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In an hectare, you should have close to 60k plants..let's say you no do am well, you get 45k plant..45000* 50=2,250,000 and you spent 400k

Standing5:
100-120 is high o. Commerce doesn't work out like that. You sell to those who resell. If they overdoing the pricing process, consider taking it to towns around you, rent huge pots, buy firewood and cook it before selling at around N100 in order to recover you capital.

Smoked maize goes for N200 per one here. It's if you price that they'll give you 3 for 500.

So, if cooking or smoking, you'll sell at N150 per cob at a minimum, and this place is even a local environment, not those big cities.

I do understand the economical aspects though, and thinking about it, I believe that's where the issue comes from.

All the women that came yesterday came from a big city, and their transportation cost (to and fro) should be at least N1,800 per person. If we factor in how much they'll get charged for load (to move from farm to express, and express to city), then the transport costs for each of them can go up to 7k or even more.

None of them bought up to 30K worth of products. In fact, one bought only 16k worth of products and she even had to borrow money to complete the payment.

The issue here is that, this small scale buyers will need to buy extremely cheap themselves, for them to break even. Imagine the woman that buys only 16K spending 7k on transportation, already, her costs already shoots up to 23k (Almost 50% up).

I think, going forward, if I want to sell from farm, then I will probably look out for those that can buy in huge quantities (as they will be able to buy at a better rate, since their transportation will be cheaper). But for now, I will be taking to the market on market days.

Peacefultosin:
You should not make loss if you sell a cob of maize for at least N50. I am not saying you should not charge higher so that you can raise your income/profit from the farm.

I think you need to check the elements of your costs and amount inccured on each to know where you need to apply cost reduction techniques.

Like someone rightly said, eliminating the activities of middlemen in transactions will give you more income and consequently higher profit but necessary value addition (with its consequences) will be taken care of by you.

Lastly, you should think of intercropping the maize with other crop(s) on the same piece of land so that the cost will be distributed on all crops planted on the land.

exactly, except your yield is low, if you have 20k plants sef you could still get close to a million...you can't make a lot of profit during rainy season but d profit is always enough..plant for a second time and you will be able to dry and make good profit then

Also, pls some of these women are expert thieves ..you have to monitor closely or have people monitoring

Ayemileto:
Smoked maize goes for N200 per one here. It's if you price that they'll give you 3 for 500.

So, if cooking or smoking, you'll sell at N150 per cob at a minimum, and this place is even a local environment, not those big cities.

I do understand the economical aspects though, and thinking about it, I believe that's where the issue comes from.

All the women that came yesterday came from a big city, and their transportation cost (to and fro) should be at least N1,800 per person. If we factor in how much they'll get charged for load (to move from farm to express, and express to city), then the transport costs for each of them can go up to 7k or even more.

None of them bought up to 30K worth of products. In fact, one bought only 16k worth of products and she even had to borrow money to complete the payment.

The issue here is that, this small scale buyers will need to buy extremely cheap themselves, for them to break even. Imagine the woman that buys only 16K spending 7k on transportation, already, her costs already shoots up to 23k (Almost 50% up).

I think, going forward, if I want to sell from farm, then I will probably look out for those that can buy in huge quantities (as they will be able to buy at a better rate, since their transportation will be cheaper). But for now, I will be taking to the market on market days.

From everything I have read here...hmmmm

Imagine the other guy acting like a consultant..lol. he has 60,000 cobs, but his team cannot tell him he should sell at min of N100.....he came here to say rubbish. Lol. And then said you were right that his team told him after he had made a mockery of himself....lol. same person wants to do abrakatabra calculation again...lol.....See...keep taking suggestions and advice from fake farmers. Real farmers have told you...Guess what? They have left. They won't say much. I only pity you. Leave these fake farmers alone and take your product to where you are told. Pray for favor....and if you don't make profit...give God the glory..bounce back to your farm.

Production amendment is too late..... you have poor germination or not...high yield ...or not ....should not be your focus now. Selling your corn is what you should focus on. Leave these paper farmers calculating rubbish.

See...just survive this. Loss or gain...just survive it. The most important thing is getting cash to return to the farm.

You can count the numbers of cobs per bag yourself...and put the bags on scale. Get your data and don't listen to any useless data coming from someone who has 60,000 cobs but doesn't know the price to sell. Lol.

My advice to you.....take retailing more seriously. If you roast one corn and sell at 3 for N500 also.....do your calculation na. Your brain should start working. How many hubs can you set up, sell roasted, and boiled corn? How many cobs can each hub sell a day? That's what your focus should be after this production.

