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Product: Fresh Yellow Maize

Quantity: 2 Acres worth

Location: Mokoloki, Obafemi Owode LGA, Ogun State.

NB: Buyer is to make arrangements for logistics and any other means of packaging/bagging the Maize. While my workers would harvest and count. Cash and carry, no long stories.

Harvesting starts in about 1 week time.

Kindly make all enquiries and send proposals if interested in due time to me on Call/WhatsApp: 08022433245

LUKINGUY:


Talk to us stock avaliable

I already got 100 pcs of offtake connectors with valve from you last week.
Thanks

grandpoh:


I do the local tomatoes most times and rainfall has never been an issue this is the same way I do it,I don’t think this will make any difference

Heavy rainfall is known to severely damage nursery when not protected. Which is part of the reason some people do their nursery during rainy season in a place with a transparent covering that allows sunlight in but prevents rainfall from getting in. Or they keep their nursery trays in a place with zinc shed and take it out in the daytime to receive sunlight when the seeds have started growing. If they notice rain about to pour, they quickly take them back into the covered area.

So I asked my question because I saw that your covering is palm frond. And this will not adequately prevent rainfall from causing damage to your nursery. So I wanted to know if there is a technique you are using to prevent rainfall damage, so I could learn from you too.

grandpoh:


It’s been covered with net already,I took the picture before covering with net

Okay. Thanks for the prompt feedback.

How about the issue of heavy rainfall?

grandpoh:

Day 1

Please how do you prevent your nursery from damage as a result of heavy rainfall. As you only covered with Palm frond.

Secondly, how do you prevent damage from pests like lizards, rats, grasshoppers, crickets, etc as I cannot see any nets there.

I would really appreciate feedbacks

Farmerakinloye6:
yes, that means you are doing permanent installation which doesn't make sense. What if you want to modify?

Okay I see. Thank you very much

Farmerakinloye6:
I will start with my own, though a little bit old school , I will also show new school too. If you want to install irrigation system,this should come to your mind, your water source and farm topography. After that, design how (sketch) the system will look like.this is My own sketch below

Boss,

Is it possible to use 2inch PVC pipe in those areas that you used hose (see my red arrows in the attached picture)?

If yes, are there any disadvantages using PVC in those areas?

I will appreciate all contributions.

Thank you

No contact info?

LUKINGUY:
Amadrip on whatsap +2348025171575

Do you have stock now?

chrisblack:
Are you a serious buyer ? Do you need this stuff as stated .Do you need high quality and at the best price. Buzz me to send you our number. We are the cheapest money can buy.

Buzz you on what number?

famagro:
Is goat/sheep manure also usable?

Yes please

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Hello,

Please we are in need of drip irrigation accessories with the following spec:

PE Layflat (3 inches) Main/Submain hose - 300m

Flat Drip Tapes 16mm diameter /4cm emitter spacing/ 3L/H/ 0.3mm Wall thickness - 14,000m

Screen filter - 3pcs

Hold down support - 100pcs

Croco Offtake Connectors for Layflat - 150pcs

Offtake for layflat - mini valve - 150pcs

Tape End Cap -450pcs

Punch for Layflat - 1pcs

Lock coupling tape - 50pcs

Quick coupling - 3pcs

These items are needed ASAP.

You can reach me on 08022433245

This is still needed for immediate payment at an affordable price.

I can pay 1000 naira per 100kg including cost of transportation.

We need 20,000kg, which is 200 bags of 100kg or 400 bags of 50kg, or 800 bags of 25kg.

Attit:

Pls, send a whatsapp message. I will get across to you and I can give you tips. I believe its a private and personal discussion you want. Otherwise, I would have preferred you discuss it here. But, its fine....I will attend to you.

Great. I will do so. Really appreciate it

Attit:

Email via NL, and if you have an email already, I read the mails frequently. Send your number there. In my case, you will write first and say exactly what you want. If it's a case someone else can tackle, or just a contact that will solve your issue, why is it compulsory you talk to me? If I can give you a contact via email, why must you talk to me? I do not disclose my private numbers on forums.

Concerning seeds, I do not sell. And I have stopped getting for people. Someone imported seeds last week (he's on NL), and with the quantity he bought, I'm sure he spent btween N1.7 million to N2million+. I am not sure how many individuals can afford to spend such only on seeds. It is why I do not discuss them here again.

What is cheap and available is what you should buy and practise with. The option I used at a time was getting numerous buyers to share, but I have stopped it cos it's complicated. A beg make people use whatever is available here. If I need to spend N3million just on seeds, and I know I will get results, with all pleasure I will go for it without wasting time and still keep for next year...plus share with farmers who know the worth. And whoever wants to use local available seeds should. The cost of shipping and certificate alone is the cost of seeds for 5 ha of some varieties here. And I do mot disclose where I get my seeds and do other stuff....even including soil tests. This approach has saved me from merciless individuals who have tried to get sole distributor right from the sellers. Many people tried that but were not successful.

