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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by dandylass: 4:46pm On Jun 20, 2016
Wonderful. I hv a strong desire to venture into palm tree farming and on my course of Googleing information abt it i stumbled into this trend pls i need more information
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by boyisfine: 11:16pm On Jun 20, 2016
read thread from the beginning
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by rex0105(m): 11:51pm On Jun 22, 2016
@ tjadeniyi,

I don't mind if you can help out as regarding land for the purpose of the plantation in either Osun and Ondo as you earlier advised, you can cntact me via ask4ralph@engineer.com

Regards.

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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 10:21pm On Jun 23, 2016
rex0105:
@ tjadeniyi,

I don't mind if you can help out as regarding land for the purpose of the plantation in either Osun and Ondo as you earlier advised, you can cntact me via ask4ralph@engineer.com

Regards.
@rex1050....Though I am not promising you but try whatsapp me and let us reason together......
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by rex0105(m): 7:11am On Jun 25, 2016
ok...what's the contact no.

Thanks
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 5:41am On Jul 02, 2016
@rex0105 check my signature or better still 08035645516(pls whatsapp only)
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by Enochadem: 6:15pm On Jul 10, 2016
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by okine4real: 12:18am On Jun 02, 2013

Also wanting to cheap in some ideas that just stumbled into mine head. One of the main reason most farmers dont make enough profit is because they spend more money hiring labour. Mine Plantation has not started yet, but due to what i have read and mine experence in mine present business, i know that the higher your hired Laboured, the lower your profit.

As for me, if i want to Harvest mine Palms, it would be mine staffs that would be harvesting, i would not hire Labour. Also to make your Harvest Fast and for your Staff not to get tired easily while harvesting, i would use a mechcalnized Harvesting tool. I dont know if you have seen this tool before... The tool is about 6inch long, it as a kind of generator at the base which you would start like a generator, then the otherside of the tool as an opening mouth. The tool has different harvesting technique, it is a sickle, cutlass, shovel mouth etc So when you want to harvest you just insert any the kind of technique you want to use and off you go. In two seconds you are through with a particular tree. So while waste your time paying villagers or a labourer 100 Naira to help you harvest just one tree? Also there is also another Machine you can use to weed your plantation? Just like those machines you see, those farmers use in triming grasses along Ikorodu road. Instead of hairing Labours to weed your plantation, just buy like 3pc of the machines and when your staffs are free in the factory, drive them down to the plantation for them to weed.

But in all, Management is still the key.... If you can manage your plantation well..... You would always be smiling to the bank.

Any farmer in the house should please shed some light on mine thread....................

QUESTION: @ okine4real. Just how much do the mechanized harvesting tool and the trimming machine cost and where can one purchase them?
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 8:19pm On Jul 10, 2016
@Enochadem. Your suggestions/imaginations are correct and OK. But with my experience not that economical to follow.
I can tell you categorically here that 70% workers of Okomu and Presco are contract/adhoc staff. Even NIFOR have more contract harvesters, maintenance (clearing) staffers than permanent.
Major reason is that that Oil-Palm plantation is seasonal agribusiness. You need more hands in harvesting during the season and no need need in keeping them when the bunches are less. If you have a mature and producing plantation, your slashing schedule won't be more than 4 times in a year which you can hire people to do within those periods rather than keeping monthly workers that will be asking for salary for complete a year and also they will be asking for increment all the time.
If your farm is well located the permanent workers needed are:
Farm Supervisor or Manager
Security (ies)
Operator(s) (if mechanized).

Hire others.
Personal opinion though but from experience.
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by aiotaq: 5:17pm On Jul 11, 2016
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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by dandylass: 11:32pm On Jul 15, 2016
Hello house i just sample 42 palm tree in my village at Ebonyi State Ikwo this week. I use 20ft on 100 by 100 and planted 36 palm trees on it. Is it good. Im making arrangement to buy kernel at NIFOR in August to raise against next year. How much can 300 palm trees will be generating for me annually after 4yrs and how many tones kernel can i get from it yearly.
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 8:34pm On Jul 16, 2016
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dandylass:
Hello house i just sample 42 palm tree in my village at Ebonyi State Ikwo this week. I use 20ft on 100 by 100 and planted 36 palm trees on it. Is it good. Im making arrangement to buy kernel at NIFOR in August to raise against next year. How much can 300 palm trees will be generating for me annually after 4yrs and how many tones kernel can i get from it yearly.
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dandylass:
Hello house i just sample 42 palm tree in my village at Ebonyi State Ikwo this week. I use 20ft on 100 by 100 and planted 36 palm trees on it. Is it good. Im making arrangement to buy kernel at NIFOR in August to raise against next year. How much can 300 palm trees will be generating for me annually after 4yrs and how many tones kernel can i get from it yearly.
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by BHope95: 9:46am On Jul 22, 2016
please how much do you pay for the land.
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by BHope95: 9:47am On Jul 22, 2016
okine4real:
I have been hearing lots of people, talking about different types of Agricultural produce they can plant or would want to plant, But what i have not seen on these forum is for someone to really come out and tell us, all the stress, difficulties, ups and down he/she went through before setting up there plantation.

