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I like the idea of citizen participation as brought up by you.

However do you guys plan any means of engaging those who can not come for this summit?
There are Deltans who reside outside Nigeria who will like to contribute ideas to the state development.

It will be nice if avenues can be made to engage them

Nice thread

befriend the wife of the boss. Tell the bos that you can not date him because you don't want to betray your friend which is his wife

Give the boss a runs girl

Nice thread

Where is your location

If you are in financial difficulties, you don't sell assets that are viable and helping you to stay afloat. LNG and NNPC are the cash cows today.

Dangote is simply looking for a way to have his paws on our wealth.

Op, the girl simply takes you as a friend and feel safe with you because you are married.

You need to work on your emotions.

You have advised her to date some of the other guys , but she refused, by giving her that advice, she thinks that you are not sexually attracted to her, making her to be more at home with you.

Reduce the time you spend with her, find excuse not to always be with her, so she will have spare time to develop other relationships.

Iphe56:
no I don't ( sarcasm) is why I posted one that I did myself

Google the meaning of tissue culture and correct you post by giving it the correct name.

When I saw your topic I thought someone has decided to open a tissue culture laboratory in Nigeria only to realise that you are doing something totally different

OP take your time. Do you know what is called tissue culture?

Seed tray. We had to buy some seed tray for use in the farm.
Honestly we bought more seed trays than we require now. We did not want the extra space on the equipment shipping container to be wasted so we filled it with seed trays.

We can sell some off if we get buyers or wait until next year when we will be in a position to use all of the seed trays

saliubello:
Sir, I will be offering you free consultation service on your mechanization project. This will be my personal contribution to the success of this project. You will be free to either take any of my recommendations or discard them, before you discard it anyway, compare it closely with your field situation.

You have invested heavily on equipments and personels. But I'm offering my free consultation to you because I want you to always have a second opinion to work with.

08050323434 is my mobile number.
saliubello2003@yahoo.com is my email.

TO YOUR SUCCESS AND PROFITABILITY!

Thanks for your kind and generous offer of support.

We will surely be in need of someone to consult on the many challenges and decisions we will be battling with in this project. We will contact you to haverify your perspective. Once again, thanks

Has anyone planted corn at 30,000 stands per hectare previously? and what is your experience.

I have tried it before but we had to thin in down when we could not get fertiliser to buy and apply.

Those were the days of fertiliser subsidy and fertiliser hoarding

The corner and soybean planter has a separate compartment for fertiliser, so it plants the corn and applies fertiliser simultaneously.

It plants 8 rows simultaneously.
We intend to plant the corn at a crop density of 30,000 stands per hectare. I think we should be fine with that.

On weed management of the corn farm, we intend to apply the start clean and stay clean principle, that means all weed will be killed from the plot before planting and pre-emergent herbicides will be used to prevent weed from growing after planting the corn.

Doing this will require timely and fast application of herbicides since most weed seeds germinate in a couple of days. That is where the boom sprayer and 8-row corn planter will come in handy.

In fact we can use one tractor to plant with the planter and use the other tractor to follow the planter with the boom sprayer and apply the pre-emergent herbicide in the same day of the planting.

We will try this and see how it goes.

SnowJay92:
This is what I call being serious, op where's ur location? Lemme know if would consider coming for excursion.

This farm is in Delta state close to Sapele.
We have not yet fixed the excursion fee, once excursion fee is fixed you will be contacted.

8-row corn and soybean planter

We hope to level the ploughed land with the disc Harrow. This came with tyres so it can be transported without lifting it with the tractor.

A few days ago we made a trial of running the Harrow across the weed so as to level off the weed. Thereafter we will spray contact herbicides on the weed and the burn the thrash after thee has died. This should have been an alternative to bush clearing.

At the end it was better to plough the land with the disc plough. This ensured that the weed are ploughed into the soil improving the soil organic matter content and saving on the cost of land preparation

Disc Harrow

The boom sprayer will be used for application of herbicides and pesticides.

We should be able to cover 100 acres easily with it in one day.
To ensure uniform coverage with herbicides and pesticides, we will apply chemicals in 3 runs to each place.
That means we will apply 1/3 of the required chemical concentration per pass on the sprayer over any given area and make 3 passes through each area, each pass facing different directions.

This multiple pass procedure ensures that the likelihood of missing an area is minimised during herbicides and pesticide applications.

With a boom sprayer, you can easily do multiple spray runs over the same plot, it will be to expensive and cumbersome to do multiple spraying of a plot with a manual knapsack sprayer.

40ft boom sprayer

Reversible disc Plough .
We bought 2 of these to ensure that both tractors can Plough simultaneously

I will probably say a few things about the implements since a tractor without the implement is of little use

This is the lovely MF3670.
It has a rating of 121 hp and is 4 wheel drive with lots of electronic controls.

Like I said previously, the above Ford TW10 Tractor is 170 hp, so I expect some real power from it. However it is 2 wheel drive, which might turn out to be a downside.

I have seen the front wheels go up in the air when testing one of Plough, which means that we might probably get some weights to put in the front.

At long last I have found a way of attaching the pictures easily. I found that the pictures are over 4mb in size and NL simply refuses to attach pictures that are over 4mb in size.

I now send them to myself through WhatsApp for size compression before loading on NL

More

Ford TW10 Tractor

Attaching the pictures has been difficult.
I will keep trying

Today was eventful. We tried several ways of clearing the land.

First let me share some pictures

Ajusshi:
Which part of Delta state?

Delta central

More on the farm lands

Available farmlands as far as the eyes can see and lots of rain

Tractors, they are great inventions, there is nothing like mechanised crop farming without tractors.

We got two tractors. One Ford TW-10 tractor and one MF 3670 tractor.

The Ford is old model tractor so it should be easier for the local mechanics to repair while the MF 3670 is newer model with such nice things as automatic gear system, air conditioned cabin, nice electronics controls and even a mini fridge and fm radio.

I like the MF tractor, but electronics and Nigeria technicians are parallel lines. So this is one are I think we will be needing support. How to get a reliable maintenance team for the MF3670 tractor