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Special Purpose Fertilizers & more reason for soil analysis

My esteem followers and customer, as you know it is in our tradition to draw our attention to condition and practice that undermine or favour our Agric Biz/ crop production especially our plantation.
It is in this regards that we wish to inform you that loamy soils are the best producing soils for plantain farming because they contain a good organic to inorganic ratio. Organic materials, such as decaying plants and insects, provide soil with air, nutrients and water-retaining matter. This combination of ingredients, when combined with mineral particles, allows soil to remain loose and fertile.

In tropical rain forests part of Nigeria, organically rich soils are shallow. Plantains will thrive for one to three years but then die back because the layer of organic matter is easily depleted. To avoid depletion, it is necessary to provide soils with compost and mulch.
Our comprehensive soil analysis will reveal to you all about that soil in your farm land. The health of your soil determines the output of you labour. Don't hesitate to conduct a soil analysis.

Special purpose fertilizers are primarily used in the small fruit and nursery industries. When shopping for fertilizer, you will find that some are packaged for very specific uses, such as blueberry food. The blueberry (sometimes called rhododendron or azalea fertilizer) food is one example of these specialty materials and belongs to an old, established group, the acid-plant foods.

Some of the compounds (ammonium sulfate is usually the acidifying ingredient) used in these fertilizers are chosen because they have an acid reaction and may benefit acidloving plants when the soil pH is too high. These materials are appropriate for use when small-fruit producers are trying to slowly lower the soil pH in an established blueberry orchard that is showing symptoms of iron deficiency due to the effects of a high soil pH.

They are often used in combination with dilute foliar sprays of iron or soil applications of iron chelates. These materials are usually applied at a rate that will meet the nitrogen requirement of the orchard for that season. Once the soil pH is lowered to the desired level, the producer should switch to a less acidifying nitrogen source such as urea or ammonium nitrate.

Thus, without performing soil analysis on that farm land how do you ascertain best method of approaching your farm treatment. Some says the land is a virgin land, and that it has not been put to use for over 50yrs. That is true. Such land is expected to be fertile. But have you forgotten in a haste that putting a soil to plant cultivation is not the only way through which your farm lose it fertility.

It may interest you to know that the following also destroy soil fertility:
1. Erosion: Erosion wash away the top soil which is rich in organic content there by exposing the top soil to high rate of era transpiration. It also wash away nutrients in the soil making the soil loose and lack essential nutrients. If the soil has not been put to use for 50yrs, have you been preventing erosion on the soil for 50yrs?
2. Poor organic content in the soil
3. High percentage of sand and low percentage of clay in the soil
4. Climatic condition of the farm location
5. Reduced Microbial activities on the soil as a result of intense bush burning during land preparation or due to unfavorable environmental condition.
6. Etc
Contact kenfarm for a detailed soil analysis and for a viable nematode resistant plantain suckers 09091405861 or kenfarm2020@gmail.com

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My esteem followers and customer, as you know it is in our tradition to draw our attention to condition and practise that undermine or favour our Agric Biz/ crop production especially our plantation.

It is in this regards that we wish to inform you that loamy soils are the best producing soils for plantain farming because they contain a good organic to inorganic ratio. Organic materials, such as decaying plants and insects, provide soil with air, nutrients and water-retaining matter. This combination of ingredients, when combined with mineral particles, allows soil to remain loose and fertile.
In tropical rain forests part of Nigeria, organically rich soils are shallow. Plantains will thrive for one to three years but then die back because the layer of organic matter is easily depleted. To avoid depletion, it is necessary to provide soils with compost and mulch.

Our comprehensive soil analysis will reveal to you all about that soil in your farm land. The health of your soil determines the output of you labour. Don't hesitate to conduct a soil analysis.
cheers!!

Special Purpose Fertilizers & more reason for soil analysis

Special purpose fertilizers are primarily used in the small fruit and nursery industries. When shopping for fertilizer, you will find that some are packaged for very specific uses, such as blueberry food. The blueberry (sometimes called rhododendron or azalea fertilizer) food is one example of these specialty materials and belongs to an old, established group, the acid-plant foods.

Some of the compounds (ammonium sulfate is usually the acidifying ingredient) used in these fertilizers are chosen because they have an acid reaction and may benefit acidloving plants when the soil pH is too high. These materials are appropriate for use when small-fruit producers are trying to slowly lower the soil pH in an established blueberry orchard that is showing symptoms of iron deficiency due to the effects of a high soil pH.

They are often used in combination with dilute foliar sprays of iron or soil applications of iron chelates. These materials are usually applied at a rate that will meet the nitrogen requirement of the orchard for that season. Once the soil pH is lowered to the desired level, the producer should switch to a less acidifying nitrogen source such as urea or ammonium nitrate.

