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chibjohn:
You are probably a kid in an adults body. If you think you can shame me because I tried buying a Nigerian used car 2 years ago then you have failed woefully. I earn my money legitimately and had to start somewhere. So yes I bought a Nigerian used Honda and I am proud of it. That was 2 years ago. By God's grace I have passed that stage. I am very proud of my beginnings.

I am not going to correct you blabbings anymore. There is no need correcting an unteachable being. You can hold whatever incorrect knowledge you have about the power industry and hope that one day it won't cost you something.

Just know this. I AM A PROUD BUYER OF NIGERIAN USED HONDA. So what next?

2Ballz:
Yes it does provided there are no serious reproductive or urinary problems before and during break from sex.

ednut1:
wrong all

lawman88:
this jesus is talking sachet water on the cross

OBAGADAFFI:
They have spies and lobbyist in government.
They immediately block any Accounting Professional body that springs up.

Mizwisdom:
Therefore, if some are not fully paying N18K, how can you believe they'll pay N30K?

Mizwisdom:
But many are not even paying N18,000 consistently

Mizwisdom:
Many state governments can't afford to pay it

kennystones:
You can apply get the job as a degree holder. But tbh I don't think it is worth it. Might be worth it in the future. As you know the salary scale is based on grade. Since it is a civil service job. I don't know if you understand what I mean

kennystones:
So I created a thread earlier seeking for investors. So I was able to get one or two people who are willing to invest(thank to nairaland),but I didn't later accept their investments because this people are not trustworthy. And they don't have the zeal to help athletes.its all about the money for them.I believe,if you dont have passion for something. You can not succeed.
Will be furthering my education, and won't have time to monitor and control this business.so that's why I am willing to sell and give it to any responsible person.a person that has passion for sports and know what it means to have peoples future in your hands.
Like I said before,the business is about sports.its all about helping athletes go abroad,helping them discover them selves,helping them get sports scholarships,uniting everyone through sports,promoting peace through sports,educating parents on the importance of sports and the opportunities that there are in sports.
So our normal agency fee for this service is 1500$.so now we have about 250 athletes around the world already registered on our website and ready to use our service.so 1500 ×250=...... .like I said earlier,you need to have passion for something for you to succeed.
I have also been able to get agents in the UK to work for me.also have about two organisations in the Uk .willing to partner.we also have a pro soccer athlete at Chesterfield fc.he is willing to bring all other players on board. We are also working on partnering with the unitedvnations arm on sport.this arm is called peace and sports.have the likes of drogba,etoo,mata and other pro athletes.also working on something I'm Oman.morden sports ain't particular over there that much.most stick to horse racing and other ancient sports.
I can go on and on....so if you interested. Let me know
Table your offer

poweredcom:
It was my alter ego

Filmewell:
Life is more clear from the perspective of a person close to death.

Becklynn:
Nice

pryncipal:
Oil palm plantation is capital intensive, first you must have a good land that is accessible to vehicle,.Depending on what you want to begin, you can start with 500 but buy quality planning material from NIFOR( not agent) You can decide to raise the nursery yourself or buy the one that are ready for planting. If you are doing more than 5 hectare I advised you do soil analysis to determine the suitability of your land for oil palm plantation,. Having done all of the above, You will mark your plot, the essence of this is to determine the diameter of your palms. I don't subscribe to using heavy machinery during clearing this I have explain before in my earlier write up. From here on you do your planting ...All things being equal your crops will start to produce b/w 30-38 months of planting ie if Properly cared for.....
The procedure is.. as follows
Get your seeds plant them into Polly bags for 6/7 months.
You can order for NIFOR hand book for details explanation... or contact me for details 08051238707..Hope this will help.

okine4real:
I have been hearing lots of people, talking about different types of Agricultural produce they can plant or would want to plant, But what i have not seen on these forum is for someone to really come out and tell us, all the stress, difficulties, ups and down he/she went through before setting up there plantation.

I want to start by saying i have managed to secure mine self 13 plots of land. Each plot is a 100 by 100 feet. i want to start up an oil palm plantation. I have been able to buy 1755 oil palm Nursery from NIFOR. My story goes like these.......

Each oil palm nursery cost 150 Naira
Loading of each oil palm Nursery inside the vehicle is 20 Naira each
I paid 50,000 to convey the goods from IMO state to Ibusa Delta state.


