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DeLaRue:
Please is there a market for European type cucumber in Nigeria - they are very long. straight & thin. See pic below.
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Introducing new products require work but it can be done. People are usually resistance to change until they see the result.
One will need to do intensive marketing from shops to shops or door to door to introduce the new products. With time it will be accepted.

smallblow:
@ jethro2 thanks for posting but is a month enough for the training cos I will like to join your training and start from cultivation to harvesting time,for me to be proud of doing it on my own...

Most vegetables mature between 4weeks to 3month. The month you trained from cultivation to harvesting depends on what vegetable you want to specialize on.
The most important stage in the history of vegetables is the nursery stages which is the first 21days.
Your nursery management is directly proportional to your yield.

To God be the glory. We round up our one month vegetable training in Saki. Its been a wonderful experience. There are challenges with lot of hard work. I will find time to take us through our daily activities with picture updates.
Most trainees has travelled back while some will be staying to start their own farm. Work will be commencing on Monday.
Its been an experience.

OLAMIMO12:
Thanks jethro. Very informative, and educative as well. Talk to you on phone today. God bless you more.

Network has been bad in my area. I only have link to Sabo market in Ibadan.

FarmTech:
Interesting thread. Keep it up @Jethro.

Thank you sir

Mommabella:
Thanks so much will call you ma

You are welcome

wuyexzy:
yes o. but I think there's high demand during dry season if one can use irrigation system. moreover, ewedu and efo has less problem associated with it at least we jjc farmer can start from there. thanks

You are right.
Ewedu and Efo are scarce commodities during the dry season. Using irrigation makes a lot of difference and one makes more money

Mommabella:
God bless you ma and i pray you never run dry IJN
... I must say going through the agric section this past days have been the answers to my prayers seeing a woman like you this deep in agro-business is an inspiration for me
. Pls I will like to go into tomato and cucumber farming and i will need more enlightenment especially about tomatoes pls hope you won't mind giving me your phone number, email address and pin ma... Thanks in advance

God bless you too
Phone no is 08064688501, email is adesola_yinka@yahoo.com

wuyexzy:
well done jare mama jethro. which type of irrigation system is good for vegetables like efo, ewedu e.t.c. cos ain't think drip irrigation system will so well serve purpose.
and also u ain't discussing bout efo and ewedu.

Farmers in my area use broadcasting method in planting efo and ewedu.
The irrigation that will best suit this is sprinkler irrigation or use quarter inch flexible pipes connected with shower heads.
Ewedu and Efo markets are not highly demanding all season round. The demand for it is mainly dry season period. Almost all farmers have ewedu and efo in their farm.
Its advisable to choose vegetable planting base on market demand

Gadgetmobil:
You are doing a great job dear Jethro.

Thank you sir

sheyi86:
hmmn, thank u ma i'm very grateful

You are welcome sir

sheyi86:
God bless u ma, indeed u av really reinforced my confidence dat i can bcom wot i want 2 bcom thru agriculture. However ma hw do u cope wit dis scarcity of rainfall.thanks e maa pe fun wa lagbara olorun.

Amen sir.
As regards rainfall, most countries have learnt to invest in irrigation which means more dams are constructed and boreholes were drilled.
As an intending farmer, the options are
1. Source for land near river side, dams or boreholes
2. As a farmer group, collectively one can contribute to drill a borehole.
Rain fall is gradually reducing over time. Clever farmers should work along with irrigation

Hmnnnnnnn. You people sha.
Why don't you follow up the grant search, use for that investment and then present the stories for us to follow you.
Just thinking aloud

2. Tomatoes
Tomatoes like I use to say has no enemy.
Most varieties of tomatoes are generally accepted in the market but with variation in price.
Good quality tomatoes will be sold first before considering the low grades.
Most cases its not worth it going to market with a poor grade tomatoes.
The most popular varieties of tomatoes usually referred to as Hausa tomatoes in the market come from the stable of Technisem.
"The buffallo, Roma vf, Tropimech, etc.
The Yoruba Tomato also called kerewa and beske are from the old breeds.
The Yoruba tomato can only sell when there is no Hausa tomato in the market.
There are some other varieties from across the boarders. The quality are better and therefore command higher price than the Hausa tomatoes

Packaging
Hausa basket 50-55kg
Medium basket 30-35kg
Small basket 12-15kg

Price range
Hausa basket N3,000 -N25,000
Medium basket N2,000-N14,000
small basket N500-N5,000

peak period
April - September

Seasonality
All year round

1. Cucumber
There has been great increase in the demand for cucumber due to the discovery of its health benefits.
Cucumbers sell all the year in the market though the price flunctuates due to some demand and supply theory.
There are different types of cucumber varieties that matured at different time.
The most marketable in mile 12 at present is the "Marketer and Murano" variety a Technisem product.
Followed by the continental seed cucumber.
Any other product might likely be rejected or sold at a lower price compared to the current market price

Packaging
Cucumbers are sold with poultry feed bags of 25kg.
Though the cucumber content is between 30-35kg

Price Range
Price flunctuates between N1500 -N6,000 per bag.

sale season
All year round

peak period
Festive period and dry season

To my Trainees:
My student:
The risk takers
Who took the biggest risk with me.
From Lagos to Ibadan to Ilorin
From Anambra to Delta
Moving along states to an unknown destination:
Despite the strong storm
The snake bite
The pains
The long trekks
You all stay through
I am marvelled.
I am humbled
I doff my hat

To my team members.
Kay
Solomon
Kalusam
You are one in a million.
I am grateful
Words alone could not express my appreciation.

