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idealtailor:
I want to go into farming. I'm based in Ibadan. I would like to connect with you for learning process.

where In ibadan are you

betabread:
Dats 1 of the few things i have not figured out a way to fabricate as i have not seen it.........

If anybody knows how i can get it in ibadan or lagos, pls link me or direct me........

I have asked a lot of sellers and they look at me with queer eyes

Op sorry for derailing ur thread

What you want to hear from me
It is around $150 to $300 and can be higher. Then, it is huge. Sellers don't attempt to import them cos they will sell at $400 minimum and then add the cost of shipping, which is huge. 2 inches is not huge, and you will think that 3 inches will be fairly bigger... but nope. It is extremely huge and thick. To make you understand it better, when I was cultivating new 1 ha cucumbers and tomatoes of every month, I had 3 inches surface pump per ha. I did not use 3 inches filter with the 3 inches surface pump if that is what you want to try to do (I strongly believe this is what you want to do). I used 2 inches, which is available. I use a reducer at the input and then expand it again at the output. It worked well. However, I created a by pass so that when the first 5 mins that I know sand may be innthe water is over, and the flow bypasses the filter. And the setup worked excellently well. So, it also depends on how clean your water is.

No seller will import a 3-inch filter. Lol. Of course, they will look at you like you are silly. Lol. But if you make pre-order (pay before import), they will gladly do it for you; however, they will knock you out. You can try it. Be ready to pay $200 to $500 at N1500 and then a huge cost of shipping. If you decide to use sea, it will be cheaper, but using air....you will know what's up.

With my exposure and experience, here is what you need to hear
You are gradually falling into the trap of spending more than your profit because you are expanding your land area. You are purely working for retailers and agents. Lol. You want to make more money because what you are earning is not satisfactory. Lol. And it is the reason your brain is looking into more sophisticated equipment. Lol. But in reality, you are a small-scale farmer.

Check
When the ONLY option is available, is to buy more sophiscated equipment to increase profits, and you know it is not easily possible because of your income....then, you are using a wrong strategy. Move away from expanding in that area, and move a bit higher or lower in the value chain line.

Can you see that everything I said is happening to you? Lol. It is your call, bro. You either find new funds to get more sophisticated equipment to keep up with cultivating more land area, or you move up or down the value chain.

And the funny thing is that I give you only 1 year, you will pollute the new land area..lol. chemicals and fertilizers...boom. yield will not be like your first attempt. You will start thinking of expanding again. Lol. Let me get more land so that I can rest some of them. Lol.

That's the cycle of unprofitable farming.

If you are really ready to learn and you learn composting, carbon cycle, microbes, and you understand how to regenerate your land without using fertilzers, you will do wonderfully well. You will be amazed by your yield. And you will need less land area to make that profit you are targeting.

Guy! Na your farm...keep expanding...keep buying more sophicsted stuff...or keep fabricating. What I know is that it is counterproductive.

What makes a farmer who cultivates new 1 ha every month to downsize must be interesting. When you discover the truth, it shall set you free. But when you program your mind to do what you have set up to do, you will struggle for a long time.

If you know of 15 plots to 100 plots in a town near Lagos where people are already living, I am interested. The last one I saw told me to pay 1 million per plot for 11 plots. After asking my lawyer, the real value of the area is far less...so I didn't even bother to talk to the owner again... lol. I am presently in touch with someone else and this place is even in a more civilised place than that of 1million...looking at 700k to 800k per plot... Still I am keeping my options open. What I know now is why I don't mind buying 15 plots, fence the land, build a bungalow there, and create a sustainable garden. If I cultivate 1 acre tomato there, it will be massive... I mean massive harvest. And I will not touch any chemical or salty fertilizer. Never again. Then, listen, I will retail everything. Yes. I will. That's the way to make it big. Let me open your eyes.

