₦airaland Forum

hoygift:
Rice is the only crop that always wastes, from production to processing, down to consumption. Why is it so?

depends on the producer..pls follow me on YouTube to grow me... Thanks

BlackfireX:
This is a good development.


Keep it up.


You have beaten hunger.


I am into poultry 🐔

Thank you very muchs

BlackfireX:
This is a good development.


Keep it up.


You have beaten hunger.


I am into poultry 🐔

Thank you very much

donpata:
How did you conduct the soil test and what did it cost you

I have a soil testing kit... I will run a free soil test for my YouTube subscribers as we get close to the end

MaziObinnaokija:
Farmer's are 🤴. Agbe l'oba.. May God bless/enlarge your coast

God bless you for the prayers...

Thanks for your input

First, this is not GMO... The seed was sourced from a village called IBAJI in Kogi state....

Secondly, I am making use of acceptable herbicide because if u watch my first video u will see why we didn't use paraquat....

Flooding doesn't add to yield, it only help to reduce weed intensity on the field

Lowland rice are usually prone to Khaira disease which is caused by lack of zinc in the soil.

I follow post hervest interval of Herbicide, fungicide and pesticide bfor application.

From my upcoming videos, u will see how we apply fungicide following PHI

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THANKSA

Originalsly:
Interesting. I have some questions ... but a little background. My grandmother was a farmer... livestock ..goats ..pigs and also rice. Around ages 8 to maybe 13 I used to spend time there during school vacations. From what I recall... I never seen her use fertilizers ... not saying it should not be used. Guess the soil was just right for rice farming...maybe tested decades before. She...like some other rice farmers in the community had tractors and attachments. They would first plough the soil ..guess like nearly two feet deep ...looked like waves ..then use another plough to chip the waves into ripples. I can't recall if they then scattered the seeds (paddy) before flooding the field...or they flooded it first then scattered the seeds. But when the plants grew to a certain height....they will flood the field and all weeds would be killed off. There was no other weed control method. The field will remain flooded ...maybe about a foot deep ...and that level had to be maintained for quite a while. They did some spraying to get rid of certain insects. Is this another method of farming? ..a different variety of rice ? After harvest...a number of bags of the seeds was kept to grow the next crop. These seeds you are using...do they have to be bought for each crop?...are they GMO? ..or after harvest you have to buy again? Do we sacrifice yield for quality?.... quantity over quality? Back then .. rice was cooked ..left over...used the next day ..and the following day. I have noticed "quality" rice today....cook today ...tomorrow mushy...next day almost a mess ..broken down to starch. I conclude high yield GMO rice. What seeds are non GMO? You apply weed killer...they kill the weeds but not the rice. This tells me that the rice is GMO ...engineered by Monsanto ...weed killer engineered by Monsanto since their weed killers kill any other plants except their own. I'm not knocking you .... you have to live...and the same is practiced in other countries especially China. It is always better to support local produce than imported ones... as in we know exactly what we are getting from you ...and have no clue what we import...what grains they are using...what fertilizers they are using...what chemicals they are using to preserve the grains etc. With the current price of rice...many more should go into rice farming. My last question ... what hazards do you do you have to face ? ...besides the usual insects that attack rice ...snakes?...wild animals ?... herdsmen ? ...is water supply abundant for you to irrigate...and drain the fields? I've said more than enough ... dished you a heaping bowl of rice.

OKOATA:
I want to ask, if you go into Rice farming in Nigeria, will you need a license? What if customs stops you on the road, especially with all this open eye Nigerian police how do you check out?

U don't need a license

Esthered:
Well done OP.
Oya come and answer the plenty questions.

I'm on it.

Abeg make una follow my channel... Facebook people no believe say I fit grow my channel tru nairaland

tremilatre:
I can only but admire you @Op, growing up i always wanted to be a farmer and I dreamed of being a commercial farmer. But for a late career change into medicine, I would have been a farmer. Still happy where I am. Would go back into farming when I retire from the medical profession. 🤞 🤞

nice One sir..

U can star,t now little by litte... Bfor u retire, u go done be pro

U dont calculate seed rate per hectare or acre in bags, u calculate with kg of seed.

For 1 hectare, u need 100kga

Alusiizizi:
Question from one not familiar with all this. How many acres of land does one need to grow a full bag of rice? Just trying to understand the logistics/profitability of the whole operation.

thisisit:
LOOK CLOSELY AT THE LAST PALM TREE BEHIND THE FARMER IN THE second PICTURE ..... THERE IS A GUN WEILDING SMALL MAN BEHIND THE PALM TREE.. THIS IS A MAJOR RED FLAG THAT THE OP DID NOT MENTION......... INSECURITY IS REAL AND ALIVE AND KICKING FARMERS TO THEIR EARLY GRAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is a rice farming estate...guarded by not less than 20 fully armed men ... If herdsmen or thieves get close to this place.... They can pay with their lives

First, before I start any project, I check the implications of Herbicide, pesticide etc on health.

Then I check the POST HERVEST INTERVALS of those Herbicide.

I am an advocate of safe food so I won't try to harm anybody.

As the post advance, I will talk about the danger of Herbicide, pesticide to our health...

Pls subscribe to my channel

Thanks for the observation[quote author=koxyz post=136658083]With all these chemicals that you are applying,I hope we are not in for a big problem health check the health implications of Herbicide.wise.

