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Good day all, For those who pre ordered Irrigation items though us we are hoping to get the orders in Lagos this week. We will update you on the next steps to take as soon as the items arrive. Thanks for doing business with us.

Great book and his models make so much sense! They attained to that stage after some years though but worth the wait!

Willie2015:
I will encourage you to read the book 'The Market Gardener" by Jean Martin Fortier who is making over a $100,000.00 per annum on a 1.5 acre growing vegetables in Canada. You will understand why I advocate for open field and simple green house to handle only fragile vegetables.

=N=2m on a single greenhouse is too expensive, this is outside other expenses like land lease/purchase; appropriate machinery, source of water; labor cost; salaries of staffs; storage costs; transport costs & other miscellaneous expenses. You will run out of business if you dont have clients that can pay per kilo in your books, alternate Markets like Mile 12 & our local mkts etc dont care about your greenhouse paparazzi.

Great book and his models make so much sense! They attained to that stage after some years though but worth the wait!

Willie2015:
I will encourage you to read the book [b]'The Market Gardener" [/b]by Jean Martin Fortier who is making over a $100,000.00 per annum on a 1.5 acre growing vegetables in Canada. You will understand why I advocate for open field and simple green house to handle only fragile vegetables.

=N=2m on a single greenhouse is too expensive, this is outside other expenses like land lease/purchase; appropriate machinery, source of water; labor cost; salaries of staffs; storage costs; transport costs & other miscellaneous expenses. You will run out of business if you dont have clients that can pay per kilo in your books, alternate Markets like Mile 12 & our local mkts etc dont care about your greenhouse paparazzi.

The drip tapes we bring in are based on customer needs or specifications, we buy what they wan' we don't stock for now. If you need a custom order, the best way to get response is to contact me personally via call or WhatsApp. The information I put here is basic. Thanks.

For now we don't have shade nets in stock.

soterslove:
Oga Kalu welldone Sir.

I am in need of UV resistant 35%

or 40% Shadenet.

Pls let me have the specifications and

quote asap.

PS: Your incoming driptapes comes

with what specification pls?

Thanks.

Successful transaction with AleAirHub pay4me service, customer service is on point...payment was made within 24 hours. Will sure use your service again soon!

It happened in China not Thailand. It was actually a lorry driver carry fish that had an accident resulting in the fishes spilling from the lorry. see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3002503/Now-s-slip-road-Lorry-driver-spills-SEVEN-TONS-catfish-Chinese-highway-door-truck-pops-open-driving-bump.html

Items packed and ready to be shipped down to Nigeria this week! All batch one orders and batch 2 order by peterbabs will leave Guangzhou by Friday. Further updates on pickup will be made to the clients via the normal channels of communication. Thank you.

Pavore9:
He focused on Capsicum and tomatoes within a space he could effectively manage thus earning him a $900 weekly sales.

Exactly! I am so pissed off sometimes when some people who are new entrant with no experience whatsoever are considering farming on 2 or sometimes 5 acres! Start small then scale when necessary, no be by how many acres o...Na by how much you fit manage!

Pavore9:
As a young boy, Bernard Sila had a dream of becoming either a lawyer to fight for the rights of the less fortunate or a farmer to feed not only residents of dry areas of Ukambani, but also entire country and beyond.

At the time, Sila, now 23, was in Standard Five at Mwiki Primary School in Githurai, Nairobi. Every time he visited his rural home of Kisikioni in Tala, Machakos County, he would get stories of locals suffering and starving due to lack of enough food, largely caused by drought. Yet in agriculture lessons, their teacher often said farming can be practised even in dry areas using irrigation. “I kept wondering why locals in my area, which is synonymous with drought, were not farming, yet it was possible with irrigation.

I resolved I would have to do it,” Sila says. And today, he makes at least Sh40,000 ($400) a week from tomato farming and Sh50,000 ($500) from capsicum. After failing to score the pass mark to study law in his 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination, Sila says the only passion he had left was farming. “After missing the chance to study law, I was not ready to miss on agriculture because those were the two choices in my life,” he tells Smart Harvest.

