₦airaland Forum

OluchiDelly:
Is it d same obafemi/owode or d one after cannanland?

4words:
Wow what a read... So it took me 2 days to go from page 1 to page 39. I must honestly commend Mr Emeka for this thread, it has really broaden my knowledge though I am still far from where I want to be.

It's past 2 am and can't sleep, pondering and calculating on my next move.

My little story

I got a job, started on the 1 first of August and quit on the second because I am determined to make success out of farming. Not like I have all the needed tools and resources but I believe with kind people on this forum, I will be able pull it off.

Right now, I am really counting on Everybody from @okoroemeka to @Wizs2019, @FarmTech @FMCASH and a host of others I may not have mentioned.

I currently have 1 hectare of land close to ofada in ogun state and I have commenced land preparation basically on hermicide and ploughing.

I intend to plant 3 different crops on the land including cucumber occupying one acre. I have plans for drip irrigation, staking etc.

I was thinking pepaper on the other acre but since Oga Emeka is advising against it due to rain I am thinking of replacing it with another crope.

While on the last acre I intend farming potato on it. Just to have a balance of from a high risk to low risk crops.

I am hoping with your kind advice, gestures and help I will be able to pull this off.

@Wizs2019 I will really apprecrate it if I can come meet you in person on your farm.

Once aagain, i am glad to have come across this page. Thank you

feran15:
hi, i'm a fresh graduate about to go on NYSC and interested in agriculture, Hoping to be posted to one of the south western states(not Lagos), what crop would you recommend that a novice can go into, thank you

Pistotita:
That's lovely. How are tomato farms during heavy rainy season?

Let's watch Sept/Oct. SW's May-July rain is nothing again. I always tell people. Sept to October is the new rainy season from my observation for the past 8 years, except last year. This year is the worst. Anyway, prolonged drought was predicted earlier. How was last year? Or should we wait till Sept and October to really see what's gonna happen to the tomatoes farms there and compare with eggplants'?

Pistotita:
But not in all cases. Please, I want yo know, do you usually have wilt problems in your area? Like a place all kinds of wilt diseases disturb tomato, do you have such with pepper and eggplants?

Pistotita:
But not in all cases. Please, I want yo know, do you usually have wilt problems in your area? Like a place all kinds of wilt diseases disturb tomato, do you have such with pepper and eggplants?

Pistotita:
Please, what's special with Aliona? I think it's the white with few green stripes color on the skin. Just trying to understand why eggplant F1?

Pistotita:
If you watch Asians, they work in groups in small farms. But the person who cu.rsed Africans did a good job. Everyone wants to do it by himself and get rich in 2 months with cucumber. But everything is zero over 100. Why? Africans will never be in Unity when they come together. There is a particular trend in all the groups I have organised: as soon as they noticed initial harvest, everyone started planning how to dash out and set up his. Then, the plan to hij.ack workers started, and one by one, they abandoned such projects because of selfish interests. But by the time they all tried it on their own with workers "stolen" from my projects, they got hooked. Shamelessly, they called me, the same person they de.stroyed his project to bail them all out. Poor people are the worst set of beings to do anything with. They are not poor because of small scale farming, but the evil in their heart make them poor and they still don't recognise it. "You even find them blowing serious grammar when arguments start". They talk like this at the top of their voices: "Do you know who I am?" I always ask them who they are to come under a group and not start big like Dangote. "Who dem be?"

It reminds me of Adekunle Gold who sang in his dialect (I had to get someone help me with the translation):

Enu o se, enu o se
It's not by mouth, it's not by mouth

Ariwo ko ni music oo
Music is not noise

Empty barrel lo ma n pariwo
Its an empty barrel that makes noise



Displaying pictures on nairaland is not succesful farming. Don't be fo.oled displaying pictures is noise making. If I am displaying to teach, it's something, but not to prove to anyone that I am who I am. What do I gain from it?

Let us follow good farming concepts, be willing to make sacrif.ices, not giving up when it's getting tougher, partnering with one another is inevitable, and be willing to drop cash. I still outsource many activities, and I always drop. Not to hold everything tight to my chest that no one should "chop" from me. lol. "Who wan die on farm? On top wetin?"

United we stand, divided we fall.