If I cultivate 10,000 tomatoes... I will harvest 2kg from each plant consistently every month for a minimum of 7 months while other farmers harvest for 2 mths max...and boom... they are cultivating more land areas. That is 5 tons per week. If I give agents, I will make around N6m sales after removing agents' commission. But if I retail the tomatoes, I'm making 10 million to N12.5million per week. Lol. And it will be on less than 3 plots of land. Lol. For you and other farmers, you may need 10 acres to achieve this. Lol.

Of course, I don't expect to hit this straight up. Why? I need to train my workers, and I know they aren't stable. Though I have the potential to make such, I won't start like that. Not because of me, but I am dealing with unpredictable humans.

When you know the truth, it shall set you free.

epainos:
What you want to hear from me
It is around $150 to $300 and can be higher. Then, it is huge. Sellers don't attempt to import them cos they will sell at $400 minimum and then add the cost of shipping, which is huge. 2 inches is not huge, and you will think that 3 inches will be fairly bigger... but nope. It is extremely huge and thick. To make you understand it better, when I was cultivating new 1 ha cucumbers and tomatoes of every month, I had 3 inches surface pump per ha. I did not use 3 inches filter with the 3 inches surface pump if that is what you want to try to do (I strongly believe this is what you want to do). I used 2 inches, which is available. I use a reducer at the input and then expand it again at the output. It worked well. However, I created a by pass so that when the first 5 mins that I know sand may be innthe water is over, and the flow bypasses the filter. And the setup worked excellently well. So, it also depends on how clean your water is.

No seller will import a 3-inch filter. Lol. Of course, they will look at you like you are silly. Lol. But if you make pre-order (pay before import), they will gladly do it for you; however, they will knock you out. You can try it. Be ready to pay $200 to $500 at N1500 and then a huge cost of shipping. If you decide to use sea, it will be cheaper, but using air....you will know what's up.

With my exposure and experience, here is what you need to hear
You are gradually falling into the trap of spending more than your profit because you are expanding your land area. You are purely working for retailers and agents. Lol. You want to make more money because what you are earning is not satisfactory. Lol. And it is the reason your brain is looking into more sophisticated equipment. Lol. But in reality, you are a small-scale farmer.

Check
When the ONLY option is available, is to buy more sophiscated equipment to increase profits, and you know it is not easily possible because of your income....then, you are using a wrong strategy. Move away from expanding in that area, and move a bit higher or lower in the value chain line.

Can you see that everything I said is happening to you? Lol. It is your call, bro. You either find new funds to get more sophisticated equipment to keep up with cultivating more land area, or you move up or down the value chain.

And the funny thing is that I give you only 1 year, you will pollute the new land area..lol. chemicals and fertilizers...boom. yield will not be like your first attempt. You will start thinking of expanding again. Lol. Let me get more land so that I can rest some of them. Lol.

That's the cycle of unprofitable farming.

If you are really ready to learn and you learn composting, carbon cycle, microbes, and you understand how to regenerate your land without using fertilzers, you will do wonderfully well. You will be amazed by your yield. And you will need less land area to make that profit you are targeting.

Guy! Na your farm...keep expanding...keep buying more sophicsted stuff...or keep fabricating. What I know is that it is counterproductive.

What makes a farmer who cultivates new 1 ha every month to downsize must be interesting. When you discover the truth, it shall set you free. But when you program your mind to do what you have set up to do, you will struggle for a long time.

If you know of 15 plots to 100 plots in a town near Lagos where people are already living, I am interested. The last one I saw told me to pay 1 million per plot for 11 plots. After asking my lawyer, the real value of the area is far less...so I didn't even bother to talk to the owner again... lol. I am presently in touch with someone else and this place is even in a more civilised place than that of 1million...looking at 700k to 800k per plot... Still I am keeping my options open. What I know now is why I don't mind buying 15 plots, fence the land, build a bungalow there, and create a sustainable garden. If I cultivate 1 acre tomato there, it will be massive... I mean massive harvest. And I will not touch any chemical or salty fertilizer. Never again. Then, listen, I will retail everything. Yes. I will. That's the way to make it big. Let me open your eyes.