I want to start by saying i have managed to secure mine self 13 plots of land. Each plot is a 100 by 100 feet. i want to start up an oil palm plantation. I have been able to buy 1755 oil palm Nursery from NIFOR. My story goes like these.......

Each oil palm nursery cost 150 Naira
Loading of each oil palm Nursery inside the vehicle is 20 Naira each
I paid 50,000 to convey the goods from IMO state to Ibusa Delta state.

please how much did you pay for the land.

On getting to the farm, the vehicle could not get to ibusa on time, the vehicle got to ibusa around 9.30pm. So the vehicle had to park in the house for the night. The next morning the journey to the farm began around 6.30Am, on getting to the entrance of the farm, the vehicle could not go in, because of poor road network. The vehicle managed to drive in but as the vehicle drove in, some sticks punctured one tire. So we had to off load the hold oil palm nursery on the ground. So we hard to go hire a pick up van. The van owner charged us 6,000 to convey the nursery to a location closer to mine own farm because there are other people farm in front of mine farm. now after that, i had to call the Hausa boys to use there wheelbarrow to convey the nursery to the farm, they charged 24,000. na wa ohhhh

Now the next stage is for me to plant. My mum's brother did one of these Agricultural causes is school, so he is a professional when planting oil palms.

We used a spacing is 8.7feet. you heard me clear, 8.7 feet. while they where doing the measurement, you know when planting oil palm, you have to do pegging, some hard roots was sitting on the sport where he was suppose to plant the oil palm, there was so much roots on the ground, we called the Hausa people again, they charged me 30,000 to uproot all the hard roots. so work continued. As am specking now, they have finished planting the 1755 oil palms. They would be buying more 200 palms because its like the land is more bigger than with i was told.

While am putting these here is for the new people that wants to go into farming. People, if you must go into farming, you must have money..... The more you go into it, the more unforeseen issues comes, and if you don't have cash to solve the issue immediately, your work would be suspended.

Also it does not end in just planting, there are still lots of things to be done before the said three years when you would starting harvesting.


So far so good, i have don't lots of mistakes in setting up mine oil palm plantation. If i have read some post that advices one on NL about setting up Oil palm plantation, i would not have made these silly mistakes.

if you are setting up an oil palm plantation.

Never you buy expensive lands.
Buy from NIFOR in your State not from outside your state
Let there me good motor able rood, so the vehicle conveying the palms can go into your land direct.
Make sure there is know roots in the ground that would disturb when planting


I would update later when more things comes into mine head

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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by abmart80: 10:05am On Aug 22, 2016
@ Tjadeniyi, please kindly get in touch with me on hsemartins@gmail.com I will like us to discuss some issue together regarding the Oil Palm Plantation business, I will be expecting to read from you?
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 12:36pm On Aug 22, 2016
abmart80:
@ Tjadeniyi, please kindly get in touch with me on hsemartins@gmail.com I will like us to discuss some issue together regarding the Oil Palm Plantation business, I will be expecting to read from you?

Ok
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by Cosmascares: 9:20am On Aug 23, 2016
Please, I need help in setting up an oil palm plantation in Ibadan. I'll appreciate your help a lot in carrying this out because I have very little idea of what it takes.
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by sosoguru: 6:53am On Aug 28, 2016
Where can I get a cheap farmland that is free from dispute to buy as I am interested in buying 1,000 hectares of farmland for palm oil plantation and how much would it cost?
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 5:45pm On Aug 28, 2016
sosoguru:
Where can I get a cheap farmland that is free from dispute to buy as I am interested in buying 1,000 hectares of farmland for palm oil plantation and how much would it cost?

