₦airaland Forum

fayahsoul: yep. what do u farm?

Buchika: wao o, you know achalla. we re neighbour. I am at igbariam. the experience is almost the same, some times I engage almost 30 casual workers from a neighbouring state in my farm, 2 of them is for cooking their afternoon and evening meal. bro I don suffer for cassava o o

Lesgupnigeria: Yes.Do you need one?

felixzo1: raw milk is a raw materal for production of liquid caned milk , powdered milk ,yogurt and chess ,,the market is almost guraanteed. ,you wil have to talk to milk procesors around your location, (maybe a small yogurt company or a major processor.but it should be close to your farm.less than 30km)they wil be happy to have their raw material in constant supply.milk companies inport milk and process it here in nigeria ,only few have farms,more than 20 million liters are process everyday .sex.ed seme.n is not avaiable in goats and pigs because it is not economical for the manufacturers and the technology is expensive

boluwajokosegun: 28 % per year plus 2% flat rate management charge.

rapmike: Love this. Where can I get a manual on snail farming?

Paulordiah: I have about half plot of land how do I start asnial farm. Can snaik farm be taken. As a full time job

Pavore9: @FarmTech, l prefer frying my rabbit/pork sausage after sprinkling ground Ose Nsukka and ginger powder over it. 4 fried sausages and a jug of milk is okay for breakfast. One can still mash the raw sausages & use as fillings for meat pie and others.

Buchika: more of your type is needed in our country, please please please concentrate more of your research on the peeling system, try to beat down as much as possible the cost of peeling, after that the rest is easy. I 've been in this business for more than six years, I know what am talking about. peeling is where the headache is, the FASTEST hand can only peel around 20 kg of raw tuber in an hour, what I am thinking is, is there anything we process cassava into without peeling?

samshoz: You people can teach us grasscutter farming but d cost is enough to start goat/sheep micro/backyard farm. I have strong interest in d latter.

samshoz: I will never raise fish or poultry until i get market or demand. My unproductive layers, even at a fair N850 is suprisingly not sold out(already eating some it myself). Maybe d sub-urban location(ijoko, sango ogun stat) problem too. With my salaries invested in d venture, i cud buy a half plot of land(which u knw dosent depreciate), i wud have been beta off. Hence, u see my challenge. I have oda tings to expend my money on i.e marriage, beta accomodatn. But i want to also develop multiple stream of income. To complimnt my inadequate pay. U see u my challenge, may God help me. I have passion for part time farming(even recently tryin out rabbitry lol).

fayahsoul: my farm dey emene

Pavore9: That is it my brother...value addition!

boluwajokosegun: ...Diamond bank is also giving out loan to farmers who wants to expand their farm.

felixzo1: Dairy farming.

Personally I feel small holder dairy farming (A small holder dairy farmer is a farmer that is milking less than 10 exotic cows) is a sector with highest potential for job creation and self sustainability in Nigeria (a great example is Kenya, dairy farming provided employment to millions of farmers) 10 years ago eggs were still imported into Nigeria but today poultry farming is common and wide spread and the domestic market almost saturated. Nigeria still imports 95% of milk. (For every powder milk or peak milk you buy, you are making a farmer in Holland rich and creating jobs for them) we need to change our thinking and plan for our future and that of our children. Government can not provide the entire job we need. A smart person will see the potential and plan ahead
A dairy cow is a cow that can produce more milk than the calf can consume and has a long lactation period (produces milk in 305 days in a year) dairy farming involves keeping cattle mainly for the purpose of milk production. There are two basic method involve in dairy farming, pasture based systems and stall fed systems/zero grazing
This is an illustration and a guide for intending dairy farmers, for people that have the cash and resources, you can fence a place build a suitable shelter and you can buy a pure exotic breed (a pregnant Frisian/ cow is sold from N500, 000, a heifer 350 to 400,000) the milk yield from this cattle are high averaging 25 litters a day. (Up to 8000 liters a year depending on feeding and management) the price of fresh milk is around N100. And is usually supplied to milk processor or yogurt producers (you supply the milk every day and is usual paid at the end of every month. It should be within a 30km range from your farm) or you can process it into yogurt yourself and make double the amount in profit
My write up shall be based on zero grazing system and upgrading the genetic our local cattle (sokoto gudali white Fulani) to mainly dairy cattle.
My strategy (long term planning)
Involves buying 5 sokoto gudala heifers of more than 2 years old(less than N 80,000 EACH) that are disease free and have receive the required vaccinations . (Or you vaccinate them) Feeding them well to a desired body weight a size (above 300kg) then by artificial inseminating them using sexed seme.n of an exotic bull ( to guarantee all the calves born by your cows will be female), then feeding your crossbreed calf’s well to maturity. Price of sexed semen in Nigeria is be between 25 000 and 30 000. Cost of unsex seme.n is 15 000.
By 30 to 35 months your crossbred heifers must have must have calved ,each giving you 10 liters of milk daily for a period of 250 days in a year, with this method, at 4 years from buying your sokoto gudali heifers, you will have five 50% crossbred dairy cows(milking) five 50% heifers , five( still growing) five 75% crossbred dairy heifer(growing females) and the original five sokoto gudali you bought( 10 matured cows and 10 young ones)there will be little or no income in the first 3 yrs. But money shall be spent on feeding, vaccination and inseminations. But the long term potential is great. You do not need a large land to do this, you can chooses to grow feeds somewhere else and bring to you cows or buys feeds. This can be done in most places in Nigeria. Shelter, security and feeding and water should be considered before embarking on this.
By the 6th year, your production capacity will be roughly 200 liters (milking more than 10 cows owning more than 30 crossbred) of milk daily giving a gross income of N20, 000 (this is a business you started with less than N1000, 000 now worth close to 8 million )making roughly 2.5 million a year and growing
Questions and comments are welcome. I have been seeing a lot of viewers I wonder whether they are guest or ghost