In 2014, Sila settled in the village to venture into farming. His immediate challenge was lack of practical skills in farming. To him, primary and high school agriculture lessons were just theory and could not help him. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any agricultural college or institute around to learn from. Just then, his aunt ventured into capsicum farming. That was great news to Sila and he immediately moved in briefly with his aunt to learn some skills.

“I learned everything practically at my aunt’s place. She was knowledgeable about capsicum farming and her crops were doing well and highly productive, even though they were just 500 stems,” he says. He says the greatest time came when his aunt told him to manage her farm. After four months of managing his aunt’s farm, he left to start his own, having been inspired to do capsicum. At this point, his second challenge was where to get money to buy seedlings. Luckily, through a friend, Sila received free 300 tomato seedlings from Amiran Kenya Limited. He says the company was giving farmers free tomato seedlings to do planting trials in the area and he was one of the beneficiaries.

Initially, his mind was on capsicum, but after receiving tomato seedlings, Sila resolved to plant capsicum and tomatoes at the same time. His family assisted him with Sh10,000,($100) which he used to buy 1,500 Goliath F1 seedlings of capsicum from a French agricultural company, Technisem.

With that, Sila embarked on his farming journey. He started during the rainy season, so he had no problem with water. But the challenge came when rain disappeared for almost a month and his young plants started withering. Sila says he started drawing water from a dam over 3km away and ferried it to his farm using cattle. Watering half an acre of capsicum and half of tomatoes was hectic. After irrigating his farm using buckets for sometime, he asked his uncle, also a farmer, for old pipes that were lying idle. “My uncle gave me old pipes, which l used to transfer water from a makeshift tank on a raised hill to the entire farm,” he says.

The old pipes were, however, leaking and would waste a lot of water. But when he started harvesting, there was ready market and hundreds of residents bought capsicum and tomatoes from him. After saving some money, Sila took loans from relatives amounting to Sh100,000($1,000) and invested in water. He bought new pipes and connected to a village borehole built in 2006 by then Water Minister Charity Ngilu. The borehole is 1km away from Sila’s farm. He still uses the water to irrigation his tomato and capsicum farms. He laments that the water is very costly.

“They charge me Sh100 ($1)per unit and my farm uses a lot of water, especially during dry seasons,” he says. He harvests twice a week and every time gets 500kg of capsicum, totalling to one tonne in a week. Sila says when it rains the production is higher, to about 1.3 tonnes per week and he has to harvest three times a week. He says the area being dry, many people do not engage in farming and they flock to his farm to buy the produce. Sila makes huge sales in Tala, Kangundo and Ruiru towns.

On average, he sells 1kg of capsicum at Sh40 (N168). But at times prices go up to Sh50,(N210) or Sh60 (N252). Therefore, in a week one tonne fetches him up to Sh 40,000 ($400). For tomatoes, he makes at least Sh50,000 ($500) a week.

I know this guy, he is my mentor. 3 things I have learnt from him....1. He learnt from an experienced farmer and have since been learning from his own experiences. 2. He does farm on sizes he can manage despite his years of experiences, not doing 2 acres of this and 5 acres of that but 1/2 acre, 1/3 acre. 3. He uses irrigation technology effectively, making sure he harvests longer time than others! His picture on his farm sometimes last month. Source: Facebook

Dont worry sir, you will not just see them you will feel them and see them work effectively and bring you results this dry season!

omotinugbonkace:
I've been trying to pick them out from my laptop without success and I even tried downloaded the items...
I'm just happy ther're on the way.

Agritechnovate Solutions Enterprises is a fully registered and first of its kind-Agribusiness tech startup in Nigeria. We are committed to providing affordable farm technologies to both small and large farmers in Nigeria. Our unique selling preposition is in providing ONLY quality products at affordable prices irrespective of the market exchange rate. We hope to have both returning and new customers who see the need to use low cost technologies on their various Agribusiness ventures, our goal is to make more and more agribusinesses succeed by providing technology and innovation to the agric landscape in Nigeria...without the right technology, we are going nowhere in our diversification to Agriculture!

