₦airaland Forum

Austin234:
Am tempted to ask u what course did u read in skul? U are indeed a guru in agricultural practice. I wish to be like u. God bless u

Amen and Thank you

wuyexzy:
ma'am, if I got you right, that means you'll be buying the produce from farmers who are willing to sell to you.

No. We will not buy the produce.
BUT
We will be selling the produce for farmers once he or she send it to the market.

Farmers send to market
We sell the product at the prevailing market price
Farmer gets paid immediately

What we offer;
1. Market access at the actual and prevailing market price at the specific time.
2. Prompt payment of goods supplied.
3. Daily update of market price for all vegetables
4. Direct links to several markets

ogbongenet:
Do u hv sweet pepper,cucumber and pawpaw.grams and price?

No pawpaw.
Sweet pepper
1. California wonder. 10g N500
2. Superbell. 10g N700
Cucumber 10g N600

Hence to maximize the market, vegetable farmers need to adopt planting all through the year.
Hmnnn;
" I have not been able to sell the one at hand you are asking me to plant throughout the year"
Yes. I know.
My suggestion:
Planting all year round means a farmer can sell at all times and the peak and the low price period can actually favour you.
How? You ask me!
"A farmer will still make some profit no matter how small it may be during the low period"
" The peak period sale would fetch in maximum profit to Subsidize the low period"
Back to basic.
The current vegetables you have at hand is what we are offering you direct link to market to sell.
"So why all the epistles"?
It will be easy for us to relate with the market, pricing, seasons etc if we understand how it works.
To cut it short:
What all the grammars has been about is;
"There is market for your products all year round but price fluctuate in relationship with season and demand"

noblefarm:
am in Jethro, planting my watermelon n cucumber dis wk, strawberry and garbage too.

You are welcome sir. Happy farming

Fluctuation in Market price.
The same basket of vegetable that was sold to customer A in the morning for 4,000 per basket could be gotten by customer B for 8,000 towards evening time of the same day.
This could also be vice versa.

Fluctuations in price are greatly influence by
1. Demand and supply of product
2. Different season of the year
1. Demand and supply theory
During festive period, prices of vegetable increase astronomically. This is because every home must one way or the other make a special delicacies that requires vegetables.
2. Different season of the year
We have 2 seasons in Nigeria.
Rainy season and
Dry season
1. Rainy Season: Initially April - October (7 months
Recently Middle of May - October (5.5 Months)
Could be attributed to climate change
Coastal areas do have longer period of rain e:g Lagos
Most farmers in Nigeria depends on rain for their crops. We can assume 80% of vegetable farmers also take advantage of the rain to cultivate their crops.
This automatically leads to more vegetables in the markets at that particular season.
Note
Most vegetables takes between 4weeks to 3 months from planting to harvest.
If the early rainfall were use to plant, that means the earliest time that vegetables will be abundantly available in the market is after 4 weeks for shorter maturing ones and 3 months for the longer duration vegetables.
That's why vegetables could still be expensive for the first 3 months of rainfall.
2. Dry season: Initially October - March (6 months)
Recently. November - May (7 months)
Most farming activities in Nigeria remain dormants during the dry season since there is no rainfall.
So once the vegetables farmed during rainy period has been exhausted, the prices of vegetables begins to rise because of great reduction in supply

Requirement to be in the network:
1. Must be a vegetable farmer
2. Have quality vegetable to sell
3. Can supply vegetable throughout the season
4. Will abide by rules and regulations of the market network
5. Arrange for product to get to the destinated market.
6. Make use of marketable and quality seed for planting
7. Use the recommended packaging material

What is an open market?
Open market is the general market for vegetables.
Trailers and trailers load of vegetables are pushed in every day
Different vegetable markets exist in different cities e.g Mile 12 and Organic market, Lagos, Bodija in Ibadan, Ilorin, etc
Characteristics
1. price fluctuates with season and demands
2. Every vegetable has got sold
3. One needs link to the market
4. Agent fee and market fees are involved
5. Products are mainly fresh such as Tomatoes, watermelon, cucumber, Radish, Marrow, Indian Okro, Sweet pepper, Lettuce etc
5.

