₦airaland Forum

Alusiizizi:
1k per 12 cobs?? That's even better than my conservative estimate. OP mentioned that his goal was 10,000 cobs of corn by harvest and a rough calculation of the required overhead plus some wiggle-room worked out to about 150,000 Naira, maximum. With your 12 cobs for 1k, the total price for the whole lot is about 800K, that means about 650k over maybe a month or two of corn cultivation. Pretty good returns if you ask me, but then again, I'm not a farmer so I could very well be wrong.

You didn’t go the what he typed. Go again through his revelations

safarifarms:
How will you get your corn to be properly dried during this rainy season?

Planted May and June to Harvest by August when its super hot and dry

Alusiizizi:
1k per 12 cobs?? That's even better than my conservative estimate. OP mentioned that his goal was 10,000 cobs of corn by harvest and a rough calculation of the required overhead plus some wiggle-room worked out to about 150,000 Naira, maximum. With your 12 cobs for 1k, the total price for the whole lot is about 800K, that means about 650k over maybe a month or two of corn cultivation. Pretty good returns if you ask me, but then again, I'm not a farmer so I could very well be wrong.

In my 3 plots ,I have over 4k stands of maize atm and he should have more but that’s not the issue. Let him sell dry to make max profits

Sp33i:
My target by the year's end is 15 Mil

How much did you spend in all?

billyG:
How much did you spend in all?

Lets say start the year with 2.8/3 M. To end with 15 Mil.

Glyphosphate causes cancer

Sp33i:
Weed control is everything in Maize cultivation. Weeds can eat up to 40% pf crop yield if they are not well managed in the first 8 weeks of crop growth. To ensure a weed-free farm, i utilized a combination of Lagon and Glyphosate. Lagon to seal weeds seed and inhibit weed seeds growth for weeks while Glyphosate in the herbicides mixture kills weeds that escaped tractorization.




***I personally supervised my labourers herbicides application to avoid application mistakes that may lead to weed emergence along the way. In my style of herbicides application, i always mix a fixed ratio of liquid and inform them they must continue to spray until the liquid is finished. This way there is no excuse of them just walking across the farms and not doing the actual work.



Think smart farmers !

Mary95:
Maize farming is 3 months. Cost of buying the seeds,cost of 6 acres(15k*6),cost of fertilizers,cost of workers,cost of insecticides etc

Thought it was 2 months. Then again, I did make it know that I was no farmer. Regarding the seeds, I think he was referring to 15k for all six hectares.

Sp33i:
*improving productivity is a major driver as far as attaining food securty in Nigeria is concerned. To achieve improvement in maize productivity two tenets are important.


(1) Always make use of the right seed variety. The right seed variety because of climate change is drought resistance seeds.


(2) Always adhere to good Agronomic practices.


** The purpose of this research is to check the yield potential of Seedco SC649

Drought resistantance seeds..GMO?

Mary95:
In my 3 plots ,I have over 4k stands of maize atm and he should have more but that’s not the issue. Let him sell dry to make max profits

Not terribly sure what the advantage of dry sale over wet sale is. I can only assume that dry corn seeds are easier to process. At any rate, let's even assume that we double my initial estimate on initial investment to make it 300k(a comically large estimate if I might add), that's still some 500k in profits in 3 months. If he was sitting on 12 hectares then that would make it a cool million in 3 months for just 600k investment(even more comical because the initial investment will surely reduce with increased area).

The one thing that I can't get my head around is why any farmer would want to be selling unprocessed corn when he could make like 10 times more by going vertical, i.e. processing the corn into food-stuff, like semovita, corn-meal, akamu and so many other food products.

Alusiizizi:
Thought it was 2 months. Then again, I did make it know that I was no farmer. Regarding the seeds, I think he was referring to 15k for all six hectares.

Cost of tractor isn’t there. His personal expenses like fueling his bike daily isn’t there too.

Mary95:
Cost of tractor isn’t there. His personal expenses like fueling his bike daily isn’t there too.

I think that he mentioned something like 20k to rent the tractor and maybe another 15k for plowing, I'll have to go over the OP again, but at any rate, a quick eyeballing of the figures worked out to around the neighborhood of 150k. With regards to the fueling of his okada, it's hard to imagine the kind of errands that he needs to run that would see him spend his future 500k(that's assuming that the investment is like 300k and not my initial 150k estimate) in a 3 month window. Even commercial okada riders don't spend nearly that much.

Alusiizizi:
Not terribly sure what the advantage of dry sale over wet sale is. I can only assume that dry corn seeds are easier to process. At any rate, let's even assume that we double my initial estimate on initial investment to make it 300k(a comically large estimate if I might add), that's still some 500k in profits in 3 months. If he was sitting on 12 hectares then that would make it a cool million in 3 months for just 600k investment(even more comical because the initial investment will surely reduce with increased area

The one thing that I can't get my head around is why any farmer would want to be selling unprocessed corn when he could make like 10 times more by going vertical, i.e. processing the corn into food-stuff, like semovita, corn-meal, akamu and so many other food products.

There are thousands of dry maize buyers . The problem is ,not everyone can process or have the machinery to produce farm produce to finish products. We only get direct buyers for our products .

Pluto33:
Drought resistantance seeds..GMO?