On getting to the farm, the vehicle could not get to ibusa on time, the vehicle got to ibusa around 9.30pm. So the vehicle had to park in the house for the night. The next morning the journey to the farm began around 6.30Am, on getting to the entrance of the farm, the vehicle could not go in, because of poor road network. The vehicle managed to drive in but as the vehicle drove in, some sticks punctured one tire. So we had to off load the hold oil palm nursery on the ground. So we hard to go hire a pick up van. The van owner charged us 6,000 to convey the nursery to a location closer to mine own farm because there are other people farm in front of mine farm. now after that, i had to call the Hausa boys to use there wheelbarrow to convey the nursery to the farm, they charged 24,000. na wa ohhhh

Now the next stage is for me to plant. My mum's brother did one of these Agricultural causes is school, so he is a professional when planting oil palms.

We used a spacing is 8.7feet. you heard me clear, 8.7 feet. while they where doing the measurement, you know when planting oil palm, you have to do pegging, some hard roots was sitting on the sport where he was suppose to plant the oil palm, there was so much roots on the ground, we called the Hausa people again, they charged me 30,000 to uproot all the hard roots. so work continued. As am specking now, they have finished planting the 1755 oil palms. They would be buying more 200 palms because its like the land is more bigger than with i was told.

While am putting these here is for the new people that wants to go into farming. People, if you must go into farming, you must have money..... The more you go into it, the more unforeseen issues comes, and if you don't have cash to solve the issue immediately, your work would be suspended.

Also it does not end in just planting, there are still lots of things to be done before the said three years when you would starting harvesting.


So far so good, i have don't lots of mistakes in setting up mine oil palm plantation. If i have read some post that advices one on NL about setting up Oil palm plantation, i would not have made these silly mistakes.

if you are setting up an oil palm plantation.

Never you buy expensive lands.
Buy from NIFOR in your State not from outside your state
Let there me good motor able rood, so the vehicle conveying the palms can go into your land direct.
Make sure there is know roots in the ground that would disturb when planting


I would update later when more things comes into mine head

infoayooluwa:
Dear All,
Palm Kernel Oil (PKO) and Palm Kernel Cake (PKC) are available in large quantity at Jorahel Sparks Ventures, Omu-Aran, Kwara State. Jorahel Sparks is a Palm Kernel Processing Factory. We can supply up to 12 Metric Tonnes of PKO and 20 Metric Tonnes per week.

Kindly WhatsApp or call us on 08038821241 for further enquiries. You can also send email to us via infoayooluwa@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you.

Jorahel Sparks Ventures Team.

AvilaProjects:
Are you are interested in growing Palm kernel trees?

We have seedlings available in nursery. Ready for planting.

Price is N300 each.

Location; Kere village, Odeda LGA, Ogun State. 20 mins drive from Osiele & 20 mins from Odeda.

Please contact 08055233931

Thank you

fghanni:
1. Technical aspects of oil palm :

Oil Palm (Elaeis guinensis Jacq.) is a native of Guinea Coast of West Africa. It belongs to family Palmae and tribe Cocoineae. Oil palm is the highest oil producer among perennial oil yielding crops. It produces two distinct oils viz., palm oil (extracted from meso carp of fresh fruits) and palm kernel oil (from kernel). Palm oil has excellent health attributes. It is rich in vitamins A and E and is cholesterol free. Palm oil can be used in formulation of margarine and cooking fat such as vanaspathi. It can be used in manufacture of biscuits, ice creams, soaps, detergents, and shampoos and also as frying fat. Palm kernel oil has variety of industrial uses.

1.1 Varieties: Broadly, there are three varieties viz., Dura, Piscifera and Tenera. Tenera, a hybrid of Dura and Piscifera is characterized by a thin shell and medium to high mesocarp (65-90%) and high oil content (16-20%). It is a commercially cultivated variety.

1.2 Soil and climatic requirements: Deep well-drained medium loam soil, rich in humus is the most suitable for oil palm cultivation. Oil palm requires a well distributed rainfall of 2500 to 4000 mm per annum and a temperature range of 19-33° C. It is a water-loving crop and it requires adequate irrigation. The crop responds well to drip irrigation and yields are reported to increase by at least 20%.

1.3 Planting: Oil palm is planted in triangular system at a spacing of 9 X 9 X 9 m accommodating 143 plants in a hectare. Planting can be done in any season. However, the best period is June to December. Seedlings of 10-14 months age are best suited for planting.

1.4 Irrigation Oil palm requires adequate irrigation, as it is a fast growing crop with high productivity and biomass production. For yielding palms of above three years age, a minimum of 150 litres per day is required. In older plantations the requirement goes upto 20 litres per day.

The crop responds well to drip or micro sprinkler irrigation particularly when water is limited. If drip is installed four drippers have to be placed for each palm. If each dripper discharges 8 litre per hour, 4-5 hour of irrigation is sufficient to discharge 160 litre per day. Drip irrigation increases the productivity by 15-20 per cent, reduces wastage of water, and requires less power/fuel per irrigation compared to conventional irrigation methods. It is important to note that any physiological stress shifts sex ratio in favour of male flowers and consequently the productivity is reduced.