1000ha =2,471 acres = 10km² cool

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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by bukaeno1: 10:31pm On Aug 28, 2016
fertile farm land for sale at ibadan/iseyin road @ 60k per acre for more details contact 07015627762 total acreage available is 400 with survey . Our company offers free agricultural consultancy service after you procure the land
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by sleekman(m): 11:13pm On Aug 28, 2016
sosoguru:
Where can I get a cheap farmland that is free from dispute to buy as I am interested in buying 1,000 hectares of farmland for palm oil plantation and how much would it cost?
Call me on 08038383232 or send me an SMS
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by sleekman(m): 12:48am On Aug 29, 2016
Hello Everyone,

Just want to commend d good job thus far. I have an inherited palm plantation roughly 10hectares. Trees are about 30yrs old so I'll say it's at its peak though they can produce a little less optimally for another 20yrs. As regards d spacing, ours is 8x8m. Going to slowly start phasing out the trees section by section. As regards the machines, if your plantation isn't in the heart of the rainforest then it's ok to use the machines. I've used them and I'll advice against buying them cos they can't withstand the grown up weeds. If u must buy them due to the topology of your area the go for the powerful ones. Preferably from 43cc and up and u might need to do some fabrication on the handle to steel rods as again the aluminium pipes.
I have resolved to resolved to go for much higher due to the size of my palm plantation. After extensive research I discovered the M Seppi attachment to a tractor or skid steer. My brother, the work wen dey this business no be here O! It's profitable but u go sweat. Major challenge being getting workers to harvest 12-20m tall trees. At this stage even the pole harvesters don't work. You need those Calabar winchi boys to do their thing and of course d yanga that follows. Back to that attachment I alluded to earlier, buying this will take away a whole lot of problems cos it's something you can operate yourself and brush your plantation once or twice every year. The advantage of this implement is that it immediately turns all other vegetation in the plantation into manure for the plantation.

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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by chines4(m): 12:56am On Sep 07, 2016
Anybody with a good land in south east, at a good price need about 10 to 20ha
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by fideldman: 4:19am On Sep 13, 2016
@okine4real :Hello, I will like to discuss with you on this palm oil plantation. my contact is 08054345642
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by Cosmascares: 3:47pm On Sep 14, 2016
bukaeno1:
fertile farm land for sale at ibadan/iseyin road @ 60k per acre for more details contact 07015627762 total acreage available is 400 with survey . Our company offers free agricultural consultancy service after you procure the land


Is this land still available? How far is it from Ibadan?
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by bukaeno1: 5:05am On Sep 15, 2016
The land is still available kindly call me so that we can talk about the land


Is this land still available? How far is it from Ibadan? [/quote]
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by kalakutta: 3:41am On Sep 26, 2016
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Am currently setting up a 1,500 hectare plantation. We just finished transplanting 300 hectares. We shall plant the remaining next year. Worthwhile and futuristic venture. Also capital intensive. We are ready to wait for 4 years before we celebrate. 2019 is around the corner

Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by fideldman: 7:50am On Sep 26, 2016
kalakutta:
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Am currently setting up a 1,500 hectare plantation. We just finished transplanting 300 hectares. We shall plant the remaining next year. Worthwhile and futuristic venture. Also capital intensive. We are ready to wait for 4 years before we celebrate. 2019 is around the corner

Pls @ kalakutta , kindly contact me on 08054345642 and lets talk
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 3:37pm On Sep 26, 2016
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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 3:41pm On Sep 26, 2016
kalakutta:


Am currently setting up a 1,500 hectare plantation. We just finished transplanting 300 hectares. We shall plant the remaining next year. Worthwhile and futuristic venture. Also capital intensive. We are ready to wait for 4 years before we celebrate. 2019 is around the corner

Wow!
Cool.
300ha, good start.
Worthy of venturing into and generational source of income.
Yes, capital intensive but worth it.
Hmmmm, 4 years! Ceteris paribus, 5 years.
All-in-all kudos. (y)
Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by tjadeniyi(m): 9:33pm On Oct 11, 2016
Hello House,
I believe some grown-up plantation owners are smiling to their banks at this moment, as the price of all products from oil-palm are appreciating everyday.
You of the maturing plantations too will soon join the club.
You the potentials too will reach there; it is a matter of time.
Wishing you all "Happy Profiting Agribusiness" moment.
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Re: Starting An Oil Palm Plantation by odinaka5: 2:28pm On Nov 07, 2016
Hello house

I just saw this thread and it was more than useful. I have 6 acres of land for palm plantation. I want to ask how many palm tree can I plant in that land with a 9meter spacing. And also I want to ask where can I get a very cheap land in southeast Nigeria like an hectar for very cheap for Palm plantation purpose.

Thanks very much.

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