anonimi:


Did you miss the word 'START' that I used in my post that you quoted?

A tree can start a forest. Let us stop ourselves from being mentwlly LAZY

eeeeee pls mind your choice of word.... U said product can be supply to hotels etc and I simply said it can't be achieve by a single farm except cooperative/farmers group, Am just saying this base on my previous experience with the above mention organisation cos if u are going there as an individual they won't even listen to u cos they know u can't meet up there demand. Pls this is a faceless forum where u don't know whom u are talking to pls if u must say a word learn how to say the good one not every one will be comfortable with any kind of word.... Pls I hate augment on threads cos it kills most valuable information the op have to share......... Pls let be polite while addressing/correcting other thanks.

jethro2:

There is no way you can supply to the market without an inner circle connection. They have their own percentage cut

You are very correct.

jethro2:

Uniform men in the south west scramble for permanent night duty.
We have more police at night thqn during the day. The shameful part is they stay not 1m apart from each other at the entrance of the town. At times they work with touts.
Its not an easy thing

What about toll collectors in the name of produce under the ministry of agric.
For each state you drive past,you must pay produce.These are the guys that used to set planks with nails along the road incase you refuse to stop.

Produce toll from Jos to Enugu

1. Jos = N500

2 Nasarawa =N1,500

3 Benue =N3,000

4. Kogi =N1,500

5. Enugu =N1,500

Total cost of produce = N8,000

To settle soldiers and police from Jos to Enugu you'll have to pay about N16,000 with the "abeg collect this N100 na" that follow it.

Tomato business is risky,but it is very very lucrative.One trip can fetch you N150,000 ,N200,000,N300,000 depending on your target market.

I will also come to Jethro for training on tomato cultivation.I don't know nothing about tomato planting.

Busy @ work To be continued later.

which tomatoes varieties did you plant and how much did you buy them

Hello Jethro, How can i get the plastic mulch in Nigeria? Could provide with website or contacts.

Nice one bro! Keep it up!

FotherMucker:


If i was a tomato I'd disagree with you.

Whoever cooks and eats me is my enemy.

What if you eat without cooking ? I Think you are a friend because you help to spread the seeds

About this Greenhouse kit sold by Dizengoff what are the dimensions and is it economically viable?

Thank OP for this thread.. Please continue with the lecture.

Sorry, I came late to class this morning. This is surely the best thread on agric. pls keep on the good work.

Weldone for d exposition. Pls continue frm ur journey to Lag. These details wil help us calculate how and when to break even. It wil help us to calculate our profits. Many ppl dont bother to calculate all these little expensis when talking abt making millions.

jethro2:
I booked for an 18 seater bus. I took a stick to measure the dimension of the bus. I was able to estimate the no of tomato basket it will take.
Another issue crop up.
Did i have enough tomato to fill the bus?
Another capital NO.
What do i do?
I told my manager ' please discuss with the other tomato farmers(even though they have different varieties) if they will allow me to take theirs along with mine to the market.
He came back to give me price
Guess what?
The price has increase to N800.
Unbelievable but yes.
Okay I will give them N600 per basket.
With pleading, argument and whatever, they eventually agreed.
So begins my tomato journey to Lagos

The internet is a beautiful thing and the energy of Nigerians is great I am sure the future is bright listening to the ideas on this thread.
We need to shun ideas of getting rich quick and embrace handwork. It seems to me that the main problem is a lack of "knowledge" . Good knowledge is often found in big companies who do not have time for trial and error but also are able to invest heavily . Perhaps cooperatives are the way to go. Potentially for Nigerians this could be a problem because of intrinsic dishonesty and desire to be the BOSS.
I want to share this greenhouse video which is of what I can only call a tomato factory rather than a farm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCz_NqmYhOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB7RYIlS6LQ

Lesson

@jethro2, thanks for this post. I have read other posts from ur device but none has inspired and encouraged me as this thread has.
I am interested in orange distribution for the now and cassava farming. I have done a dry run in the distribution of orange in Abuja outside the open market and take on cabals is so true, so is the take down of the security forces who must collect their own. what I want to know is how do I get specific information in terms of how to sort and pack oranges. I am sorely lackin on that plus how do I avoid joining the unions and operate without harassment?

jeffmyson:


Can you imagine? 1.1m for that rubbish they are selling. That same size of greenhouse in kenya cost like 250k, I don't know why Naija things are always different!

I believe if green house are cheap, many people will go into the business of vegetables and there will be supply all year round!

Yes. The green house is quite expensive. Nigerians should learn to make use of local material to reduce cost

jeffmyson:


I was referring to Dangote farms with their outrageous claims not you. That Is why farmers refused to buy the seeds from him and rather asked him to try and farm it himself in his demonstration farm. I don't think anyone is here to scam anyone on this thread. We are all learning! But please no shout figures too much as some of those e-farmers will think it is very easy and the next thing they will start tomatoes farm and when they fail they will start looking for someone to blame for their woes!

Tomatoes farming is not very easy! It require efforts and vigilance too! If you really want to know the wahala in it visit Kadawa Valley in Kano, you will see how northerners suffer for those tomatoes you consume everyday!

Cheers!

Please forgive my utterance. I misinterprets you.
I am on my knees

For the past two years, I've bn nursing the idea of tomato biz. However, my interest isn't limited to farming and selling the tomato, it extends to processing; ie adding value to the tomato b4 selling.

From my research, I came across two ways of doing so:

1. Processing the tomato into paste
2. Dehydrating the tomato.

While no.1 is expensive, considering the high cost of tomato processing machinery; it's nevertheless very viable and ofcos profitable.