If you can sell just 100 cobs per hub per day and you have 5 hubs, you should harvest 500 cobs per day. So. What do you need to do? You cultivate what can give you 3,500 cobs per week. And keep planting that per week. You don't need to fill your whole farm at once. You go gradually. But go learn how to do staggered production and how to tackle pests very well. There are different strategies for staggered continuous production and filling the farm at once.

If you do staggered production and retail you corn, you will never regret it. This period we are is not for selling to agents. Go read my threads, and I preach retailing. Reduce production and focus more on retailing. Spend less on the farm but make more profit retailing.

It may surprise you that a farmer who retailed his tomato on less than a plot of land made more profit than a farmer who cultivated 6 plots. Lol. You are a small-scale farmer mehn. Learn retailing. Downsize production. That guy who advised you to go all out and increase production is your enemy. Learn from the lady who bought N16k goods and spent N7k on transport. So, do you think she will embark on such without knowing she is going to be profitable? She is smart. Lol. Only you entered a business and did not know your profit or marketing strategy before starting. Lol.

After doing proper market research, you may have to cultivate 500 stands per week or even less. It may be up to 1,000 or more depending on the outcome of your research.

If you like...keep expanding your farm.. you will only make agents richer while you lament endlessly here. And you will start discouraging others from farming. There are so many losers like that around. Don't be one. Learn retailing..learn marketing... Downsize production.

Good luck!

epainos:
Good luck!

Thank you.

epainos:
From everything I have read here...hmmmm

Imagine the other guy acting like a consultant..lol. he has 60,000 cobs, but his team cannot tell him he should sell at min of N100.....he came here to say rubbish. Lol. And then said you were right that his team told him after he had made a mockery of himself....lol. same person wants to do abrakatabra calculation again...lol.....See...keep taking suggestions and advice from fake farmers. Real farmers have told you...Guess what? They have left. They won't say much. I only pity you. Leave these fake farmers alone and take your product to where you are told. Pray for favor....and if you don't make profit...give God the glory..bounce back to your farm.

Production amendment is too late..... you have poor germination or not...high yield ...or not ....should not be your focus now. Selling your corn is what you should focus on. Leave these paper farmers calculating rubbish.

See...just survive this. Loss or gain...just survive it. The most important thing is getting cash to return to the farm.

You can count the numbers of cobs per bag yourself...and put the bags on scale. Get your data and don't listen to any useless data coming from someone who has 60,000 cobs but doesn't know the price to sell. Lol.

My advice to you.....take retailing more seriously. If you roast one corn and sell at 3 for N500 also.....do your calculation na. Your brain should start working. How many hubs can you set up, sell roasted, and boiled corn? How many cobs can each hub sell a day? That's what your focus should be after this production.

If you can sell just 100 cobs per hub per day and you have 5 hubs, you should harvest 500 cobs per day. So. What do you need to do? You cultivate what can give you 3,500 cobs per week. And keep planting that per week. You don't need to fill your whole farm at once. You go gradually. But go learn how to do staggered production and how to tackle pests very well. There are different strategies for staggered continuous production and filling the farm at once.

If you do staggered production and retail you corn, you will never regret it. This period we are is not for selling to agents. Go read my threads, and I preach retailing. Reduce production and focus more on retailing. Spend less on the farm but make more profit retailing.

It may surprise you that a farmer who retailed his tomato on less than a plot of land made more profit than a farmer who cultivated 6 plots. Lol. You are a small-scale farmer mehn. Learn retailing. Downsize production. That guy who advised you to go all out and increase production is your enemy. Learn from the lady who bought N16k goods and spent N7k on transport. So, do you think she will embark on such without knowing she is going to be profitable? She is smart. Lol. Only you entered a business and did not know your profit or marketing strategy before starting. Lol.

After doing proper market research, you may have to cultivate 500 stands per week or even less. It may be up to 1,000 or more depending on the outcome of your research.

If you like...keep expanding your farm.. you will only make agents richer while you lament endlessly here. And you will start discouraging others from farming. There are so many losers like that around. Don't be one. Learn retailing..learn marketing... Downsize production.

Good luck!

Your envy of me will kill you. You eediot.


I don't have a farm, then what are these below

A fake farmer posting fake pics. imagine...he doesn't know he is to sell at N100....lol. The person he is trying to lecture sef knows his onions well. Lol. Nairaland is a mysterious land. He don carry his Chinese phone snap nearby farm to show of here. Lol..

epainos:
Fake farmer posting fake pics. imagine...he doesn't know he is to sell at N100....lol. The person he is trying to lecture sef knows his onions well. Lol. Nairaland is a mysterious land.

That I interacted with you and we had different views means pursuing me from thread to thread for months accusing me of all sorts. If I don't have a farm, how do I know the exact number of maize and number of bags that can be gotten from a farm.


