Greetings Nairalanders my dad is a peasant farmer his is mainly focused in producing Rice and garri, so as the topic says, I want to Japa out of this country with Agricultural money, so this year my dad just did his normal rice farm which he started from June and made a profit of 600k in the past month, but the problem is that during harvest, they usually make use of what we call circle to harvest the rice manually and this shit takes a whole lot of time and unbearable pains in the waist after that, they still separate the rice from the leaves manually by hitting it with stick and this usually take a whole lot of time with so Many labourers, and my plan is to make like 3 or 3.5 million from this rice farm and Japa with the money but this manual harvesting is tiring, we have a lot of land but with this their old method one can not succeed in farming there, I have check Google for rice harvesting machines but the price I am seeing is crazy , please farmers how do you harvest your rice faster? and the method/machine you make use of?
Note: anti Japa people avoid this thread
2: don't tell me 3million won't be enough that's not the only money at hand
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Please your contributions

that means there's no real agriculturist here oo

Llke how many acre did you plant that you planning to use machine?

Please I'm a potential player in rice milling , cassava processing, where is your town and state. I'm looking to come to see towns I could do business in

strenghtt:
Llke how many acre did you plant that you planning to use machine?

sorry sir I don't know much about acre but it's up to 80 plots of land, I am just wondering how to harvest it without using the manual method Note: I am still planning to, and that should be next year

Nigerfine3:
Please I'm a potential player in rice milling , cassava processing, where is your town and state. I'm looking to come to see towns I could do business in

I live in Bende LGA Abia state in southeast, please what kind of service do you render? do you mind if we chat on WhatsApp?

JAPAHTML:
I live in Bende LGA Abia state in southeast, please what kind of service do you render? do you mind if we chat on WhatsApp?

Wow
I want to go into processing of rice, I am looking for a town where they cultivates a lot. I do not want any town in the East ( I don't think they do a lot). Thanks.
All the best.

JAPAHTML:
Greetings Nairalanders my dad is a peasant farmer his is mainly focused in producing Rice and garri, so as the topic says, I want to Japa out of this country with Agricultural money, so this year my dad just did his normal rice farm which he started from June and made a profit of 600k in the past month, but the problem is that during harvest, they usually make use of what we call circle to harvest the rice manually and this shit takes a whole lot of time and unbearable pains in the waist after that, they still separate the rice from the leaves manually by hitting it with stick and this usually take a whole lot of time with so Many labourers, and my plan is to make like 3 or 3.5 million from this rice farm and Japa with the money but this manual harvesting is tiring, we have a lot of land but with this their old method one can not succeed in farming there, I have check Google for rice harvesting machines but the price I am seeing is crazy , please farmers how do you harvest your rice faster? and the method/machine you make use of?
Note: anti Japa people avoid this thread
2: don't tell me 3million won't be enough that's not the only money at hand
.
Please your contributions

my

I have several guys that sell agriculture machineries,you can also use Alibaba or Amazon if their are cheap machine,Also, I have fabricator that I do use.


At least, I know of winnower, sand removing machine.

Tohsynetita1:
my

I have several guys that sell agriculture machineries,you can also use Alibaba or Amazon if their are cheap machine,Also, I have fabricator that I do use.


At least, I know of winnower, sand removing machine.

Please which town and state do you farm

Nigerfine3:
Please which town and state do you farm

Ogbomoso Oyo State.

Go and get a brush cutter

Tohsynetita1:
Ogbomoso Oyo State.

Thanks. Please do they have large,( big) rice mills. Does ogbomosho really farm rice so much, or just average. Cashews and rice which is more farm in ogbomosho
Thanks

I am currently in Edda Ebonyi State.
We are massive rice cultivators.
Facing similar challenges like you mentioned.
I my own case the cost of Labor this year increased exponentially. No thanks to fuel subsidy.
For instance we used to pay 700 to cut or harvest a portion of land but this last November we paid as much as between 2000 - 2500.

Same thing with threshing or Otiti as it's locally called the price doubled to almost 2000 a bag.
All of these explains the rising cost of local rice.

But the worst part is how slowly it takes to cut a potion of the land using a sickle.
That thing is really slow. It takes an average laborer a day to cut a potion of land which is about a plot of land.

We have more than a hundred plots so imagine how many people are needed to harvest and how many days it will take.
And woe betide you if the rains should meet you before you finish harvesting.
andthink I have a solution.

Pimples:

andthink I have a solution.

Educating. This is how threads should progress. Let's say I want to come and harvest them and pay you(farm owner) per bag, will that be acceptable to you?