Please, pardon me, I do not want to go into seeds and I cannot provide for anyone again. I'm very sorry. It's not just worth the effort again.

Alright. Thanks a lot for your time.

Attit:


I have written on this issue in details, but your consultants and mods destroyed the info so you people do not have access to it. One of the mods was so bold to even close the thread when he could have hidden all irrelevant comments. These are reasons you should know they aren't happy I am dishing out free info. Watch out, they will launch out again. Anyway, a no send them and I am ready for anytning they bring out. We will trash it out.

Listen, you cannot compete with the hausas during dry season. In fact, someone contacted me just last week for 36 acres of tomato. But by the time I finished with him, I told him that he needs 96 acres and I did the calculation for him. He saw it clearly. And my calculation was based on his spacing preference. He listened to the seller, and I made him see reasons why the seller quoted densely whatever. Sellers just want to sell. One company I appreciate now is East West. They have started showing Nigerian farmers the right spacing. I saw 3 columns on a bed for veggie for a crop which needs staking on NL, and I was amazed. Just cos the farmer wanted to minimize the cost of mulch.

Dry season spacing is different from wet season. Again, commercial spacing is different from small scale. These are issues many do not understand. When you are on 500 acres tomato, you want to harvest fast so you have super high density and you move to harvest fast many fruits due to high density, and destroy the plants, or use labor and harvest all fast. Some even do 3 times harvest. "Sharp sharp", and that's it. I dont think we have such farm in Nigeria. But for small scale, you want prolonged harvest, else, you will just make seed sellers smile while you struggle to make profit. Too many plants, too much money spent on fertilizer and chemicals, too many stakes to make cos leaves load is wahala itself, too much to pay workers cos of many plants to attend to, etc.

If you are in the north, you do not need to stake. You do dry season, and you stop. Of course 30cm spacing is ok. Cheap labour, no staking, bla bla.bla.. Flood the market with tomatoes. Choose varieties that are normal and cheap. Even use OPV. You will scale through. No wahala. Do 20 acres and just harvest each section twice maximum. Cheap land, cheap fertilizer, tractor or bulls to prepare land, less chemical cos you aim at just 2 to 3 harvests. You cannot get this in other parts cos cost of labor itself will kill you.

But you want to move from dry season to rainy season as a small scale farmer, that is where work is. A popular seller here has stopped double columns on beds. How can you have double columns on beds and have 30cm spacing, and you survive rainy season easily? You have created problems for yourself. Free flow of air so your leaves can dry fast. Someone consults me and bought 20cm spacing emitters. For tomatoes? Rainy season? That is failure before starting. The leaves will nog dry fast and the more they are prolonged, the more you face diseases. Look at the vigour of the plants to decide. Look at the seeds that are common, just take a look at the pictures mostly posted on nairaland and you will see that the leaves are scanty. Not to talk of some with many leaves.

It is hard to say what to use, but the default of farmers here is 30cm drip. I always laugh. Why? Cos importers brought 30cm drip for them. And they think it is the right spacing. Lol. Well, if I see that you have 30cm, I may recommend prunning.

To just answer you, generally speaking, it is better to buy 40cm or 50cm emitter spacing. If open field, I always recommend 50cm for everything. It is not high population that will get the job done, but your experience. I made sellers to start getting you guys fairly ok quality with my posts. In those days, they import nonsense, but now it's getting better. You cannot see 30cm spacing in my collection except for some crops.

As for disease resistance, i do not do guess work. I always go for soil test. It is hard to do. Most move out their samples out. You cannot easily survive rainy season without soil test because you have too many issues to battle with. Of course, dry season is possible. Here are my observations: the bigger the fruits, the less diseases they can tolerate or resist. Those small fruits ones resist more diseases and it is why I see tiny fruits from most harvests here (I know your consultants are reading and they will soon start talking like they know ablut it well after getting ideas here ). If you want to sell well, get big fruits, but be ready to tackle diseases. If you know you cannot tackle diseases, just go for those safer ones and make little profit. Generally speaking, get the ones with resistant to almost all wilts cos they are all activated with high humidity. You can get away with blights if you space your crops very well. I doubt you can get any variety for this one here (scarce), though, there are.

Watch out for the deception of sellers. They cultivate during dry season, show you massive harvest. Tell them to show you the wonders during rainy season. I think East West is doing a nice job with that lady based in Kaduna. Technisem has a good one too, but they arent doing much work. Then, these new ones....really, I dont know what to say about them. The only one I can still suggest is Hazera, but you better know how to fight bacteria wilt. I think you must fight BW to enjoy these new ones too. If you arent God enough, stay away from all these expensive new ones. They cultivate what they show you during dry season. Do not be deceived.