1.5 Nutrition: Fertilizers are preferably applied in 3-4 split doses.
Application of green leaf manure or compost is advantageous, especially where the soils are poor in organic matter.

1.6 Inter crop: During the initial stages of plantation in oil palm i.e., up to 3rd year, some of the light feeder inter crops such as pulses, cereals, vegetables, grasses etc., can be grown. Inter crop should be grown 1m. away from the basin in 1st year of oil palm plantation. In two-year-old plantations, it should be grown 2 m away, followed by 3 m in the third year plantations.

1.7 Yield : Oil palm starts bearing from 4th year onwards and its economic life varies from 30 to 35 years. The yield of oil palm varies according to age and management. Under average management conditions in a mature plantation (8 to 9 years old), yield of 15-18 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) per hectare is expected. Under good maintenance and management, yield up to 25-30 tonnes of FFBs per hectare is possible.
Oil palm is best planted in June all through December because of availability of rain and harvest is usually between March and May of every year.
Palm oil is usually expensive between September and December – You need to set up a stocking program where you store it when it is cheap and sell back to market when scarcity sets in. This strategy requires space and may incur significant holding, handling and transportation costs.

1.8 Minimum Startup Capital/Cost of Investment
Take an acre of land for example which is about 660 ft by 66 ft as a study, as it requires about 25 seedlings, assuming you are spacing at 30 ft by 30ft that is 8 – 9 meters between 2 plants:
1. So to get seedlings alone, you will require about N10,000 to N15,000;
2. For land preparation if there are no trees to stump, you will need to plough twice which costs about N10,000 for a single plough.
3. Again, those who will plant the seedlings will collect N15,000; after planting, an annual minimum of three to four times of weeding will continue for the next three to five years until it gets to harvesting.

“For you to weed once, it requires about N15,000 because of the size of the land. So, putting all these together, you can imagine what the investment is going to be like for an acre. But it all depends on what you have on you and it will determine the size of land you will be cultivating.”

1.9 Likely Challenges/Solutions
1. Inadequate investment in research – we depended so much on the varieties we inherited, which are not really giving Nigerians enough yield and we never thought about how to improve on them.
2. The challenge of high cost of investment in oil palm cultivation business because of the technology involved and depending on the size of land.
3. The challenge of weeding because the plantation is not weed friendly and if you allow weed to over grow it, the production will fall.
4. Challenge in harvesting comes in, as it is not something you get to the tree, cut and it will come down – you need very serious cutting for the seed to come down and up till now, we are still using the manure traditional method of harvesting.
In country like Malaysia, they have developed their oil palm cultivation to the extent that they have harvesters, tickers, loaders, and everything required, from cultivation to management, and to harvesting. Also, in this part of the world, we don’t usually get enough hands to harvest, so it poses a challenge to those into cultivation. However, no matter the quantity and cost of oil palm you are cultivating, you will still make your money.”
Due to the special nature of the product itself, you need a land space that has the required soil nutrients, whereby the product itself can survive. Another one is that oil palm production requires the investor to have other means of income as he/she waits for two or more years for the trees to start yielding. This is the challenge for most entrepreneurs as they usually cannot wait for a number of years to reap their investments.
Those who cannot wait can move into other businesses in the sector like processing. They source the palm fruits or palm kernels from the farmers or business people and process it into useful products.

2.0 Advice To New Entrants/Nigerians
As new entrants, you should get it right from the start – you need to get your land ready, you need to get good varieties of seeds or seedlings and while planting, give it sufficient spacing so as to get maximum yield. I will also advice them to be patient because it is a long term investment.

In such cultivation, you can always do mix planting – at the early stage of cultivation when the oil palm is still very young, you can interplant with arable crops, like maize, cassava or crops that will have enough maturity so as not to just tie down capital.
Also new entrant are urged not to fail to seek advice from those who have been on it before with a view to guiding them on what to do and how to do it; and to be mindful that they are going to get return on their investment, if they do it well.

For our government, they should invest more in research, with a view to getting farmers the right varieties that will actually give them the maximum yield.

It should also be noted that oil palm cultivators should understand that it is not a buy and sell thing, or a kind of business you can start and make profit from within a day, week or year, but if you are coming in, you need a lot of patience with determination to endure the process. You can be assured that within a short period of time; you will get you returns and be a major player.


source:
https://farmerscornerng.com/en/palm-oil-plantation-and-management/

fatymore:
anybody with Financial accounting textbook by Frank wood please?

jumper524:
them get the one wey den dey call loud ni??

MistadeRegal:
Which one is LOUD again Oga? Kindly break it down a bit.

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bestakara:
Try Moringa and non adultrated honey.