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willybaby:
Good afternoon everyone, some of you must have noticed a little bit of quiet from my end, well it was due to a little challenge we experienced and that's sourcing of cassava stem in particular TME419 VARIETY it's crazy currently in benue even seeing local variety of cassava to buy is hard..

The good news is our cassava has landed.. although quiet expensive a bundle of 50stems is sold for 1000 but it's well... Cassava is sure gonna be expensive next year so plant plant plant.. below are pictures

Onlinefarmstore:
Bro I said it in the article na.... UC and Roma, then I told you the local name that it is known with Derica and Tomato Jos, if you derail me again I will just ignore you.... If you have failed in farming don't pass the vexation to my thrend abeg...

Onlinefarmstore:
no..... I said market, that implies any agric shop that sells seeds, don't know for you, but most seeds shops are located close to a market or mini market in Plateau state. And besides I just told you what other people not from Plateau state call the veriety to make easy for you

Onlinefarmstore:
You can find them in the market, popularly know as tomatoes Jos and Dericka all from Kano and Jos. If you can't find them I will hook you up with the sellers

Onlinefarmstore:
Maximizing Profit In Tomatoes Farming.

A single seed of Tomato in a Greenhouse can yield upto eight to ten kgs(with good management) Typical examples are Roma and UC amongst others, this is currently in greenhouses in Nigeria.

A single plant yields an average of eight Clusters, each cluster having an average of ten plus fruits and each fruit with an average weight of one hundred and fifty to two hundred and ten grams that means you will get fourteen.four kgs per single seed planted.

For definitely every thousand successful seeds you definitely get almost one thousand four hundred and fourth kgd or fourteen.four tons however it will certainly drop due to increase in population and other factors.

A Quick Calculation.

The average price for tomatoes is three hundred naira/kg multiplied by the output per plant, which then means on every plant you are harvesting four thousand three hundred and twenty naira And for thousand plants you then get a Gross income of +four.three million naira

Hence there are other cost in running the farm, ranging from water to fertilizer, which doesn't cost more than than a million excluding cost of greenhouse, but input will be low due to its a greenhouse for a thousand plants.

In greenhouse you can fully utilize the genetic potential of your seed.

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Please report subjected to constructive criticism, as it a conclusion of my personal studies in Plateau, Kano, Kaduna , Lagos. Using over ten veriety of tomatoes

abbeynism:
So far, so good.
I sprayed Randomil Gold MX fungicide and Sharp shooter insecticides on the farm yesterday. Prior to spraying I observed something like wool on my plants and I got to know that is Powdery Mildew.

I ought to spray before yesterday but I was down with malaria and I was unable to prevent.

Anyway the journey continues.

Psalmy2cute:
pls what's the size of your land? 1 acre? how many heaps do you think can fit in 1 acre?

willybaby:
Hello everyone, so before I give a break down of today's farming activities, I think I should drop more information about the land.. The proposed cassava capacity to be farmed locally here is called ULA anf we farming 20 ULA... An ULA is basically 400 heaps so that means the farm land will contain a total of 8,000 heaps and we plan to plant 2 cassava stem per heap... So I think that should give u guys a basic idea of land size... It's almost an hectare.......

mirabel9:
Please where can i get hybrid peppers from?
(I mean early maturing cameroun peppers)

Ebowo:
please how do i gather rabbits urine?

ogbongenet:
no need of adding water. I have two formulae.
1 . This agribusiness idea can make you money and become your main business.

To make this fertiliser, it is very easy.

Rabbit’s urine is put into a 25 litre jerry can mixed with 500 ml drops of sugar fluid, 240 ml of EM4 (bacterial decomposition), and one litre
of water of thick rice washing or 100g in one litre of water corn starch mixture to help feed the micro-organisms..

Then the jerry can is sealed, but the lid is perforated and attached with a hose.

In order the fluid of fertiliser fermentation to remain sterile, the hose is dipped into a bottle filled with water.

At least once a week, the fluid of fermented urine should be stirred to dissolve evenly and not precipitate.

After three weeks ,this liquid will change its colour and smell.

The colour will change to black, and smell like wine, not urine smell anymore.

For fertiliser application to crops, the ratio of dilution is
1:10, ie 1 litre fertiliser mixed with 10 litres of water for foliar application or fertigation in drip irrigation systems.

In the early stages of fermentation, a mixture of rabbit’s urine with other materials produces a stinging smell due to release of ammonia gas during decomposition.

In order not to disturb other people, the jerry can containing urine fermentation is stored in the farm under shed or far from immediate human habitation ,eg dwelling house , so that the stinging odor produced does not inconvenience the household
Getting the E M4 chemical at most time is difficult ,that why I decided to put the second formulae
2. *How to Make An Organic Fertilizer & Pesticide From Home?

If you are thinking of doing organic Crop Farming, you must consider using only organically made fertilizers and pesticides.
These can be made from locally available items around you.
_Today we shall look at one reciep_

� *Materials needed*
▪Urine (Rabbit / Human)
▪Ash
▪Hot chilli (local type)
▪Special Plant leaves like Tithonia, Wondering jew, Neem leaves, Pawpaw leaves and others.
▪Water
▪Bucket or any other container

� *Process*
We will use an assumption of 10 litres of urine

*Steps*
�Collect 10 litres of urine either human or rabbit urine.
You can collect it in a jerrycan.
�Pour the *Urine* in a bucket of 20 litre capacity
�Put 12 red fingers of *chilli* preferably the african bird eye type�
� Add 2kgs of *Ash* preferably Ash from fire wood.
�Collect *Plant leaves* (most preferably those with sup) and Chop them into small pieces like Tithonia, Neem Leaves, Paw Paw leaves, wondering jew, black jack etc
These should be fast rotting leaves
� Add atleast 2kgs of these chooped leaves to the bucket.
� *Stir* the Urine with all the other ingridients and *Cover* the top of the bucket very tight not allowing any air in and out.
� Place the bucket in a *cool place* where there is no direct sunlight, preferably under a big tree.
� Leave the solution to *Ferment* for 21days.
On the 22nd day, open the bucket and sieve the mixture to only remain with fine liquid to allow easy spraying.
� Dilute the fertilizer in a ratio of *1litre : 5 litres of water* And spray on your vegetables and other crops. Spraying is done normally once a week.