Thus, without performing soil analysis on that farm land how do you ascertain best method of approaching your farm treatment. Some says the land is a virgin la7nd, and that it has not been put to use for over 50yrs. That is true. Such land is expected to be fertile. But have you forgotten in a haste that putting a soil to plant cultivation is not the only way through which your farm lose it fertility.

It may interest you to know that the following also destroy soil fertility:
1. Erosion: Erosion wash away the top soil which is rich in organic content there by exposing the top soil to high rate of era transpiration. It also wash away nutrients in the soil making the soil loose and lack essential nutrients. If the soil has not been put to use for 50yrs, have you been preventing erosion on the soil for 50yrs?
2. Poor organic content in the soil
3. High percentage of sand and low percentage of clay in the soil
4. Climatic condition of the farm location
5. Reduced Microbial activities on the soil as a result of intense bush burning during land preparation or due to unfavorable environmental condition.
6. Etc
Contact kenfarm for a detailed soil analysis 09091405861 or kenfarm2020@gmail.com

Special Purpose Fertilizers & more reason for soil analysis

Special purpose fertilizers are primarily used in the small fruit and nursery industries. When shopping for fertilizer, you will find that some are packaged for very specific uses, such as blueberry food. The blueberry (sometimes called rhododendron or azalea fertilizer) food is one example of these specialty materials and belongs to an old, established group, the acid-plant foods.

Some of the compounds (ammonium sulfate is usually the acidifying ingredient) used in these fertilizers are chosen because they have an acid reaction and may benefit acidloving plants when the soil pH is too high. These materials are appropriate for use when small-fruit producers are trying to slowly lower the soil pH in an established blueberry orchard that is showing symptoms of iron deficiency due to the effects of a high soil pH.

They are often used in combination with dilute foliar sprays of iron or soil applications of iron chelates. These materials are usually applied at a rate that will meet the nitrogen requirement of the orchard for that season. Once the soil pH is lowered to the desired level, the producer should switch to a less acidifying nitrogen source such as urea or ammonium nitrate.

Thus, without performing soil analysis on that farm land how do you ascertain best method of approaching your farm treatment. Some says the land is a virgin la7nd, and that it has not been put to use for over 50yrs. That is true. Such land is expected to be fertile. But have you forgotten in a haste that putting a soil to plant cultivation is not the only way through which your farm lose it fertility.

It may interest you to know that the following also destroy soil fertility:
1. Erosion: Erosion wash away the top soil which is rich in organic content there by exposing the top soil to high rate of era transpiration. It also wash away nutrients in the soil making the soil loose and lack essential nutrients. If the soil has not been put to use for 50yrs, have you been preventing erosion on the soil for 50yrs?
2. Poor organic content in the soil
3. High percentage of sand and low percentage of clay in the soil
4. Climatic condition of the farm location
5. Reduced Microbial activities on the soil as a result of intense bush burning during land preparation or due to unfavorable environmental condition.
6. Etc
Contact kenfarm for a detailed soil analysis 09091405861 or kenfarm2020@gmail.com

We at kenfarm wishes all our esteem customers HAPPY EASTER CELEBRATION!!!!

donJ2:
My farm z ready, waiting for fertilisers and plantain suckers
So How much??....

How many can 2plots (600sqm each) take
I built security house, 10ft x 10ft, and a small pen 40ft x 25ft. So d rest is for plantain.

Send to jayboss336@gmail.com

Thanks for your enquiry. We have sent a detailed document to your above email. hope to do Biz with you soon. Cheers

kenfarm customer care 08038623884 or
email us via:kenfarm2020@gmail.com

to odder for your viable plantain suckers and TME 419 cassava stem & Vitamin cassava stem. Do not patronise cheap local sucker or cassava stem because it will amount to share Waste of effort......
we will not only supply you with the suckers and stems but we will guide you through a successful planting season... your success is our pride.

Idemujoseph:
Please if you know anybody/company that buy cassava in large quantity please let me know with their contact details. I can supply up to Ten tone in a week. My farm is in Edo state. Contact me on 09056821655 or idemudiajoseph8@gmail.com
Thanks advance

copied Bro

murshid09:
kindly send details to ameenhoneynigeria@gmail.com

Pls detail of?

karlxavier:
Based on logistics, thanks for your answer@ken. SOFTWORK...

