago. Farmers select the best wild species to develop crops. Do you know that the first set of tomatoes weren't red? Also, the first set of watermelons weren't red inside. Do you knkw there are green riped, black, brown, orange, pink, purple etc tomatoes? Red tomato was strange to rhe first people who ate them, but are normal now. Lol. It's all a out DNA. Note that I have strong believe this present GMOs should be banned. And I have written about it. But what next? Let us read on.

In 10,000 BC, wheat was domesticated. And during this time, farmers started using bulls to plough their farms. I guess some farmers in the north still use bulls to plough their land. Why is Africa so backward?

In early days after seeds domestication, George Mendel ddescribed the inheritance of traits from one generation to the next - Mendel's law. His law became the core of classical genetics.

And this gave birth to Plant breeding based on cross breeding. Development of improved varieties by combining good characteristics from two parents came into play. This was the birth of hybrid breeding - crossing two genetically different individuals to develop better performing hybrids.

In 1926 more vigorous hybrid corn was made.

Mutagenesis breeding started. New genetic diversity was developed by exposing crop plants to chemical agents or radiation. They started seeing the effect. This is the start of chemicals. What a blessing and curse!!! I think the first people benefitted from it, but we are the ones suffering it cos we have created too many artificial and chemical products which have destroyed our ecosystem. Then, I think the next generations after us will benefit cos there will be a balance soon when scientists understand everything well. And presently, it seems, science is getting it. Yes, they are presently in the right direction of using DNAs accurately and safely for breeding. But presently, I wont be a Guinea pig for the next generation to benefit from. Let me enjoy my life and grow old. If they eventually perfected aging reversing, we will go for it. We will live beuong 500 years of possible. Who says science cannot do it? Well, let's see if it can be possible during our own generation. Mehn! Science is a sophisticated. Please, do not be Rank Xerox. We can do so much together.

In 1940, blast-resistant rice was developed.

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick identified the double helix of DNA. This was when scientists started to understand the structure of DNA, and creating breeding based on it started. Plant breeding based on genetic information replaced old ways started gaining ground. Scientists started working directly with DNA.. And then Massive open field cultivation started cos we have seeds which csn tolerate harsh weathers. Mehn! Humans have come a long way. More land areas were cultivated with the invention of tractors and other farm machineries.

Then, the breakthrough came and DNA can be isolated. In 1994 Insect resistant cotton was developed. This is one of the first GMO seeds - Introducing foreign genes into the DNA of a plant. The targeted gene is first isolated, and then, injected into a variety to create a new variety. Boom. That was it. However, it came with lots of troubles. And anti GMO seeds came up because there were adverse effect on people. High rates of cancer and autoimmune diseases came into play. I will talk more about this. Please note that, I was a capital NO GMO seeds person as at 2 years ago. But I can tell you that I am beginning to give them consideration. Rather than criticize them, I joined them to let them see the challenges they should pay attention to, and stop them from using political gods to silence concerned people and kill more.

In 2000, the game changed totally. Though, introduction of foreign genes was still going on, scientiest came up with Marker-Assisted Selection - locating desirable traits in a plant for efficient selection and breeding. So, rather than tampering with the gene and then extract as a foreign gene into another plant, they found a way of detecting the location of the traits (which we can call gene also). And then they can manipulate it with the 1926 invention of cross breeding. Boom! That was it. And many companies have developed this. This is what everyone doing seeds not labeled as GMO is doing. They find traits (identifying genes without tampering with it), and then fuse the genes together to be more efficient than 1926. Though, crossbreeding is the thing. And they combine with self fertilization also.

Since then, many methods have been adopted, among which are creating F1, F2, F3 F4, F5, even up to F30 at times. Another one is backcrossing. Inbreeding and pure breeding then came into play. And this is the motive of all seed companies now. Even this is the case with live stocks. You will hear the terms - grandparents, parents, and commercial breeds in livestocks breeding. They are just telling you that they are: F-series of plants. That's all. And they stopped at a particular serie. If they want to progress and make more money, they simple step down again in the series. First they identify a trait they want and then use a method to stabilize it. It can take some time to get it right, but eventually, they always do.

Scientists have seen why they should not tamper with genes and remove it as a foreign entity, but since they can locate them, they know that they need to still go into them directly and manipulate them to achieve better things. You know that the year 2,000 MAS discovery opened their eyes. And this is what Hazera, EastWest, Technisem, RZ etc are all using presently. I want to state that all these methods right from cross breeding is gene manipulation. This is the honest truth, however, tampering with it is what makes GMO seed. They remove the gene and inject it else where in case of GMOs. But the other kind flushes out undesired genes and fused in desired genes. In the olden days, it can take 15 years to get a good product, but now with advance tech, it takes a shorter period of time. Scientists who removed genes and inject as a foreign gene have said they will not stop, but find another way to make theirs better and safer. This is good.

