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Today is National Farmers in our sister country, Ghana. Happy Farmers’ Day to all our hardworking farmers! 🌾💚

Even if today isn’t the official date in Nigeria, it’s always a good moment to appreciate the people who keep our food supply going every single day.

To every farmer out there, we see your strength and doggedness in maintaining Nigeria's food supply. Your work matters. 🙌🏾

What’s one farming experience you can never forget?

The farming experience I won't forget...


Planted 3 acres of maize in Ghana. Crop was almost ready for harvest. Fulani herdsmen went there with their cattle to finish everything. Didn't get one grain of corn there.


Another experience was animal farming... bought layers and fed them till 8 months. Those girls didn't drop a single egg. Layers that would usually lay eggs between 4 to 5 months.

Had to be begging aboki upadan to buy about 5k birds not even as old layers. Big loss.


Many pleasant experiences too...not only negatives. But these ones I won't forget!

brain54:
The farming experience I won't forget...


Planted 3 acres of maize in Ghana. Crop was almost ready for harvest. Fulani herdsmen went there with their cattle to finish everything. Didn't get one grain of corn there.


Another experience was animal farming... bought layers and fed them till 8 months. Those girls didn't drop a single egg. Layers that would usually lay eggs between 4 to 5 months.

Had to be begging aboki upadan to buy about 5k birds not even as old layers. Big loss.


Many pleasant experiences too...not only negatives. But these ones I won't forget!

So sorry, this is really unforgettable. I hope you will have experiences that will make you smile and forget those years the cankerworms had eaten

Mine was back in school, it started as a child's play but I made about 60k from it.



I was gisting with our hostel security man one evening and he was telling me about the bush rat he caught in his farm. I jokingly told him to give me a portion of land that I wanna farm. He laughed and said land is available whenever I'm ready. He gave me a portion close to his farm and I planted maize, pepper and pumpkin......I won't lie, it was very stressful but I didn't give up.


I was very happy the day I sold the maize after harvest, it was as if someone gave me free money.......I waybilled some home to my mum.

Bahamas95:
Mine was back in school, it started as a child's play but I made about 60k from it.



I was gisting with our hostel security man one evening and he was telling me about the bush rat he caught in his farm. I jokingly told him to give me a portion of land that I wanna farm. He laughed and said land is available whenever I'm ready. He gave me a portion close to his farm and I planted maize, pepper and pumpkin......I won't lie, it was very stressful but I didn't give up.


I was very happy the day I sold the maize after harvest, it was as if someone gave me free money.......I waybilled some home to my mum.

This is awesome, glad to hear your testimony

brain54:
The farming experience I won't forget...


Planted 3 acres of maize in Ghana. Crop was almost ready for harvest. Fulani herdsmen went there with their cattle to finish everything. Didn't get one grain of corn there.


Another experience was animal farming... bought layers and fed them till 8 months. Those girls didn't drop a single egg. Layers that would usually lay eggs between 4 to 5 months.

Had to be begging aboki upadan to buy about 5k birds not even as old layers. Big loss.


Many pleasant experiences too...not only negatives. But these ones I won't forget!

Fulani herdsmen they terrorise in ghana too?

Zocalite:
Fulani herdsmen they terrorise in ghana too?

They wander from place to place. They have settlers in Ghana too.

PWANMaxGroup:
They wander from place to place. They have settlers in Ghana too.

Lolzzzzz 🤣

The intense itching from multiple insect bites

PWANMaxGroup:
They wander from place to place. They have settlers in Ghana too.

They're like aturu n'enwehu onye nche.

The day I went to a farm just to please my girlfriend.


😂 Lol


Since I didn't have enough money to please her, I joined her and her mother to go to farm and learn harvesting.

When fulani terrorists attack my boys working in the farm. Those terrorists are cowards and dogs

Planting pawpaw tree at our backyard and watching it grow while I was around 8 years old. I always cherished sight of the big fruits on this treat with regular supply of pawpaw fruits in the family

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The day I went to a farm just to please my girlfriend.


😂 Lol


Since I didn't have to please her, I joined her and her mother to go to farm and learn harvesting.

D day scorpion stung me on d farm.... That's like 16 yrs ago... Me and my little bro were making jest of our dad, that since scorpion stung him on one side of d farm twice, he didn't go there again... We were still talking when d scorpion gave me my own

I didn't go to farm for a whole month out of fear

Oh, I thought the other kind of farming 🤔

Everyday is memorable. Not sure which event to take.

Lawalemi:
Planting pawpaw tree at our backyard and watching it grow while I was around 8 years old. I always cherished sight of the big fruits on this treat with regular supply of pawpaw fruits in the family

Pawpaw are so rewarding. And in such little time too.
They're at the top of the list of my favourite things to grow.

Many years back, I had a near death experience in the farm

It was one Sunday morning, I decided to plant some seeds after the heavy rains ..

I was whistling " Send down the rain " by Majek Fashek when I got a sudden feeling of being watched.

I turned to look back at the dense vegetation behind me and realized that the whole jungle had fallen silent.

No chirping of insects, no singing of birds, the only sound there was myself breathing...

