Farmerakinloye6:
I could not detail this thread the way I want because am over occupy! My advice; plant f1 seed if you are growing for commercial purpose, don't underestimate gray squirrel, use manure, spray insecticide e.tc. personally I can never grow watermelon for commercial purpose . Me and my boys eat and satisfy, I dash close to 15 out, this is the Last one which I will be giving my mother.

U just made a hugh statement, what did u see or notice to say u can never grow water melon for commercial purposes

OluchiDelly:


Bros why nauh! Why spending huge resources to maintain an okra farm for almost 3months b4 maturity when there are improved varieties with just 45 to 50days maturity everywhere? 0.8acre (roughly an acre)...that one don pass experimenting a beg! The wilting is also partly a function of the variety.
You are planning to burn fuel on top drip for about 5months (3months maturity plus 2 months harvesting) by dry season? ...when you can burn less fuel on top improved varieties for 3months or less. Bros think am well o.

Thanks

Its d local 2.5 month variety, i planted 0.8acre to see how okra farm is and see the potential in dry season when I install drip

OluchiDelly:


Which variety is this? I perceive poor drainage pattern. It's like u did not make ridges/plough..
If u are not going for ridging, ensure that ur land is a bit sloppy.

Hmmmm
I did not plough and ridge but land is sloppy, this is occurring more in d plants downhill......

Please help why are the okro wilting in heavy rains

betabread:
Your corn is nearing 2 months now and y are preparing for harvest......

At this stage i ask, are u selling fresh or dry, If u are selling fresh the price of fresh corn has dropped, there is glut in the fresh corn market currently, but if are going to dry your corn please state the strategy you would use to dry ur corn, i want to believe the coming august break is too short a time to dry out ur corn as any little moisture in d nteak will lead to either fungus over growth or seeds germinating on cobs

U planted white so u are definitely selling dry

Your corn is nearing 2 months now and y are preparing for harvest......

At this stage i ask, are u selling fresh or dry, If u are selling fresh the price of fresh corn has dropped, there is glut in the fresh corn market currently, but if are going to dry your corn please state the strategy you would use to dry ur corn, i want to believe the coming august break is too short a time to dry out ur corn as any little moisture in d nteak will lead to either fungus over growth or seeds germinating on cobs

Before dangote urea is 8000 per bag now its 20k.........


I pity anybody that claims this man is the messiah


Nigerians must buy fuel at 1000 per liter on completion

Our short memories cannot remember how turai dealt with GEJ

Femi is just executing his job well......He is the Abobaku of this administration

shariff84:
thank you for this contribution,I also planted pioneer seed before and I also planted oba98.i adviced someone to plant oba98 with good fertilizer application the result will be great.

Sir , pls tell me the weight ranges of a bag of dry maize packed in those northern 100kg bags.......

I want to believe it is variable based on the seed weight, a friend of mine had planted pioneer before and the ogi yield from the corn is about 2.5 times that of normal varieties around but seeds look same size

I really want to understand the origin of seed yield data as advertised by sellers

Anybody who knows corn should please help me on this

I need a white variety with very big kernel size and big cob size, im not after yield in tonnes but yield in volume

Additional xteristics should be good husk cover to mitigate bird damage

Finally it must be cheap

Anybody who knows corn should please help me on this

I need a white variety with very big kernel size and big cob size, im not after yield in tonnes but yield in volume

Additional xteristics should be good husk cover to mitigate bird damage

Finally it must be cheap

grandpoh:


It was done manually close to 50 rings
I thinks it’s cos of the volume of water it’s pumping daily now about 18k ltrs.

The only thing with farm and borehole is that make sure you’re the only one operating it this way the pumping machine and gen lasts longer else those workers are devils incarnate.

50 rings thats about 60m depth, with 18k liters per day........ men its better to go near a river.......,its not worth both installation and operational cost

Is it late to start a new tomato nusery that can meet high prices


I lost my farm to circumstances beyond my control

OluchiDelly:


Corn in a tomato thread? Why not visit a corn thread for better audience, i think the op has one corn thread sef.

felt its d best way to get his attention on this thread but would really like to know as i got some for sale

How much is a bag of fresh corn, ive got some for sale.........

LucidG:


@betabread... thanks for yoir comment.

As much as the points raises are valid,.I still want to believe there could be ways around this.

That's just my thought sha. Let's wait to hear from more People though.

Any way around this involves spending money on dryers, which the bulk of the farmers that plant the beans we eat will never expend..........

When one purchases a dryer in the south, it never makes economic sense to dry grains especially before trashing, when there are other crops with higher value like cocoa....

Anyway I end it here

LucidG:
Hello everyone.

I've been wondering for awhile about the seeming dearth of commercial beans farmers in the South West of Nigeria.

I am not saying we don't have beans farmers, but we seems not to have a high population of commercial beans farmers like we have for tomato, cucumber and a few other crops.

What could be responsible for this?

And if there are commercial beans farmers, can they share their experiences here so we can all learn?

