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Agriculture / Re: 40 Days Variety Of White Beans (cowpeas) And Brown Beans SEEDS Available by innovationafrik: 6:51pm On Apr 07, 2022
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Business / Re: What Is Your Experience With Shoptomydoor by innovationafrik: 10:11am On Dec 31, 2015
Kindly contact me about orders 83470 and 91605 in your own interest. Your local staff in Nigeria have dared my attorney and I that we should do our worse. I respect Entrepreneurs and I do everything possible to support them. I hope this issue will be resolved before it escalates. You can ring me.

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Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 12:55am On Mar 24, 2015
dripirrigation.veggiegrow.ng

My strategy is to discuss prices with people individually. In most cases, I ask for lots of details from my would be customers before offering our prices. My reason for this is personal as its part of our competitive strategy.

For those who want the prices here,

1km of our drip irrigation line goes for N28,000-N36,000 (depending on quantity). This drip pipe has a thickness of 15mm and the emitters drip water at the rate of 2.6L-3.0L per hour. We have two types and they are manufactured in India and the US (Not China).

Fertigator - N50,000

Used artificial pollinator - N15,000

250ml bottle of rooting hormone - N15,000

Sinking of farm borehole (Lagos and Ogun states only) N100,000-N250,000


25 litres hydrogen peroxide (Industrial Grade) - N15,000


The prices of drip tapes vary widely according to water emission rate, thickness, pressure compensating capability etc. If you are smart, you can improvise using PVC pipes, I have taught several people how to do this.


There are several types of drip irrigation kits. There is a very clear difference between the gravity based one and the one you can connect directly to your water source. You need an overhead tank for the gravity based drip tapes, they mostly don't have a real emitters, what they have are just holes, they also hardly last longer than a year. The type I sell can be connected directly to the source, it is thicker and has real inline emitters, they can last for above 7 years.


Once a customer contacts us, we give him a price and if he is serious after negotiation, we give him our last price. God help you if you don't know how to negotiate.


What really led me to Nairaland? A friend of mine told me that one big hotel in Lagos imports Button Mushroom worth N250,000 weekly and at some period above that. I later confirmed that the information was true. I contacted Pavore9 and begged him to help me get a Button Mushroom trainer in Kenya which he did. One thing led to another, I sent pictures of the polyhouses I built to him and he encouraged me to open a thread on Nairaland which I did. Please don't ask me if I now grow Button Mushroom.


People will notice that I offered to give some people on Nairaland free of charge some of the stuffs I sell. Some accepted and some rejected. What is the essence of this? Its a marketing tactics, its not because I am nice at all. I profile people with large followership, I offer them stuffs free of charge with the hope that if they find it useful, they will help me sell to their contacts. I still have people I will give Rain Guns free of charge but I will import after the elections, hopefully the FX rate would have stabilised.


The most foolish man in the whole world will know that Sallubello is out to demarket me. All his comments are intended to just say Don't buy stuffs from Innovationafrik.


How would you explain someone saying I sell drip irrigation in the black market? This kind of creature can try to demarket a Garri seller by saying she sells her Garri in the black market. Another charge was saying my prices are ridiculous. Foreign vendors here in Nigeria sell polyhouses for above N1 million, I do mine for N250,000, the cost of my dripper lines are also far more cheaper than theirs even cheaper than the one quoted for N40,000 per km on Nairaland. Can somebody explain to me what is ridiculous about my prices?


How can someone in his right senses tacitly say I should not sell my stuffs on Nairaland because his friend or master sells already on Nairaland? Who does this please? He claims I don't have an address or outlet, I told him to visit my farm, he rejected. I am not a Ghost, I visited World1 on his farm to market stuffs to him, I also met Jasper, in fact Jasper bought some seeds for me from East West Seeds Port Novo. Sallubello claims somebody sells 2km dripper line for N30,000 even with the state of Dollar rate, I doubt this and the probability is very high that its a lie from the pit of hell. Prove me wrong by giving us the complete specification of this drip kit.


You will never find me talking ill of a competitor. The best I will do is to offer you a lower price for the top of the class goods and some added freebies. My belief is that any vendor can sell his stuffs at any price he wishes but everybody should be given a free atmosphere to operate.


One advice, you will never succeed in life if you choose to pull down others. Success will always elude those who employ the 'bi o ba o pa, bi o ba o bu le se' strategy. This just a simple law of natural consequence.