Actually, most modern varieties in developed countries don't bother about BW anymore because there are other solutions to it. So, they concentrate on other ones. It is why the ones from Holand and the likes of syngenta may not always focus on BW.

With the level I am, I go for varieties with resistance for environmental or air borne diseases. And then, use other system for soil borne diseases. But most farmers in Africa cannot afford it.

Therefore, using this technique which is getting obsolete: getting all soil borne diseases variety is the African way. Know all wilts which can disturb tomato and see. Then, use chemicals to fight air borne and environmental diseases. This is the cheap option for local farmers. And this is why chemical producers are smiling. But if you want to move into advance stage, you will forget about soil borne diseases and focus on the other ones plus good quality of seeds. And use other methods to tackle soil diseases. It is an advance technique I will not want to dive into here. Use East West padma, platinum...and Technisem Cobra as bench mark for SW, SS, SE farmers who want to compete during dry-wet season (tiny fruits). But if you are in the north and you are into just dry season, you better throw them away and go for OPV northerners use. There are varieties by BHN which farmers are using there too.

I know everyone's eyes are on tomato after they have realised cucumber is hard (but still we thank God many have started producing it). Personally, I have dropped cucumber. Just work on the seeds available here as I will not want to recommend for anyone again. I have my reasons. One which stands out I have written about before, but some consultants reported me to my friend who is a professor in the institute in Asia that made it. And I was cautioned to not discuss it here again as they do not want "dubious" Nigerians to come after them. I was not happy, but then, I need to be extra careful.

Thanks a lot for the great insight. I plan going into tomatoes and pepper production next year and want to use this year to run a few trials on a very small scale, so that I will be very sure of the approach to follow by next year.

Please how can I get in touch with you privately to get seeds from you that I can try out Since you don't want to disclose them here?
One of your guys got in touch with me sometimes ago but only gave me your email address. I really love to talk to people first before sending or writing anything. We are humans first before anything else, so that human connection is really important to me. Thanks for your kind consideration.

Attit:
Tomato and Pepper high sales is around the corner again. I am not sure what the weather will be this year, but get ready for a jamboree of SW, SE and SE farmers taking over the market as my colleagues from the North are no more preparing nurseries. Do not make the mistake of depending on rain. Go and get your drip. And to compete well, go for 120g and above fruits, if not, you will sell at second or third grade quality in the open market. Disease resistance is vital too. Space your plants very well. Gone are the days they tell you to use 30cm emitter spacing for tomato and pepper open field. Most farmers have realised that it is not high densely populated farm that gives high yield. When you give basal fertilizer application per hole, you dont need nutrient soil analysis. In fact for small scale, it is waste of time and resources. When soil test is mentioned, newbies think its NPK and other Macro and micro nutrients analysis. Lol. It is not only this analysis. In fact, you dont need it.

Goodluck to everyone who is trying to step into the market when supplies from the north will be low.

Boss,

Please can you state the ideal spacing for both tomatoes and pepper? Also, please what is the best disease resistance tomatoes and pepper varieties that you would recommend at this period?

Many thanks sir.

Please is there anyone with dry pig or chicken (layers in particular) manure around Epe - Ibeju lekki axis that I can buy from today?

I need them today afternoon please.

olushowunm:
... All cassava should use between 10 to 12months because during that time it will have gained enough starch. And starch is the business of cassava. When you sell to industrial users, they need the starch and not the cassava itself. Anybody that tells you cassava takes 6 months is not telling you the whole truth.

Hope I did answered you well?

olushowunm:
Do you want faster Roi in cassava? Call us today to help you succeed with our 6months cassava.

OP, please you once said one cannot harvest cassava in 6 months, but now you are advertising 6 months cassava. Is this a new variety of cassava? If yes, is the 6 months practical or speculative?

Thank you

jidestroud:

Sorry boss, the turkeys are almost sold out. Don't know how many you have in mind though.
Drop a contact I can reach you on.

Mr Jide, na you be the boss o. We the boys are learning a great deal from your experience.

My WhatsApp 08022433245.

jidestroud:
Noiler birds for Sales:

Age: 7 weeks of age
Females only
(Give away price)


Local turkeys also available.

How do I get in touch with you please?

I need some of the Noilers and Local Turkeys

Nezzjnr:

You can supply to Mile12 also

Thank you

Nezzjnr:

Do you sell to producing companies or markets??

Markets around Ajah - Epe axis

Nezzjnr:

I'm also planning on implementing a project at Mokoloki

How many acres of plantain

Above 10 acres