Even though I am not sure of a few things but I know that our soil can support beans cultivation and the weather shouldn't pose much of a challenge.

So, let's discuss and learn from one another. Whatever you share here will surely help a lot of aspiring beans farmers to come a certain conclusion.

So...over to you good people of NL.

The problem with beans and other grains xonsumed dry is the window of drying, most bean farmers plant beans with late rain in September to november to take advantage of the dry season spell between secember to mid February...,,,,

Here in the south west we get silly showers in the dry season from time to time, for farmers that rely on sun drying this is a curse. One silly shower on beans during drying can ruin months of hard work and damage millions of naira.....

Thats d basic reason u dont get beans farmers in the south

I want you to talk about water conservation especially for someone that goes the sprinkler route............ Im hearing it here as dry season farming on sandy soil is not beans.........any form of easy to lay down mulch that work seamlessly with sprinklers

Na Dowen College i pity pass


I hope say dem go collect endowment from the killers, the school is dead and buried, no parent can feel safe ahain with their wards there

So it needs the intervention of Buhari and the State government for the Police to do its job ........

Oromoni families are wimps, what really are they looking for justice or money.....Person kill my pikin and we Dey speak English up and down,

Blood must flow, an eye for an eye in this circumstance

Have u tried cassava with irrigation before targeting when prices are high......... I notice every one in my place plant cassava at about the same time........


Outside cassava, what crop can easily replace cassava intercrop with maize with all the characteristics of cassava........ Can coco yam do the trick

Attit:

Then why ask me about questions you have a stand on? I dont get it.

Well, to the readers, dont be deceived with this post, if you are a small farmer, you will always go for the best price. He mentioned retailing per cob, having the biggest cob instead of grains, and now he is talking about offtakers and future contracts. Is there any correlation? This is why I don't answer some questions here. It's like they try to find faults. You know you have a stand, yet, you keep posting here, asking questions as if you want my opinion. I don't really understand this kind of character. If one slaps him out of this thread, it's going be a war. Just say, you are here to create wahala. And I will avoid you by all means.

Well oga, goodluck. I have nothing much to say, and I will stop responding to your disturbances on my threads. You have an idea of what you want to do. And I know you will never use irrigation because the people doing it there know their coins like you boasted. Yet, you will return again and again to ask how to increase yield, and many things. I'm stopping you here. Stop asking me questions again. Why do you always want to force your opinion on others? If you are bent on not using irrigation, then, let it be. See, I dont want wahala....you have your ideology, and obviously different from mine. I will rather wish you stop posting here again. And if you do, I will ignore you.

You want a future contract but you want to sell in bags. You want a future contract but you dont want to quantify yield in grains but per cob. You want to sell fresh corn by contract. You want them to pay for your cobs instead of grains, and you boldly wrote you want a contract. You are just an internet farmer. That is it. An internet farmer who doesnt know when a farmer is progressive or not. It means you have zero knowledge on it. You even showed that you arent the farmer doing it, yet asking me questions like you are the one. You need to stop your internet farming. Stop questioning me on what you arent practising. I can detect a farmer and a confuser easily. You are a small farmer, yet you want a contract. Contract on an acre. Ok oooo. You asked for a solution, and I said there is a market but you dismissed it. You didnt even check the market, and you are here still saying rubbish that there is an agent bla bla.bla. have you checked first to know the procedure of the sales I was about giving you? This is how people lose their opportunities. Anyway, you arent a farmer, so you quickly bailed yourself out. Cos you have no corn to sell. I deliberately offered you that option cos I have seen it earlier that you are just a trouble maker looking for faults. Stop posting further to deceive those who want to farm. No small farmer in his right sense will ever leave sweet corn for normal corn. All farmers are always looking for market to sell sweet corn. So, you only declined cos you dont farm. Keep on looking for faults in my posts. Your farmers know their coin, yet, you are here asking me how to increase yield. You want me to teach people who know their coin already. Please, dont return here.

This is the last time I will reply you.

Goodluck!

Sir I believe you are getting me totally wrong....... I'm truly looking for ways to improve my farming and profit and that has made me seek you out.........Im not out to fight anyone but brainstorm to fine tune my own conditions down here.........I can never come to nairaland to quash somebody else........................ Im only looking for easy ways to break even

Sir please indulge me and keep answering my questions................... I once sold a pickup load of ewedu to some-one from another local government, the people that buys in our place became angry and fustrated the buyers effort in getting to market, the ewedu got to market 2 days late........ The woman swore never to return to my local govt...................This is what i meant by tradition............ I have tried fighting various traditions before and I lost the bulk of those fights

I also think I used the wrong word "contracts"........... Please dont get me wrong, You see we are about to enter a time when the price of those bags you see I posted move to their highest possible price( down here its 17K-20k)...........No buyer in my side would see that and allow a foreigner to take it.............. In the rainy season its a different ball game no body cares,all buyers are engaged but dry season is war here.......... I use the word Contract so that as I till the land for soil preparation I already start letting the whole world know Im growing for a company and would not sell locally...............