If I cultivate 10,000 tomatoes... I will harvest 2kg from each plant consistently every month for a minimum of 7 months while other farmers harvest for 2 mths max...and boom... they are cultivating more land areas. That is 5 tons per week. If I give agents, I will make around N6m sales after removing agents' commission. But if I retail the tomatoes, I'm making 10 million to N12.5million per week. Lol. And it will be on less than 3 plots of land. Lol. For you and other farmers, you may need 10 acres to achieve this. Lol.

Of course, I don't expect to hit this straight up. Why? I need to train my workers, and I know they aren't stable. Though I have the potential to make such, I won't start like that. Not because of me, but I am dealing with unpredictable humans.

When you know the truth, it shall set you free.

I suspect u too like me grew up in the city very far away from an egalitarian lifestyle then decided to go into crops, thats why the bulk of what u listed as problems are really not problems to people in rural communities.

I imagine that your wish comes true and you get this land close to the city, I can bet u that you might make your sales but U wont pocket a kobo from your revenue, REASON being the fundamental nature of humans..........Some things are not really easy to explain with words.....Thats why most farms are secluded very far from human residence...... "i know u wont agree"

About dat filter i wanted to know whats inside, if its like a special pipe, i will buyd d pipe and fabricate d filter

betabread:
I suspect u too like me grew up in the city very far away from an egalitarian lifestyle then decided to go into crops, thats why the bulk of what u listed as problems are really not problems to people in rural communities.

I imagine that your wish comes true and you get this land close to the city, I can bet u that you might make your sales but U wont pocket a kobo from your revenue, REASON being the fundamental nature of humans..........Some things are not really easy to explain with words.....Thats why most farms are secluded very far from human residence...... "i know u wont agree"

Lol!

Oga, did you read where I wrote I used to cultivate 1ha every month? I used to be a bulk seller. If you know your business, you can do it. I maximized land then, too. You expand without maximising yours first becauase land is not scarce for you. And listen, I wouldn't have changed. Do you want to know why I changed? I was stubborn like you. I didn't want to listen to this retailing idea until I met someone. That person changed me. Have you read my health and wealth threads? Do you want to know how I got involved? I overworked myself doing farm work..always thinking...and my health suffered. So, I had to relax. I was forced to. And then, I had to earn money na. So, that's why I looked into other ways of making money from home. What do you want to say about working from home? And guess what? I learned Python and then data analysis. Then, I returned to my guy who had been telling me about retailing. I put everything together....saw the data...and I said wow! Wow!! Wow!!! I was still benched ... My doctor told me I needed more rest, but I could do gardening. That was how I started practising. My old act was to go for mono or ploy crop farming. Now, I am going into multi-crops gardening. I met sustainable experts, and I even travelled outside..boom...improved my skilled on microbes. I have my lab ...oga. Microscope and other equipment for analysing soil. I went for courses.

And I have practised it. I have trained 2 people who are making huge profit from just a plot of land (my niece who used it to raise cash to study in the UK....lol...she has an allotments in Herdforshire presently, and I visited her recently. Wetin this one dey talk?....And then a friend who has done me good in the past to make money) I am not willing to train anyone into profit making...but for health...yes. Wetin you dey talk? Trash! Trash!! Trash!!!

So, do what you wanna do. You have been in the business struggling for years like your predecessors, and you don't think a change might make a difference. Lol. Oh! According to you, the problems people who grew up in on farms face is different from problems those who grew up in cities face are different when they both farm in the same settings...lol. Listen to yourself, na.

You can not explain things because you have no data to analyse it. Period. Data analysis makes difficult things simple. Never could I have imagined that there would be self driving cars. What? But when they brought out vector analysis, optic, and data analysis, it became a reality. Wow! Wow!! Wow!!!

Keep living in the same old way, and keep saying trash.