Last word, if you have any project, please contact me through my email address. I won't reply any sponsored mole again here so as not to derail this thread.

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Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 4:48pm On Mar 22, 2015
@ Sallubello

I am replying your comments on another thread here.

To educate you a bit. All business owners are opportunists, if I see that my competitors are not utilising an opportunity, I will key in and make good money for myself.

I don't know the meaning of derailing of threads. So because your preferred vendor opened a thread, I should not open mine and sell my products.

I also do not know the meaning of ridiculous prices. I guess your own definition of non-ridiculous prices is selling above the prices of your preferred vendor. I am a capitalist and I can sell at a loss for a short time just to kill the competition, this is a pricing strategy.

You may need to go and look up the meaning of black market. Black markets spring up to sell regulated products illegally, how does this apply to drip irrigation kits? You can sell your drip irrigation kits through any channel.

I know people like you, you are likely sponsored to spoil things for our business.

To address the concerns of a doubting Thomas/competitor sponsored mole like you, I am offering you an opportunity to visit our 30 acre farm in Agbara. We have installed drip irrigation on some acres on it and we have planted some crops using precision methods. I will discharge your transport cost from anywhere you live to Agbara. If you also want drip irrigation kits, we will be happy to supply you before payment but you must issue us a post dated cheque. You may contact us through our email for more details.

For those who are still sitting on the fence, drip irrigation is the way to go. Doing only rain fed agriculture is outdated and very limiting.

With drip irrigation, you can practise precision farming. You can actually know the number of plants per acre/hectare and the spacing. The difference between emitters is your crop spacing. You can also know the exact litres of water you give your crops.

Sallubello, I won't respond to your comments again until you visit us or you buy stuffs from us. No offence intended.

Pls pardon me, I don't have too much time to come here often to update my threads. You can send your purchase enquiries to our email address.

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Agriculture / Re: Tomato Production And Marketing. Facts Backed With Figures by innovationafrik: 4:29pm On Mar 22, 2015
saliubello:

Well. If you talk about TIME, I've got plenty of that. And I will use that very well to have people informed of what is only correct and right. Buying an item online and selling at ridiculous prices shouldnt be a big problem. Lots of people can do that. Dont make a mole out of an anthill. Seeing your first sets of posting, I knew we've got an opportunist here. After hijacking Kalusam's thread to market these agricultural accessories.

Here you are proving my assumptions right. With no known address/shop or outlet.

@Jasper. Watch it. Maybe you will buying your irrigation accessories from the black market/backdoor.

@ innovationafrik, I've got no problems with you but I owe nairalanders a deep sense of duty to make them informed rightly. Please enlighten us better.


Let's not derail this thread. I will respond to you on one of my threads.
Agriculture / Re: Tomato Production And Marketing. Facts Backed With Figures by innovationafrik: 6:46pm On Mar 21, 2015
saliubello:
@ innovationafrik, Please, If you have irrigation accessories to sell, intensify your campaign. Be bold. Go straight to the point. And stop your on and off campaigns.

Most of your threads were created in January with no updates. I just continue to doubt your integrity anyway. These accessories are cool. Alot of people need them.. If you've got nothing to sell, pack well and let those with genuine product reach their target audience.

By the way your contact number is missing on your threads.


You are free to say what you want Bro. How have I stopped those with genuine products from reaching their targets? I have sent my phone numbers to over 60 people who asked through my email address. I have a very busy schedule and that's why I hardly update my posts. By the grace of God, I will be supplying Jasper's proposed Ogbomosho farm his drip irrigation needs. Not all of us have the luxury of time to be commenting on Nairaland everyday.

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Agriculture / Re: Tomato Production And Marketing. Facts Backed With Figures by innovationafrik: 3:14pm On Mar 21, 2015
jethro2:

I am a practising farmer that has got work to do on the farm. I feel slighted when internet farmer like you try to play smart with me.
Please go straight to your point. What have you got to prove or disprove? Ensure you have real life facts and figures, not internet or googled fact.
I am waiting

Whao, what is wrong in the question I asked? I was only trying to know your crop geometry and see if it fits the specification of drip kits I have. All I was doing is to market my irrigation kits to you after getting your crop spacing. You have already labelled me an internet farmer just to insult me.

