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ActiveFarms:
I experimented with my last produce too late. I had the most infected farm in my entire village but turned out top three in terms of produce. I hardly fail with my experiments.


When I reared broilers are regular drugs weren't working and they were dying, I switched to my formular. Guess what, none died of diseases cause anymore. When I mean none, none in around 400 pieces. Only few deaths after my experimentations were from stampede

Did u try d ginger and tumeric on maize

After 5days drying in d sun, my maize lost more than 1/3rd it volume.......

Dry maize comes with its challenges but that volume lost has taken a nasty toll on my revenue

Funny enough the buyers dont care they wont add a dine after winnowing and drying my maize enough for storage

Nobody pitys farmers, 4get d hype in the media, they are all emotional rants

I await them by february, i will sell my seed maize @ high water content , dry maize is like working for free for peppke

ActiveFarms:
Suggest alternatives to any toxic substances you notice and you can motivate us to make changes. Example I am switching to Ginger, Garlic, Tumeric and Neem Extract to take care of pests and insects

Neem extract yes

But dont go ginger and tumeric unless it has been documented and tried

Dont use ur farm for experiment, no body will emboss u d money lost

RainMoreDFARMS:
You didnt even answer my question

In d last 7 days it rained 4 d first 2 but has not rained in 5 days now

RainMoreDFARMS:
You mean, it's raining in your area, which side. Because here in Ipokia Ogun state , We've been praying hard for rain o.

After harvesting it rained over night, making d corn extremely wet during thrashing but the dry weather has been a saviour as i have obtained a substantial degree of dryness

Farming around them has made me reconsider my philosophy of farming

ActiveFarms:
What if one proposed to pay for the power generation for both our maize produce. I have like 3 tons

They need a minimum of 40tons

ActiveFarms:
Have you found a way to have your maize dried using a maize dryer ?

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Dryed my meagre units in d aun

ActiveFarms:
Have you found a way to have your maize dried using a maize dryer ?

The only people with drying facility is a very big farm close by with 50ton capacity so they were like if my qty is not hugh , its a waste putting on their gen

Esude007:
Day 83

Rain is doing me shege , i plan to invest in a dryer of at least 4tonne capacity in the future

Pls update us on thrashing and drying as we r about to enter peak rains again

okoroemeka:
that is what I said earlier about goggle farm and their spacing,if you cannot give hot pepper a minimum of 4ft square spacing or length of shovel forget it,the problem that will come from only that poor spacing will be in series, first hot pepper exhibit a form of crown shyness when branches aviod touching each other or grow away from each other,the moment they have no option but to touch and tangle flower abortion starts naturally due to stress,the simple movement of workers in the farm wading through entangled crops will drop off most flower due to mechanical action,keep on applying agrovert or best harvest fruit and flower booster weekly and hope for the best,even that massive pruning maybe counter productive, because you are cutting off the branches that will bear fruit and naturally the crop will refocus it's energy to growing new branches instead of flowering and fruiting,leave it like that,apply manure and with time they will adjust and adapt,also the disease is helped so much by poor spacing,the leafs retain moisture for much longer due to poor ventilation and inadequate sunlight penetration giving bacteria and fungal spores the chance to grow and thrive,also your workers wading through the thick brush will help in spreading the disease rapidly

If i go by 4ft (120cm), what can i interplant with pepper , to make use of space, i would have taken water melon but harvest time will coincide with rainy season

okoroemeka:
there is a farm in imo state we supervised,they planted super habanero and red scorpion open field in batches on one hectare,last time I was there they harvested 30 bags from 4 plots of land by #60k a bag then,total #1.8m in one week from 4 plots,my brother I don't doubt this your story
The key in open field pepper farming is to start early( nursery Nov/Dec) before the constant rains of August will come and bring bacterial and fungal disease headache you have already cashed out big time,if you have source of water to irrigate

I will like to ask what do you think is the cause of flower abhortion.

We planted pepper this year by february, everything went well till flowering then flower abortion set in, spacing used was 60×45 and 60×60

At flowering was when i believed the saying that the single most important thing in farming is the spraying equipment, even with massive pruning , we cant get in between rows as i speak to u

The pepper now is riddled with disease as i speak, in my locality pepper got as high as 170k but we never had any for sale cos of abortion

jaydee87:
Good Afternoon betabread,
Sad the seeds didn't germinate after the application of the carb.
But why not try buying pepper and extracting the seeds yourself and allow to dry for 3 days before nursing..
Don't preserve with carb. Try this and let's see how it goes.. will be expecting a feedback. You can try with pepper worth 1k just for trial oooo...

Thats was when i had no pepper

Now i have both local piqante and mawezelle, all f2 seeds

It rained while trashing my corn yday, how do i go about getting somebody with dryer ......... no time to spread in d sun and guide it from rain

jidestroud:
If it was a case of foundation money, it would have been better. They sold a plot out of my land to another person. They had the effrontery to tell me not to fence the portion of the land they had sold off. . As I type this sef, the newly installed Oba Ado is involved in the matter. Honourables don call me tire to calm down and continue with my fencing. More details on this issue later. Nobody fit threaten me for land matters. Nevertheless, I will thread carefully like you rightly said.

