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opelyem:
Registered company? That's a turn off for a struggling guy like me. I've sent u email, kindly respond.

opelyem:
Good morning sir. As much as I will love to invest in ds greenhouse, I have just ds single fear: market. If one can sell it to shoprite or other similar grocery stores, one can't get profit at all. My question is this, can we all sell to shoprite? Is shoprite market that sure for all of us?

Seun:
How do you sterilize the soil in grow bags?

victoroilpress:
screw oil press machine for sunflower,groundnut,soybean

victoroilpress:
screw oil press machine for sunflower,groundnut,soybean

oladiran2:
Happy Sunday all

Seun:
I love the way you sorted the tomatoes according to their levels of ripeness.

Codeofconduct:
no sir you still didn't get me, you only spray it before farming not after farming.

My choice of glytex is its effectiveness.

Most farmers spray it a month before planting,
I still don't know why.
I wanted planting two weeks after spraying,
but was advice by an old man to be patient.
I will experiment with a small portion of land tho.
Low land rice sir....
In yauri in kebbi for example the locals have two major sprays,
i'll be farming there from janaury next year.

I'LL open a thread for it,
and give my all on it... Is that okay

modify

there is a measuring cylinder in your sprayer container,
or in the absence of it just use an empty peak milk container.

instead of what is writen on the bottle,
fill two containers of the peakmilk can or measuring rubber with glytex,
and pour in your bag pack per spray.

Codeofconduct:
I apologise for my late response,

but I must confess I was just smiling when I was reading every ones coment;
you see I intentionally leftout some details,
someone said if you apply goat/cow/sheep dung in your rice farm you'll end up loosing every thing.
Sorry sir this is not to spite you in anyform,
but I found your input quite hilarious.

Alright back to the topic


albeit a little history before then;

I've been a follower of Ja..thro a long while back during her early days in nairaland,
and also Jas..per solo..xam pa..vor and many others on the agro section.

So trust me i know how to use rabit urine as a fertilizer my profession is an added advantage to me because I know how to stop the smell....

i've also buit both net and polyethylene green houses up north,
and I can confidently bost that the ethylene green house is better than the net house when you're farming up north.


alright in the north we use glytex companies glyphosphate
an over dose of it will make grace run from your maize/rice farm atleast for 2months.

Note I said rice/maize or grains majorly not vegetables

in your vegetables you're quite right when you said the use of chicken dung is far better yes sir it is but to the novice it might not ne depending on how he applies it tho.

I know there are alot of contentions in the science world on the use of glyphosphate,
but a tentative conclusion has not been reached since the 1950's when Mosato a chemist founded it.

But in my profession as a scientist, I do alot of what I call reverse engineering lolz.

what I mean by that is I can take a final product run an NMR e.t.c to know the active,
ingredients/functional group most often for the fun of it, on few ocasions to improve on the product.

I must confess I was quite impressed with the GNLD supergrow this was my last project tho.

I'm sorry for digressing at Op forgive me, I'm out.

fluentinfor:
I understand perfectly that you call yourself a professional agronomist, a consultant, and you are a field farmer who does not use internet for research but uses what has been passed down from his predecessors on the field. It is fine. And I am not criticising you.

My suggestion to you are:

1. You can still learn from people here. It does not take from you to listen to others opinion.

2. You should update yourself with recent techniques. The best way to do it is online. If that makes you an internet farmer, you still do not lose.

Based on advice 2 above, go and research online how to kill weed seed in manure and in soil. Also, make a deep research why well composted manure of any animal dung like cow, sheep, goat does not bring out weed later. By so doing, you will keep weed completely out of your grow bags.

Sir, it will add value to you if you can be an internet farmer like some of us for just one day. Thenafter, find a way to stop having your grow bag bring out weed. I do not think you can get such technique from the farm you are working right now because apparrently, you do not know.

I do not call myself the almighty agronomist who know all. I do not even call myself one. I am just my humble self. And if you have any advice to still give as an agronomist and consultant, I am reading to still learn because I do not think I cannot still learn from you. But I will stop making contribution to your thread since you feel it is only you who can give advice.

Stay blessed and keep up your good work in your own way.

Shalom!

fluentinfor:
Your comments here make me doubt your ability to use grow bags and mulch. I do not think the pictures of mulch and grow bags you put here are yours if you make this post.

But I am a bit confused because I saw one special picture on page one of this thread which confused me you know the details of grow bags and mulch. But with this comment, bro...I am totally confused.

FACT: I have not seen any farmer who usees mulch or grow bag and knows the tricks about them weed their farm. Except walk way weeding. If you have to weed with grow bags, it means you do not know how to use it. I am not attacking you but telling you the FACT.

oladiran2:
Referring to on open field cultivation since he was talking about rice cultivation which am also aware of and you can't use mulch on such and applying such kind of manure apart from poultry is an automatic failure to such cultivation, and even on normal large scale open field cultivation where you might spend a lot if considering mulching all your vegetable beds might be very expensive and even in green house, you can't plant indeterminate tomatoes and be thinking of mulching because you will still have to trelish by bringing the plant down so multiple roots can help sustain the continuous growth of the plant as the stems are touching the bed during the trelising. It can be possible if going into pepper production. That's why I said earlier every crops has it's own specific management practices.
quote author=fluentinfor post=62932090]Thanks for the recommendation. I will check the Minna option as i have tried the others (ibadan and abeokuta) you mentioned but I was not satisfied. One thing is they do, another is that the samples arent contaminated. Anyway, thank you. Actually, i felt you did one by yourself. But i will still check the place. Thanks!

