₦airaland Forum

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.

dav8id: You cant be a successful agro produce trader without local agent. Either you trust them and do business with them or you recruite your local agent from someone you trust and inject him in the market by following all their requirement of being the a local agent in the market. Thats what the ultimate Olam Nig did in the saseme market.
By the process of injecting ur personal agent in the market is what i dont knw but a simple visit to the market by u and make the full enquirement will do u gud.

dav8id: I have no idea on snail farming sir. Egusi, sesame , ginger ,cashew and charcoal are my area.

Buchika: umu nne m daalu nuo, abum onye igboukwu. I am into cassava farming and processing, but to tell you the truth it's not easy at all, I started with the wrong foot forward and I lost heavily, was demoralised but now I am understudy ing a successful poultry farmer cause I believe I must surely make it in agriculture. ka ohagodi m etua

fayahsoul: Africans sef. To us everything foreign is superior to local content. Look, these foreign breeds have been intensively geneticaly modified via boitech and therefore cannot be classified as pure. Rather its our local breeds that are organic and pure. Its not normal for a cow to produce 45 litres of milk a day. Does a calf need that much milk? That's a genetic disorder. The mammary gland inhibitors have been silenced this allows the over production of milk.

fayahsoul: as in d locate of my farm abi where i dey live?

Apitch: Confirm! U r all welcome.
Let's keep it up, I'm happy farming is no longer seen as a poor man's thing

Dexpro: Oppss..... Sorry. Its supposed to be pounds,

fayahsoul: am representing oraukwu but i dey breed grasscutter for 042. My farm is about two months old so i just started. nno nu o.

stanzo: You are welcome. The farm is open to anybody to visit. Farmers, aspiring farmers, students and even tourists are welcome . Aidyl Farms is an integrated farm.

ewizard1: Thanks, I really appreciate. Being wondering where I can get this HAY in Lagos....

Dexpro: It should weigh anything from 16-23 kg. A fully grown geese equals 3 & half fully grown broiler if not more.