₦airaland Forum

ozikam: My brothers, im so hapy for ths thread. I am 4rm awgbu in anambra state,im levn in abuja and heading an agric based cooperative society in awka,it was registered on june ths year,a member of AFAN anambra chapter,i also run an agric forum and i realy want to work wt young anambrarians who are interested in agriculture acros nigeria. our gov. is embarkn on massive agric revolution in th state and he works wt mainly cooperatv societies,try nd belong to one, i hav a lot to offer on agric biznes. call me (Edwin) on 08067837873.

Apitch: The young man(Farmtech) is doing well for himself! It was nice meeting U bro

badgan: i am a young graduate from anambra, anaocha.. i have been interested in farming but the know how scares me a lot.. recently i thought to try fish farming or egg production. but stumbling across this sounds like the cassava farming is good with manageable risk(my kind of business).pls how do i go about farming cassava in commercial and profitable quantity.. i have about 200k ... should that be enough to get things to a profitable level... and where to get the planting stems or bits.. is there a market for that ? abeg i need serious advice.. i need to be like dangote ..lol..

Kanwulia: Some women nor get shame I swear!
The reason they will remain single for life!
Miserable bytch!
Na anoda woman home she wan spread her winchcraft waka come?



Holy anger indeed!
This is a private matter and he did not have to bring it to his congregation.
Tacky!

*he looks like a dehydrated frog.. . . .he ain't even cute*

aAK1: I'm not too good at feed formulation. But I know you must mentain a balance. Soybean is not 100% protein. It also has other nutrients. If you just at it to ready made feed, I think it will shot the value of other things up to.

aAK1: I put my birds on starter feed throughout. Some people would change to layer latter which is wrong . quails are to be fed 28% protein which you won't get ready made in Nigeria. The closest you would get is 24% which is starter feed. Some people would say layer feed make the eggs stronger which is true because of calcium. but the downside is, unlike chicken, you have male and female mixed together. The calcium is not good for the male at all and would shorten it's lifespan.

Buchika: it's ok .
where is yours located

Buchika: the settlers are like that, they re only interested on what they can get from you as a new entrant, there re three villages in the settlement, try village one (1) next time, but best is to look for community land outside but near the settlement, it s actually what I am using.

Ofido: My brother its small small we farmers of Anambra origin wil be identifying wit the thread. i jst stumbled on it today.

Am from anambra also, precisely from Awka-Etiti so rareman we need to talk as brothers, am from ejighinandu call or watzapp me on 08034903207.

am a farmer was previously mainly into rice farming but presently i jst finished constructing a poultry farm in partnership wit two partners and the birds will be arriving this tuesday

fayahsoul: ok. u sell only d eggs?

boluwajokosegun: @ Jeru, an acre is 55k , note that a hactare is 2.5 of an acre. An acre there ia 6 plots of land while an hectare is 15 plots.
There is another 50 acres in Ibadan on the way to abeokuta for 150k an acres...farm settlement

boluwajokosegun: @ Jeru, an acre is 55k , note that a hactare is 2.5 of an acre. An acre there ia 6 plots of land while an hectare is 15 plots.
There is another 50 acres in Ibadan on the way to abeokuta for 150k an acres...farm settlement

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)