About not using goat, sheep and cow dung. You are absolutely right about the weed issue. However, you did not take into consideration some other available options. I expect you to be using mulch in your nethouses at this stage and with your level. I did not want to mention it earlier but since you brought the issue up, I think I suggest you start using mulch. Use any kind of manure and no weed will take over.

And you may not be sure how the man uses goat manure on his farm whereby weed will not give him problems.

Ok. Is there anyone who can advise us how to use goat, cow, sheep manure effectively on open field? @CodeOfConduct, any idea?

Codeofconduct:
this year I farmed maize in taraba,
but I lost my hard earned #800,000 In my second NL account I had started a thread for the project.
Although I i wish to remain ananimous on this one, I had started updating on how it's possible to get for investors 50% ROI in 6-8months

in my years of farming I must confess its alot saffer and better to farm rice during the dry season,
it gives better ROI than all the crops I know trust me on this.

if you are one that invest in agriculture I may like to pm you,
so we can continue from there.

having said that to answer your question on op

1. Op boil hot water and soak your land always before transplanting,
this will kill all the nematods et al...
but it will also kill the soil nutrient.
if you have moringa seeds and neem seeds grind them,
and add goat dung 1wheel barrow upwards depending on how big your land is + very small quantity of ashes (goat dung is far better than sheep and cow you'll thank me later in the future) but that's if you're pro organic like myself

2. If the land needs what I like to call soil adjustment, I can make it fertile with a product I designed that can make unhabitable lands fertile.

its not yet out in the market but I've used it from 2013 to this year,
like I said I lost my farm to herds men this year.
I can prove it I still own the land in taraba,
but I'll never farm here again i'm moving back to my state we still have a very good land especially for rice farming.

sorry for the digresion and advert at op.

thanks for your time at every potential investors.

fluentinfor:
Though, I expected you to give me answers to each questions numbered and not mix all up, but it is fine.

These are the points I can get from you:

1. You do not do crop rotation as you believe it is only tomatoes and pepper only that are possible because these crops are the only ones profitsble under for covered production. (Not sure how you arrive at this).

2. One should do soil test to determine disease. (I agree with you)

3. If you detect infection, grow bags will be used. (Nice recommendation but might be there are other options).

4. You leave the greenhouse for some months without planting anything there to prevent disease accumulation in soil. (Just wondering how profitable this idea is).

Thanks for your answers. God bless you sir.
I have just one more question sir.

1. The kind of soil test you mentioned above must be for diseases. It is identification of bacteria and fungi in the soil. It involves culturing to see which organism(s) is/are present. Sir, if you have done this kind of test you have suggested, could you name laboratories or places they are done? Please sir, i want to go to the places to do. If you know, please tell me. If you do not know and you have not done it before, please kindly just say so. We want to see if we have bacteria wilt, fusarium wilt, nematode, and other pathogens up to about 30 kinds in our soil.

Do you know why I am asking? Many consultants will just say that you do soil test. But it is only NPK, PH and other minor tests that is done in 99% laboratories here in Nigeria. North, East, West and South. Everywhere. So, where exactly have you done your own tests for disease diagnosis in soil? I want to send my soil samples there.

Doctors in the house can come out here to say I am wrong if I am. When they too do not use just use any laboratory in Nigeria again as most are terrible. In fact, many of them are beggining to send samples abroad for tests cos they cannot rely on the results here. Have you been to laboratories meant for detection of pathogens in blood, fluid and semen? Then you know that samples are easily contaminated there.

I have been looking for one. Please, could you mention one place in this Nigeria that you are about 90% sure that I will get good result? I will go to the place sharp sharp, and return to give you credit that yes, your recommendation is super. Please, tell me where you are sure and not just mention some places like IITA thing. Please, kindly direct me to the exact place in any institution or place. If you do not want to write it here, i can send you email.

I believe a professional like you should know. And i will still come here to say that where you recommended is super.

Hope to read from you and get an excellent recommendation which you have used before and you know they can do it very well. Thank you in advance.

fluentinfor:
Hi bro!

Well done.

1. Please, how do you manage soil diseases?

2. Looks like it is only tomatoes you cultivate in your nethouse. Do you practise crop rotation. If yes, which crops?

3. I am just curious how you diagnosed the diseases in the soil before you transplanted those tomato plants. Suppose you have a new site, how do you know if the soil is infected with bactetia wilt, fusarium wilt, nematode, etc.? Or is it that you just transplant and hope you are successful? Just curious to know.

wengerman:
please do you construct green house for hydroponic fodder

oladiran2:
Happy new week ahead

oladiran2:
Happy weekend, still available.