Need to sell your fresh vegetables?
The market is here!!!
We have access to open market vegetables all year round for farmers and intending farmers.

ogbongenet:
HOUSE APART FROM TECHNISEM SEED COMPANY IS DERE ANY ODA COMPANY DAT SELL HYBRID SEEDS LOCATED IN NIGERIA....IF DERES ANY PLEASE DROP DERE ADDRESS...THANKS

There is Continental seed from Kenya and East West Seed and Syngenta seed which is not readily available
Each seed with its own peculiar characteristic. It depends on what you have in mind.
I distributes Continental Seed. Make your request

Ploughable lands, market access are available for fruits and vegetable farmers that are willing to take the bold step out of unemployment.
Requirement
1. Attend one month basic vegetables practical training on the farm
2. Must be passionate about farming vegetables
3. Ready to get the hands dirty

Benefit
1. Ploughable half acre of land to practice for a year free
2. Credit facilities from seed suppliers
3. Market linkage for fruits and vegetables produced
4. Job placement with partnering agric organisations.
5. Salary very attractive
5. Salary

cabbage sprouting out in the nusery

Harvesting chilli pepper and some sweet pepper for dinner. Farm fresh

Lunch time during the treasure hunt. Care for some

Planting the ugu in the farm

Preparing Ugu seeds for planting during the training

Please spare some time and some change to understudy a practising farmer in the field you want to venture into.
Get to ask questions.
Don't work with internet calculations
Take time to study the basis
Visit 2 or more practising farmers.
Do research on marketing
Source several markets outlet.
Do a thorough research
Get the intricate knowledge
Best of luck
quote author=PerfectlyPerfect post=34018112]Good day fellow nairalanders.
I'm a recent graduate, waiting for my NYSC callup.
I would like to set up a farm but the issue now is that I don't have any knowledge on most agricultural practices, aside those i learnt in school.
Basically, I wanna go into poultry; chickens and turkeys and piggery and a fish pond.
I have a budget of 800,000 though I dnt know if it'll be sufficient.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Please post all recommendations here
Thanks[/quote]

On daily basis i receive calls, mails and sms from intending farmers, farmers and people that need information on several aspects of vegetables planting, most especially tomato.
Yes. You can easily make millions of naira from your tomato farm the same way you can easily make zero naira.
The facts that candidate A succeeded using a particular method in a specific location does not guarantee that B will succeed
Please and please do get some knowledge, understudy some practical farmers, do your research before venturing into common vegetable farming as some people will put it.
Most callers have bought the seed and nurse the vegetables without adequate knowledge.
And then the questions::
"When do i transplant?
"How do i treat the soil?
"Can I apply NPK?
" When is the right time to apply?
"What quantity to apply?
and so forth.
What applies in my area may not apply in your area.
Our soil texture and organic content are completely different.
There is so much that can not be taught on phone.

Pavore9:
You be serious madam! How grams is the seed pack?

Its 10 gramms per pack. I ordered for several seeds so i will be able to give the cost per gram.

Pavore9:
OK. Do you by any way know if he stocks Parsley seeds?

I don't think so. Some seed are brought in only on request eg the butternut squash is on request by me.

Pavore9:
So how did they get your seeds?

He is a Nigerian but brings in Continental seeds of all types on large scale. I currently use lot of their seeds.

Pavore9:
Do the continental importers have an office/contact point in Nairobi?

That i don't know

Pavore9:
l know it will do well locally. Which country is the seed coming in from?
l believe this link will be of help to you.
http://www.smartfarmingkenya.com/uncategorized/butternut-squash-farming-in-kenya/

Its from Kenya. Thank you for the link

Pavore9:
Apart from Shoprite & co, is there any local market one can get butternut squash, it is also cultivated in Ghana so there is a possibility we have some Nigerian farmers into it. Send me a PM if you have an idea where it can be bought.

It can be cultivated in Nigeria but i am not sure if anyone does. I recently made an order for the seed from the continental importers here. It should be here by next week.

Preparing different types of trellis for crawling crops

sheyi86:
@jethro,May God bless u ma, pls can i come 2 u 4 d training anytime i'm chanced coz i wl quit my casual job by middle of august.thanks.

Yes. you can participate in any of the trainings. Next one has been scheduled for July and another one for September.

Training at Ago Amodu

Try updating

And then begins the series of attack by ants.
Our sweet pepper are not spared at all.
Each time we re plant its always destroyed by ants.
They suck the inside and leave the carcass. Not funny.
We re plant adding ashes to the seeds because the general believe is that ashes are repellants to ants.
Did the sweet pepper survive?
hmbnnnnnn
Capital No.
What else could we use??
Some suggest we locate the sweet pepper nursery in another area.
hmnnnnn
Imagine you were only able to secure a plot of land.
How do you move from place to place?
Yet we need to nurse our sweet pepper regardless of ants?
So what do we do?
Find out tomorrow

During the first week of the training we prepared nursery for
1. Tomatoes
2. Sweet Pepper (Yellow and green variety)
3. Cabbage
4. Onion
Each students were given guidelines to prepare their own nursery for the above mentioned vegetables.

As a group we sow radish on 2 beds.

The first tomato nursery we made was pretty good. It came out fine. The rate of germination was good
The Onions also survive and was doing fine but the cabbage were superb.
hmnnn.
Wish i can post the pictures as i writes.