About dat filter i wanted to know whats inside, if its like a special pipe, i will buyd d pipe and fabricate d filter

Good luck with this.

Farmers always want to talk down people with new ideas because they think their own way is the ONLY way out. Can you see how I was initially talked down as if I don't know what I am saying? Had it been that I didn't push it further, they would have successfully shut me up. Just imagine that the other one who said 40 naira per cob maize is a good deal and that the OP is greedy. And he said he is a farmer oooo. Lol. I had to ask him if he had taken his medication that day. Lol... If he truly has a farm he visits occasionally, he goes to just play around. He is useless. How can you say you are a farmer and not know that N40 per cob is a bad deal. Even people who don't know about farming came later to even tell me that using N120 is an insult when a cob is sold N500 in many places. Lol. If you listen to farmers, you are a dead meat. Lol. Nigerian farmers are the worst marketers. Farmers are the worst entrepreneurs. They are tools to make other people rich. And they glorify themselves in their madness, stupidity, foolishness, and poverty. They even celebrate it. Lol.

epainos:
If you know of 15 plots to 100 plots in a town near Lagos where people are already living, I am interested.

right now in talks for 5 acres near ijebu ode precisely in ijebu Imosan still early days bargain wise with a 700k plot price good road acess as we were told waiting for some video call with our contact.
not far from lagos as we were told. thought to mention that

epainos:
Lol!

Oga, did you read where I wrote I used to cultivate 1ha every month? I used to be a bulk seller. If you know your business, you can do it. I maximized land then, too. You expand without maximising yours first becauase land is not scarce for you. And listen, I wouldn't have changed. Do you want to know why I changed? I was stubborn like you. I didn't want to listen to this retailing idea until I met someone. That person changed me. Have you read my health and wealth threads? Do you want to know how I got involved? I overworked myself doing farm work..always thinking...and my health suffered. So, I had to relax. I was forced to. And then, I had to earn money na. So, that's why I looked into other ways of making money from home. What do you want to say about working from home? And guess what? I learned Python and then data analysis. Then, I returned to my guy who had been telling me about retailing. I put everything together....saw the data...and I said wow! Wow!! Wow!!! I was still benched ... My doctor told me I needed more rest, but I could do gardening. That was how I started practising. My old act was to go for mono or ploy crop farming. Now, I am going into multi-crops gardening. I met sustainable experts, and I even travelled outside..boom...improved my skilled on microbes. I have my lab ...oga. Microscope and other equipment for analysing soil. I went for courses.

And I have practised it. I have trained 2 people who are making huge profit from just a plot of land (my niece who used it to raise cash to study in the UK....lol...she has an allotments in Herdforshire presently, and I visited her recently. Wetin this one dey talk?....And then a friend who has done me good in the past to make money) I am not willing to train anyone into profit making...but for health...yes. Wetin you dey talk? Trash! Trash!! Trash!!!

So, do what you wanna do. You have been in the business struggling for years like your predecessors, and you don't think a change might make a difference. Lol. Oh! According to you, the problems people who grew up in on farms face is different from problems those who grew up in cities face are different when they both farm in the same settings...lol. Listen to yourself, na.

You can not explain things because you have no data to analyse it. Period. Data analysis makes difficult things simple. Never could I have imagined that there would be self driving cars. What? But when they brought out vector analysis, optic, and data analysis, it became a reality. Wow! Wow!! Wow!!!

Keep living in the same old way, and keep saying trash.


Good luck with this.

Farmers always want to talk down people with new ideas because they think their own way is the ONLY way out. Can you see how I was initially talked down as if I don't know what I am saying? Had it been that I didn't push it further, they would have successfully shut me up. Just imagine that the other one who said 40 naira per cob maize is a good deal and that the OP is greedy. And he said he is a farmer oooo. Lol. I had to ask him if he had taken his medication that day. Lol... If he truly has a farm he visits occasionally, he goes to just play around. He is useless. How can you say you are a farmer and not know that N40 per cob is a bad deal. Even people who don't know about farming came later to even tell me that using N120 is an insult when a cob is sold N500 in many places. Lol. If you listen to farmers, you are a dead meat. Lol. Nigerian farmers are the worst marketers. Farmers are the worst entrepreneurs. They are tools to make other people rich. And they glorify themselves in their madness, stupidity, foolishness, and poverty. They even celebrate it. Lol.

