I can set up a cheap Greenhouse/Nethouse for people. The standard size for my Greenhouse/Nethouse is 8metres by 24 metres, the package will include:

Drip irrigation kits
Knapsack sprayer
Hybrid seeds (Greenhouse varieties or otherwise agreed)
Fertiliser (inorganic or organic)
Nursery set
Thermometer and humidity tester
Soil PH Meter
Insects catcher
Artificial Pollinator
Ropes
Training on site


The total cost for this size of Greenhouse/Nethouse will range from N350,000-N750,000 depending on your requirements.

Smaller sizes can go for as low as N200,000.

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What is this fantasy about drip irrigation? 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.

Why do Greenhouse owners install huge gadgets to pump CO2 into their Greenhouses? When you increase the concentration of CO2 in your Greenhouse, your crop yield will increase tremendously. I will teach you how to increase the concentration of CO2 in your Greenhouse at little or no cost, no need for heavy gadgets.

The Greenhouses I set up were actually for demonstration and trial but when the yield was good, I decided to sell the produce. After the construction of the Greenhouses, I employed a Manager and few staff to run it after I had trained them. I had to return to my work and family in Lagos.

Despite the good yield, my workers said they had problems of marketing, since I was not on ground, there was nothing I could do.

A very important thing is that its always better to run your Greenhouses yourself or have a trusted and tested staff. You will have to take your produce to hotels, Eateries and markets around you.

In my opinion, Tomato Greenhouses are the most fragile when it comes to disease management. Blight and Bacteria Wilt has rendered so many Tomato Greenhouses loss making businesses. The good thing is that there are ways to prevent these diseases. I also advise people to grow other crops like Sweet Pepper, Cucumber, Strawberry etc if they know how to market them.
I will talk more about Greenhouse challenges later.

I can set up a cheap Greenhouse/Nethouse for people. The standard size for my Greenhouse/Nethouse is 8metres by 24 metres, the package will include:

Drip irrigation kits
Knapsack sprayer
Hybrid seeds (Greenhouse varieties or otherwise agreed)
Fertiliser (inorganic or organic)
Nursery set
Insects catcher
Artificial Pollinator
Thermometer and humidity tester
Soil PH Meter
Ropes
Training on site


The total cost for this size of Greenhouse/Nethouse will range from N350,000-N750,000 depending on your requirements.

Smaller sizes can go for as low as N200,000.

@ Ufeolorun, thanks for your comments. My Materials Engineer friend also told me about the sound test, he advised we should add more iron rods. The wooden Greenhouse passed the drum sound test.

please see how to build a cheap greenhouse, open the link below

https://www.nairaland.com/2114186/how-set-up-cheap-greenhouse

please see how to build a cheap greenhouse, open the link below

https://www.nairaland.com/2114186/how-set-up-cheap-greenhouse

Great information about Tomato.

I used an imported form of peat for my nursery. The peat is made from the bark of wood and its completely sterile. I recorded about 90 percent germination of some varieties of my seed which some people say is still poor laughter! Note, I used nursery trays from my seed germination.

The artisans (Tailors, carpenter, plumber and Welder) etc are now my team members/staff as I prepare to install cheap greenhouses for Nigerians.

Back to the building of my greenhouse. After installation, I was confused on which irrigation method to use. Rain Gun or Drip Irrigation. After some days, I chose drip irrigation. I did not use the cheap thin drip irrigation kits as it does not last long and if you are unlucky to be in an area with medium to large Rodents, they may destroy it. The cheap ones also need a pressure reducing. equipment. The drip kits I used are relatively think with inline emitters and they don't need pressure reduction. To install my drip irrigation was not easy, I practically had to teach the Plumbers their job. Its not their fault anyway, they haven't seen this stuff before. I will tell you the miracle drip irrigation does later.

I bought plastic covers for the Greenhouses severally as wind in my location continue to rip them off. The wind in my location 'na die', the wind has a whistle sound everyday, a big Mountain is nearby. At last, I got a fairly thick plastic cover, I used the transparent one not the white one since I was gonna plant crops that need intense sun. Most people even in Isreal are now encouraging the use of 100 percent nethouse because of wind and sun damaging the plastic cover. After I had relocated from the town I did the trial greenhouse set up, I came back several months later to see that wind again has ripped up the plastic cover, the side nets were intact.

I will now talk about seeds. Seeds play a very important role in Greenhouse farming, your target market will also dictate the varieties of seeds you will buy. I favour Hybrid seeds to open pollinated seeds. Let's take Cucumber for example. Greenhouses are enclosed so Bees and other pollinating insects can't get in, with this how will you plant Cucumber in a Greenhouse since Cucumbers need Bees for pollination.
You will need to plant only Parthenocarpic Cucumber variety, this variety does not need pollination, they also have bigger fruits and higher yields than other varieties, however the seeds are pretty expensive. You may plant Gynoecious and Monoecious varieties in your Greenhouse though but you will need to artificially pollinate them or get Bee Hives placed in your Greenhouses.

There are also Greenhouse variety of Tomato. This variety is mostly indeterminate in nature and they can grow as tall as 10 feet when staked. You can harvest for 6-12 months. You need to be skilled in planting this type of Tomato before embarking on it. Its more difficult to plant than the normal Determinate type of Tomato grown in Nigeria. According to the producers of some Indeterminate Tomato, you can get up to 15kg yield from one indeterminate Tomato plant under Greenhouse conditions with sound agronomic practice.

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The pictures are attached

I assembled a team of Welders, Plumbers, Carpenters and Tailors. I gave the Welder the Greenhouse designs I wanted, after several trial and errors, he got the shape and welded all the Iron Rods together. The Carpenter also managed to put up the wood/timber Greenhouse. I had earlier imported Drip irrigation kits and Rain Guns from India. I imported Hybrid seeds from Kenya and Isreal. The only seeds I imported from the US were Beefstake Tomato and Heat Tolerant Broccoli.
The pictures of the Greenhouses will be attached shortly.

My first thought was to buy Greenhouses off shelf, so I contacted some companies in Nigeria and I realised that they charge as high as N1.1 million to install a small Greenhouse. I also noted that I will spend at least N400,000-500,000 more to get the Greenhouse installed. This means I will have to cough out N1.6 million for a Greenhouse. To be candid, N1.6 million is not too much, you can spend N10 million on the same size of Greenhouse depending on your requirements. However, I was determined, I wasn't going to pay N1.6 million for a Greenhouse. My budget was to build a Greenhouse for N500,000

Hi All, I want to show you how I built my cheap greenhouses here in Nigeria.

A Greenhouse (polyhouse or polytunnel or High/Low tunnel) is a Dome or Square shape structure where crops especially vegetables (Tomato, sweet pepper, strawberry, Broccoli, Cauliflower etc) are planted.

In Tropical Countries like Nigeria, Greenhouses are usually covered with transparent or White polyethylene while sides are wrapped with Nets. They may also be equipped with drip irrigation or rain Guns. With Greenhouses, you can plant all year round under high intensive cultivation.

I have read about Greenhouses having Tomato crops yielding 10-15kg per plant. I have also visited and/or worked on Greenhouses in Europe and Asia recording 11kg per Tomato plant. I have also seen Greenhouse Crops that were ravaged by Bacteria Wilt and Blight, in these cases, the Greenhouse owners recorded huge losses with little or no output.

Now, I will tell you how I built my Greenhouses.
Below are my details for questions/enquiries:

Veggie Grow Limited
Website: dripirrigation.veggiegrow.ng or https://veggiegrow.ng/greenhouse-farming-in-nigeria/
Email:innovationpro001@yahoo.com
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