*Note:* This can both work as a fertilizer and an Insectcide at the same time.
However it doesn't cure a disease like fungal infection.

ogbongenet:
bro it's working like magic especially on cucumber..

ogbongenet:
I fertilize once in a month with NPK but nowadays its very difficult to get ,so I have decided to go organic by adding some herbs to my rabbit urine and ferment for 20 days and it's really working Wonder. I don't know if you close by i can send 5lts to you.

willybaby:
rooter powder basically stops weed germinating on d soil and has an effect on d soil for as long as 3months.. they are other products such as rooter powder the general name for them is premergence powder or chemical... Now the liquid herbicides is used to kill already growing weed.. so in combining them your basically killing already growing weeds and preventing new ones to grow also... I hope you understand

willybaby:
Rooter powder will be used with a combination of other herbicides to make it more effective

Ebbybam:
Please help me with I high yield variety okra can I plant ( hybrid)

pipi84:
I'm a farmer in Rivers state and I've being farming cucumber since 2015 and I'm still very much in the game. Farming is sweet if only we can have patience to WORK the WORK. Its very funny how people will want to replicate result of someone who had being consistent over time with persistence to learn what it takes to increase your harvest. We always want to over look the part of mentorship especially if it will cost us money. Even with my little experience I still travel till date to visit peoples farm as no one knows is all. When I started farming I was happy with 30bags per plot but right now my result is like over 70bags per plot but I'm still trying to hit the 100bags per half plot by okoroemeka which I know is possible. The pandemic and lockdown period in Rivers State actually favoured my as I sold my cukes at a high price but now the price has crashed as the lockdown has being lifted. Farming is innovations, cost and good agricultural practice and not forgetting good marketing skills. Sorry guys for this long epistle, I've being wanting to say something as I'm a silent reader all these while. Farming is a FULL TIME WORK not part time.

freshrose:
What could be the effects of not pruning plant with two or three stands such as below

FMCASH:
the project is not successful due to heat and white fly

FMCASH:
22 days Cobra 34 f1 and symbal f1 tomato

Farmerakinloye6:
from sambisa to badagry to my door step every tomato is sick at the moment,and the common one is fungi which you can manage. I don't no cabrio, but anything sygenta product to me is excellent. 1 litre will be 20k and 500mil 10k... maybe cheap in your area though.

Farmerakinloye6:
One guy saw me The day I was doing nursery, and he said " guy, this is not how to do tomato nursery,do bed and scatter the seed,then cover with light sand" of course what he said is true. I simply replied him, I think this is better way,wait let see the results. When he saw Me The day I was transplanting it (afternoon). He said "Dem no born anybody papa to try transplant this young tomato in afternoon,in local way" I just told him that one of the benefit of cocopeat and seedlings try. Another one saw me when I was doing staking and he said "nah wahala I dey do,nah ground tomato dey stay." I told him let see if my method will work. When he saw me plucking and spraying the farm, he said "engineer I have gain something never will I allow my TOMATO to stay ground" the purpose of my epistle is to let us know we can not be doing same thing often and often and be expecting different result. I have gain many things on nairaland..from madam jethro,jidestroud, Psalmy2cute.tc

abbeynism:
I actually follow Okoroemeka method of manure before planting. I planted after 2 days of applying that chicken drops. Though I only soaked it for 2 days before applying.

Farmerakinloye6:
senior, seen is believing I still have one in farm if I count will up to 60 fruit upon say I don dey harvest...all you need is send me data then I will video it and upload it to YouTube. I Kno be grama guy but I Sabi 123 wewe.

abbeynism:
Thanks for all the info.
The RidomilGold is MZ68 and the active ingredients are: Metalaxyl-M and Mancozeb

Sharp shooter active ingredients are Profenofos and Cypermethrin.

To alternate my fungicide and insecticide what would you recommend I pair the one I already have with?

Farmerakinloye6:
baba hope you understand what I said "good maintenance" one colleague of my did about 6000, when I saw the fruit bro I was amazed.. just like Padma fruit. Virgil land + manure + 1 time fartilizer.

jidestroud:
50-60 fruits per WHAT?!!!
By the way, Cobra is way bigger on average.

Platinum is a good one, no doubts.

abbeynism:
Thanks so much boss.

Now in my case, I should be focus on using inorganic fertilizer and chemical fungicide and insecticides. Right?

I have sharp shooter for insecticide and RidomilGold as Fungicide. I hope those are good?

Now on applications of Fungicide and insecticide, when is the right time to use? Will I be applying both on same day every 2 weeks?

I will appreciate more info sir.

Thanks again.

Farmerakinloye6:
if dey try am, their head go Bald like mine where I did it I am call engineer (morning_night for four month. ) Under good maintenance it will give you 50_60 fruit. Those you saw I pluck do they look tiny?