Sorry about your health problems. May God heal you fast so u can continue what u love doing

Let me interject this
If i were you and will go back to farming

Dat cash u want to use to buy 15plot in an open up area save it and buy yourself a dyna truck, then enter d bush to cultivate, harvest time truck ur produce by yourself to market.... it will pay u more (this is 4 vegetables)

For tree crops, u can buy d land but 700k 4 agricultural land 1axre in ogun state is a big scam , l will advice u never to buy, dont even buy lands that u have big suspicion will develop, except u r an indigene of dat area........There is omo-onile wahala @ every price point in the development of an area

Ogami I go still tell u calm down, d most important thong in agricultural enterprise is cheap lands

idealtailor:
I want to go into farming. I'm based in Ibadan. I would like to connect with you for learning process.

email me
olyfeso5891@yahoo.com

Zwooks:
I planted my three farms differently. I planted the first without riges the cobs were small, the second that was planted on ridges just started to fruit, I will update you on the size of its cobs in due time


Do you have buyers for your dried maize now ?

Please, don't forget to update me.


I've re cleared the farm and will likely start making ridges next week. I will like to know how the ones you planted on ridges fared, so I can decide if I should use same seed, or try something else.

Ayemileto:
Please, don't forget to update me.


I've re cleared the farm and will likely start making ridges next week. I will like to know how the ones you planted on ridges fared, so I can decide if I should use same seed, or try something else.

Ah. I did deep research oh. I found out a lot of things I didn't earlier. Contact me privately I don't want the information in public


My maize on ridges did fantastically great

Zwooks:
Ah. I did deep research oh. I found out a lot of things I didn't earlier. Contact me privately I don't want the information in public


My maize on ridges did fantastically great

I just sent you a mail.

Zwooks:
Ah. I did deep research oh. I found out a lot of things I didn't earlier. Contact me privately I don't want the information in public


My maize on ridges did fantastically great

You are making a big mistake by going private, how do you vet the info you have gotten

Just because of u got a little bashing, u suddenly decide to go private

Every season is an opportunity to move up the learning curve

Its better u are laughed at online but correct ur mistake real life

Please keep this maize thread alive

The poor rains in july this year has deleted a lot of maize farms making their yield poor, maize sellers are already gearing up for high maize prices next year

betabread:
You are making a big mistake by going private, how do you vet the info you have gotten

Just because of u got a little bashing, u suddenly decide to go private

Every season is an opportunity to move up the learning curve

Its better u are laughed at online but correct ur mistake real life

Please keep this maize thread alive

The issue is he validated a wrong herbicide mix, and rather than admit his mistake, he in typical Nigerian fashion, was trying to bluff and insult his way out of it.

Kehfie:

Madam kehfie, e shoke u?

BTW, I admire the enterprising works that you and your fellow genders-
madam maureensylvia,
madam rainmoreDfarms ( not rainingMore at the moment o)
madam Maryam
madam asiri and every other enterprising female, are doing on this forum. God bless the work on una hands 🙏.

You can all see that the fellow with that Z username has run out of money to buy his daily fentanyl fix. He is too small for me to reply.

stagger:
You can all see that the fellow with that Z username has run out of money to buy his daily fentanyl fix. He is too small for me to reply.

I am too small for you because of what you rabid Infested dog. Come for me directly and I'll settle your madness ediot. Forming woke and would never ever respond when contributions are made, but when crumbs are thrown out for ideas you crawl out of your hiding place out of your extreme hunger


Come and show me how you are more than me animal. In the rest of your miserable existence, never ever quote or address me directly or indirectly Nuisance

Zwooks:
2,4 D and Striker was applied and there is a 60% chance that those maize may not die off due to the Atrazine concentration in the two.