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Agriculture / Re: Tomato Production And Marketing. Facts Backed With Figures by innovationafrik: 12:31am On Mar 21, 2015
Thanks for the good work Jethro. Can youu please share with us the average number of Tomato plants you have per hectare and the in-row spacing in inches or cm?
Agriculture / Re: Invest In My 20 Hectare Watermelon/cucumber Farm by innovationafrik: 10:04pm On Mar 16, 2015
Present Sir. We will provide best-in-class farm technology.
Agriculture / Re: Tomato Production And Marketing. Facts Backed With Figures by innovationafrik: 12:57pm On Mar 01, 2015
Ok, I get your point. I once watched a video on youtube where farmers used Egg trays instead of plastic nursery trays, I haven't tried this, so I don't know the success rate. If your current method is cheaper, then its better you stick to it. Well done.

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Agriculture / Re: Tomato Production And Marketing. Facts Backed With Figures by innovationafrik: 12:33pm On Mar 01, 2015
@Jethro

Why not try nursery trays and sterile medium. None of my tomato plants died during transplanting. The roots of tomato seedlings are often disturbed when you transplant from the soil. In fact, I know a farmer who imports tomato plugs (seedlings germinated in nursery trays) from India to Nigeria.

Do you have a friend in Lagos, I can give you a bag of sterile medium free of charge to try but you must have a nursery tray.

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Agriculture / Re: Tomato Production And Marketing. Facts Backed With Figures by innovationafrik: 11:53am On Mar 01, 2015
Once a Tomato plant is infected with any disease, the best option for you is to remove and destroy the infected plant by burning or pouring chlorine on it. Leaving an infected Tomato plant on your field may be detrimental to all your crops and some insects may spread the disease all around your field.


The two diseases that wreck Tomato farms often are Blight and Bacteria Wilt. Bacteria wilt is prevalent in SW Nigeria so Bacteria Wilt resistant tomato variety is advised to be planted. This disease has no cure once it infects your tomato plant. You can however get your soil cured from it by using plastic solarisation or the use of methyl bromide (most countries have banned its use). I also heard that the use of organic inputs can significantly reduce the incidences of bacteria wilt. Hydroponic farming or the use of sterilised soil in planting bags will solve most of these disease problems.


For Blight, the best remedy is prevention. You must make sure your tomato plants have a fungicide coating always. Some farmers drench their tomato plants with fungicide before and immediately after any rain.


The black spot below the tomato fruit looks like Blossom End Rot to me. Its either your soil has inadequate calcium or your tomato plant did not get enough water hence its inability to fully get enough calcium from the soil.


I am not an expert anyway but I am talking from experience.
Agriculture / Re: Low Cost Greenhouse From N200,000 by innovationafrik: 11:54pm On Feb 01, 2015
@ karlxavier

I am not an expert in agronomy. I only build polyhouses and teach people how to work in it.

Kindly send me an email.
Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 11:43pm On Feb 01, 2015
Apologies for the delayed response. I have been off the. Internet for a while.

@ saliubello:
Drip irrigation kits and growing media are readily available, rain guns will be ordered and delivered in days

@ olushollys, Sutsillac, kk4real, hotmass 911 and Toosure70:

Kindly check your email add especially your spam folder


To get an accurate quotation and advice, kindly send the size of your farmland, the type of crop you want to grow, plant spacing, type of water source you have, capacity of your water pump (in case you want rain guns) and your plant density.

I don't discuss individual project case on Nairaland, its preferable to send me an email.

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Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 6:41pm On Jan 29, 2015
Apologies for the delay in uploading the picture of the Rain Guns. Please note that they come in different shapes and sizes, one similarity is that they all look like a gun.

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Agriculture / Re: How To Set Up A Cheap Greenhouse by innovationafrik: 11:28am On Jan 29, 2015
@ ichidodo

How many Watermelon plants do you intend to have in your 50 metre by 100metre farm? You will need to contact an expert Agronomist who will consider many factors in order to tell you the litres of water your Watermelon plant needs daily.

Drip irrigation rolls with emitter spacing of 1 metre are not too common in Nigeria. Since your water supply is limited, I can design a cheap drip irrigation system for you with emitter spacing of 1 metre using locally available materials.

You will need to contact me personally as I don't like discussing individual projects on Nairaland. I will only attend to general discourse/enquiries on Nairaland. Thanks.
Agriculture / Re: How To Set Up A Cheap Greenhouse by innovationafrik: 6:29pm On Jan 27, 2015
It is normal that no matter how you try to give your nascent business a headstart, some people will do everything possible to scuttle it.