To God.
The omnipotent
The omniscience
The all in all
The beginning and the end
The I am that I am
I worship you
All Glory belongs to you

We want to appreciate God Almighty for starting the training with us and
Despite all odds and challenges we made it through.
The training is a big testimony.
hmnnn
Its been one event from another
Where do I start?
Is it from my team members?
For sparing all the precious and expensive time!!
Or the trainees?
Who took a bold step in faith!!!!!

Marketable Vegetable In the Market
1. Cucumber
2. Tomatoe
3. Radish
4. Eggplant
5. Small pumpkin
6. Drumstick
7. Longbeans
8. Marrow
9. Green Chilli
10. Turi
11. Tindy
12. Small okro
13. Gua
14. Okro
15. Tonguar
16. Korrllar
etc.
Note
Majority of this vegetables takes shorter time to mature eg Red radish is 21 days.
Yet most are not readily available in the market.
Each has got a specific market requirement standard of colour, size, shapes and packaging.

Mile 12 Sales Agents
These are the people that sells for you in the market.
They display your wares at the different sections allocated to it.
They are paid on commission. Based on the prevailing market price.
And like we already said, price flunctuates in the market so the commissions vary with selling price

securi:
Well done Sis.Nice one

Thank you sir

wuyexzy:
the vegetables you are talking of does it include ewedu, efo, ugwu and the likes cos it seems you ain't mentioning them.

I will list them.
But first thing first.
The information's are as important as the vegetables themselves.
There is no use going through the stress of planting and then your product get rejected.
Farmers and intending farmers need to understand the working system first.

Your planting survey should start from market to farm.
Don't plant and start looking for market which is the norm with most farmers.
Planning from market to farm have the following advantages:
1. Plant vegetables that are in demand
2. Plan your planting to target the peak period
3. Using the right seed to avoid market rejects
4. Target customers need and work with it

Little About Mile 12 Market
The market is located in Lagos. Its one of the major markets for fresh vegetables.
Vegetable sellers come from far and near to buy produce from the Mile 12 market.
The market is mainly dominated by the northerners who work as agents/sales people.
Trailer loads of fresh vegetables are daily supply to Mile 12 from the North.
Vegetables like Tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, radish, tindy, marrow, green chilli, sweet pepper are some of mile 12 products.
How it works
Goods are brought in by the farmers to the agents/sales contact in the market.
Agents receive the goods and display for market women to buy.
Products are sold within the shortest possible time at the prevailing market price.
Cash from sales are sent to the farmer after deducting agent commission percentage.

Back to tutorial:
Seed is one of the factors that greatly determine your harvest but not the sole determinant.
We will be discussing the other factors in some other time.
For now our focus is market link.

abuyuunus:
Which seed has been selected for this purpose?
Is it rionex from continental or technisem seeds?

No seed has been selected.
The essence of the write up is a guidance to seed selection and not to condemn or choose a particular seed.
Every seed has got their unique nature. That's why the term "varieties" is use in describing seeds.
e.g A seed might perform well in farmer A's plot and the same seed could mess up farmer B's plot despite using the same method.

noblefarm:
pls madam, what variety of tomatoes and do u know if d recommended seeds seller have office in ilorin? if yes pls link me, if not can u help in getting the seeds for me?. I have watermelon n cucumber, will need the rest as u will recommend. tnx

Technisem seed are in Ibadan. They will definitely have an office in Ilorin
Better still talk to soloxam

noblefarm:
pls madam, what variety of tomatoes and do u know if d recommended seeds seller have office in ilorin? if yes pls link me, if not can u help in getting the seeds for me?. I have watermelon n cucumber, will need the rest as u will recommend. tnx

Tomatoes dont have specified demand. However, it is sold in grades. The big, the firm, etc. The quality determine the price.
All varieties can be planted but quality dictates price in the market

How to select seed for planting
There are several seed importers and sellers at present in Nigeria.
1. The Technisem Seed
(Saving farmers since ages)
2. East West Seed
3 Continental seed
4. Syngenta seed
5. Others

Seed selection is determined by the market demand.
Most intending farmers purchase seed base on the expected yield per hectare/acre.
With the mind that the returns will be much.

The fact that an expected yield of a certain vegetable is much does not mean that the market will accept it.

The utmost aim for all farmers is to make profit.
Farmers make profit from what they can sell at a reasonable price.
Your selling price must be higher than your cost price
"Why plant when the market will reject it"?
The market must accept our products before we can sell to make reasonable profit.

What we learned;
Seed selection is determined by the market demand variety

I have been receiving a lot of inquiries in my mailbox, sms, whatsapp and facebook as regards to the vegetable link market.
I want to apologise if i have not attend to your mails and concerns which have been due to:
1. My busy schedule on the farm
2. I want us to properly under
stand how it works
3. Want to avoid stories that touch. lol
I will therefore implore us to take time in reading through and ask relevant questions so issues will not arrive later.
Posting questions and concerns on forums benefits more people.
For Instance:
Some one ask if we can sell okro.
My answer :
If you plant the right seed¡¡¡¡
"Which is the right seed?
How do i select seed for planting?

bamdexfarms:
Am in jethro. Pls how close is agbugudu village to your place in saki?

I dont have idea of the area. please which LGA is that? It will guide in easy location.
I will also find out from other farmers around.