PHOTO UPDATE: For batch one orders, your goods have been prepared for shipment to Guangzhou. Oga omotinugbonkace owns the 3 rolls of drip tapes on the left while the spray tubes and Drip accessories are on the right(from the picture).

This is to confirm the receipt of N450,000 full payment for 4000m spray tubes. Will update you and the others in the second batch via this platform as regards the status of your orders. Thank you!

peterbabs:
Full Payment for order of 4000m spray tube has been done.
Kindly confirm, Sir.

Good evening people, for those who participated in the first phase of the Farm technologies and Dry season consolidated irrigation system pre-order programme. We thank you for believing in us, we will do our best to make sure you get your orders by mid September.

For those joining the second batch, Minimum order is 1000m for Spray tubes and Drip tapes. You need 1000m to 1300m for 1 acre for spray tubes and 4000m to 5000m for drip tapes. We have so far received several oral commitments, however a financial commitment of 60% and above of the cost of items ordered to any of our bank accounts qualifies you to be a part of this programme. As we delve into the dry season, costs of this items might increase, cost of USD will sure increase as a result of the festivities as well as cargo taking longer to come due to an increase in purchases, dont get caught up in that web!

Join our Dry season consolidated irrigation system pre-order programme today and you will glad you did. Cost for drip kits(1000m drip tapes plus connectors and end stoppers)....N75,000. Cost of Spray tubes 1000m is N125,000. Be assured of high quality products as we only deal with manufacturers who have been into the business for a long time. All spray tubes and Drip tapes we order are UV treated and manufacturers says they can last for 3-5 years! We will be updating you all as regards the progress as time goes on!

For those who contacted me for irrigation systems today, we are glad to inform you that you can be part of the second batch of the Consolidated Agric technologies procurement Programme.

We hope to have them in Nigeria by mid September. We had some commitment fulfilments from some clients last Friday, so we had to treat your orders with theirs in this first batch.

omotinugbonkace:
Any update on the arrival date?

This week have not been a good week for our dear naira, if you are still wondering why I made this statement see http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/08/25/naira-hits-record-low-409-dollar-black-market/ The USD was 409 yesterday, it was tough to meetup our client demands yesterday as we had to counter fund to make sure our suppliers got the right amount. Hence going forward, cost of 1km of drip tapes and accessories is N72,000 as against N70,000...Price of spray tubes for 1km is now N125,000 as against N120,000. If the price reverts back to 400 or lower, we will revert back to our old rates. For those buying more than the quotes on this post contact us privately for quotes, however note that that vote is invalid after 24hours! ONLY contact us if you are ready to pay within 24 hours, Thank you... Agritechnovate Solutions Enterprises.

Healthilyea:
Just sent you a message on whatsapp

Really appreciate chatting with you madam...will get back to you on the Cocopeat as soon as possible.

Healthilyea:
Thanks for the feedback, but it's too expensive for me.

okay....sorry, please let me know price range you have in mind per Kg so I can help you get a supplier within your budget.

The first batch of shipment will be made to our shipping agent in Guangzhou this week, if you are yet to make payment for your desired items please do ASAP so your orders can come in latest second week of September! Thank you.

Got an Update from one supplier earlier today. The Cocopeat is compressed and packed in 650g , each cost to Lagos is N2,500...minimum order from this supplier is 10pcs. Let me know if this is what you want. Cc healthilyea

Kalusam:
I will confirm the total costs for 10kg to 20kg to Lagos by tomorrow from the suppliers. It will be available in 3 weeks or less after part payment of 60% items cost. It comes in compressed block form.

Noted...thanks!

olamkas:
@OP, I will seriously encourage that you should try and look into importing efficient and cost effective weeder.
The issue of weed control in agriculture is crucial.
Farmers spend so much on wedding with less efficiency.
Please try and consider my point.