Pistotita:
It's more of determinate. The most important issue is that I don't do guess work. I spend reasonably well to make sure I diagnonize properly. I don't know any laboratory in Nigeria which can do it accurately. I have done my best to even send people who desperately ask ed me for some Nigerian laboratories, but I have realized that they are all flawed. It's same for human. It's why rich people go abroad for diagnosis and to pass through initial critical stage. Then, they return home for cheaper continuation of treatment after the critical stage is over. But if you put same equipment in the hands of Nigerian specialists, they perform excellent well, and even better than their counterparts abroad.

I know you asked me the question to be guided. But the truth is that I don't allow what seed sellers say influence my decision. RZ, BHN, East West, Technisem, efc do not all have me and my region in mind when they produced the cultivars they are choking me to buy. They only produce what they feel might help a collective large region which is from Nigeria running to West, East, and South Africa. That's too broad. But these manufacturers create cultivars for each small regions in their nations. So, I cannot rely on their marketers gimmicks. Therefore, I rely on scientific approach to know how to proceed. I might use three different cultivars on the same farm if you care to know. Or use same and fortify them differently. I know what I am looking for after getting diagnostics results, and I plan towards achieving it. Also, I do not joke with pilots. The story does not end with the test. Other procedures must be done accurately, and I believe I have explained everything in this thread.

I do not know how to go into details because it is unexplainable to local farmers. I don't know how to do guess work. And it's hard to explain the process and the cost. If the cost of doing tests is more than the cost of buying irrigation kits, why will I want to introduce it to local farmers? When they are nagging that irrigation is too expensive for them. But really, I don't understand why any right thinking farmer will rely on rain that successful farmers are running away from. Is it not funny? This is free water, I was unsuccessful until I ran away from it, then I became very succesfful. That free water is what others are running after. So, how can they be succesful? I don't know my bro. I keep wondering why they don't quit farming and find something else because they obviously cannot afford doing it. It's the truth. God will surely bless the work of our hands.

Pistotita:
Abuja is always on my mind. Thanks for this hint. Cucumber's income is not near tomato's during this time. And cucumber farmers labor craz.ily. Tomatoes pruning is even easier. But it's funny how cheap it is in dry season. I wish I am strong enough to resume open field in 6 months time, and I pray to find favor with good tractor drivers and workers. But I am thinking of learning it myself cos these workers can frustrate one. 10 ha fully mulched will be the target from December to August next year. Thenafter, just find a cold country to spend fall and cool down before resuming again in November following year to expand further.

EMMAACHILE:
Tomatoes on a hectare should give money in millions at that price. The problem is getting the best variety to plant. Rijk Zwaan seem to be one of the talk of the town.

Pistotita:
Please bro, what is the name of the local variety accepted in your area? And where are you located?

What if you have a very good roma cultivar which is red, fleshy, sweeter, and the fruit size twice as big as Cobra f1, what price will it go during glut and scarcity?

How do you mean too much sun determine glut? What temperature range exactly do you mean? And what is the impact on the plants and fruits, and on market?

Pistotita:
Please bro, what is the name of the local variety accepted in your area? And where are you located?

What if you have a very good roma cultivar which is red, fleshy, sweeter, and the fruit size twice as big as Cobra f1, what price will it go during glut and scarcity?

How do you mean too much sun determine glut? What temperature range exactly do you mean? And what is the impact on the plants and fruits, and on market?

Pistotita:
Please bro, what is the name of the local variety accepted in your area? And where are you located?

What if you have a very good roma cultivar which is red, fleshy, sweeter, and the fruit size twice as big as Cobra f1, what price will it go during glut and scarcity?

How do you mean too much sun determine glut? What temperature range exactly do you mean? And what is the impact on the plants and fruits, and on market?

Pistotita:
@OluchiDelly, FMCASH, Cocoboms, and Adeoye007
Please, what's the present price of tomato in your areas? Do you know the highest and lowest prices from April till date? I want to compare with some figures with me.

zebis90:
Please who is into garden egg planting with me?

okoroemeka:
the yield of that variety is simply crazy,if you don't top the crops in time the branches will be breaking because of fruit load,but unfortunately it's for dry season it doesn't like water on the leafs.

chigomiced:
Oga Emma

Abeg no mind those lazy youths trying to dispute ur claims

To me ooOOooOooOo
Any Agricultural venture that can yeileds 50% in 2 months gets a pass mark from me