My abilities and my shining glory will continue to aroused the evilness in you. You are ignored. I am doing as much as 6,000 plots. If you want videos come to WhatsApp. But to visit my farm for satanists like you, never. Your envy of me will kill you


Your evil eyes will not allow you see that I posted pictures of the same farm land at different growing stage. Oode

Ayemileto:
I'm a first time maize farmer, and my maize farm is finally ready for Harvesting. Someone brought in some market women to harvest and buy today.

The rate at which this women purchased is so ridiculous that if I continue selling like this, I won't make what I spent on the project back, not to talk of profit.

It was actually painful because I didn't discuss price with them before they started harvesting, as I assumed the person who brought them already did the discussion, only for this women to come up with a ridiculous rate after harvesting. They claim there's now excess maize in the market.

Another buyer someone called for me offer even worse prices.

It appears they have a maize seller association, where they fix their buying prices.

I'm currently considering harvesting and taking to the market myself, because I'm sure I should be able to sell at X2 of their buying prices (their buying prices is currently between 40 - 55 Naira per Maize on Average, and I think I should be able to sell at 100 - 120 Naira per Maize at the market)

I can't leave the maize to dry because of the rate of rainfall we're currently experiencing.

Any Clue from experienced farmers?

Selling at #50 is a very good price sir.if u r not making profit at that price,if means u got it all wrong from the scratch.let's say ur farm is 1hectare and u r able to deliver 10k cob(normally,hectare should have 20k above) to the market..
Plant population matters in crop farming.that's what farmers don't know.some will say he has 3 hectares of maize farm but d total population of d 3 hectares will b nothing to write home about.

Bro, tell them to go else where and see how they will begin beg you. You are novice men.
Some of those women are very wicked, wise up.

And I have a client who has 10 acres of land at Fidiwo Ogun state looking for who will lease the land 🤔

Ayemileto:
Ogun State

Since your in Ogun state... Make your way to lusada market to sell you maize yourself.
You can also transport your maize to Muwo, Lagos badagry express way to sell them yourself.
You see those middle women and men are the problem we face for the high cost of food stuff.
If you hear how much there latter resell to those women that came harvest, you will shade tears.
My mum still a bag of corn, that contain 200 pieces for 18k today.

BarrElChapo:
And I have a client who has 10 acres of land at Fidiwo Ogun state looking for who will lease the land 🤔

And I was looking for ten acres of land since. How do we link up ?

Guy, take it to the market yourself. Those women are Criminals. Here in Lagos at Alaba Rago market, bag of maize is 125k

Ayemileto:
I'm a first time maize farmer, and my maize farm is finally ready for Harvesting. Someone brought in some market women to harvest and buy today.

Any Clue from experienced farmers?

Plz dont stay at the production level again...
Its a recipe for exploitation...
Try and find a niche along the value chain...
Dat you have control over price....

Ayemileto:
I'm a first time maize farmer, and my maize farm is finally ready for Harvesting. Someone brought in some market women to harvest and buy today.

The rate at which this women purchased is so ridiculous that if I continue selling like this, I won't make what I spent on the project back, not to talk of profit.

It was actually painful because I didn't discuss price with them before they started harvesting, as I assumed the person who brought them already did the discussion, only for this women to come up with a ridiculous rate after harvesting. They claim there's now excess maize in the market.

Another buyer someone called for me offer even worse prices.

It appears they have a maize seller association, where they fix their buying prices.

I'm currently considering harvesting and taking to the market myself, because I'm sure I should be able to sell at X2 of their buying prices (their buying prices is currently between 40 - 55 Naira per Maize on Average, and I think I should be able to sell at 100 - 120 Naira per Maize at the market)

I can't leave the maize to dry because of the rate of rainfall we're currently experiencing.

Any Clue from experienced farmers?

Snap and post on your area Facebook page..thank me later

Zwooks:
And I was looking for ten acres of land since. How do we link up ?

Send me an email to eobelogu@gmail.com with your contact, I’ll call you.

Father4all:
Guy, take it to the market yourself. Those women are Criminals. Here in Lagos at Alaba Rago market, bag of maize is 125k

Bag of dried maize ? Are you for real ?

Ayemileto:
Ogun State

It is #159 o'er maize and they sell #200 or #300 depending on how big. Don't allow those women to teach lesson

BarrElChapo:
Send me an email to eobelogu@gmail.com with your contact, I’ll call you.

Okay

It's a lie, no excess maize anywhere. A cub is sold between 250 - 300 naira

epainos:
I don't know why you guys promote dried corn. The cost of production is even high. Lol. Propose drying in this rainy season? Plus...if you understand fresh corn sales, you will never dry again. It is always more profitable.

