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3RD FARM2MARKET VEGETABLE TRAINING
Its happening again.
The 3rd phase of our practical vegetable training
N25,000 for a month training guarantees you>
1. Access to half acre of ploughable land to plant vegetable for a year free which will be allocated immediately after the one month training
2. Accommodation of shared hotel room for a month
3. Seed will be available for sale
4. Different varieties of vegetables to be trained on
5. Available market awaits your vegetables
6. You have participate in vegetable training for minimum of a month
7. No fertilizer will be given. We will teach on how to make your own organic fertilizer and you can easily buy the inorganic fertilizer and organic if you want
8. Access to low cost labour and farm implements
9. You get to feed yourself throughout the period
10. You will take care of the farm land given to you but we will provide technical support throughout your planting period.
11. We take care of your accommodation for a month.
12. Alternative accommodation is been arranged for trainee to take care of themselves after the one month if they choose to stay
13. We only have space for 30 trainee for the month of September
14. Its on first pay first participating basis
15. Participant should prepare for real farm work.

Training dates September 1st - 26th
Where Ago Amodu Saki East LGA of Oyo State
Contact no 08064688501

jethro2:
3RD FARM2MARKET VEGETABLE TRAINING
Its happening again.
The 3rd phase of our practical vegetable training
N25,000 for a month training guarantees you>
1. Access to half acre of ploughable land to plant vegetable for a year free which will be allocated immediately after the one month training
2. Accommodation of shared hotel room for a month
3. Seed will be available for sale
4. Different varieties of vegetables to be trained on
5. Available market awaits your vegetables
6. You have participate in vegetable training for minimum of a month
7. No fertilizer will be given. We will teach on how to make your own organic fertilizer and you can easily buy the inorganic fertilizer and organic if you want
8. Access to low cost labour and farm implements
9. You get to feed yourself throughout the period
10. You will take care of the farm land given to you but we will provide technical support throughout your planting period.
11. We take care of your accommodation for a month.
12. Alternative accommodation is been arranged for trainee to take care of themselves after the one month if they choose to stay
13. We only have space for 30 trainee for the month of September
14. Its on first pay first participating basis
15. Participant should prepare for real farm work.

Training dates September 1st - 26th
Where Ago Amodu Saki East LGA of Oyo State
Contact no 08064688501

God bless you and your handwork.

Good All. @Op, you are a tomatoes don. Can anybody link me with sellers of Recent varieties (2010 or newer) of tomatoes seeds? I need both determinate and indeterminate varieties. Its urgent:
I like the following breeders : Syngenta, East west seeds or any other type.
you can call me on; 08131030440

I read in the earlier part of this post where someone said its not possible to have a tomatoes variety that yields 100tons/ha. For your information, it is very possible. The varieties of Syngenta and East west seeds can yield 60 tons per acre, and 1hectare is = 2.5 acres. therefore total yield per ha is 150 tons.

enolife:
God bless you and your handwork.

Amen and you too

Joive:
Good All. @Op, you are a tomatoes don. Can anybody link me with sellers of Recent varieties (2010 or newer) of tomatoes seeds? I need both determinate and indeterminate varieties. Its urgent:
I like the following breeders : Syngenta, East west seeds or any other type.
you can call me on; 08131030440
I read in the earlier part of this post where someone said its not possible to have a tomatoes variety that yields 100tons/ha. For your information, it is very possible. The varieties of Syngenta and East west seeds can yield 60 tons per acre, and 1hectare is = 2.5 acres. therefore total yield per ha is 150 tons.

Can get you both. East west and syngenta

jethro2:
Can get you both. East west and syngenta

how much ma

jethro2:
Can get you both. East west and syngenta

Pls, how many baskets can be filled from 100tons of tomatos?

Jesusbaby6:
how much ma

East West Padma is 5g is N2200. It has between 300-350 seeds per gramms
Syngenta 1000 seeds is N10,000
60-80g is recommend for a standard acre

Iyemik:
Pls, how many baskets can be filled from 100tons of tomatos?

The basket varies in sizes.
100 tonnes of tomatoes is 100000 kilo.
Basket sizes ranges from 15kilo, 30kilo, 50kilo etc.
Do your calculation with whatever size of basket you will be making use of

some training pictures

jethro2:
The basket varies in sizes.
100 tonnes of tomatoes is 100000 kilo.
Basket sizes ranges from 15kilo, 30kilo, 50kilo etc.
Do your calculation with whatever size of basket you will be making use of

Thanks

jethro2:
Can get you both. East west and syngenta

pls drop your phone number so I can call you or call me on 08131030440 so I can have your number. thank you.