It is nonsensical and total hogwash that a practising farmer is the only person that can be a farm solution provider. This notion has been left to flourish on Nairaland and it is been championed by some people in order to give their businesses more mileage.


In other climes, Greenhouses, drip irrigation, nursery sets etc are sold off shelves, some of these sellers will not even visit your farms, all they will do is to give you a telephone/email guidance.


A college Professor will advise a Billionaire entrepreneur on how to make more profit despite the fact that the Professor has never operated the kind of business the Billionaire does.


I have seen non-practising farmers teaching established plantain farmers how to do sucker decapitation and get good suckers.

Young Belgian women came to teach some local cocoa farmers in Ondo state on how to reduce the incidences of Blackpod disease, the knowledge they passed to these farmers helped the farmers a great deal. These Belgian women are not practising farmers.
A woman who started out as a Greenhouse farmer in Kenya closed down her greenhouses because of reasons best known to her, she started building cheap greenhouses for Kenyans, today she has built over 1,000 Greenhouses.

A foreigner will come into Nigeria to start and market a product and everybody will run after his offering but when a young Nigeria tries to do same even offering cheaper prices, some misguided Nigerians will do everything possible to shoot his business down instead of encouraging him.

While I will like people to give me a trial, I will not force anyone to patronise me.


Please note I do not build greenhouses alone, I provide irrigation and organic fertigation solutions.

For bad belle people, I will be unveiling my self built hydroponic (soiless cultivation) PVC pipes system soon on Nairaland.

@obstead200, your comments are great and you have shown justified worries without neccessarily insulting me or trying to pull my business down. I will address your concerns.

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Agriculture / Re: How To Set Up A Cheap Greenhouse by innovationafrik: 1:09pm On Jan 27, 2015
@ obstead200

If you read throught the comments you will see me complaining about produce marketing issue and bad members of staff. The Greenhouses shown were installed last year and several harvests were made. At the moment, they are not in production because of delegation issues and marketing palaver. I have decided to concentrate on building for others who have all the time to manage it themselves and do the marketing legwork. However, one of my team member is starting a cucumber farm and a Demo Greenhouse in Agbara shortly. We are also opening an outlet in Lagos where people can visit to buy drip irrigation, rain guns, peats, nuursery trays etc. You can visit the greenhouses you see in the pictures in Lotogbe Ondo Nigeria, just tell any okada man to take you to the canopy they plant stuffs.

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Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 11:41am On Jan 27, 2015
Let's talk about Cassava and Rain Guns and other tricks.

A Thai Lawyer turned Farmer in Thailand shared some information and tricks with me on how he got 67 tonnes of Cassava per hectare. He said even the highest yield the Govt Research Agency got was 39 tonnes per Hectare while local farmers got an average of 20 tonnes per Hectare.

What did he do differently?
He planted a Leguminous crop in his farmland for 75 days before he cultivated Cassava. He called someone to harvest the Leguminous crop and pay him, so he started earning revenue even before cultivating cassava.


After harvesting of the Leguminous crop (Nitrogen fixer), he ploughed the leguminous crop into the soil and he used the Indigenous Micro-Organisms (IMO) he cultured to hasten the decomposition of the leftover leguminous crops. With this practice, he added an equivalent of 2 bags of Urea to one Hectare of land.

He had one Cow in his over 25 hectares of land so he used the Cow wastes extensively. There are ways you ferment Cow wastes, Neem leaves (Dongoyaro) and introduce IMO, the wastes will serve as fertiliser and insecticides and you won't spend any money on Inorganic Fertilisers and chemicals.

A cow can fertilise over 24 acres of land. The motivation of the Thai farmer was the poor prices Cassava tubers buyers offer in Thailand, is this not similar to what is happening in Nigeria.

Contact us for free consultation on irrigating your Cassava farmland, if you get us to install Rain Guns in your Cassava farm or any farm, we will train you on how to culture Indigenous Micro-organism and how you can produce your own organic manure and insecticide. You can still break even with N8,000 per tonne of Cassava but we need to be problem solvers.

Who is ready for a trial of this Thai method in Nigeria?

I will talk about ways to massively reduce costs in cultivating plantain later.

