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Victornezzar:
You spray everyday??

. No. Every week or so.

ello pepper farmers. How much do you normally pay workers for pepper harvest? I need this info fast. Thanks.

okoroemeka:
seems you are eager to learn let me give you some insights on the things that has caused total failures on our farm. (1)we have sprayed high dose of insecticide by 1 pm,sun is blasting and a whole 5 weeks farm withered and died in 4 days (2) soil nematodes (3) insufficient and unplanned irrigation (4) reckless application of urea (5) too close density planting (6) using old bamboo and old ropes for staking (7) spraying the oyibo recommend dose of Haifa/450 gram per knapsack (Downy mildrew (9) trying to save bees by not spraying insecticide the result was not funny (10) experimenting with unproven seed varieties

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Sorry for that bro and move on. I love bees but I have fell into trouble several times while trying to save them. However, there are lower risk pesticides that one can use. Right now, I have access to only Hallakat. But u still have to spray only in the evening, from 5pm.
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When I uprooted the cukes .....low battery!
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I don't use that Haifa dose in order to save cosy. I use 4Tbsp or less per sprayer.

Hello pepper farmers. How much do you normally pay workers for pepper harvest? I need this info fast. Thanks.

Ezini:
Good day house
I stumbled on this post, and reading thru has been a great delight, agreeably it is if not the only thread that started since 2015 yet still active even in 2020
I am from Anambra but based in Lagos and i am considering coming home to start a small scale commercial farming ,
I need tutorials on where and how to start,
Where to under go a crash program, kinds of farm produce that flourish in eastern Nigeria and where to sell them
Thank you as i look forward to your response

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You're welcome. You can start with vegetables like ugu, green amaranth, curry and scent leaves. If I had known 3 yes ago, those are what I shud have started with. As for selling, it is very easy. Market women can even come to ur farm to buy them.

solite3:
of course yes, we should live right not to achieve righteousness but because we have being made right with God.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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God bless.

numen:
Thank you. Any suggestion of a good systemic insecticide for peppers aside inmiforce?

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Hallakat (Emamectin benzoate + Acetamiprid), Tutaforce (Chlorfernapyr), Abamectin, Dimethoate

Neoteny7:
Chinese government has no belief in god, but they're a wealthy and productive country.

The US government has by law separated god and state, they're a world power.

Belief in god is not the problem, but there's no scripture that says man should not practically solve his problems.

Religion is for spiritual affairs of man, and is not going to solve anyone's realworld problems. God gave man the tools - brain, eyes, hands and legs - for man to sort out his worldly affairs with. And that's precisely what advanced countries are doing.

They didnt pray a man to the moon, they built rockets and solved a lot of math and physics and chemistry and biology and material science problems to do that.

What has prayer done for Nigeria? What practical problem was ever solved with a prayer?

Today we're confronted with a serious problem, and all the promoters of miracles and divine healing and prayer-as-a-practical-solution have been cowed and humbled, and have receded far from the global conversation of how to tackle this pandemic. If you see them in public, they'd be wearing masks, not prayers

The Adeboyes and Oyedepos and TB Joshuas and Apostle Suleiman and Alfas and Mallams are all waiting for the godless countries and men of science to invent a vaccine and a cure.

And someone has the audacity to tell us to stop donating real money and pray instead.

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Prayer is still important since thru it, God can give u wisdom to solve real life problems. But generally, u don't need prayer or God to be great in life. God allow His rain and sun to fall and shine on everyone. But in the end, those who rejected him will regret it.
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The problem I see with Nigerian Christians is hypocrisy. Money is more important than salvation. If u ask me, I'll say that God have not even started dealing with Big. hypocricy.

When will this end? God we're in your hands oo. Let your will be done.

unstoppable51:
Did you just say in your first paragraph that 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 is addressed to believers who are living uprightly and not those who sin?

So the Bible is saying in those verses that the Believer who lived uprightly shall suffer a loss of reward, according to you?

Was that a typographical error bro?

If you cannot even be as honest as saying exactly what the scriptures say, but keep insisting on your own, how do we reason the scriptures together then. Seeing that you do not even believe it.

And you calling a sinning believer a SINNER is a clear proof you have not even studied clearly who a believer is and who a sinner is. You still mix the two based on their actions.

Before I end this convo, let me give you a little tip. The Corinthian Christians were doing all sorts of abominable things after they were born again. I mean things that Christians should never do. And Paul had to write 1 and 2 Corinthians to correct them.

But do you know the shocking thing? While addressing these sinning believers who had just done all sorts of abominable things, Paul began by calling them "them that are Sanctified in Christ Jesus" and "Saints" (1 Corinthians 1:2).

Ordinarily, one would expect the apostle Paul to start addressing these Christians as "sinners" because they had fallen into sin. But instead, he still addressed them by their eternal righteous nature and terms in Christ. Do you know why?

Because there is a CLEAR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BELIEVER and the unbeliever who sins. They have never been the same in the scriptures. They are not today and will never be tomorrow.

