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A client contacted kenfarm help desk and below is his Query

I have a cassava and plantain plantation
Weeds has been a major problem. Manual weeding has been too expensive.
What chemicals can be used without harming the crops sir?
And also what types of fertilizer can be used and at what stage.
Thanks



Below if kenfarm response:

Good day Madam
Controlling weed can be very challenging especially if you have elephant grass as the major weed in by your farm. However, you can apply either contact herbicide or systemic herbicide.
Contact herbicide are often applied during the rain period because it action start just 1hr after application. Rain is not expected to fall on the weed just after applying any herbicide.
Example of contact is paraeforce
Paraeforce act on the leaf

Systemic herbicide is the type of herbicide that start action 12- 24hrs after application. It simply means that after application of systemic herbicide, rain must not fall on the weed for 24hrs else the rain water will dilute the concentration of the herbicide rendering it inactive. The reason I said earlier that contact herbicide is preferred during rain season.
Unlike contact herbicide, systemic herbicide act on the leaf, stem and some time the root depending on the active ingredient.
Example if systemic herbicide is glyphosate.
So for your farm, if the dominant weed is elephant grass, I will recommend you use round-up herbicide or glyphosate herbicide
Follow the manufacturer direction on what Qty to apply
But if your farm weed is other weed and not elephant grass, I will recommend you apply paraeforce mix together with atrazin powder and spray. Atrazin is a herbicide that act on the weed seed and root. It action is even stronger as the rain fall on the weed

As for fertilizer, I may not be able to advice you well enough since I did not do a soil fertility test of your farm soil. I mean to say that the type of fertilizer, Qty of fertilizer and method of application is scientifically dependent on the test result of your soil fertility test. We do soil fertility test and we often put recommendations of how to improve our client soil fertility after retrieving the soil test result
However, if you supply kenfarm with a response to the below questions, then I may be of help in term of what type of fertilizer to apply
1. How old are the crops you intend to apply fertilizer?
2. Have you applied any fertilizer at all since after planting?
3. Did you do a soil test of the soil before cultivation ?
4. What type of crop did you plant


Below is my client follow-up response to my above Questions 1 - 4

Thank you so much for this invaluable information.
In response to your questions:
1. Plantain stems was planted May last year but not producing fruit yet. Only applied fertilizer once at planting stage
2. Cassava planted too last on a plot, growing well but fertilizer applied once too
3. Now finished planting cassava this Monday on an acre- fertilizer applied before planting
4. No soil test was done before planting. Is it too late to do one?



Below is kenfarm response to the above response from our client
In response to your questions:


Client ANS 1. Plantain stems was planted May last year but not producing fruit yet. Only applied fertilizer once at planting stage

Kenfarm Remarks: OK if the plantain was planted in May last year, it is expected to have attain puberty now and must have gotten to the flowering stage. Hence, any application if fertilizer now is a waste of resources for the parent suckers. Though application of fertilizer now to the plantain will be beneficial to the up coming offspring in the next season. But the fertilizer will not be useful for the parent which has already attained puberty.. All the parent sucker need now to come out with big bunches is lot of water and hopefully the fertilizer applied at tender age will be enough to produce quality bunches.
If however the fruit start coming out and u realised it small....consult us

Client ANS 2. Cassava planted too last on a plot, growing well but fertilizer applied once too

Kenfarm Remarks: How tuberous your cassava tuber will grow depends on if you make a heap. If you make no heap and apply fertilizer, the tubers will still not be tuberous. So if you made heap, good but if not, am sorry do not expect a good yield of cassava......we have a book which is collated by experienced cassava farmers together with plant Nutritionist. The book spell out all you need to know on Cassava production and value chain. You may odder for either soft Copt or hard copy. It will be of tremendous help

Client ANS 3. Now finished planting cassava this Monday on an acre- fertilizer applied before planting.

Kenfarm Remarks: if you did not do a soil test before cultivation, it means you be doing a blanket application of fertilizer. But have it in mind that under application of fertilizer and over application of fertilizer are both injurious to the health of your crops. Hence, only critical level is agronomist recommendations.

Client ANS: 4. No soil test was done before planting. Is it too late to do one?