Lol.....u get the message Bro

Make hast to place odder for our viable pest resistant hybrid plantain sucker. we pride ourselves in our large customer base. Our sucker is affordable and has proved to our esteem client it can keep multiplying for over 7years. This means that if you purchase our suckers, years latter, if you plan expanding your farm, you need not purchase another sucker. Just harvest sucker from the existing farm and you will be maximising profit....
......contact kenfarm via 08038623884

Make hast to place odder for our viable pest resistant hybrid plantain sucker. we pride ourselves in our large customer base. Our sucker is affordable and has proved to our esteem client it can keep multiplying for over 7years. This means that if you purchase our suckers, years latter, if you plan expanding your farm, you need not purchase another sucker. Just harvest sucker from the existing farm and you will be maximising profit....
......contact kenfarm via 08038623884

karlxavier:
Please gurus I owned a thread and I need answers please. Between cassava farming and plantain farming, which is more commercially viable and can give more roi and has a better turn around period? Please I need replies to this as a cousin of mine wants to invest on low risk crops and he could only see cassava and plantain and we is now asking which is more profitable?

plantain farming is more rewarding any day.....venture into it and don't bother thanking me because it our work oh!

Soil pH is an excellent indicator of the suitability of a soil for plant growth. For most crops, pH of 6 to 7.5 is optimal. Soil pH levels that are too high or too low lead to a deficiency of many nutrients, decline in microbial activity, decrease in crop yields, and deterioration of soil health. For example, soil pH values below 5.5 and between 7.5 and 8.5 limit the availability of phosphate for plants. Four major management practices that increase the availability of phosphate for plants are:

1. Liming acid soils to increase pH to between 6.5 and 7.0.
2. Applying small amounts of phosphorus fertilizer frequently rather than a large amount at one time.
3. Banding or injecting the source of the phosphorus (manure and/or fertilizer) into the soil to reduce the contact between the soil and the phosphorus.
4. Applying phosphorus fertilizer near crop rows, where roots are most active. Nitrogen cycling is inhibited by low pH.

The effectiveness and degradation of herbicides and insecticides and the solubility of heavy metals are dependent on the soil pH. Some diseases thrive in alkaline or acidic soils. The effectiveness and potential carryover of certain herbicides is also impacted by soil pH.

Call for your viable sucker free of all pest from kenfarm and you will be smiling to the bank at the end of this planting season. Whether you will be satisfy or dissatisfy on your harvesting day depends on your choice of suckers.....this follow the saying that ..... "what you plant is what you harvest"

Make no mistake of your choice of sucker....improved variety is expensive, more viable and pest resistant unlike local specie that are as cheap as 40naira with low yield, pest infested, fruit after 2yrs and nonviable. Make a wise choice by calling kenfarm for your genetically engineered suckers suitable for the tropical region.

Contact us via: kenfarm2020@gmail.com

My good followers, are you aware of the implication of mix cropping two crop which are heavy feeder of NPK ?
From experience, the outcome can be devastating at the long run. Ameliorating this is by consulting expert farmers and certainly having a knowledge of NPKmg percentage of your soil by calling kenfarm for your soil analysis.

cheers

Moyinoluwagold:
Are you sure this the current price for cassava tubers.

Due to continuous change in demand and supply, there can never be a current price....not even at this period. so if you want to buy or sell, enquire the last asking price from your buyer or selling ...cheers

Call for your viable sucker free of all pest from kenfarm and you will be smiling to the bank at the end of this planting season. Whether you will be satisfy or dissatisfy on your harvesting day depends on your choice of suckers.....this follow the saying that ..... "what you plant is what you harvest"
Make no mistake of your choice of sucker....improved variety is expensive, more viable and pest resistant unlike local specie that are as cheap as 40naira with low yield, pest infested, fruit after 2yrs and nonviable. Make a wise choice by calling kenfarm for your genetically engineered suckers suitable for the tropical region.
Contact us via: kenfarm2020@gmail.com

Call for your viable sucker free of all pest from kenfarm and you will be smiling to the bank at the end of this planting season. Whether you will be satisfy or dissatisfy on your harvesting day depends on your choice of suckers.....this follow the saying that ..... "what you plant is what you harvest"

Make no mistake of your choice of sucker....improved variety is expensive, more viable and pest resistant unlike local specie that are as cheap as 40naira with low yield, pest infested, fruit after 2yrs and nonviable. Make a wise choice by calling kenfarm for your genetically engineered suckers suitable for the tropical region.