I heard a twig break... Stealthily like a predator was creeping closer. The sound was a loud as shotgun in the dead silence.

What I saw next is the stuff of nightmares ... I tremble now at the memory.

Bahamas95:
Mine was back in school, it started as a child's play but I made about 60k from it.



I was gisting with our hostel security man one evening and he was telling me about the bush rat he caught in his farm. I jokingly told him to give me a portion of land that I wanna farm. He laughed and said land is available whenever I'm ready. He gave me a portion close to his farm and I planted maize, pepper and pumpkin......I won't lie, it was very stressful but I didn't give up.


I was very happy the day I sold the maize after harvest, it was as if someone gave me free money.......I waybilled some home to my mum.

Last year raining season farming, I planted melon and few GM water melon. My melon harvest was huge that I sold about 15k melon, gave many people and we prepared egusi soups for a year! I created a thread for it and it made FP.
My last year dry season maize equally yielded very good. Gave people dried maize and we also used it to prepare pap for an entire month Ramadan (March this year) and beyond. My thread about it also made FP
My okro, tomato and pepper farm this year was also good.
My two pawpaw plants have also become a blessing for me, neighbours, families and friends.
And the cassava that I planted last year dry season and harvested October this year was much, we used it to produce gari and flour which we are now mixing with yam flour for amala.
All nah backyard farming.

https://www.nairaland.com/8074655/me-working-melon-egusi-farm

https://www.nairaland.com/8284804/one-plot-dry-season-maize

Every farmers worst nightmare is Fulani terrorists

I will never forget my experience with Fulani cows when they destroyed my maize plantation at Araromi. I have posted it here before. I'll be right back to once again recount my ordeals.

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I was on the farm till 6pm on that day and I didn't perceive any sign that something bad would soon happen. The herders came with their cows at night and by dawn they have eaten up over four acres of maize plantation. I received a phone call from a fellow farmer around 7am next morning. He said there was nothing again on my farm. I thought he was joking until I got there to see things by myself. My farmland was as plain and empty as an open field. Cows have eaten up everything! Both the crops and the plants, nothing remains except cow dungs that littered everywhere. It was like a dream. The memory lingers till today.

Our Sister country of Ghana.
♥️🖤

Just to prove a point that cash crops can grown anywhere, and that it is more profitable than people always planting only food crops, I started picking a large pile load of pure water sachets. Opened under each of them with the help of my mother then I was very young. I planted only Soursop and Cashew in all of them. Almost all of them germinated at the back of our house. I later relocated them to a large farm and most grew up but were swallowed and affected by bushes and other stuffs because I was miles away from there. I shaa proved my point that those cash crops can grow everywhere if planted and taken care of.

Went to farm with my parents,was assisting in the disposal of dry grass heap,,Omor na so snake fall out from one of them my people mia, I stood my ground and kpaied the reptile

Zocalite:
Fulani herdsmen they terrorise in ghana too?

Hmmmmm... That is a big major topic & issue in its own.

So my oga, my mentor, dey do ginger for Kogi State. The thing just dey boom like say na juju! Ginger dey fat like senator for belly. I see am, my eye clear. I say, Ah! This one na shortcut to millions. I must follow this leg.

Instead to dey under my oga learn proper, my brain tell me, Go surprise am! Na so I carry my confidence, enter road.

I go Kaduna, I buy 20 bags of ginger seed! Twenty bags! My money just dey wave me bye bye. I carry all of them go my land for Niger state. I plant like say na competition. I dey imagine my oga face when he go see my own farm later. Him go just dey shout, "Ah! My boy, you don surpass me!"

I dey dey look the ground like say na my personal ATM wey go soon start to spray money. First month, small small leaves show face. I dey happy. Second month, the thing just stop to grow well. E just dey k leg.

By the time i reach season to harvest my own ginger resemble pinched toe! Some no even show at all. The ones wey show na like say dem born with stunted growth. Na so I just dey stand for farm, my mouth open. My surprise package for my oga turn to pure shame package.

Na so I pack my shame, carry my pocket wey don flat, go meet my oga. I kneel down for front of am for him office. Oga, i don come report myself. I fall my hand. I think say I too know. The ground don chop my money

My oga laugh wella! Him nearly fall from chair. Him say, "So you think say farming be by magic? You think say because rain fall for Kogi, e go fall for Niger the same way? Come, make I teach you the real work from soil test beginning.

My lesson cost me 20 bags of money. I learn say farming no be by copy and paste.
Soil get voice, you must listen to am first.

I learnt plantain farming on Nairaland
Bought the shoots for N250 per seed shoot, bought 500 pieces and planted in my empty land
Travelled to for 2 weeks and met an empty land on return .
Along Igrwruta Road, PH

Went into Palm farming with all my savings.😆

It meant I didn't planned for my upkeep.😆

I had to hustle real hard to get by. I even started clearing bush for people just to feed.
That's how i managed from hand to mouth for six years before my palms started producing.

The rest is history.
I get 25 rubbers of oil each harvest.

Plan for your upkeep before investing in any business.

iichidodo:
Weeding my 13 hectare ground nut farm, just only me .... Suffered a nervous breakdown.

You did that with a machine?