Guy here in Lagos, Alaba Rago market, dried corn na money oo

Ayemileto:
Ogun State

baba carry ur corn go market come back n thank me later

Willie2015:
Plz dont stay at the production level again...
Its a recipe for exploitation...
Try and find a niche along the value chain...
Dat you have control over price....

Please give examples of such stages? I'm interested to know

Ayemileto:
I'm a first time maize farmer, and my maize farm is finally ready for Harvesting. Someone brought in some market women to harvest and buy today.

The rate at which this women purchased is so ridiculous that if I continue selling like this, I won't make what I spent on the project back, not to talk of profit.

It was actually painful because I didn't discuss price with them before they started harvesting, as I assumed the person who brought them already did the discussion, only for this women to come up with a ridiculous rate after harvesting. They claim there's now excess maize in the market.

Another buyer someone called for me offer even worse prices.

It appears they have a maize seller association, where they fix their buying prices.

I'm currently considering harvesting and taking to the market myself, because I'm sure I should be able to sell at X2 of their buying prices (their buying prices is currently between 40 - 55 Naira per Maize on Average, and I think I should be able to sell at 100 - 120 Naira per Maize at the market)

I can't leave the maize to dry because of the rate of rainfall we're currently experiencing.

Any Clue from experienced farmers?

lol.

I experienced this back in 2014, when I invested in the planting of 2 hectares of maize and cassava. After the first two days, with how dem pack my maize despite plenty fight, I gave em the middle finger and told them not to bother coming back the third day, cos they just no gree hear word. I had to let them dry, shell, and then sell. It cost me more, cos of harvesting, transportation (this one I used my official car at the time a Renualt Logan for it, so only fuel money for like 20 back and forth trips btw the farm and silo🤣), storing in a silo, shelling,....but that was the only way i was gonna be able to break even. I never did agric after that, cos that was literally the only thing I have ever invested in, wey stress me, and on top I didn't make money. Other things wey I no need move one finger I dey make btw 50- 300% ROI back then importing and selling jewelry, shoes, clothes, car scanners (I was one of the first movers selling this, and made a lot of money)...the good ol' PDP days!!

You will likely need to sell that maize dry, if you will break even, talkless of making profit. With wet maize there is literally only one use, to be boiled/roasted and eaten, and those women will have to buy cheap so they can make profit, cos they will buy coal, wood, and do all the roasting/boiling...

Whereas with dry maize there are many uses and so more options, and with that more value.

luvlyoracle:
Snap and post on your area Facebook page..thank me later

The best advice. You'll be surprised at the outcome!
Please do this now, if possible

Treadway:
lol.

I experienced this back in 2014, when I invested in the planting of 2 hectares of maize and cassava. After the first two days, with how dem pack my maize despite plenty fight, I 5olsthem not to bother coming back the third day, cos they just mo gree hear word. I had to let them dry, shell, and then sell. It cost me more, cos of harvesting, transportation (this one I used my office car at the time a Renualt Logan for it, so only fuel money for like 2p back and forth trips btw the farm and silo), storing in a silo, shelling,....but that was the only way it was gonna be able to break even. I never did agric after that, cos that was lite9 the only thing I ha e ever invested in,wey stress me, and on top I didn't make money. Other things wey I no need move one finger I dey make btw 50- 300% ROI back then importing and selling jewelry, shoes, clothes, car scanners (I was one of the first movers selling this, and made a lot of money).

You will likely need to sell that maize dry, if you will break even, talkless of making profit. With wet maize there is literally only one use, to be boiled/roasted and eaten, and those women will ha e 5o buy cheap so they can make profit, cos they will buy coal, wood, and do all the roasting/boiling...

Whereas with dry maize there are many uses and so more options, and with that more value.

Hello, can I send you a PM
I would love to hear your story on importing.

Please check your Email. Thanks

Foodqueen:
Sell them yourself, either roast or cooked.

Or look for all those mkt where they have market days and take them to.

Yesterday was Sabo mkt in ikorodu.

You base at ikd?

They buy at a ridiculously low price from farmers and sell at a ridiculously high price to the consumers.. I've said it times without numbers that Nigerians are terrible and wicked people. No pity. No empathy. You'll then see them in church on Sundays shouting Hallelujah and also on Fridays shouting Al awkbar. Very disgusting people

Standing5:
100-120 is high o. Commerce doesn't work out like that. You sell to those who resell. If they overdoing the pricing process, consider taking it to towns around you, rent huge pots, buy firewood and cook it before selling at around N100 in order to recover you capital.

... Una go just dey out mouth for matter wey una no know, instead of una to read and learn.

Cooked corn price starts from #150-#200. Roasted corn na from #200 upward