So instead of extracting DNAs, they came about with Gene Editing methods. They found a way to start editing genes in plants and animals. This technology is going to lead to cure of many genetically diseases such as sickle cell, cancer, and autoimmune, if and only if it is proven to be safe. It's too early to criticize them. But who wants to be used as a guinea pig? Well, let's see. But it looks promising.

Recently, doctors created a genetic pig and transplanted its kidney to human, but the patient used was already brain-dead. However, they saw that the kidney was not rejected as human body used to reject pig's kidney. Of all animals, pigs organs are similar to human. They are even more intelligent than dogs. So, why do people eat pigs? But toy touch dogs, they shout. Why not pigs? For christ sake, pigs are more intelligent and even closer to human than dogs. This is why military doctors used to use pigs to practise trauma surgery some years back. These doctors who treat wounded soldiers dissected many pigs alive. Horrible scene...I must say. So what really happened in the pig-human kidney transplant? They know pig's kidney and ours are similar, but its always been rejected by human body. So, they made research and found the hormone responsible. So they genetically edit the dna of the pig used so that the hormone responsible will be knocked out. And then, they saw that it worked in a brain-dead patient who needed kidney transplant. Viola!

Using this technique two products have been created and made known. Though, I know there are others products, but the one I will talk about is the GABA tomato developed in 2020 and registered in 2021 by Japan. They edited the gene of tomato and made it to be able to reduce the pressure in blood. This is being tested on high blood pressured patients presently. Well, I wont eat it now but it makes sense. I know someday, we will have no choice but to accept them. The main concern is the introduction of foreign genes which caused too much damages, and they wanted to force it on us. Monsanto had to start using Bayer cos of bad reputation with GMO.

Let's see how gene editing plays out. Meanwhile, markers are still the real deal being used as non GMO seeds. Though, they all alter DNAs. But for the fact that they dont edit or extract them is why they are accepted - natural knock ins and out. But gene editing seems to be the boom. I think if it satisfies many conditions, its producs may not be labeled as GMOs. Already the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) has not yet classified it under GMO and I think has even said it's not in their mandate or so. Really I need to check again. But the issue is that this is a new tech which no one knows how to classify it. I think Japan says, it will not be classified under GMO. But we wont really know until we start seeing the after effect. It looks promising in my opinion, and it will likely make all traditional and conventional methods obsolete if there is little complication with it which they will quickly correct.

Now that we know the history of breeding, we can start learning why some seeds are so expensive. I need to tweak your brains in the right direction.

Let's go there.

Olaleyeabdullah:
are you still in need of drip tape? Cedagro have the 50cm drip tape at 63k for 2000m. We both can share it into two if you still have interest.

Nezzjnr:
Magnesium Sulphate

uche393:
I bought it from amadrip/amagrows here they weighbilled it to my state
500m drip and 30 connectors 23k

robotix:
You experience any form of nasal congestion?

Sorry, I just log into this account now and saw your comment.

Mine has been relapsing and declining. Some times it shows improvement but relapses again.


I am tired. Only thing left is that I can still use phone clearly and now manage to support myself with hearing aid in the better ear.

However, I noticed that the current problem is connected with sinuses cos when I used nasal spray for the first time due to severe congestion. I had improvements... For some time but after some weeks, it relapsed again.

I am suspecting that mine has to do with obstruction of the ear tube that connects to the nose.

OfficialSam:
SAIRA F1

kingviny:
If only he had come across Phytoscience stem cells products . Pancreatic cancer is a small case. We handle far more than that!

The Stem cells would recreate a new pancreas for him and he would still have been alive till today.

Information is life!

kingviny:
If only he had come across Phytoscience stem cells products . Pancreatic cancer is a small case. We handle far more than that!

The Stem cells would recreate a new pancreas for him and he would still have been alive till today.

And does this phytoscience stem cells products reverse hearing loss as well?

Information is life!

FarmTech:
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Yes, but u have to avoid irrigating in the evening to minimize fungal diseases.

FarmTech:
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U would have gone for spray tube for the mean time.

Farmerakinloye6:
you asked my furrow distance, and I said "1.2 meters"

Farmerakinloye6:
you asked my furrow distance, and I said "1.2 meters"

Farmerakinloye6:
1. 1.2 meters between the ridges 2. Space between the plant at the moment is 30cm 3. Read from page 1-17 you will understand how to prepare the land 4. Distance between Baboo is 300cm apart 5. Watch my YouTube channel to get more insight on staking.

Farmerakinloye6:
My Cucumber is doing menstruation , growth no uniform at all! Some has start to flower why some are just bringing rope. I will never try to plant cucumber without quality manure again! Looks healthy though! First weeding start today, and by next week I think I will know where am going... video by weekend.

doffman:
For pesticidea

Water is ratio 3

Rabbit urine is ratio 2

For example , you can mix 3 litres of water with 2 litres of rabbit urine .

If you want to use for manure , the ratio is different

willybaby:
Cassava selective herbicide ain't saying it's the best but I hope to try it soon