Good for her...and her man!

I will confirm the total costs for 10kg to 20kg to Lagos by tomorrow from the suppliers. It will be available in 3 weeks or less after part payment of 60% items cost. It comes in compressed block form.

Healthilyea:
I'll need between 10-20kg or how does yours come and what is the cost please.
Any idea on when it will be available?
Thank you.

I will make sure both items are sent out by our suppliers at the same time, so don't worry they will arrive same day! With the right irrigation systems in place, you are on your way to a successful dry season farming! #sevenfigurefarming Thanks

omotinugbonkace:
This is great I hope the two items will arrive same day so that I can commence installation immediately. The Dry season is fast at hand and I really want to get prepared for it this time.
Thanks Bro and mind you, you have earned our trust any day!

omotinugbonkace your payment of N72,222 part payment for 1km spray tubes received! Work underway at one of our manufacturers factory.Will update you on details of your order with time.

Healthilyea:
Oga sir please I need Cocopeat for nursery, can I get from you ?

We don't have in stock for now. When do you need them and how many kg do you need?

Do you plan on getting any Agribusiness technology for your business or dry season farming, be it irrigation items, nursery items, any item you have in mind. Do let us know today, we will be glad to help you achieve your dreams in your Agribusiness venture by providing the right technologies for you to achieve them!

Good morning great farmers, it's Agritechnovate Solutions Enterprises again...We are currently taking a large consolidated order of drip kits, spray tubes, seedlings tray, and other irrigation equipments to enable those who plan to start their farms in September and sell their farm produce from December get affordable drip tapes and full accessories in a timely manner, to this end we are currently taking orders for drip tapes(1km Drip + kits) is NGN 70,000. Spray tubes 1000m is N120,000. Seedlings trays from 128 cell(8*16) at N600!

Project timeline...place orders by indicating here or via any of our social media channels the quantity of your order, on or before Monday 23rd August or earlier, conclude payment of your products though our business account on or before Friday 26th August, the suppliers are paid on Monday 29th August, then you await your items for pickup in Lagos by third week of September, 2016. Once we have collective orders and payments for dip lines and accessories above 10km, we order and ship down!

For those growing tomatoes, cucumbers, capsicum, radishes, and other exotic vegetables or even Indeginous Vegies like Ugu, Tete, Soko, and co this dry season don't start your farm without an effective irrigation system, the difference between Nigeria farmers and those in developed countries is technology, unless we use innovative technologies on our farms, we will NEVER meet the required yield potential per crop.

Join our Dry season consolidated irrigation system pre-order programme today and you will glad you did. Follow the thread for updates:https://www.nairaland.com/2110962/pre-order-rain-guns-spraytubes-dripkits/4#48522336

Good evening people, for those interested in the Dry season consolidated irrigation system pre-order programme posted 2 days ago this is for you. Minimum order is 1000m for Spray tubes and Drip tapes. You need 1000m to 1300m for 1 acre for spray tubes and 4000m to 5000m for drip tapes. We have so far received several oral commitments, however a financial commitment of 60% and above of the cost of items ordered to any of our bank accounts qualifies you to be a part of this programme. As we delve into the dry season, costs of this items might increase, cost of USD will sure increase as a result of the festivities as well as cargo taking longer to come due to an increase in purchases, dont get caught up in that web!

Join our Dry season consolidated irrigation system pre-order programme today and you will glad you did. Cost for drip kits(1000m drip tapes plus connectors and end stoppers)....N70,000. Cost of Spray tubes 1000m is N120,000. Be assured of high quality products as we only deal with manufacturers who have been into the business for a long time. All spray tubes and Drip tapes we order are UV treated and manufacturers says they can last for 3-5 years! We will be updating you all as regards the progress as time goes on!

I have been following your progress religiously and will still follow. I just want to reassure you that you are on the right path...if you must do Agric as a business, you must do it well(just as you are doing). Keep it up!