Dear readers,
This thread have actually caught my utmost attention.
To me agriculture is the only way out.
I am yet to see a comment that has given a way out of the oppression unemployment has caused.
People must eat whether unemployed or not.
Do agriculture. Learn agric. Think agriculture.
Doesn't need your CV before it employs you.
Just be proud of it by being shameless and it will pay you bountifully.
I learnt a lot of my agriculture from nairaland and YouTube.
Talking from experience. Left my job since 2016 and am grateful for coming this far.
Urban agriculture is the best paying job so far for any unemployed person.
Look for an empty piece of land near you and plant something you know people eat daily. Eg vegetables. And in one month you have overcome the unemployment monster.
It will only cost you your labour, time, a sachet of paracetamol, a few seeds and some cheap pesticides. It's a 5x return which no employer will pay. The more you give the 5x you receive.
The market are the people around you that are ashamed of being dirty so don't be afraid of how to sell. People must eat. And once you are within the urban, you will be highly patronized cos your crops are fresh and first hand.
I do not call myself a farmer, I call myself an agriculturist. It's the new face of farming. It's the new unseen employer.
People are ashamed to farm because it looks dirty and hard but so is a gold mine, always looking dirty. While those that love the shame are cashing out.
Overlook the shame and become an Agricultural role model in months to come.
Thanks for your time.

Following too o.

Dear farmers,

ugu seeds are still very much available. Well acceptable breed during glut and good for export.

I can also export seeds to you.

Price is still #30 per seed. No cheating

Emmanuel 08183549869

Dear farmers,

ugu seeds are still very much available. Well acceptable breed during glut and good for export.

I can also export seeds to you.

Price is still #30 per seed. No cheating

Emmanuel 08183549869

Dear farmers,

Ugu seeds are still very much available. Well acceptable breed during glut and good for export.

I can also export seeds to you.

Price is still #30 per seed. No cheating

Emmanuel 08183549869

Dear readers,

Harvesting has started. To God be the glory.

Though price was a bit low a s a result of people that travelled during the festive season and the public holiday.

I hope this will encourage you to do agric. It pays.

Emmaflyng - tiktok, youtube, instagram
2348183549869

Live Broiler chicken available in large quantity at agbado-ijaiye.

Over 500 big live broilers between 3.5 to 5kg available for quick disposal to serious buyers/processors at discounted price.

Eggs also available in large quantities.

Call/WhatsApp 08055655908

Live Broiler chicken available in large quantity at agbado-ijaiye.

Over 500 big live broilers between 3.5 to 5kg available for quick disposal to serious buyers/processors at discounted price.

Call/WhatsApp 08055655908

Good morning readers,

I am adding okra seeds to the mix too. I bought Yeleen okra from technisem.

The ugu farm is also going on well. Though the drought has started in my region. The sun is really hot. The land is totally dried.

An advice to those transplanting seedlings is make sure you wet the hole before planting the seedlings. Then wet after planting the seedlings. Very important.

Emmanuel 08183549869. Emmaflyng - tiktok, youtube, instagram.

veggieman2be:


Location please

Ikorodu.

Good morning Farmers,

Ugu seed is now #30. Broad leaf variety

Thank you all for your patronage.

Emmanuel 08183549869

Good morning Farmers,

Ugu seed is now #30. Broad leaf variety

Thank you all for your patronage.

Emmanuel 08183549869

Good morning Farmers,

Ugu seed is now #30. Broad leaf variety

Thank you all for your patronage.

Emmanuel 08183549869

Good morning Farmers,

Ugu seed is now #30. Broad leaf variety

Thank you all for your patronage.

Emmanuel 08183549869

Good morning Farmers,

Ugu seed is now #30.

Thank you all for your patronage.

Emmanuel 08183549869

@14 days.

Ugu Seedlings will soon be transplanted.

Transplanting to the swamp.

Follow me on Instagram, tiktok and youtube - EMMAFLYNG

Emmanuel 08183549869

This is day 10 of planting ugu seeds in nylon commercially.

Hope to transplant these later.

More updates coming soon.

Emmaflyng - tiktok, youtube, instagram

Emmanuel 08183549869

Emmafly:
Pictures from the land so far.

The uncleared portion is still wet and thus will be cleared as the water dries up.

The cleared portion has been planted.

Transplanted some seeds after the endsars protest.

They have all stabilized.

Still looking forward to the ones that were planted directly. Though I have started seeing germination.

Emmaflyng instagram, tiktok, youtube

amerengues:
I can easily identify with you as I share your pains. It is no longer funny as middlemen take the center stage in price decision.

However, the big question is, can farmers do without middlemen? If yes, how feasible?

My candid advice for most farmers is to treat marketing important as equal as they treat production. I cannot sell to middleman, I would rather create my own market by bridging this gap. You can eliminate them if you know your onions. Begin to channel your energy towards marketing before harvest.

I share your concern.

The big problem is that farmers are only value creators and not value adders. Farmers should try to look at avenues to add value to their output in any way possible.
I also think preservation of produce goes a long way too. Like for me, out of experience, I will channel my resources to agro outputs that can be preserved when there is glut or low price.