Before you go insult me again, I am not quoting you to taunt or ridicule you but for all of us to learn, because this is the 2nd thread where you are making this statement.
To set the record straight, 2,4-D and Striker does not contain atrazine.
However, some farmers can mix atrazine with other herbicide such as striker during application to make it more effective.
Shalom.

Mrdellychy:
Before you go insult me again, I am not quoting you to taunt or ridicule you but for all of us to learn, because this is the 2nd thread where you are making this statement.
To set the record straight, 2,4-D and Striker does not contain atrazine.
However, some farmers can mix atrazine with other herbicide such as striker during application to make it more effective.
Shalom.

Do not ever in your life mention me again. Just stay off me, nigger

Zwooks:
Do not ever in your life mention me again. Just stay off me, nigger

Lol, na today? if I do, your best is to resort to your potent weapon - abuse and foul languages.
You don't want me to quote/mention you even when you keep misleading the noble member of this forum, na lie.
With the way you keep dishing out blunders that can ruin people's investments here, one should ask if you are truly a farmer.
You don't know and u no wan learn, by fire by force u go learn .
Your gutter and toxic utterance, low IQ and reasoning faculty show you are not refined and matured. You must definitely be a kid with untrained background. We run a Pry schl here, any staff who calls any of my pupils names is fired. Right from the assembly, we inculcate morals into the kids. I think you need such a school as a kid to start with, don't worry about your tuition, bill on me .

Mrdellychy:
Madam kehfie, e shoke u?

BTW, I admire the enterprising works that you and your fellow genders-
madam maureensylvia,
madam rainmoreDfarms ( not rainingMore at the moment o)
madam Maryam
madam asiri and every other enterprising female, are doing on this forum. God bless the work on una hands 🙏.

God bless you sir.

Mrdellychy:
Lol, na today? if I do, your best is to resort to your potent weapon - abuse and foul languages.
You don't want me to quote/mention you even when you keep misleading the noble member of this forum, na lie.
With the way you keep dishing out blunders that can ruin people's investments here, one should ask if you are truly a farmer.
You don't know and u no wan learn, by fire by force u go learn .
Your gutter and toxic utterance, low IQ and reasoning faculty show you are not refined and matured. You must definitely be a kid with untrained background. We run a Pry schl here, any staff who calls any of my pupils names is fired. Right from the assembly, we inculcate morals into the kids. I think you need such a school as a kid to start with, don't worry about your tuition, bill on me .

Good a thing you are offering him scholarship. That one cannot hold on to N100 at a time because he always has to get that fentanyl fix he is hooked on. I doubt he can even learn how to make a correct sentence in any language, Nigerian or English. He is always drugged up and when he is out of his daily shot of China Girl or Great Bear, his demons come out in full force.

His type are all over Kensington and Allegheny in Philly town.

Thanks to the mod who responded by cleaning up the trash here. Next is to ban anyone who abuse/bully anyone here. This is the NL that we all want. 👏 Bravo.

Mrdellychy:
Madam kehfie, e shoke u?

BTW, I admire the enterprising works that you and your fellow genders-
madam maureensylvia,
madam rainmoreDfarms ( not rainingMore at the moment o)
madam Maryam
madam asiri and every other enterprising female, are doing on this forum. God bless the work on una hands 🙏.

Aww this means a lot- thank you for the recognition
I appreciate

Please who knows where I can rent maize thresher within mowe ogun state. Please help a farmer

Sureshegsy:
Please who knows where I can rent maize thresher within mowe ogun state. Please help a farmer

You can lease at Kobape

Pls boss in the house what's going on recently about maize farm, what's the price

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.

Bro, i am a newbie and I need your expertise concerning maize farming please.

How can I chat with you privately?

I am trying to do go into the business full time.