Buchika: any body in the east that has cassava should go to NSM ULI IHIALA LGA ANAMBRA STATE. I assure you you can't meet their demand no matter the size of your farm (NSM =Nigeria Starch Mill)

excelsiorfarm: no, big boys dont go to market, other market idea is to sell to neighbors, dress and sell per kilogram direct, for animals that can almost neglect commercial feed, then u be thinking of goat & pig to an extent,also your snail. u no won spend money nii?

Buchika: I rented 166 plots of land where I cultivated my cassava 12500 naira total cost plus 2 gallons of palm wine. not up to 2000 naira per hectar and its within awka axis

Buchika: as an experienced cassava farmer my advice to anyone who want s to go into commercial cassava farming is make sure your farmland is tractorable that's it's well destumped, minimise manual labour to the least possible, make sure your farmland access is motorable, be friendly with your state ADP extensions officers, know your market target, if it's only for garri, cultivate the best local variety, but if it's for starch go for all these TME419 or IITA improved variety. if you want to process commercial also and you don't have an efficient peeling system forget it you won't make it. the reason village women makes profit is they do all the processing themselves they pay no one from uprooting to frying, they pay only for grating and pressing which is very very insignificant.

Sweetnwa1: nnewi in Anambra statennewi in Anambra state

Pavore9: From the few seconds l watched it last night, they used a manual grinder to mince the meat (looks like the grinder market women use for egusi), another machine gives its sausage shape.

Buchika: I rented 166 plots of land where I cultivated my cassava 12500 naira total cost plus 2 gallons of palm wine. not up to 2000 naira per hectar and its within awka axis

Buchika: my brother I engage village women who charge 600 naira per wheel barrow and they peel with knives. it took almost 4 days for me to process 3 tons of cassava to finish product. the labour cost is mind blowing. that's why I am looking for a small scale peeler that can peel at even 90% efficient rate but I am yet to get one. I got something from futa akure back then but I realised after installation that it's crap, the village women is way faster than the machine and it chop the cassava tuber thereby wasting it and on top of that I 've to fuel it. brother it's a very long story.

stagger: Sesame seed is also called benniseed, or "ridi" in Hausa. It is an oily seed with many food and industrial uses. A collaboration between MARKETS (an agribusiness oriented NGO) and OLAM Nigeria Ltd (a multi-billion dollar commodity buying company) has ensured that sesame farmers in Nasarawa state get a guaranteed market for their product by supplying same to OLAM. I personally want to go into it next year as the return on investment approaches 65% with good agric practices.

I just dey gather some kind money to hit this business on a commercial scale.

dav8id: i dont have idea on how to become the local agent but the agent have union. A visit to the market will give you more insight.

I cant openup for you on olam nig, they are already part of us fully (sesame business) sorry for that

dav8id: i dont have idea on how to become the local agent but the agent have union. A visit to the market will give you more insight.

I cant openup for you on olam nig, they are already part of us fully (sesame business) sorry for that

Apitch: Farming is yet to get saturated so no matter ur sector, u can hardly meet target that's why we need to encourage the youths to get busy and forget about the white collar job that's if the have the oppurtunity
To me, land(space) is the biggest challenge in agriculture and not fund. Do u agree?

Buchika: my processing factory was designed to produce both garri and flour, but my greatest challenge in the business is not the end product cos I hardly meet demand. my problem is how to peel the tubers efficiently mechanically and drying

LSA: My Humble advice Jahnissi, Mr excelsior is a proven fish farmer. I think its better you share in his idea. If he has seen something wrong with what you are doing, the best is to allow him make those points. Nobody is an island when it comes to knowledge. You can learn from him and he can from you as well.

BedLam: It matters not if we like it or not, this is a wake up call for Africa! Stop praying and work! Get busy, research! Not just study for the papers that has no value. Nothing is free in this world, not in Freetown! What will it cost the Nigerian Government to commit 1billion$ to the research and development of Ebola drugs and vaccines? But no! we like being enslaved, waiting for the West.