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Emempaul:
Sir even at 350 per 1 is costly for yam seeds. The person you bought your seeds from reaped you off. Please next time 150 or worst case 180 per seed yam is ok nothing more nothing less.

Secondly grow your own yam seeds yourself using mini sett technology. Use YouTube as your guide. You see alot of helpful videos there to guide you through so that no one reaps you off again.

Adeoye007:
please when is the best time to start seed yam production.

Farmerakinloye6:
Next...I break the yam seed, deep the seed inside insecticide then planted it yesterday. Once the yam sprout out, I will do first weeding then use the unwanted plant to do mulching.

Emempaul:
Chairman how far with your mom yam project can we see pictures of your harvest

Farmerakinloye6:
the farm is far from my vegetable farm, so I don't have time to go there because of vegetables workload. I only send my boys to do weeding there once in a month, am told yam leaves has dried all, cocoyam and cassava intercrop with is fine too. Am yet to harvest a single heap! Am doing the next in my vegetable area so I can update it regularly.

Farmerakinloye6:
Finally bought my yam seed at 17k for just fifty. Hopefully, I will plant it by Saturday.

Farmerakinloye6:
I will be doing just 200 stand. Am planting it basically because of my mother and spouse both of them love pounded yam. Am posting it so that farmer to be will know stress it entails! I don't see myself cultivating yam commercially, it is too expensive grow and little return at the end of 8-7month. I paid 5k to labourer that help me brush the forest...

Farmerakinloye6:
One of the yam that motivate me this year, out of fifteen stand I planted, three are like this. This particular one stress me I had to call other farmer to help me.

Emempaul:
Sir even at 350 per 1 is costly for yam seeds. The person you bought your seeds from reaped you off. Please next time 150 or worst case 180 per seed yam is ok nothing more nothing less.

Secondly grow your own yam seeds yourself using mini sett technology. Use YouTube as your guide. You see alot of helpful videos there to guide you through so that no one reaps you off again.

Emempaul:
No it's not fair. Normally seed yams are heaped in 100's that is 1hand= 100 pieces of small but whole yam seeds set aside for planting. At this period that is December to January it is usually cheaper to get but from February you start getting ridiculous price.

At this period whole sett seed yams should go for between 20 to 25k per hand while cut pieces go for 15 to 20k per hand. At this period whole sett seed yams are common and whether e carry multiple tubers or not. It is usually the job of the seller to separate multiple tubers

I stand by the fact that he was reaped off

Emempaul:
Ok good job. Please keep us posted with pictures of your harvest so that I can learn from my mistakes

Farmerakinloye6:
I harvest two heap to test today.

Farmerakinloye6:
The cocoyam I intercrop with it is doing fine, and it will mature by December too. If you want to see more insight check my channel tomorrow.

Munzy14:
Please give more insight on how to plant yam to get a good yield.

I Ones tried and the result was poor, and I concluded I have no business planting yam.

I will love to give it another try.

Farmerakinloye6:
important aspect of yam farming is staking, spacing, weed management and variety. That two heap I harvest, I see five Big tuber which worth 14k-16k at the moment. Any area you don't understand just quote me.

Farmerakinloye6:
important aspect of yam farming is staking, spacing, weed management and variety. That two heap I harvest, I see five Big tuber which worth 14k-16k at the moment. Any area you don't understand just quote me.

IamAsiri:
Can you see more than one tuber under one heap?

Munzy14:
Good.
For south east weather, what month is best for planting.

What is the Ideal spacing per heap?

Does it require fertilizers, and at what stage can it be applied?.

Farmerakinloye6:
I don't know about South East, here in south west we start planting by Nov-Jan. On spacing, it is 1.3m because I intercrop two crop with it. We don't apply fertilizer to yam here (Am not saying you cannot) because most times we use very fertile (virgin land) land to plant it.

Farmerakinloye6:
I don't know about South East, here in south west we start planting by Nov-Jan. On spacing, it is 1.3m because I intercrop two crop with it. We don't apply fertilizer to yam here (Am not saying you cannot) because most times we use very fertile (virgin land) land to plant it.