As for no.2, it is cheaper to start-up plus profitable too, but my problem is " am yet to know if dia is a large market (both locally and internationally)for dehydrated tomato"

securi:
Nice thread, valuable info, pls keep it up.

Thank you

idumuose:

What about toll collectors in the name of produce under the ministry of agric.
For each state you drive past,you must pay produce.These are the guys that used to set planks with nails along the road incase you refuse to stop.

Produce toll from Jos to Enugu

1. Jos = N500

2 Nasarawa =N1,500

3 Benue =N3,000

4. Kogi =N1,500

5. Enugu =N1,500

Total cost of produce = N8,000

To settle soldiers and police from Jos to Enugu you'll have to pay about N16,000 with the "abeg collect this N100 na" that follow it.

Tomato business is risky,but it is very very lucrative.One trip can fetch you N150,000 ,N200,000,N300,000 depending on your target market.

I will also come to Jethro for training on tomato cultivation.I don't know nothing about tomato planting.

Busy @ work To be continued later.

If they will collect the money without wasting your precious time then you are lucky. Its another world entirely. Nigeria force are corrupt

felixzo1:
which tomatoes varieties did you plant and how much did you buy them

There are lot of tomato varieties. One has to study the one that best suit their area.
Tomato Companies
Technisem products from Agritropic
Chia Thai through Jasper
East West Seed through IFDC

choiceman:
Hello Jethro, How can i get the plastic mulch in Nigeria? Could provide with website or contacts.

The plastic mulch was gotten from port Novo Benin Republic.
You can contact Jasper to source from Thailand

Pilotman:
Nice one bro! Keep it up!

Thank you

Jethro, you are beginning to annoy me now oo.....which kain torture be this....you know we are thirsty you will pop in drop info...dissapear....una wan make we die of thirst? ......kilodeeeee.... please I love your narratives, I can't wait to hear what happened with the woman that said she can buy trailer load....let me guess, when you took tomatoes there, she start calling stupid price ba?.....biko let us know wharrapun na.....

omonnakoda:
About this Greenhouse kit sold by Dizengoff what are the dimensions and is it economically viable?

24m by 8m.

meemeee:
Thank OP for this thread.. Please continue with the lecture.

amarawa:
Sorry, I came late to class this morning. This is surely the best thread on agric. pls keep on the good work.

Queendo:
Weldone for d exposition. Pls continue frm ur journey to Lag. These details wil help us calculate how and when to break even. It wil help us to calculate our profits. Many ppl dont bother to calculate all these little expensis when talking abt making millions.

Class begins in few minutes. Lol

jethro2:

If they will collect the money without wasting your precious time then you are lucky. Its another world entirely. Nigeria force are corrupt

Yes you are right but apart from this impediment,the business is good.

omonnakoda:
The internet is a beautiful thing and the energy of Nigerians is great I am sure the future is bright listening to the ideas on this thread.
We need to shun ideas of getting rich quick and embrace handwork. It seems to me that the main problem is a lack of "knowledge" . Good knowledge is often found in big companies who do not have time for trial and error but also are able to invest heavily . Perhaps cooperatives are the way to go. Potentially for Nigerians this could be a problem because of intrinsic dishonesty and desire to be the BOSS.
I want to share this greenhouse video which is of what I can only call a tomato factory rather than a farm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCz_NqmYhOE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB7RYIlS6LQ

You ve said it all

jethro2:

Thank you

Thank you

TAEpiphany:
Jethro, you are beginning to annoy me now oo.....which kain torture be this....you know we are thirsty you will pop in drop info...dissapear....una wan make we die of thirst? ......kilodeeeee.... please I love your narratives, I can't wait to hear what happened with the woman that said she can buy trailer load....let me guess, when you took tomatoes there, she start calling stupid price ba?.....biko let us know wharrapun na.....

Lol. Please no vex.
Just taking time to attend to every concerns.
Why you come dey jump now. Na person wet dem dry bring wife come give no suppose dry peep.

We eventually left the village around 7.30pm.
Few minutes drive entering the next village was some people by the roadside that push plywood with nail on the road.
Anything wrong? I asked as the driver slowed down.
Na eleru. He answered. (Eleru means the load owners)
Dem wan collect their money.
Their money?
ha. Eleru! How much?
Shouldn't be more than N100.
N500!.
We have stopped and the Eleru collector surface by my side.
I paid N500
We will be paying at every entrance to most villages. The money varies from location to location.
Hmnmn. I breathe in. Wahala dey

It was during those trips i know we have plenty force men with varying degree of names and payment differs
Sarsen, Operation burst, mobile policemen, the millitary is N200. Police N100.
So the payments continue to Lagos.
There is more force men on the road at night that you can ever imagine.
Abeokuta road is something else. The Eleru in Abeokuta put on generator throughout the night. Most are touts and ruffians.
They are with different size of sticks to break something if the vehicle tried to escape.
Money are also collected based on the size of vehicles. 6 seater is different from 18 seater and trailers are worst hit

jethro2:
Since the YABDI Ogbomosho project, I have received several calls and enquiries from nairalanders on the production and marketing of Tomatoes profitably in Nigeria.
Hence forth I am going to be writing on my experiences , mistakes, solutions and the way forward as Tomato farmer .
Tomato is a crop that has no enemy. No tribal, cultural, nor religious sentiments about tomato.
Both young and old loves and takes tomatoes.
Tomatoe can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in stew, soup and other delicacies

Please drop your email address and phone to contact you concerning tomatoes packaging and to meet those farmers. Thanks