Kenfarm Remarks: It never late to check for a soil fertility. The following factors determines whether or not you need to check the fertility of your soil:
1. If you just acquire a farm land that been pur to use for a long period
2. If you have been practicing continuous cropping system
3. If your yield is becoming poor compare to few years back
4. If you are going to purchase ha of farmland for commercial farming
5. If you want to confirm which crop(s) can grow bear on your farm soil
For more detail please consult with kenfarm 08038623884


It strictly to enlighten ourselves
Cheers!!

Ewizard:
Even if this story is a fiction. Am more angry at some advice here than the wife's wicked act.
But I wouldn't quote and consequently argue with stupidity.

Though the op did not mention how much he earns, even if it's x2 of his wife's actual salary. Her act portrays wickedness and exploitation.

The op is that kinda man that has no "NO" in his dictionary.
You allow emotions to decide for you rather than your senses.

F∆ck what you ve bin thought about marriage. Love is a language of deceit and weakness. It's all game and your wife is the smarter fellow. And I bet you, you only discovered less than half of what you don't know about her.

A man doesn't necessarily need to be a control freak and possessive to be the manly man. Principles, rules, dos and don't, Yes and No, there should be a fucking balance btw love and logic.

If your wife serves you a tasteless meal when you gave her enough money to prepare a tasty meal, you demand an apology from her. And if she serves you a super duper delicious meal, compliment her in same proportion. Yes, u're not bin extremed. You're principled.

Tolerance should not make you stupid.

Even the Bible demands you to be incharge of your home as a man.

Show her all the love you have for her in the bedroom wen you flipping her around like the pages of a book and making her yell "daddy you're the best I will forever be your bitch". in the bedroom that's where you offload all your love and screw your wife like it's your last day on earth.
Not in the operation of your home.

They say a man that runs his home like an organisation makes profit from it.

How many men out there gain from their marriages?
You all know the outcome of this poll.

Bottom line, no let dem see you finish. Always give your woman a thing to fear for.

Real man sighted .....on point .....am taking home some of yur lines

Your maner of aproaching the issue and decision is just perfect........yu need no advise ........i just need to employ you to dig further into her life since after marriage and you realise there more secrete to discover........no b woman? Some test need b done sef

One area that can be more challenging in plantain farming is getting market for your fruit. After you have invested material resource and human resources on that farm land, harvest time is the time to know whether you will recover your input or lose everything to buyer who will take advantage of you.

If you spend the whole year caring for your plantain plantation and forget the fact that creating your market start from the day you transplanted the suckers, then you have yourself to blame.

The implication is that your fruit will all produce good yield but you be shock to know that the only available buyer are the bolly (roosted plantain) sellers who will offer to come buy at farm gate and pay you #200 per bunch ( e shock you?)

Or bad enough, you pay labour for harvesting the fruit, pay labour to bring them out of farm and pay transport to take them to the market then you settle down to sell and the wholesalers at the market will be pricing a bunch for #300 or max #400

They will even tell you they are doing you a favour by buying it off from you. Then you tell yourself, these stuff are perishable. The more they stay, the more they lose market value which is actually true.

Sadly you eventually sell them off and return home sad.

Make no such mistakes. The benefit of involving professional in the business is to guard you through a whole planting cycle. I mean to say you need the services of professional like kenfarm who will not only sell viable suckers to you. We sell suckers to our esteem client and continue to give them follow up from pre- planting to planting to post planting.

We would give you some clues as to how to recover your investment within a period of time and we also give you clues as to how to make your plantation sustainable. Because if the plantation is not sustainable, then gaining your investment over a period of time is almost impossible.

For you to accomplish your plan and retrieve your investment, 3 key factors must be played well

1. You must plant a viable sucker

2. Your farm soil must be fertile ( we help you ascertain this )

3. The management of the plantation must be man by an experienced farmer

If any of these factors is faulty, I can assure you frustration will surely set in and you will definitely lose your investment if you do not quickly seek for intervention from experience farmers like kenfarm

Downloading info from Google can never be enough to manage farm. Watching video on you tube can never be a good way to gain skill needed to manage your plantation.

Y?
Because which ever way you manage your plantation depends on

1. The out come of your soil fertility test

2. The geographical location of your farm

3. The biological factors and environmental factors peculiar to your farm

4. The availability of labour

I can go on and on

The bottom line is that those info you get online may not be applicable to your farm due to the factors listed above. Every farm is unique.