I am 100% antiGMO. I speak and write publicly against GMOs. I use hybrid seeds. Hybrid seeds are not Genetically modified, they are simply pollinated seeds

Yankee101:
Glyphosphate causes cancer

Thanks for the info. I will loook into this information and look into alternatives. But 90% of maize farmed in Nigeria is farmed with Glyphosate. It is also depicted that the chemicals must be used 60 days before harvest of the crops so whatever chemical residue is in the plant is removed by the time of harvest. We farmers make use of these chemicals atleast 70-90 days before harvest asper manufacturers recommendations

Mary95:
There are thousands of dry maize buyers . The problem is ,not everyone can process or have the machinery to produce farm produce to finish products. We only get direct buyers for our products .

I suppose that's a reasonable expectation, but at the same time, it shouldn't be terribly difficult for one to plan towards such a goal. Even if the modern machinery to process the raw product is not available surely it shouldn't be impossible to improvise. Afterall, all that one requires to make akamu is a grinder, and that's but one example.

Mary95:
Cost of tractor isn’t there. His personal expenses like fueling his bike daily isn’t there too.

All he did was rent the tractor though, and it was about 15k.

Alusiizizi:
I think that he mentioned something like 20k to rent the tractor and maybe another 15k for plowing, I'll have to go over the OP again, but at any rate, a quick eyeballing of the figures worked out to around the neighborhood of 150k. With regards to the fueling of his okada, it's hard to imagine the kind of errands that he needs to run that would see him spend his future 500k(that's assuming that the investment is like 300k and not my initial 150k estimate) in a 3 month window. Even commercial okada riders don't spend nearly that much.

lol. Insecticides are costly. Ferlizer is around 35k /50kgbag and he needs nothing less than 20 bags in that farm. The list he can use is combat insecticides for killing captapilars and army worms🐛 which cost over 6k each. He is going to be buying cartons of all this and not pieces.

Alusiizizi:
All he did was rent the tractor though, and it was about 15k.

He has spent close to a million in that farm,take it or leave it.

Mary95:
He has spent close to a million in that farm,take it or leave it.

Spent well over 1.5 Mil. Livelihood. Some days i pay up to 25-30k on labour and expenses.

The logistics and cost of operations it eh problem running businesses now. On some days, i spend 10k on bike alone

Sp33i:
Spent well over 1.5 Mil. Livelihood. Some days i pay up to 25-30k on labour and expenses.

The logistics and cost of operations it eh problem running businesses now. On some days, i spend 10k on bike alone

Exactly my calculations. In any farming business you do ba,just pray to God and ask for mercy. It’s believe that we farmers will always get *3 of what we invested but in reality,the postulations are not always true. But let put our hope in God.

See,I had to plant 🫘 and cassava ,making it multi cropping and it’s paying me off. I am harvesting the 🫘 now,maize is matured already but I am leaving it to dry off. After the harvest,the cassava will carry on and a stand of cassava sells at #300.

Mary95:
Exactly my calculations. In any farming business you do ba,just pray to God and ask for mercy. It’s believe that we farmers will always get *3 of what we invested but in reality,the postulations are not always true. But let put our hope in God.

See,I had to plant 🫘 and cassava ,making it multi cropping and it’s paying me off. I am harvesting the 🫘 now,maize is matured already but I am leaving it to dry off. After the,the cassava will carry on and a stand of cassava sells at #300.

That is why i continue setting up farms nonstop. To overcome the expenses. The daily bike fare is crazy. Spending averagely 8-10k on a single day on logistics is not a joke



Personal feeding expenses is there as well. I had no funds to pay labour yesterday, i was almost beaten up because they too need money as there are no jons in the rurals

Budaatum. Behold my new profile. My new farms setup for the year

Sp33i:
That is why i continue setting up farms nonstop. To overcome the expenses. The daily bike fare is crazy. Spending averagely 8-10k on a single day on logistics is not a joke



Personal feeding expenses is there as well. I had no funds to pay labour yesterday, i was almost beaten up because they too need money as there are no jons in the rurals

Great. You are resilient.

Sp33i:
Spent well over 1.5 Mil. Livelihood. Some days i pay up to 25-30k on labour and expenses.

The logistics and cost of operations it eh problem running businesses now. On some days, i spend 10k on bike alone

I know about this cos I have been there before and I am still there

Mary95:
Great. You are resilient.

Do we have options as Nigerians ?

Notin can disturb u except dos Bororo

I'm from Oyo State, Oyo Town. And would like to buy land to farm just like you're doing right now. I'm impressed. Is it possible to still get land at that location please?

So, everybody is now going to farm oko-Agbado....
WAO!...this was what JAGABAN CAMPAIGNED FOR....to turn around our economy but some jegudu condemned it
thank GOD we are now back to basis

agriculture is our strength ....our wealth as a nation

barristerbiodun:
I'm from Oyo State, Oyo Town. And would like to buy land to farm just like you're doing right now. I'm impressed. Is it possible to still get land at that location please?

Yes Sir. Reach out

yemmit90:
Ignorant is a disease, why am I even replying you when you probably know nothing about crops farming.

A 10 days without rain can negatively influence expected outcome and put his farm or investment at risk. I have seen a whole hectare of maize farm being render almost unproductive as a result of prolong lack of rain during rainy season. To achive greater success in farming, it is better to be in total control of your fate than solely relies on nature that is subject to sudden change or uncertainty.

You will make much more profit if you used the money meant for 6 acres to irrigate just 2 acres with peace of mind. You can easily intercrop in irrigation land and still harvest bountifully well.

Just being curious, I'm a 400L student of agriculture following this thread and I will like to learn from you sir. What kind of irrigation works for open field like the one the OP has?