Please don't stop answering my questions

Attit:

Toy asked me what you can do to achieve 1m on one acre, and I gave you waht can give you 1.5m on 3/4 or an acre, and you are still saying you dont like the market and will compare. Alright oooo. Let there be cabals in market, is it not better than the corn you are doing?

Most markets in Lagos are dictated by demand and supply. There is no cabal there. All you do is pay agent commission and pay for logistics to market. If you are contended with your corn and N300k to N450k per acre, it's ok.

No wahala.

Lol
Don’t get me wrong, in this place there s a tradition of doing things that if one goes against, u might find difficult the next farming season such as bypassing already established off takers............ Dats what I meant.......These guys know their onions well........


If I would farm for an established canning facility, I would prefer something like a futures contract that would be binding on both me and the buyer(preferably written) cos I know in the long run most companies don’t like to be tied to farmers themselves, they use the off takers to the farmers disadvantage....


Anyway I talk from the point of view of a small acreage farmer


Pls pardon my indulgence

Attit:

If you use the same specification above I gave you which gives N420,000 sales on 4.5 to 5 plots (less than an acre), you will have 15,000 plants. If you use 20cm emitters, you will have 22,500 plants on the same piece of land. I believe you can have 14,000 plants at the end of the day. From what I know, about 4 cobs of sweet corn make 1kg which you can easily sell at N400. However you have to send it to farm. You must pay for logistics. It's even better. I dont know why you want to do farm Gates price. I think you can easily hit N1.3million to N1.5million sales easily. But you may not be able to sell them all at the same time, so you have to strategize staggered production.

If you want to try this, send me message and I will hook you up with one or two people who can sell your sweet corn. If I tell the person tk reserve you a spot, be assured he will. But make sure you dont fail.

So, go and get drip irrigation and get in touch with me.

I have heard so much about this sweet corn but I dont like the market, I want to be able to get 5 or 6 buyers compare prices and go for the one that pays me.................................. I still prefer farm gate prices, the wahala created by various cabals have made me prefer farm gate prices, more over the nature of agricultural goods (very perishable) have made me realise that I have to pass the burden of preservation to someone else.................... Good luck to the buyer, the bulk of those maize is going to be sweetened and sold fresh

To tell you the truth

Attit:

If you are using irrigation, I can give you estimation, but not based on your bag. I dont know about it. But if you happen to give me the bag while I am on farm, I can make a good guess, but not here. Sorry.

Make your estimation based of total survival percentage. Your survival rate in a farm without irrigation cannot be predicted accurately, so, I will rather avoid that scenario. I know it is a no go method for me. Since I will NEVER use it, I will rather not talk about it.

I am sure you depended on rain. That I see grown corn plants doesn't mean there are healthy and matured cobs there. So, I cannot make any estimation. It is just way too unprofessional. Please, follow my thread on gambling on farm.

Let's say you use drip, and you can afford 4,500m drip of 30cm emitters, you are sure of having 14,000 stands with good cobs. The quality of cobs you get when you irrigate and fertilize well is better than when you rely on rain. I cannot quantity it at all like this. So the safest way is to use direct cobs sales. Get the amount of the average size of your cob. So, you know that if you habe around 13,500 cobs if you manage your farm well, fertilize well, and prevent against pests and birds. I want to believe that an average fresh corn can go for N30 - N60 wholesale price anywhere. So, you can calculate your sales. This is the best way I can do the estimation here. You too know it depends on the variety also. If minimum of N420,000 is enough sales for 4.5 to 5plots of land, you should go for drip irrigation.

I understand maize fairly and I'm getting to understand its just a fairly profitable crop , its not a super crop.................Its very hard to make #1m from an acre of maize you have to be a super farmer...... #30 is about the best price for fresh maize in the dry season, I would be extremely happy to get #40...........Really looking forward to a strategy to get #1m from an acre of maize...........(farm gate price)

based on that type of bagging above what is the record yield that you have seen, I still prefer selling my corn this way to waiting oit out to dry for grain

how fast does the effect of atrazine wash off from d land...............I noticed that broad leaf weeds become noticable after 2 months, a good thing to me as it signals tomato can be rotated on the land

Most maize seeds are marketed by grain yield.........Im not after grain yield, I'm after Cob-size from extremely high population to fill that sac in an instant......... Secondly, What can i do to start making the second cob on corn Plant big and marketable and also ripen at the same time.....................................Finally, Suggest a good cost effective hybrid that you have tried......

i got 2 bags per plot of land........Im looking to push it to 12 bags...................The land used has been farmed for years and depleted of nutrients........... I only used poultry manure(albeit wet--- so i cant fully say its 10tonne per acre) at 2-3 weeks and controlled for army worms..... Im yet to get a planter but achieved good population by hand,.........Im about to start 1.5 acre of corn and only plan to sell fresh and in this bags.......... Small if u ask but I want to hit it by feb ending

Can some-one tell me his yield data in terms of this type of bagging........My Current yield is 1bag per alakpin and 2 bags per plot............ Not fantastic as I have seen 4 per alakpin and 7 per plot