Contact us via: kenfarm2020@gmail.com

Call for your viable sucker free of all pest from kenfarm and you will be smiling to the bank at the end of this planting season. Whether you will be satisfy or dissatisfy on your harvesting day depends on your choice of suckers.....this follow the saying that ..... "what you plant is what you harvest"
Make no mistake of your choice of sucker....improved variety is expensive, more viable and pest resistant unlike local specie that are as cheap as 40naira with low yield, pest infested, fruit after 2yrs and nonviable. Make a wise choice by calling kenfarm for your genetically engineered suckers suitable for the tropical region.
Contact us via: kenfarm2020@gmail.com

Call for your viable sucker free of all pest from kenfarm and you will be smiling to the bank at the end of this planting season. Whether you will be satisfy or dissatisfy on your harvesting day depends on your choice of suckers.....this follow the saying that ..... "what you plant is what you harvest"
Make no mistake of your choice of sucker....improved variety is expensive, more viable and pest resistant unlike local specie that are as cheap as 40naira with low yield, pest infested, fruit after 2yrs and nonviable. Make a wise choice by calling kenfarm for your genetically engineered suckers suitable for the tropical region.
Contact us via: kenfarm2020@gmail.com

UPDATE ON SOIL PH

Soil pH is an excellent indicator of the suitability of a soil for plant growth. For most crops, pH of 6 to 7.5 is optimal (table 1). Soil pH levels that are too high or too low (fig. 1) lead to a deficiency of many nutrients, decline in microbial activity, decrease in crop yields, and deterioration of soil health.

For example, soil pH values below 5.5 and between 7.5 and 8.5 limit the availability of phosphate for plants (figures 2 and 3). Four major management practices that increase the availability of phosphate for plants are:

1. Liming acid soils to increase pH to between 6.5 and 7.0.

2. Applying small amounts of phosphorus fertilizer frequently rather than a large amount at one time.

3. Banding or injecting the source of the phosphorus (manure and/or fertilizer) into the soil to reduce the contact between the soil and the phosphorus.

4. Applying phosphorus fertilizer near crop rows, where roots are most active. Nitrogen cycling is inhibited by low pH.

The effectiveness and degradation of herbicides and insecticides and the solubility of heavy metals are dependent on the soil pH.

Some diseases thrive in alkaline or acidic soils. The effectiveness and potential carryover of certain herbicides is also impacted by soil pH.

Vacancy!!!! a female fresh graduate Vet. Doctor is needed urgently. if interested contact kenfarm as soon as possible.Thanks

Brightowan:
God continue to bless you bro

Thanks Bro, same to yu.....we are just trying to make a difference in our own small way....cheers

Brightowan:
Ken, God continue to bless the works of your hands,
Keep it up bro

Thanks Bro, I very much appreciate your feedback. It indicates lots of farmers view our post.
....... together we can eradicate food insecurity, poverty and joblessness

My esteem followers, soon kenfarm will open a thread with elaborate steps you need to take in establishing plantain plantation inter cropped with Tree crops on our newly acquired farm land. Pictures inclusive. This am sure will be helpful to potential Plantation farmers .......keep yu posted!!!

My esteem followers, soon kenfarm will open a thread with elaborate steps you need to take in establishing plantain plantation inter cropped with Tree crops on our newly acquired farm land. Pictures inclusive. This am sure will be helpful to potential Plantation farmers .......keep yu posted!!!

leesworld:
Alright and expecting the email

have sent you the mail. expecting your feedback Regards

leesworld:
Thanks so much for this piece of information on how one can start his cassava farming. However I have these questions for you:

1. Do you know how one can get a farm to rent and its cost?

2. When is the planting season of cassava?

3. I learnt that one need to get someone who permanently in the farm who will do all these works while the person is being paid. Is this true and how profitable is this compare with your method?

4. I will like you to send to me your details of charges. My email is Ezekiel.sanni@gmail.com.

Thanks

thanks for you enquiry, I will get back to you by sending yu a detailed document to your above email box.
Regards

Post on Soil Fertility
Most of the time, the average person treats the soil "like dirt". A wise farmer/rancher will care for the soil because he knows that man is dependent on the top 6 inches (15.2 centimeters) of soil. In the plant-animal-soil continuum, soil is often neglected because it does not indicate stress in an obvious way. Animals and plants show physical symptoms but the soil must be looked at more carefully to monitor good health.

Soil that is rich in nutrients is fertile. The expectation of growing plants as food for livestock must include the reality that plants will take nutrients out of the soil. Replacing nutrients is the basic goal of fertilization. Improper fertilization in the past has caused controversy, but the basic premise of fertilization is to replenish the soil.


There are three basic ways to replenish the nutrients removed from the soil. One way is to recycle nutrients, mainly by way of animal waste. This is a crucial method when discussing pastures. Another way to replenish soils is to obtain and apply fertilizer. And the third way is through microbial action such as nitrogen fixation. Forage-livestock producers should understand and utilize all three for maximum fertility with minimum cost and environmental damage.

Fertilization is an important issue because it is needed in order to produce enough food for the increasing population from the decreasing cultivated land, but too much or inappropriate use can be detrimental to the environment. Part of the debates about fertilizers discuss "man-made" or "chemical" fertilizers as compared to "organic farming". There are many misconceptions about all three terms. This module will look at the various aspects of fertilization so a broader understanding will lead to better fertilization and results.