₦airaland Forum

So this woman is still operating.

cava:
@ pavore no whala i understand. if there is any other place i can acquire the knowlege pls do not forget to let me know on this thread.thanks

l will keep you posted.

He even has a father who gave him money for a laptop, he should step into the street and see his age mates struggling with life....l feel like giving him an e-slap!

l would prefer emphasis be on post-harvest processes as we loose so much to waste.

aristocrazzy:
Ah ah! Only naija produce 70%!
Biggest lie of the year.

lt is no lie as it more of a West African crop.

@cava, lt is the sisters farm but it is not open to public training, l will have access because am "an inside person". Aqua means water, so you MUST have a fishpond inside the greenhouse but you can always get urine from rabbit farmers around.

@cava, the details will be subject to when one gets where he/she will do the training. lt is 100% organic farming, as one formulates the fish feed by himself, the waste water is high in ammonia & only rabbit urine is used as pesticide in the farm.

@cava, with aquaponics you can grow all these "foreign veggies" in Nigeria even those purple and wine coloured grapes. Though l will be understudying the Sisters but l will try and look out for centres where one can study it.

@cava, though there maybe but l do not know of any aquaponics farm in nigeria, l live in nairobi & the aquaponic farm l intend understudying is run by some Catholic Sisters here in kenya. Kenya exports carrot to the UK after meeting UK's standards.

lf our farmers can up their game and invest in acquiring relevant knowledge (not just one day seminars but go and spend time to practically understudy in a farm just as l am planning to make out a month to go and understudy aquaponics, where l will learn how within a greenhouse measuring 24ft by 90ft rear over 10,000 catfish and growing strawberries without the use of soil but using PVC pipes and the waste water from the fish pond, the waste water is purified as it goes through the strawberry planted in the PVC pipes and goes back to the pond as clean water full of oxygen, so nothing is wasted and producing about 1000kg of Strawberry monthly. The system can used to grow so many vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower which are very expensive in Nigeria as they are also imported from South Africa).

With the appropriate knowledge and best practices applied also utilizing the power of numbers by forming co-operatives with farmers of like-minds and quality, l strongly believe big boys like Shoprite will look our way.

world1:
Am just seeing it.

Saw that way back 2009 and it is painful.

Making noises in order to be heard!

Hmm...can the watch prophesy what will happen in the next minute? Though it is her money and she has the right to spend it as she pleases but l now remember Mahatma Gandhi's quote ' Pleasure without conscience'.

mercylicious:
In Anambra here, They have a plantain market in Silas works, fegge. Only plantain is sold there. The 911 trucks and buses come from delta and edo states cos ppl in anambra dont farm plantain in commercial quantity. i tried to get the reason why but have not found any answer even from the govt agric dept. Personally, i feel its cos land is expensive here. Some sellers here go straight to farms in Edo state to buy.

Apart from the plantain market, there is also a food market- Ose.The retailers there buy from suppliers. I asked them if they have any plantain that sells faster and they said whether agric or local, onces the plantain is big and fresh, they will buy. I have made friends wit some of them already.

You can imagine that plantain consumed in Anambra state is brought in from across the Niger despite thousands of acreages lying fallow in the state. In Anambra it ain't easy getting land for farming, Enugu is a bit easier accessing land as l recall a project l was involved in the Nike area of the state, the community were so open with access to their land.

Good for them.

world1:
Boss
Must farmers are still backward in there approach to agriculture.
I believe in Agriculture + Business =Agribusiness which amount to WEALTH.

A friend was telling me that lack of appropriate knowledge is what is holding our local farmers back this was while we were discussing how Kenya is making a good fortune exporting fresh flowers to Europe. capturing 40% of the market. Certified flower farms (most of them utilize greenhouses) cut their flowers every afternoon and have it packaged, by evening it arrives the International airport then by 11p.m different airlines airlifts the flowers heading to Copenhagen (Denmark) where it should arrive in the morning for the Copenhagen flower market which is the biggest around where other European countries buy from and what pains me most is that Nigeria imports flower from Europe, the same flower which Kenya exported!

world1:
Boss merry Christmas.
The main surge is coming. Farm research says Nigerians will be planting over 5 million fresh plantain stands by 2015.

Plantain market is huge and readily available but you will enjoy it when you have large quantity and of good quality.

For example Mile 12 market in Lagos can take over 15 loads of 9/11 trucks per day the iyalaje of fruits section at the market is called Mama Ibeji (Mrs Dasofujo) she told me that they don't even get stable 1 truck per day and when they get it they aren't fresh again because 70% of it comes from Edo state area.