For consultation, contact kenfarm on 08038623884

Cheers!!

When dem no go wetin dem do?

Welcome to a brand new planting season!!!!!

May it bring forth bumper harvest for us all

Beckysexy:
Now reverse is the case.

Nawa o

Mr P & Ruddy now looking up to him......lesson: never stop chasing your dreams

May the new season bring forth good fortune for us all....

is our pleasure to welcome back all cassava farmers and intended cassava farmer back to the cassava Business. Many of us cash out 2-3seasons away due to the crash in cassava cost.

But am happy the market price has increased astronomical to the extent I sold my 1acre for a price i was shocked and smiling to the Bank. Hence the need for us to go back to cassava cultivation this season. Do not be left out. Take advantage of the impending food shortage to cash out by harvest time.

We still have copies of the TME 419 cassava cultivation Consultation book for sale. Get first hand experience info in the book. You won't get any info there on google because all info are from farmers, Agronomist and plant Nutritionist.

When going back to the farm this season, it important you get as much information that you need.

Consult with us..07040302357

gasparpisciotta:
Ride on Ighalo, you are among the 5% privileged Nigerians not being traumatized by this Government.

Indeed his privileged.....I love the guy swag....

More info in our book...get a copy asap and get as much info you need to kick start yur TME farm

Jones4190:
APC = PDP, Prove ?
ANSWER
Since we know they are both parties, The 2nd "P" in PDP is a constant and so may not be included in the equation. OR we may as well say APC"P" = PD"P"
"P" = Party
Divide both sides of the equation by the constant "P".
Resulting in APC = PD
This means that if A+P+C = x, Also P+D must be equal to x
Meaning A+P+C = P+D
Using the alphabet A -Z numbers, whereby A = 1 and Z=26
Substituting letters with their corresponding numbers.
A,P,C = 1,16,3
P,D= 16,4
A+P+C = 1+16+3 = 20
P+D= 16+4 = 20
Therefore APC = PDP

I followed the solution line after line and bust into laughter at d end

After a rough day hustling, post like this is needed to put up a smile

So when a disagreement arises between individuals or a criminal act is committed by one against the other we must ensure that we see it for what it is, a criminal act, which must be punished according to law. Not an ethnic conflict.


Well said

But the Govment need to do more interns of security of life n properties

Are you aware that a pickut full if cassava now cost 250k? An acre can produce up to 2.5 pickups meaning if you have an acre of cassava now proceed to selling as an acre can give you up to 600k now

If you have stopped investing in cassava due to the fall in turn over, the value chain has improved tremendously....... This coming season should not pass you bye

Weekend greetings !!

Client Question: Why do I need to cultivate a plantain plantation?

MERITS OF PLANTAIN
Plantain is also a diuretic so is useful for kidney and bladder problems. It is taken throughout the day as a tea to help the kidneys and bladder. It is used in bed-wetting challenges. It also helps dropsy and water retention. Sometimes diuretics should be teamed with a demulcent herb to buffer the effects on the kidneys. There is no research or recommendations that taking plantain tea requires ones. Actually, plantain itself is a demulcent also.
Visit my URL to a more educating benefits of plantain(www.kenfarm.com.ng).
More reason why you should place oder for our plantain suckers today[/quote]WhatsApp contact is 08038623884

The time to do a soil test on that farmland is now. Blanket land use never give birth to high yeild. Ensure that you take decision on what fertilizer to apply which method to adopt, Qty to apply and when to apply base on the outcome of your farm soil fertility test

We do volumetric analysis of our soil test and test the major parameters

Cheers

Hybrid plantain suckers still available for delivery to your farm at low cost

A viable seed and fertle farm land managed by an experience farm manager is the key to a bountiful harvest

Cheers

Plantain flour is been discovered long ago to be the best meal for Diabetics patient. If you have aged parent, do them lot of good by buying or ordering for our treated hybrid plantain flour.

Well prepared and free of stone. If you need us to supply you then we usually will cut the bunches fresh from farm and process the plantain into flour.