You can decide to stick to what you believe as against the scriptures and even call yourself a man of integrity. But believe me brother, true Biblical integrity is actually melleability in God's hand. Allowing God's Word to confront your religious beliefs and dogmas, straighten and sharpen the ones that badly needs it.

God bless and keep you, and cause the Light of His Word to shine brightly on your paths. I'll stop here for now. The intent of the post was never to start arguments. It was rather to bless lives. And I seriously hope it has achieved that purpose.

Thank you!

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The Corinthians were not all sinners. That is why Paul have to address them like that. My version of 1 Core 1:2 says " to the church of God which is in Corinth, to all who are called to be God's people, who belong to him in union with Christ Jesus..." So in essence, he was referring to the good people in the church and his goal is that everyone that attend the church shud live to please God.
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My take on all these is that, a believer can sin, but he would feel bad about it and desire repentance. No Christian is perfect. Even Paul said he has not yet attend perfection but he continually strive towards it. Also, there are sins that shud not even be mentioned among believers, eg fornication, stealing, murder etc etc.

unstoppable51:
The believer in Jesus and the unbeliever can NEVER be punished alike. Nowhere in the scriptures does the Bible teach that.

I understand your fight against the so called believers living like the unbelievers. We're all on the same page on that. That's why we're calling all believers everywhere to "awake to righteousness and sin not"

But don't get unnecessarily emotional and start using falsehood and threats to spur them to act righteously.

The sinning believers will be punished quite OK. But do not equate them with unbelievers. They are never on the same level in the sight of God and will never receive the same type of punishment.

The scriptures teach that the believer who didn't live uprightly shall suffer loss of his rewards but his soul is still saved.

1Co 3:13-15 KJV 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

However, the unbeliever is eternally doomed regardless of how good his actions are. Why? Because he did not believe that God has sent His Son into the world to die for his sins. This is just the plain truth of the scriptures.

Comparing the believer and the unbeliever when they sin, is like comparing a son of the house and a hired servant. They are not the same bro.

The son of the house can get punished severely and still have a right to his father's name. Even if he loses his freedom of movement or a part of his inheritance, he is still his father's son. But the hired servant gets thrown out of the house the moment he breaches the terms of the contract, with absolutely nothing to his name!

Now think of that carefully sir. I pray the Lord grants you the understanding.

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Pls make this clear with examples. Are u saying that a believer, in quote, that is a fornicator will make heaven after punishment? Or a "believer" who dress half naked, or smoke, or sing dirty musics, crack dirty jokes etc, will make heaven after punishment? These are some of the sins that are very popular among naija "believers". So pls enlighten me more.

solite3:
making heaven is just by faith in Jesus. Why do you think paul said he doesnt want to be found with his righteousness?
Many of you that want your own righteousness instead of the righteousness of Christ which is by faith would be shocked on how wrong you were.
Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:


Before you can live in holiness you must be made holy first.

You dont become holy by trying to live holy, same way you dont become righteous by trying to do righteousness.

Righteousness is not earned, it is a free gift. Holiness is as a result of having Christ nature.

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I think I understand u. But let me make sth clearer. Christians are to depend on righteousness base on faith in Christ, not on righteousness base on the law. That does not mean that we shud relax and say that Christ have done it all. We have our own sacrifices and sufferings to do. The following vses will help:

Philippians 3:12, NIV: "Not that I have already obtained all this (perfection), or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me."

2 Peter 3:14-18 New International Version (NIV)
So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

2 Timothy 2:21-22 English Standard Version (ESV)
Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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So to live righteously, we must put in conscious effort. We must try, strive, flee with the help of the holy spirit.

The op have painted it to look as if it is only faith in Christ that matters. But u can't say u have faith in Christ when ur thoughts and actions say otherwise. To enter God's kingdom, u must be like Christ thru the help of the holy spirit.

numen:
Is cyberforce contact or systemic?

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Cypermethrin (Cyper force active ingredient), is a non-systemic insecticide with contact and stomach action. It also exhibits anti-feeding action.

veggieman2be:
Good morning fellow farmers. "Eku igbele" meaning well done staying staying at home, Lol.

Ok. I have a question I observed some of my pepper are flowering but falling off what can I do to resolve it.

My ogas pls help

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Check under the leaves for signs of pests, including very tiny ones. Then spray an insecticide under the leaves. That plant is too small to hold fruits. Remove all those flowers asap.

Victornezzar:
Don't have access to the mail
Forward it to ezev4478@gmail.com please

. Ok. I was thanking you for reporting a scammer.

FarmTech:
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1. Well fertilized plants
2. No water stress
3. Spray insecticides like abamectin, emamectib benzoate, Chlorfenapyr, Tihans (spirotetramat and flubendiamide), neen oil, acetamiprid etc
4. Spray insecticides under leaves
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low battery

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4. Spray insecticides under leaves
(with this mtd, u can use lower concentration and still get good result)
5. Overhead irrigation (sprinklers) have been known to reduce whitefly population because they knock off immature stages of whiteflies and other pests. They also knock off spidermites. to avoid foliar diseases, irrigate only in the morning or afternoon to allow time for moisture on leaves to dry out. Whiteflies dealt with my cuke and okra because I was using furrow irrigation and I did not fertilize well.