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Thank you for your contribution.

Our leaders are after oil, forgetting that a hungry man cannot drill crude

Bluntemperor:
OP, welldone,👍🙏!
- This is What NigeriaN-Govt-) especially the Past and the Present) - SHOULD have been doing - SINCE 1960 AND TILL DATE- MOST MINISTRIES OF AGRICULTURE - ARE JUST ENJOYING THE BUDGETS - ON FOOD PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA!
WE (As A Nation - Should Be Ashamed that we Can't even Feed ourselves!

Nice question

Subscribe to my channel as I unfold a good and cost effective strategy to combat birds.

The first time i started farming, birds destroyed 2 hectare of my rice

tianshie:
How do you deal with quelea birds?

(Discussions of the art of love-making should be restricted to the hidden sexuality section.)

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Thank you for this contribution.

Government gave a 6 months import waver to Nestle, Olam etc for grain import...

Crashing price of grains....

Originalsly:
I will always respect Buhari for banning the importation of rice ... except that he should've given ample notice to ramp up local production. Regardless ...rice production was on the increase until ....... No doubt ... it would be nice to subsidize fertilizers but that would sooner be exported. But by now our universities should ve come up with local fertilizers. I really believ farmers should be given duty free concessions to import equipment they need. And yes.... the FG should discourage rice importation ..... heavy import taxes ....heavy fines for violations. This will encourage local farming..

Thanks and don't forget to subscribe to my channel...

Candreva:
These are the kind of post that needs to be promoted.

And don't forget to subscribe to my channel...thank u

intruder15:
Make I park here. Awaiting subsequent posts. Interesting times.

That's true

Cost of imputs is very high.

But the joy is, I can never loss.

And I know that what I am Producing is safe for consumption.

It is good to know what u eat...because I saw some farmers using GAMALINE 20 as pesticide.

Subscribe to my channel pls

Safyqueen:
Hmmm, how is the op going to make gain in this regime that prefer importation to local production?

Npk fertilizer is around 50 to 60k per bag. Now the farmer may need a bag for a farm whose output at the end of the day may not be up to two bags of 50 kg that's around 60k now.
This is outside cost of renting the land, preparing (clearing, tilling, harrowing, ploughing, first weed control chemicals) of the land, not to talk of cost of visitation, harvesting and so on. So this year, no farmer makes even on rice. Maize is the worst.
The government needs to subsidies farm input the way it is done in a saner climes where they are importing from.

Esude007:
U dont calculate seed rate per hectare or acre in bags, u calculate with kg of seed.

For 1 hectare, u need 100kga

Let me understand, so you plant 100kg of seeds in 1 hectare? One plant of rice yields on average of how many seeds?

Yes u can plant... Broadcasting method even consume more seed sometimes...but for Dibbling method, 50-60kg is enough

Alusiizizi:
Let me understand, so you plant 100kg of seeds in 1 hectare? One plant of rice yields on average of how many seeds?

Esude007:
Yes u can plant... Broadcasting method even consume more seed sometimes...but for Dibbling method, 50-60kg is enough

Ok, so I imagine that if you plant 50-60kg of seeds that you will reap at least 50,000kg-60,000kg of seeds?

Today we went apply a fungicide to prevent the global Rice blast fungus caused by a fungi called pyricularia oryzae.

Rice blast fungus is generally transmitted by a green leafhopper.

For those that will watch the video, u will see how I took my time to explain the havoc a fungi can cause on a farm.

Attached is a picture of a lady showing the level of rice blast in her own section and the video link to the operation visually.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGEwbGlgepo?si=L11EeT-G8ZuZDWaZ
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Esude007:
this is a rice farming estate...guarded by not less than 20 fully armed men ... If herdsmen or thieves get close to this place.... They can pay with their lives

Hmmm ... so this is what rice farming has turned into? And we are here wondering why the price is sooo high.

Alusiizizi:
Ok, so I imagine that if you plant 50-60kg of seeds that you will reap at least 50,000kg-60,000kg of seeds?

that's the target

I tell u

Originalsly:
Hmmm ... so this is what rice farming has turned into? And we are here wondering why the price is sooo high.

@Op How do you control birds' infestations

How do you plant the seeds? ...scatter them? ... do you have a nursery and then transfer the plants? Earlier you mentioned "lowland rice". I now want to believe that's what I was talking about. I gu guess it required a lot of water during the ehmmm .... adolescent period. The water level was maintained at a depth of about a foot . How long have you been into rice cultivation? I'm glad you did this thread so that others would see what it takes to have a successful crop and why it is so expensive.

I went to village this is my father's own at our backyard

Is very big though just saw this topic and decided to take a pic of one side

I've not gotten to that part, but I want to drop the method I am going to use here for everyone to learn... because some farmers have early maturing variety.

As a farmer u need to understand how and when birds attack. Birds attack farms in the morning after waking up, they look for food to eat and to feed their babies. Secondly in the evening before roosting...

Here's a trick
Tie small firecrackers (when available) inside or near the bottles and light them during peak bird-feeding times (morning & evening). The loud “bang” sends birds flying.

This method is cheap, doesn’t require electricity, and can be set up quickly.

The birds will live your farm for u in peace thinking that I are armed

Oloniyan:
@Op How do you control birds' infestations