It is of tremendous advantage to your health if you cultivate the habit of ordering for fresh food from farm

Cassava production is becoming a Cash crop again. It time to book for our manual and invest in cassava in the coming season

More info soon

The best time to ascertian the fertility of your farm soil is now. The BAP is to confirm that your farm soil has the nutrient peculiar to the growth of the crop of your interest.

Yes your farm soil may have been left to fallow for years but does it have the exert nutrient and properties to support the crop you intend to cultivate?

Do it differently this season and get a different positive result.

Cheers!!

The picture below showing the physiological effect of prolonged lack of rain on your plantain stand. If your plantation do not get enough water for a prolonged period of time. The following will be the effect:

1. The plantain stand will look distressed and the leaf apear yellow

2. The fruit will be very small

3. The hollow colouration of leaf reduce chlorophyll and this leads to reduced rate of photosynthesis which mean the food pathway of the crop will be compromised

4. The growth rate of the plantain in your plantation is reduced

5. Your fruit will no longer command a good market value

What you can do are:

1. Construct a mini irrigation by using the machine in the picture below if you have a source of water

2. Apply enough organic manure during the raining season to increase the organic matter of the soil

3. Practise the use of leaf or other recommended materials to cover the base of every stand of the plantain to reduce everpotranspiration

A new year season drama just kick off.....

This guy just having fun with FG.......na his family wey no go get good sleep knowing their folk dey with FG I dey pitty

Look like Bible Quotation to me

Happy new yr peeps

Are you aware that terracing is one if the solution to that farm land prone to erosion?

Are you aware that planting a viable seed is the determinant factor for your farm success?

Are you are that it is only a scientific soil test done by kenfarm can ascertain your soil fertility after putting to use for a couple of season or before purchase?

Are you aware that hybrid suckers are resilient to desease but not to wind erosion?

Are you aware that Kenfarm do not only supply you with viable seed but also give you professional guide to ensure you get it right?

Are you aware that crop production is basically classified into:
1. Land preparation
2. Cultivation of crops
3. Management of crops
4. Marketing if crop

Hence if you hire us we or purchase our viable hybrid seeds, we would be given you proper guide on all the above

Look out for our post on plantation sustainability

Season greating from all of us in kenfarm to our esteem customers. May we live to see many more xmas in good health...IJN

Are yu aware that:
1. The colour of your farm soil down the profile has implication of your farm soil fertility and yield?

2. The colour of the top soil gives you a clue as to which crop you can cultivate. Meaning that if your top soil is Heterogeneous, then it selective of the type of crop you can plant on it

3. Level of Nitrogen is the farm soil indicate the level of organic mater in your farm soil. But do not indicate the % of organic matter

4. The planting history of your farm gives you an insight into whether or not the land whort investing your million on

Do a soil test with kenfarm and the solution to all these will be revealed by our Questionnaire that we/ you fill in as you collect the farm soil for fertility testing.


The picture above is a farm soil in the SW we collected during the week and soil at the moment undergoing fertility testing
Do it right in the coming season and expect a much better different result
Cheers!!

willybaby:
Wow I just can't help smiling kenfarms may God bless you for us.. this tread is enriching like you mixed it with NKP. It's gonna be a thing of joy doing business with you next year

We appreciate you. It our own way to empower youth while making more food available....it will be our pleasure to do Biz with you.

Cheers!

As simple as this may sound, I must say when diving into any Agro Biz, it is very important to ask yaself " what is my comparative advantage" ?


If you can not find any in that Biz, pls re-evaluate the Biz to check for risk factors. If you can not handle the risk factor 90%, pls flee from the AgroBiz as disaster is eminent ahead

Your farm is not sustainable because you did not figure out your AgroBiz comparative advantage and you did not figure how to deal with all your risk factors

More detail....consult expert

Cheers!!

As simple as this may sound, I must say when diving into any Agro Biz, it is very important to ask yaself " what is my comparative advantage" ?


If you can not find any in that Biz, pls re-evaluate the Biz to check for risk factors. If you can not handle the risk factor 90%, pls flee from the AgroBiz as disaster is eminent ahead

It was hey day for all our hardworking workers today 29tg November, 2020.
We commence work at PalmTree plantation under our watch in January 2020. Hence a reward for dedication to assigned work earn our 3hardworking staff a Motor bike each.

Well done Boys......there is always reward for every hardwork with kenfarm