Do you have Syngenta's Kilele F1 and Tylka F1? And Sweet Pepper: Admiral F1 and Commandant F1?

I like most post on here and strongly agree on breaking the stronghold of the cabals, cartels, unions that lay wait and reap from numerous hard working people's labor.

Since our government isn't functioning my plan as a Agriprenuer, Diasporian & Startup guru is to wait and have my goods seized by a Union member or any of such rings.

The way forward is to sue them Unions to court and challenge their legitimacy. I am with my Counsel now seeking their opinion.

What are your views about this @jethro and other elites within this thread.

Joive:
pls drop your phone number so I can call you or call me on 08131030440 so I can have your number. thank you.
Do you have Syngenta's Kilele F1 and Tylka F1? And Sweet Pepper: Admiral F1 and Commandant F1?

Sorry. I dont have access to all the mentions

greenmatorganic:
I like most post on here and strongly agree on breaking the stronghold of the cabals, cartels, unions that lay wait and reap from numerous hard working people's labor.
Since our government isn't functioning my plan as a Agriprenuer, Diasporian & Startup guru is to wait and have my goods seized by a Union member or any of such rings.
The way forward is to sue them Unions to court and challenge their legitimacy. I am with my Counsel now seeking their opinion.
What are your views about this @jethro and other elites within this thread.

I would advise you concentrate on making the dough and give what belongs to ceaser to ceaser. One learn to manouver the rope and making something out of the hard labour rather than wasting time, money, effort on fighting the cabals. They are bigger than you think

Waoh! This is the first time on nairaland that I will read through a thread from beginning to the end, I must confess, have really learnt a lot from all what have read here by the real masters of the game themselves.

No doubt, agriculture has the potentials to employ vast majority of our unemployed youths who roams about the streets daily in search on non existent jobs.

Having read all the posts on this thread, my love and passion for agriculture has been ignited further more as a real employer of labour and also a foreign exchange earner for the country.

Going forward, we need to invest more in value creation in the agricultural sector. Giving more value to our produce will eliminate wastages always associated with our harvest seasons, put more money to the pockets of our farmers and also give the agric business a better image as a choice employer of labour.

Packaging tomatoes into baskets is as old as the history of mankind. We need to start evolving better ways of packaging and selling our produce in the market to give more value to our produce and also as a way of identifying us as its producer.

Changing an age long mindset about way of doing things is not easy in life, with determination and courage, we can surmount all challenges in life.

@ Jethro2, I will appreciate if you guys can package an intensive programme that can last three days for the benefit of those that don't have the luxury of time to spend a whole month for your programmes because I really want to learn some rudimentary basics from you guys here and also network better with other like minds.

Together, we can give the agric business a better image and facelift if we all work together to share ideas the way @ Jethro2 has done through this extensive expose on tomatoe farming.

barnaby04:
@ Jethro2, I will appreciate if you guys can package an intensive programme that can last three days for the benefit of those that don't have the luxury of time to spend a whole month for your programmes because I really want to learn some rudimentary basics from you guys here and also network better with other like minds.
Together, we can give the agric business a better image and facelift if we all work together to share ideas the way @ Jethro2 has done through this extensive expose on tomatoe farming.

My team are working on a shorter days comprehensive training.
Thank you sir. Glad you are inspired

And the story continues.........
After the initial gragra of sourcing for market and finally getting some links to mile 12 market to supply tomatoes.
I discovered i have no tomatoes to harvest from the farm again.
So what next...
I went back to the drawing board,
Analysing what and what need to be adjusted or put in place against the coming year.
From my analysis, the followings are the issue that need to be tackled...
1. How to produce all year round
2. Transportation to market
3. Needs to have quality tomatoes that will meet standard requirement

Working around this
1. producing all year round
This means I have to nurse tomato seed every month.
The questions are...
Do I have the resources to do this?
This will involve having labourers all through the year, availability of water, Enough land for use, seed procurement etc.
I must also be able to produce large quantity so the vehicles that will move it to the market will be filled. Its usually on chattered basis.

its obvious i can not produce all year round ALONE
What do i do?
hmnnnnnnn..
so i start working with rural farmers.
How and why?
I once gave some farmer from my tomato seed to try out.
My greatest suprise is that their tomato did well than my own tomatoes.
They neither use fertilizer or irrigation.
Its from them i learnt that soil is an essential factor in the farm

After I have had several meetings with the farmers
I ordered for tomato seed and shared
Yes I shared free
I shared as much as i can afford as of then which was quite much
Over 100 tins of 100gramms of tomato seed
hmnnnn
The basis is that the tomatoes will be collated together for movement to market.
And so the counting begins

