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That should be African South China Sea.

egopersonified:
The first time, a stem with about 10 leaves grew, and stopped growing till now, someone said there was too much cement in the sand around the area I planted it resulting in its stunted growth. The second
time one of the seeds grew very big and just started to wither, my neighbour said it was because I wasn't pruning it.



No oh, I thought the offering would be after I start harvesting

"too much cement in the sand" . can you describe the nature of the soil you are planting in?

Why isn't Dino names listed as a prominent alumni ?

mmb:
Atleast Dickson get sense pass GEJ.

wicked

Nigerian security! If that boy was sent to do something stupid, that's how he would have pass through.

But they blocked major roads in Benin, old women were tracking kilometers.

thesicilian:
Imagine if that was the picture of Mohammed. The whole country would have been boiling by now.

This sleepers is must likely made by a Christian.

Is this right?

people's offerings

Only one somebory!!!!

kkkp:
its completely false.. he used DAT story to get visa and all that.. I have facts

Very true.

copy Lalasticala

In March 2016, the DG of The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) predicted that most parts of the country will experience less than normal, delayed and early cessation of rainfall than previous years across most parts of the country. He said this while presenting the Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP). According to him “This is attributed to the effect of the El Nino that has persisted since 2015".
https://dailytimes.ng/news/nimet-predicts-late-set-rain-2016-nigeria/amp/

Why did NIMET have to wait till March to warn farmers about the late onset of rain? The El Nino that caused it started around October 2015. And after an El nino, there is usually delayed and less amount of rainfall. The FAO and other countries warned about it as early as October 2015 when it started. https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/winter-2015-2016-what-to-expect

Had NIMET warned early and the ministry of agriculture (both states and Federal level) educated farmers on water conservation measures so that the the lesser rain would be effectively utilized, the food shortage during 2016 would have been mitigated.

Also after an El NiNo, there would be a La Nina. "Our analysis above suggests an 89 percent likelihood of a La Nina event occurring an average of twelve months after the end of an El Nino, but may also develop as soon as three months afterwards," Societe Generale (SocGen) said in a recent note. www.cnbc.com/2016/01/14/la-nina-could-happen-3-months-after-el-nino-ends-socgen.html

La Nina effects are opposites to that of El nino. Which means that rain would start early this year( it has already started) and there would be much rain this year. I knew about this August 2016 through a FAO publication.


In a country were things work, NIMET would have informed farmers that the raining season would start very early, long ago so they can plan to plant early. Also the ministry of agriculture would make provisions to assist farmers plant early.

I hope it wouldn't be like last year where the NIMET seasonal rainfall prediction was made available to download from its website in July.

How easy is it to be a prophet,

If you predict sorry prophesy and it happened, you would take the glory.


If you predict sorry prophesy and it didn't come to pass you would also take the glory. After all your prayer made the prophesy not to come to pass.
Head or tail you win.

It was in fact a fighter jet. the pilot dropped 100 missiles on the the building.

FFK took the picture of the plane. But he is still researching if he took the picture in his dream or in real life.

okay

I commend Buhari for giving Osibanjo freehand while he is away. No cabal is hijacking power from Osibanjo and people are following his orders without fear that they would be upturned when Buhari returns. Unlike what happened to Jonathan.

I wish Buhari quick recovery, when he comes back, he should delegate more responsibility to his VP.

Lalasticala please move this to frontpage

Vantayo:
Nice ...very true

Thanks

kal25:
Very Educative.

Thanks

too bad

A woman who paid an assassin to murder her has sued the killer for failing to deliver as agreed.

The Brazilian woman whose name was withheld was reported to be suffering from chronic anxiety-depressive disorder.

The Brazilian woman who sued the killer for ‘breaching consumer rights ‘ had already equally tried but failed to kill herself several times, according to reports, before engaging the services of the killer.

The woman told a court in Taguatinga, near Brazil’s capital Brasilia, that the hired killer had breached her ‘consumer rights’ and therefore, she is demanding for her money back.

According to the court, the woman paid the killer some money upfront and promised the killer to take her car as part of the payment arrangement when the job is done but that the killer varnished without “delivering the service,”
court papers reaveled.

However, making his judgment on the case, the judge said the agreement lacks legal backing since it was not signed at a public notary office.
And he said document they signed in which ownership of the woman’s car was passed to the alleged assassin wasn’t proof that he had received the vehicle as payment for killing her.
He therefore dismissed the case saying, even if the agreement was entered through the legal process, it would still had been regarded illegal because the act under negotiation was in itself, illegal.

www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/woman-sues-assassin-failing-murder-receiving-part-payment/

He said he saw the Senate president entering the house. This means President Buhari isn't in a hospital.

Berbierklaus:
Says who,his wife is definitely in support of it all.

Remember how he stripped himself and said this is all he's got left?
He probably has been struggling to make ends meet and need money for his family.
But I know that whether he wins or not,his life will never remain the same.


Lovely family

What if he didn't win would his wife still be in support?

Kingsley1000:
they are pathogens and considerable number of them are harmless thats why u rarely fall sick consuming them,they (the beneficial pathogens )help in general body metabolism,help in digestion and building immune system,in contrast,there are harmful ones that cause typhoid fever ,thats why it's advocated to boil water before use

Only the microorganisms that cause diseases are called pathogens

A farm is a profit maximization unit. The goal of most farmers is to get the highest possible output at the lowest possible cost. To achieve this goal, the farmer must make the economic decision of what to produce, how much of the product to produce and what amount of resource/resource combination should be allocated.