It only means I buy what I harvest for you as a labourer, will that be a good idea?

RepoMan007:
Educating. This is how threads should progress. Let's say I want to come and harvest them and pay you(farm owner) per bag, will that be acceptable to you?

It only means I buy what I harvest for you as a labourer, will that be a good idea?

It will not work that way.
Reason....
As a farmer I won't recover my initial capital that way.
I paid for the clearing of the land
Paid for the rice seeds ( though I retained some bags with superior seeds for planting the next year.... But it quite expensive if I were to buy it)

Paid for fertilizer

Paid for selective and non selective chemicals

Paid for transport and time spent in monitoring the farm to see how the crops are progressing and any intervention needed as well as to check for security (herdsmen or other farmers trying to encroach)

Paid teenagers and other children to stay in the farm during the day to chase away birds ( birds are the highest natural pests of rice farming as they can practically eat up the whole farm if you don't make arrangements to chase them away)

If I were to add all these and others contingencies I may ask you to pay 50k for an unprocessed bag of rice....which does not make business sense.

We do most of these without paying ourselves or use the goodwill of friends and children around to accomplish some of these tasks

I have been researching a much better way to harvest Rice and came across a special knife Called a SCYTHE attached to a stick.

I have seen several YouTube videos of how it is used in India and I strongly believe it can be replicated here.

Challenges
I don't know where to buy a SCYTHE in Nigeria. I have searched both online and Offline.

I intend looking for a blacksmith to see if he can make one for me and testing it's effectiveness

But locating a blacksmith is also proving difficult

Pimples:


It will not work that way.
...
If I were to add all these and others contingencies I may ask you to pay 50k for an unprocessed bag of rice....which does not make business sense.

We do most of these without paying ourselves or use the goodwill of friends and children around to accomplish some of these tasks

But same bag of paddy rice can go for as low as N28k-N30k elsewhere.
You probably overestimated the various inputs in a bid to protect your interest or maximize your gain. Thanks anyways.

JAPAHTML:
I live in Bende LGA Abia state in southeast, please what kind of service do you render? do you mind if we chat on WhatsApp?

I for say make i come help you during the harvesting time with my weeding machine but with level of insecurities in the country now I cannot go to anywhere differ from South West where we still have low level of insecurities for now oo

RepoMan007:
But same bag of paddy rice can go for as low as N28k-N30k elsewhere.
You probably overestimated the various inputs in a bid to protect your interest or maximize your gain. Thanks anyways.

My last paragraph shows that I am not overestimating.

A bag of paddy rice sold for 44k this week.

3 weeks ago we sold for 38k

The 28 - 30k price is last year prices

Nas1:

I for say make i come help you during the harvesting time with my weeding machine but with level of insecurities in the country now I cannot go to anywhere differ from South West where we still have low level of insecurities for now oo

Please can you post picture of your weeding machine?
Is it a lawn mower?
Will it be able to harvest rice without breaking the seeds?

Nas1:

I for say make i come help you during the harvesting time with my weeding machine but with level of insecurities in the country now I cannot go to anywhere differ from South West where we still have low level of insecurities for now oo

well your choice but my side have zero crime rate Bende LGA is one of the safest regions in Nigeria but like i said before is your choice, we have zero insecurity problem here, No single farmer/herder clash, we don't even have Fulani herdsmen roaming around, my village is safe

The price per bag is already 50k.now isn't it ? Discuss with the middle man if he accepts, that's better for you oo, I farm rice too and know the stress under neath.We all are looking for ways to run away from the stress of rice farming and you are looking harshly on the stress you adopted which are normal practices any ways. Do your calculations and tell him how much u need per bag after bagging, be fair too as u will still be needing him next year.this is how it is going round now all over the north.no body wan die young when he still has age on his side.u know farming can kill body. ABI ?

Pimples:


It will not work that way.
Reason....
As a farmer I won't recover my initial capital that way.
I paid for the clearing of the land

Paid for fertilizer

Paid for selective and non selective chemicals

Paid for transport and time spent in monitoring the farm to see how the crops are progressing and any intervention needed as well as to check for security (herdsmen or other farmers trying to encroach)

Paid teenagers and other children to stay in the farm during the day to chase away birds ( birds are the highest natural pests of rice farming as they can practically eat up the whole farm if you don't make arrangements to chase them away)

If I were to add all these and others contingencies I may ask you to pay 50k for an unprocessed bag of rice....which does not make business sense.

We do most of these without paying ourselves or use the goodwill of friends and children around to accomplish some of these tasks