Go to adeniji lagos island or ojota

Omonaijani:
Hello great Farmers, pls can anyone tell me where to get agro chemicals in cartons so I can resell? pls I don't want someone who will resell to me because I want to resell myself, pls help a brother, thanks to everyone in advance

@Omonaijani go to adeniji at lagos island or ojota if you are based in Lagos and see for yourself what you want to buy. You will see dealers of whatever agrochemical you want at carton price. Don't let anyone here use you to chop in the name of call me.

Nairaland is free for advert for anyone that wants to be called.

To others saying he should call them, why not just tell him. Must everyone call you before a problem can be solved online. Imagine if @okoroemeka or anyone who give info here wants everyone to call him/her for information that is benefitting all of us today.

Dear all, I am creating this topic because of the experiences of farmers in the hands of the so-called middlemen who planted/reared nothing but yet go to farms to buy agricultural outputs at ridiculous prices, not even considering the amount of labour, time and finance including sacrifices that the farmer relentlessly and patiently put in before getting such outputs. Most farmers suffer heavy losses during outbreak of diseases, most plant without even harvesting a single basket, but yet this heartless middlemen will come to your farm and buy the hard-earned successful outputs at a ridiculous price.
The most agonizing thing is that they will go out there to the market and sell it at twice/ thrice the cost price and tell end users that it's expensive right from the farm. These end users will in turn be looking at the farmers thinking they are billionaires.
They have the most strictest group in the name of union and will milk any Farmer dry if he/she wants to join.
I mostly see farmers looking haggard while these middlemen are the ones eating the farmers wealth.
The purpose of this thread is to discuss our experiences and find a way forward as this is one major reason why people stop going into farming.

For me, I am pained and thinking of a way out. But the littlest thing I am doing as a crop farmer is to do dry season ugu vegetable farming. With this, those middlemen will be the ones competing for the little my farm is producing.
I am also thinking of how to join their union this dry season as I will be happily welcomed because of what I have to offer.
Also I am looking at how to create a market online this dry season that will sustain me during the rainy season.

I am looking forward to hearing from a middleman why they are doing this wicked act.
So middlemen come and defend yourselves.

Emmanuel- 08183549869

Went to the market to get the below herbicides to spray the already planted areas of the farm site.

Glyphosate by sygenta and 2,4-d herbicides were bought.

Will keep my readers posted.

Emmaflyng - tiktok, instagram , youtube.

Pictures from the land so far.

The uncleared portion is still wet and thus will be cleared as the water dries up.

The cleared portion has been planted.

ideepaul:
bleach isn't effective, furadan is a better option...I am trying to remember the name of a soil treatment/nematicide I was told to use by a big farmer, he applies through the drip tapes and it's effective. Control nematodes on your tomato/pepper farm, and you have solved 30% of your challenges

Hi, is it Trichoderma ?

Good evening,
I have started preparations for the dry season vegetable farming.

I will like to use this thread as my update line.

Pictures will follow through.

1. The Plan :
The plan is to plant ugu seeds in the swamp between now and November ending, then start selling by first week of January down till 2nd week of June.
Only leaf will be sold as it is swamp farming, because by the time it will be ready for seed production, the rain might have taken over part of the swamp. A normal swamp is only dry for at most 6 months.
But know one thing, you would have made enough money to compensate for seeds.
One reason I am going to the swamp is because of irrigation cost. For me setting up boreholes on upland is a bit expensive and labour intensive especially on a short time rented land. But swamp farming makes it all easy. Just dig gutter inside the swamp in case of flash flood which is dependent on area.
Part of the swamp that is a bit dry has been cleared while seeds has also been planted waiting patiently for germination by God's grace.
While some ugu seeds will be planted in nursery bags and transplanted as the water recede from the swamp surface.
The maximum time to transplant ugu from a pure water sachet seedling bag is 21days- this is from my personal experience and research.
I plan to plant 2seeds per hole with a maximum spacing of 3ft.

More info to come as the journey progresses by God's Grace.

Emmanuel. 08183549869

Good evening farmers,

Original Broad leaf Ugu Seeds and seedlings are still available in their thousands from the south east.

Seeds - 35, seedlings - 60.

Plant now to start harvesting during the dry season.

Emmanuel 08183549869.

This particular batch of ugu seeds was supplied on 10th October, and has started germinating. According to the client this is one of his best planting.

Thank you Mr Eseoghene from Ughelli, Delta state for positive feedback.

To God be the glory.

Seeds are still available

Emmanuel 08183549869

Emmafly:
This is one of the orders. Just supplied this to a client at berger.

Price per seed - N35.


Emmanuel 08183549869

This particular batch of ugu seeds has germinated.

Thank you Mr Adeniyi for positive feedback.

To God be the glory.

Seeds are still available

These seedlings were planted on the 6th of October.

Emmafly:
Good morning,

I have ugu leaves for sale directly from the farm. order for any quantity. though at least a sizeable quantity. can supply anywhere within lagos. My farm location is at ikorodu. I will also embark on large scale dry season ugu farming by November, so potential buyers should also keep this number.

08183549869- Emmanuel.

Dear farmers,
Ugu seeds is now available for sale. #35 per seed.

Broad leaf variety from the south east.

Emmanuel 08183549869

Emmafly:


Broad leaf Ugu seed and seedlings available from the south east.

Am based in Lagos though. So I can supply both South East and south west states.

These are just 10days old from planting.

Emmanuel +2348183549869

Progress of the seeds at 13 days