Agricultural Economics is the application of techniques and principles of economics to solve agricultural problems. Below are the five Agricultural economic principles every farmer must know.
1. How Much Input to use (Input Output Relationship)
When planning a farm operation, the farmer needs to decide the quantity of inputs to use. He has to decide how much feed to feed his chicken, how much seed to sow per acre, and how much fertilizer to apply per acre. He needs some rule to decide how much input would be economically optimal. The rule of deciding on this optimal level is based on marginal returns and marginal cost.

The law of diminishing marginal return states that as units of variable input are added to units of one or two fixed inputs, after a point, each incremental input produces less and less additional output.

For example, if incremental of nitrogen fertilizer were applied to maize, after a point, each incremental units of nitrogen would produce less and less additional maize. Were it not for this law, a single farmer would produce all the maize required in the world, merely by acquiring all of the available Nitrogen fertilizer and apply it to his farm.

Most farmers makes the mistake of sowing too much seeds in their plot of land, rearing large numbers of chicken in a small space and stocking large number of fingerlings in a small fish pond. They do this thinking it would increase their profit. But the opposite is usually the case. As a rule of thumb, increase the use of an input if the value added by the use of that input is larger than the additional cost.

2. How to Combine Inputs (Input Input Relationship)
Usually more than one input X is needed to produce a product Y. Also one input X1 can often replace another input X2. For instance, in beef production silage or grain can be used as feed, while in poultry maize or guinea corn can be used as feed.

I once told a poultry farmer to replace some amount of maize with brewery spent grain during feed formulation when he complained of the high cost of maize. He refused saying his “doctor” asked him to stick to a feed formula.

A farmer should know that a given a given amount of product Y can be produce with different combination of input say X1 and X2. Also, a farmer should strive to find out which combination of input X1 and X2 will minimize the cost of producing a given amount of Y.

As a general rule, substitute one input for another if the cost of the substituting one input for another if the cost of the substituted inputs is less than the cost of the input that has been replaced and the productivity level stays the same.

3. How to Combine Enterprise or Products (The Output Output Relationship)
A farmer has to decide upon a possible combination of products. There may be many alternatives: Milk, beef, eggs, poultry, fish, cereals and legumes. In deciding upon the combination of products, the first task is to determine the physical relationship between the enterprises. There are mainly three relationships: complementary, supplementary and competitive.

By complementary, I mean that given limited resources, the production of one product increases production of another product without extra resources. Examples include milk and beef (calves)

Supplementary relationship means that one product Y1, does not in any way affect production of another product Y2. Examples include Bee (Honey) production and forestry.

Finally, competitive relationship means that given limited resources, the products compete with each other and the production of one will decrease production of the other e.g. similar cropping plants such as maize and gunea corn.

Given the physical relationship between various products, how can a farmer decide upon the combination of two products so that profit would be maximized? As a general rule, substitute one product for another if the value of the product is larger than the value of the product that has been replaced and that the total cost remains the same.

4. Inelastic Demand for Farm Products.
The consumers of farm products are humans with a basic but LIMITED need for farm products, the result is the well-known relative price inelastic aggregate demands for farm products.

As income increases, the demand for agricultural products will increase in lesser proportion when compared with industrial goods.

For example, Mr. Adams becomes a billionaire, he can increase his number of shirts from five to fifty, the number of his cars from one to ten , but he would hardly increase the plate of rice he consumes from one to two.

5. Agricultural Prices and Production Usually Moves in Opposite Direction.
Farmers usually complain that prices are high at the time they have nothing to sell and prices are low at the time of harvest. When the aggregate supply of agricultural commodities is high the prices would be low and when the aggregate supply is low the price would be high.

For this reason the US government spend billions of dollars to pay farmers to plant lesser fields and buy up surplus farm products. As unbelievable as this seems, it is a strategy of controlling supply of agricultural products so that farmers can sell at fair prices.

Here in Nigeria, we have National reserves that ought to buy up surplus farm products when the supply is high and release them when the supply is low (which is the present case). But recently the Federal Ministry of Agriculture said that out of the over a million tonnes capacity, Nigeria only store 8000 tonnes during the time of surplus.

A corollary of this principle is that a farmer’s income increases when success is achieved at growing a crop in which other farmers have widespread failures.

Agricultural Economics is a very broad field, but these are the basic principles every farmer must know.

Written by Phyllosilicate

copy: Seun and Lalasticala

Erukulele:
If this is what you refer to as secondary plantlets we have it. Though plantlets are not classified, there are various ways of producing it with varying sizes.

I understand you. I was only wandering why you harvested those huge plantlets (primary plantlets) instead of scarifying them so that each one would produce 10 primarily suckers. In that way you could get as much as 50 to 200 plantlets per corm.

That's the way I do mine.


Like you said there are many ways of producing it depending on production objectives.

you are doing a great job.

Erukulele:
Healthy and beautiful

Nice one. Why don't you try to get secondary plantlets?

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. Mathew 10: 34

They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13

Bros just goan find how you go take hussle 150k for that young guy law school o, no take you greed spoil him blues