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Hi guys, the raining season here in north central Nigeria is about ending in the next couple of weeks and this mean 1 wil start buying water for watering the palms

The ombatse cult members ve taken over the military checkpoint at Akwanga Abuja road. No soldier insight

Am in Akwanga and the roads are totally blocked with the military checkpoint at Akwanga completely deserted by soldiers after the death of one soldier by ombatse cult members

@Felixzo1, lovely thread. For here I must follow u too. This another good area to venture into

Morning, I once read abt the effect of cultivating oil palm plantation in some asian countries in terms of deforestation of large forest areas. Here in Nigeria the worst deforestation is looting of our national treasury by those we called our elected leaders. The natural forest in Nigeria are long gone particularly in north central Nigeria where the govt is encouraging tree planting to check the advancing desert sands taking agriable land. Again, oil palm plantation has also checked erodig of the soil by erosion and further creating back the natural environment

Nice ride

@igbonia, hw ar u palms?

I got it now and let's settle for this calculation and btw d nex 3yrs some of us like okine4real wil give us first hand xperience

okine4real: I do not think your calculation is correct ohhh. But the one of 200 palm tree producing about 1200 liters is more correct and i think its also similar to mine own calculation. Remember i said it all depends on the density of the oil. You would agree with me that, if you buy palm oil in 20 liters, and if its in a liquid form that is one part, also if you take that same oil and you make it solidify, you would agree with me that, since the oil has solidify, the oil would not full to the top of the 20 liters keg anymore, at this level, the oil density is more ticker than the oil which is in a liquid form.

Let me put it this way, if mine palm oil is ticker, i would need a 30 liter gallon to fill a 20 liter gallon

But if mine oil is in liquid form, a 20 liter gallon would fill a 20 litter gallon.

This is why you would notice, if you want to cook beans and your oil is in a solid form, you just need to pour a little content of that solidified oil in the beans, and once that is done, you would notice, the oil would now melt and you would then notice that, you have lots of oil on top of the beans. meaning a lot of oil has come together to form a little oil in your sight.

But if your oil is in liquid form, you would need to pour lots of oil in the beans.

So therefore, its the density that determines the amount of liters.


Also put it this way.. if i sell oil to you, and i have mixed lots of water with mine oil, i would have more liters to sell, than someone whom is selling palm oil that is not mixed with water.


From what i know... one hectare would give you two and half tonne of palm oil and half tone of palm kernel oil. But it is the density of the oil that determines the liters or should i say its the thickness of the oil that determines how many liters one would get.

That is why companies buying diesel in large quantity check the density of diesel before they buy. If you mix diesel with kerosine, the diesel would be lighter and you have more liters of diesel. I hope am making sense.

Yes certain factors like spacing of the palms, application of fertiliers, clearing from bush fire mantainance of the palm trunk and general mantainance of the farm also affect yield. If all the necessary factors ar put in place d palms wil start yielding in d first 3yrs of planting and btw the next 10-15 yrs d palms wil be at der peak.

@okine4real, I ve done some research abt dis issue of how many litres can 1 get fro a number of palm trees. I wan to use manual method being apply in rural areas in north central nigeria where palm tend to do well. Here, dey count d number of bunches and a drum. 15 matures bunches of palm head wil giv u a drum of palm kernel which if process wil produced 20-25 litres of palm oil. Using a hybrid palm tree dat fro a palm tree 1 can harvest up to 10 to 12 heads. Put it dis way, if fro 2 palm trees we can get 30 liites of palm oil den fro a 1000 palm trees 1 can harvest abt 15000 litres of palm oil. I also got fro a reIiable source in a plantation in akure dat fro 200 palm trees dey harvest abt 1200 litres of palm oil. hope house, am correct too

There is great improvement in my palms 2weeks after applying the NPK fertilizer. The palms leaves ar darker in color

Morning pals, my palms are 5months old today in d nursery. Here in d northern part d rains ar abt ceasing within d next couples of wks. Preparation d land wil start by november to end by january and when d rains start in may, 2014 by den d palms wil be ready for planting in d farm. Pls, suggestions and advices ar welcome fro experience palm farmers

Morning palm farmers, is there any dates palm grower? Am trying to sprout abt 50 dates palm seeds. They ar mostlt grown in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and other middle east countries. In Nigeria dey do well in d northern part and ar in high demand. They grow lik palm trees and at their early stage one can hardly differiate btw dates and oil palm tree

I come to learn dat allowing the seedlings to mature enough is of great importance for d survival of d young palms and also spacing too is of palms should be taken into consideration

Hello guys, lost a friend so went off for some days but am back. @jidowu84 wen u ar ready I can teach u hw to sprout ur palm seeds

jidowu84: welldone bro, please can you teach me how to grow/nurse palm
seedlings? i really want to learn.

@okine4real, we missed u, where ve u been? Credit to u cos u started this theat. Wil comment more later.

Morning pals, on my way to a palm plantation and a resort along Jos road. This plantation is a site to bhold as it has palm trees, 10 tastely furnished rooms sparey located within d farm, a swimming pool, water bottling plant btiful road network and restaurant. I was there once for a wkend and the plantation owner taught me hoW to sprout palm seeds I.e germinating the seeds.

Wow ur palms ar nice and well nursed. Sorry for d grasscutters and I agree wit u is quite an xpensive venture. God will see us thru. Where is ur farm located?

igbonla: As meticulous as we have been, the grasscutters are not letting up; we lost about 20 seedlings due to their attacks. They were able to burrow underneath the metal jacket to eat the succulent part of the seedling. We have increased clearing and spraying/surveillance to reduce their activities.

We also started the application of fertilizer; Sadly, we bought the fertilizer in the open market at N5,000 per bag and looking at using about 500g per seedling. Pretty expensive business but you wont achieve anything if you wait on government.

@felixzol, u ar d 1 wit d plantation in northern cross river close to benus state? 08032851997 or talk2manga@yahoo.com

felixzo1: pls can I get your phone or email
.I stay in Abuja, we can meet up. i will love to visit your farm when you are planting. when next I visit My farm in Benue i will upload. pictures of My plantation and a nursery

@fhemmmy, anytime u ar ready.

I sprout the seeds, nursery them and hope to transplant them in my plantation by next year. I intend to clear and prepare the land by december

Fhemmmy: Do you have a plantation or a nurseries ? ^^^^

Pixs,prices and spec, pls

Pixs and prices pls

Working in Nursery

Pixs

anienge001: If that is you in that pix applying fertilizer, I am impressed and all I can say is 'keep it up and stay focus in whatever U do'.

I really appreciate ur comment and I won't lose focus. Am not the 1 in d pix above but see me below

Thanks for the encouragement.

felixzo1: good. well done keep it up.

Hi guys, I just finished applying the NPK to the palms. Good nite pals

Morning guys, am presently applying NPK fertilizer to my young palm at d nursery. Here are some pixs

Hello guys, am in my farm and am staying for a week to apply NPK fertilizer to d young oil palm in the nursery stage.wil upload pixs 2moro.