"I called this method gambling"
Gambling in the sense that a lot of things are unpredictable
farmers might mess it up because it comes free.
"people dont value what they do not pay for"

Did they take care of it?
Big question
hmnnnnnnnnnn

The big question of how the farmer manages the tomatoes would have been easy to attend to if rainfall did not become an issue.
The excitement at the begining was much
They all nurse the tomatoes and were counting days
Just few days to when we were suppose to transplant then the rain seizes
2 days 3 days one week , two weeks
And......It was terrible

jethro2:
The big question of how the farmer manages the tomatoes would have been easy to attend to if rainfall did not become an issue.
The excitement at the begining was much
They all nurse the tomatoes and were counting days
Just few days to when we were suppose to transplant then the rain seizes
2 days 3 days one week , two weeks
And......It was terrible

The lack of rain made many farmers to incure losses. Even those dt made it to d market were priced at ridiculous amount. Lesson, there is nothing u can do abt things you dont have control of..

There is somethng that can be done in this case and that is get another source of water, irrigate your farm!

omode2:
The lack of rain made many farmers to incure losses. Even those dt made it to d market were priced at ridiculous amount. Lesson, there is nothing u can do abt things you dont have control of..

securi:
There is somethng that can be done in this case and that is get another source of water, irrigate your farm!

)yes irrigation is the key. Good morning sir......

securi:
There is somethng that can be done in this case and that is get another source of water, irrigate your farm!

she said she cant meet demand and she had to make use of other farmers which she cant irrigate their farms.

omode2:
The lack of rain made many farmers to incure losses. Even those dt made it to d market were priced at ridiculous amount. Lesson, there is nothing u can do abt things you dont have control of..

It was a colossal loss. A big one at that. Yet the price was low.
But yes it can be controlled. One need to work around it

securi:
There is somethng that can be done in this case and that is get another source of water, irrigate your farm!

Soloxam:
)yes irrigation is the key. Good morning sir......

YES. Irrigate your farm.

omode2:
she said she cant meet demand and she had to make use of other farmers which she cant irrigate their farms.

Thanks a lot for noting this
Another big question
How do you irrigate all the farms that belongs to the farmers in your network?
The biggest challenge ever.
Its no more about my farm but my farmers farm.
Farmers in hundreds

First time I will be commenting on the Agric section..

I'm an aspiring farmer and I love your spirit.
Lovely thread you have here. I'm not a hardcore farmer like you have here but a programmer, (not in the software sense)..
I'm into running public health programs.

I can see that you are very Technical but you need to learn a bit of programmes, a course in project management or an MBA might do you a lot of good..

Empowering the capacity of the farmers like you did is guaranteed to ensure you remain a small scale farmer for a long time..
There are two many variables beyond your control with that move, what if they refuse to sell to you and decide to transport it to ogbomosho or Ibadan themselves.. you will be surprised at the ingenuity of these farmers in breaking that huge cabal you talk off..
What if somebody comes to their farm and offer them 100 Naira more, or even one of your readers on NL go their market to buy the tomatoes off them to sell for his own markets..

They way to go would be to go at it all by yourself and become a large scale farmer(buy or lease more lands, get a bore hole and plant monthly like you suggest, because using the farmers does not guarantee you getting supply the year round without irrigation..

I know the next excuse would be funds, and you will be surprised at how much you can raise with ingenuity. You can run a similar project to what Jasper is doing in Ogbomosho, I'm sure a lot of NLers won't mind investing in your Tomato farm, you can factor in the cost of the borehole in your estimate.

If I were you, I will leave that Oke ogun area you are and move to somewhere around Ibadan, ijebu ode or abeokuta where linking the major markets won't be a problem..
Please stop focusing on only Lagos markets, I'm sure the cabals in Ibadan, Oyo, ijebu ode, Ife and other smaller towns would be easier to manage..

Coldplay007:
First time I will be commenting on the Agric section..

I'm an aspiring farmer and I love your spirit.
Lovely thread you have here. I'm not a hardcore farmer like you have here but a programmer, (not in the software sense)..
I'm into running public health programs.

I can see that you are very Technical but you need to learn a bit of programmes, a course in project management or an MBA might do you a lot of good..

Empowering the capacity of the farmers like you did is guaranteed to ensure you remain a small scale farmer for a long time..
There are two many variables beyond your control with that move, what if they refuse to sell to you and decide to transport it to ogbomosho or Ibadan themselves.. you will be surprised at the ingenuity of these farmers in breaking that huge cabal you talk off..
What if somebody comes to their farm and offer them 100 Naira more, or even one of your readers on NL go their market to buy the tomatoes off them to sell for his own markets..