6. Planting coriander close to your crop will chase whiteflies away. I have not used this yet.

There are many other ways but I believe these ones here will work fine. So far there is no whiteflies on my peppers. But they don't like peppers as they like cucumbers and okra. So I will confirm their effectiveness if I plant these 2 crops again.

okoroemeka:
I think the best safety measures we discovered in our farm Is spraying a good systemic insecticide weekly,Many of these stubborn and mischievous pest are so small to detect easily and they also hide under the leafs to compound the problem,you may be deceived in thinking that all is well until it is too late,,they are the no 1 carriers of diseases,,weekly application will make sure that all pest that is stupid enough to leave to whole green leaves in the bush to bite my pepper it will be it's last supper

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Thanks. Those tiny pests can be bad. Some farmers won't even know what is happening. How far about that fertigation with liquid manure.

FMCASH:
what's there weekness

. 1. Well fertilized plants 2. No water stress 3. Spray insecticides like abamectin, emamectib benzoate, Chlorfenapyr etc 4. Spray insecticides under leaves ..
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FMCASH:
my brother in vegetables farming, prevention his better than cure. Those seriously affected crops will have poor yield.

This effect of whitefly infestation on my farm

Sorry for that. Those little white devils had once gave me a fatal blow. But thank God I now know their weaknesses.

Psalmy2cute:
now what I dont know is.., will these plants bring out new foliage?? or they're completely dead @ okoroemeka , ogbongonet, FMCASH , Farmtech

what do you think??

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From my experience, pepper plant is quite tough and forgiving. Do as okoro said and give us feedback.

Psalmy2cute:
this from the beginning was my mistake.. I've been focusing on bacteria diseases forgetting thyre also insects almost invisible to the eye.. the only insects I've been seeing in my farm are leave cutting insects.. so I assumed all is fine.. no need to be feeding my plants with unnecessary chemicals.. not until now

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Lol. U are like me oo. But mine was focusing on leafhoppers without knowing that thrips were doing their job under the leaves. But thank God I've cleared them.

zexy2030:
u r right, but most women wants to work these days and make their own money.

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I won't argue that. But let such women know that if they fail in their role as mothers, they will regret their 2morrow. Both in this world and b4 God's judgement seat. Working is good. But not the type that will sap most of their time. I know one family where such a thing happened and right now, their daughters are on the way to prostitution.

Fhemmmy:
Trying to give back from what we have been given by Nairalanders but i will be honest with you bros, i am not impressed with our people.

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Hmm. I hope u locate serious ones. Applicants shud know that this is not a get-rich-quick scheme. If u are not serious and hard working, sorry for you oo. But if u persist and build ur foundation well, the sky is ur limit.

Op if u finally recover, you better abstain or sth worse may fall on u. Christ also died for people like u.

Keep it up Fhemmmy.

Psalmy2cute:
+2348161254947

. Thanks a lot.

zexy2030:
u r right, but most women wants to work these days and make their own money.

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They can work. The bible in Psalms even described a good wife as a hardworking person. But the work shud not deprive them of their basic duty as mothers. Else, the children and marriage will suffer. Any lady that will not agree to this during courtship is not worth marrying.

zexy2030:
na d economy o, times are changing, then u n ur wife should reach an agreement to work or not, then u must pay her n love her

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If a wife must work, it shud not be at the expense of time with the children. And this idea of men getting into marriage with the mindset that their wives will support them is not good at all.

Kennedyiheme02:
a conservativd woman in Kentucky cooks for her husband, yes or no?

She does the laundry yes or no?

She cleans the house yes or no?

She takes care of her kids yes or no?...

You're in some fantasy land.. is there any differences?.. the o ly difference between a traditional american woman and a nigerian one is the american woman knows her role well and can't be convinced by a movement called feminists that breeds old ugly 40+ year old women who've been ran over by alot of men and have like 500 body counts fo their names... protesting for equality they can't explain

Good one.

zexy2030:
hey babe, didn't ur mum teach you? that a woman's responsibility is to take care of the man, the kid and the home.
And the man is expected to provide for his family?
But if u r part of the provider, why won't he assist in the kitchen, some men recognise this and join the wife in the home chores.

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But I have always wonder: why shud a man not provide for his family? Why expect ur wife to help u? Men shud not go into marriage when they have not secure themselves financially. In some families, man and wife will abandon their children in the name of finding food. There is a reason why God make man the provider of the family. If we, in the name of modernity, change what God have said, their would be serious consequences.

okoroemeka:
you also have to make sure of what you spray on a fruit that is harvested and eaten raw every 4 days, Even before you are aware of them the whole farm is totally infected,there's a reason a bag can go as high as #12-14,000k a bag, during dry season,70-80% of eggplant farms are shut down by that nuisance,if a farmer is getting 10 bags every 4 days@₦5k per bag do you think he fold his hands and watch such money go away,he will try everything under the sun to chase the pest away,but unfortunately nature is the one factor that eradicates the pest 100%

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I'll look into it.