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Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 10:58am On Jan 27, 2015
Rain Guns like the name sounds are Gun like high calibre sprinklers that rotates 360 degrees and sprinkle water round your whole farmland. It works exactly how rain works.

While sprinkling your field, Rain Guns dissolve the Nitrogen in the air which will be highly beneficial to your crops in form of high yield.


A Rain Gun can irrigate 2 acres of land at once, some can irrigate hectares of land at once. Rain Guns also save at least 30 percent less water than furrow/flood irrigation.


Are you a Maize, cassava, Plantain farmer or any crop farmer and you want to plant and produce all year round. Please contact us for free consultancy on Rain gun installation.

Pictures will be posted later.

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Agriculture / Re: How To Set Up A Cheap Greenhouse by innovationafrik: 10:30am On Jan 27, 2015
@senato123

This is why I have put a price range. The Iron rods/pipes you see on the pictures are galvanised.

UV resistant plastic cover is an issue in Nigeria but if the pricing is good, I can get that from Asia into Nigeria within days. I have also seen a UV resistant cover that was totally destroyed within 14 months.

A net house will save you a lot of money and the yield is almost the same with plastic polyhouses. You can grow cold climate vegetables like Brocoli, strawberry etc using 50 percent shade nets in Nigeria.

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Agriculture / Re: Low Cost Greenhouse From N200,000 by innovationafrik: 9:48am On Jan 27, 2015
@ karlxavier

I don't consult on produce/vegetables marketing, all what I will do is to help Nigerians set up Greenhouses/Nethouses at a very low cost. You will need to market your produce yourself. I will install the Greenhouse and train you on how it will be operated. So pls see me more as an operation guy not produce mmarketing expert. I am trying to bring a vegetable marketing expert to join my team. Thanks
Agriculture / Re: How To Set Up A Cheap Greenhouse by innovationafrik: 10:03pm On Jan 26, 2015
Thank u Legsupnigeria
Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 10:00pm On Jan 26, 2015
@Legsuupnigeria
Thank u.
Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 9:59pm On Jan 26, 2015
@ World 1
Thanks for your mention, you are doing a great job in the plantain sphere
Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 5:52pm On Jan 26, 2015
Please note i am not demanding money from anybody. I will show you anything you order and bring it to you before collection of money.

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Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 5:49pm On Jan 26, 2015
I will talk about Rain Guns tommorrow.

I can give you drip irrigation that will cover almost 2 acres of plantain plantation depending on spacing for N150,000. Please note that my drip irrigation pipes are not the thin ones that need pressure reduction.
Agriculture / Re: Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 5:42pm On Jan 26, 2015
Pictures are attached. Please note that the Plantain picture was culled from Google, i have not installed drip irrigation for plantain in Nigeria but i know how to do it. A trial will convince you. The drip irrigation is one of the several kits i have in stock now

Agriculture / Get Drip Irrigation/rain Guns For Your Farmland by innovationafrik: 5:39pm On Jan 26, 2015
Drip irrigation kits consist of a roll of pipes with spaced emitters that emits water directly to the root of your crops. Drip irrigation allows you to send water to the roots of your plants with great precision. Plants make use of water more efficiently when they get it through their roots.

Let's take this example. A man who is dehydrated and needs water urgently, which is more efficient, pouring water on his head or getting water into his veins? Veins of course, this also applies to plants and that's what drip irrigation does.

With drip irrigation, you can reduce labour hours needed and cost of fertilisation. A turning of a tap can irrigate hectares of land all at once and you use 40-70 percent less water (ain't you saving the Earth). You can also mix your fertiliser and other nutrition in the tank and pass it to the roots of the plants through drip irrigation, you must be trained to do this in order not to kill your plants, its called Fertigation. With fertigation, you will use less fertilisers.

Because drip irrigation does not splash water on the crops, you will greatly reduce Fungi infections and the Bees will not be disturbed.


Do you have small or large plantation of Plantains, Banana, vegetables, Cocoa, Cashew etc, I can install drip irrigation for you at a very low cost, with fertigation you may get over 20 percent more yield.

Please contact me through
Veggie Grow Limited
Website: dripirrigation.veggiegrow.ng
innovationpro001@yahoo.com
sales@veggiegrow.ng

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Agriculture / Re: Low Cost Greenhouse From N200,000 by innovationafrik: 5:38pm On Jan 26, 2015

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