They way to go would be to go at it all by yourself and become a large scale farmer(buy or lease more lands, get a bore hole and plant monthly like you suggest, because using the farmers does not guarantee you getting supply the year round without irrigation..

I know the next excuse would be funds, and you will be surprised at how much you can raise with ingenuity. You can run a similar project to what Jasper is doing in Ogbomosho, I'm sure a lot of NLers won't mind investing in your Tomato farm, you can factor in the cost of the borehole in your estimate.

If I were you, I will leave that Oke ogun area you are and move to somewhere around Ibadan, ijebu ode or abeokuta where linking the major markets won't be a problem..
Please stop focusing on only Lagos markets, I'm sure the cabals in Ibadan, Oyo, ijebu ode, Ife and other smaller towns would be easier to manage..

I am an aspiring farmer myself and i must say what you just shared here is totally true, humans are very complicated and unpredictable..... God will grant Jethro2 the wisdom to take her business to the next level. Amen

Hello, hv u gotten the seeds or u still need it? quote author=Joive post=36545818]Good All. @Op, you are a tomatoes don. Can anybody link me with sellers of Recent varieties (2010 or newer) of tomatoes seeds? I need both determinate and indeterminate varieties. Its urgent:
I like the following breeders : Syngenta, East west seeds or any other type.
you can call me on; 08131030440

I read in the earlier part of this post where someone said its not possible to have a tomatoes variety that yields 100tons/ha. For your information, it is very possible. The varieties of Syngenta and East west seeds can yield 60 tons per acre, and 1hectare is = 2.5 acres. therefore total yield per ha is 150 tons.[/quote]

Hmnnnnnnnnnn

Many entrepreneurs never gets it right because the main target and focus has been MONEY.
But sincerely when your target goal is attending to peoples need, money will surely follow.
The only person i have to compete against is always myself and myself alone.
Have you ever heard of the african proverbs that says "If you want to go far, go alone but if you want to go fast, go with people"
I would always opt to go with people.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Coldplay007:
First time I will be commenting on the Agric section..
I'm an aspiring farmer and I love your spirit.
Lovely thread you have here. I'm not a hardcore farmer like you have here but a programmer, (not in the software sense)..
I'm into running public health programs.
I can see that you are very Technical but you need to learn a bit of programmes, a course in project management or an MBA might do you a lot of good..
Empowering the capacity of the farmers like you did is guaranteed to ensure you remain a small scale farmer for a long time..
There are two many variables beyond your control with that move, what if they refuse to sell to you and decide to transport it to ogbomosho or Ibadan themselves.. you will be surprised at the ingenuity of these farmers in breaking that huge cabal you talk off..
What if somebody comes to their farm and offer them 100 Naira more, or even one of your readers on NL go their market to buy the tomatoes off them to sell for his own markets..
They way to go would be to go at it all by yourself and become a large scale farmer(buy or lease more lands, get a bore hole and plant monthly like you suggest, because using the farmers does not guarantee you getting supply the year round without irrigation..
I know the next excuse would be funds, and you will be surprised at how much you can raise with ingenuity. You can run a similar project to what Jasper is doing in Ogbomosho, I'm sure a lot of NLers won't mind investing in your Tomato farm, you can factor in the cost of the borehole in your estimate.
If I were you, I will leave that Oke ogun area you are and move to somewhere around Ibadan, ijebu ode or abeokuta where linking the major markets won't be a problem..
Please stop focusing on only Lagos markets, I'm sure the cabals in Ibadan, Oyo, ijebu ode, Ife and other smaller towns would be easier to manage..

@coldplay you made some point esp d human angle point of view. She will b dealin with ppl who are mostly illitrates and we knw hw some of them think, some will even think u are using their virtue or star and could be diabolical(well jetro knows them better). Bt on some issues raised like are goin for some program like MBA, i think its off d shelve. What they teach is mostly theoritical wc does nt apply to her biz thats why we are where we are today too much paper qualificatn. Agric is practical even what she is doin superceeds a Phd thesis i knw a prof in agric who failed woefully in his fish farm thinkin its his field. On irrigation, I ask at what cost? We are talking of constant supply goin into several hectares of land. This is where govt comes in wt dams and channelling of water, irrigation becomes expensive when u are talkin abt large farms. The irony of it is dt wt no rain d price is still ridiculous. Again govt comes in, no commodity boards to curb glut. The truth must b told an individual or group cant do d work of govt. If not we will only wear ourselves out.