The challenge is that people have not really be doing plantain in commercial quantity. She said Edo State is the largest producer followed by Ondo State.
Another challenge is that small holder's farmer can't penetrate such market because of the transport expenses involved so they rather sell to the market women around them.

We now have plantain processing companies doing plantain flour and baby foods in Lagos and Ogun state. Not to mention a lot of plantain chips making ventures.
So I will say that the market is there but we as farmers need to start doing it right with advance planting techniques and innovative mentainance methodology so we can have plantain 24/7.

Merry Christmas, my brother.

Yes l agree with you as good post-harvest practices would help bring fresh produce to the market. How can just only one truck get to a big market like Mile 12 and Lagos, a city of over 20million people?

There has been a surge in plantain farming, farmers how do you sell your produce as personally am not comfortable with market women coming to the farm to buy it off at a give-away price. So share your experience or idea of a better way to sell.

She has gone to her mother's place as nwanwa to scout for votes, well there is nothing wrong with that as she is their granddaughter. The wife of a man in power is equally powerful, the question is has she used that influence for the greater good?

That is deep.

Drama unfolded at a drinking den in Kwale (Kenya) after a man alleged to have died four years ago, walked in for a drink. The incident, which brought everything to a standstill, was like a scene from a horror movie.

It is alleged Kassim Mohammed, who worked as a beautician, walked into the bar and greeted his long-term customer who upon seeing him, screamed and dashed off claiming she had seen a ghost. “Si wewe ulikufa! Kwanini unanisalimia?” (You are supposed to be dead, why are you greeting me?),” she exclaimed. “This man used to make my nails and I was told that he died. I even contributed towards his funeral. I am not sure if it is his ghost or he is real,” explained Lydia Kavata. Speaking to The Nairobian, Mohammed said his family believe he died after suffering an epileptic attack in 2010.


He said on the fateful day, a tourist picked him on the streets while unconscious and rushed him to hospital, but on the day he was to be discharged, a call from Dar es Salaam changed his life. “I suffered an epileptic attack and a tourist rushed me to hospital. My family didn’t know where I was. After being discharged from hospital, I received a call for a job offer in Dar es Salaam. I boarded a bus immediately without telling anyone,” he told The Nairobian.

That is how Mohammed left his home in 2010, only to resurface four years later. His family searched for him in all hospitals and gave up assuming he was dead. The father of two, upon returning home last month, had to undergo a cleansing ceremony to ‘ward off’ bad spirits and says most of his family members are too scared to even talk to him because they think he is a ghost. His wife, he says, relocated and settled with another man and now, he has no option but to look for another woman.

“I regret leaving my family. They are too scared of me. My wife relocated to Likoni where she got married. I feel bad but life has to move on. I am happy that another man agreed to take care of my children,” he said, adding, “Whenever I meet anyone I knew, I have to tell them I am not a ghost,” he said.

http://www.sde.co.ke/thenairobian/article/2000145814/kwale-man-alleged-to-have-died-years-ago-declares-he-is-not-a-ghost

l still do the old sms thing as it feels so personal.

lt is inspiring.

lt will be so easy to nominate those who deserve a place there.

Truckpusher:
Funny SIL and funny fine

But Kenyan men can drink for Africa. Nairobi alone has over 30,000 liquor stores and pubs!

tensazangetsu:
i wanna know are kenyan women pretty or they look like the ones i have been seeing on tv

Those skinny runners u see on TV are mostly of the Kalenjin tribe but there are many Kenyams who look Nigerian.

hahn:
You uploaded a wrong pic.

I wouldn't pay with my fart for something like that

Which wrong pic? This fine girl whey turkana men dey dream of, u no sabi good thing!

When l was engaged in rice farming, phew! it was not an easy pie.The harvesting & threshing was done manually, l tell u there was so much waste, from labourers deliberately skipping cutting d stalks to not thoroughly threshing them with their sticks!

daey118:
Okay oo...iguess you haven't really seen some ugly people..they'll make you think again ..unconsciously

Google images of d Massai people or d turkanas, no one is ugly bt beautiful in their own unique way!

daey118:
What if she's ugly

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

martynsnet:
lol at tufiakwa. cant find all those uzziza and ukazi stuffs over, I may have eaten a food containing them, but wouldn't even recognize it if i see it.

well l make sure they are sent over to me.