How new are u to the area?

Ogami, experience has told me never to buy land in any community if i have not spent 5 years engaging in active economic activity in dat area

Omo onile get sizes for everybody o! MANY are abroad waiting for active development to come to their community before they show up

Even Baale and Oba dey scam people on land matters

If you successfully fence the acre, i will advice you to sell like 3 plots in 5 years time to recover your capital

Lusada is developing too fast to still be called a village

I once used carbendazim(saaf) to protect pepper and tomato seeds, (none germibated)

This were seeds bought in the market, I dont know why the seeds did not germinate

Could it be the fungicide or its just dat i bought dead seeds

Thats around 45000 to 50000 cobs

I beg anybody into crops that has herdsmen with cows in their area to please just forget about farming in that area.....

Save urself and ur workers the stress......Herdsmen are the most vicious beings and would go to any length to avenge a dead cow.........moreover cows have preference for cultivated crops........

Esude007:
I started noticing monkeys around the farm...

Our dog killed 1... So we need to start preparing bfor they invade



Monkeys are pest in maize farming, so to get rid of monkeys, below is a very good trick.

Go to the market and get Ori( Shea butter) and unadulterated powdered pepper.

Place the Shea butter on fire so that it will melt, then pour the powdered pepper and stir.

Rub all the maize cob around the farm.

Monkeys are known to be body scratchers, they will touch the maize laced with sticky pepper abd scratch their eye, prick and body ..

U go see the way they go swear for u come live your farm in peace....

Monkeys love maize, Best is to have hunters in the area as meat is set for them, hunters love monkey meat too

Esude007:
prof rate the cob size at day 75.

Looks healthy

Off all things i fear in farming, its stolen harvest i fear the most......
Farmers are among the most monitored people in rural communities, if you dont have presence on the farm, you just fed the nation for free.....

Maize thiefs on d rise, i wonder how january february will be

Emmybak:
my ogah des post need enta front page abeg. I saw this post late I for no make mistake fr my fam. Many people need to learn.

Op you good.

Did u try the combo pls help update

stagger:
Cocoa prices will collapse next year.

Come back here to quote me.

Not in light of global realities, belarusian potash is off world trade routes for supporting Russia, US has literally stopped chinese phosphate fertilizer imports.
The price of even grains has never been this high before

ActiveFarms:
I like to ask a question my fellow Agro scientists.

I noticed that most maize farmers in my village use regular maize seeds and i observed that with their plants, most, i would say 65% had two cobs per plant.

I planted Seedco SC510 and i got 92% One cob per plant despite using fertilizer.

Please I would like to know what hybrid maize variety/brand gives high amount of two cobs per plant please

To get 2 cobs per plant with big cobs u have to use large spacing thereby reducing population

If u plant maize for fresh market dont bother urself with hybrids especially seedco 510, it wont pay cos invariably u will cheat urself, d varoeties dat are planted for sale fresh have poor grain weight compared to what is thrown away

If u plant seedco510 or any hybrid marketed for grain yield its better to sell dry and better to sell by weight to mostly poultries

I love and prefer open market cos they sell per volume,once u get varieties or can manipulate ur corn to get big grains u will reap off this market as compared to poltry dat wants to buy based on weight

On the issue of fertilizer my experience is telling me if u fertilize ur corn never sell fresh, d fertilizer goes to develop the seed, if u had dried down ur corn and d local farmer dat does not use fertilizer, u will get more bags per hsrvested cobs if both of u harvested the same number and size of cobs

Esude007:
90 percent tasselling...

God bless us with rain..

Ur insect management is top notch and ur leaves show no disease signs, constant rain would just give u foliar disease

U just need showers, u will still hit more than 85% target yield

Zwooks:
Hi Bro,

Please quick question based on the SC 719. While it appears to be ready around 115-140 days ( DRY MODE ), off my assumption, I would like to know if this Maize variety can be harvested fresh at around say 80-90 days after planting if one chooses to harvest fresh

Yes it can but, there is no economic use of fresh white maize, no body buys fresh white maize for eating but if u grew it what stops you from eating fresh corn off d vine before dry down

Way way better and sweeter than 2 days corn u buy on d road

Esude007:
Okkkk...

Once rain start, I will share the pictures.

U will see that in between the ridges will be fill for like a day with water.

I will share the picture

That means the time u planted was the best time to plant on dat soil, ur definitely a maize expert

Esude007:
You're very correct.

The soil retains water.

That's why I am lucky.

Else, this drought for done do me shege

U tried getting people to ridge dat place, hereru will have to do it at ×3 d normal prixe


Going by what i see I think u will still hit 75% of th3 target yield cos rains have started showering and you will start getting heavy rains by aug 20

Please do me a favor of shiwing pictures of the ground after good rains