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iamdannyfc:
Wow. Apart from reading to the end, i realise on this thread that my fear of starting my own farm is about to end.

I just request a farm from my school authority this month, hoping that my friend whom i believe is an experience farmer would partner with me on the farm.
Well, he agreed and i requested for the land. But the problem now is that we thought he would be doing his I.T inside school but unfortunately he will be going to another state.
I have been searching for who can mentor me since then before we resume back to school next month.
And here i am!
Oya! Where should i start from @pistotita

1. If it is going to be gardening as hobby, you buy as many seeds as possible which are meant for gardeners. Tomato, Lettuce, Kale, Cabbage, Cucumber, Corn, Basil, Watercress, Cauliflower, Radish, Carrot, watermelon, melon, etc. Go get manure and turn it to compost. It is a gradual process. Check threads in the Agricultural section.

2. If it's farming for profit. The first assignment is to carry out market research. Go to vegetable markets around you and know what sells well. You can't go wrong with cucumber as your first crop. Most farmers start with it. Check Agric section to learn more.

Vegetable production is very profitable.

You can train yourself. Don't travel inside bush to go pay anyone for training. Train yourself.

Pistotita:
1. If it is going to be gardening as hobby, you buy as many seeds as possible which are meant for gardeners. Tomato, Lettuce, Kale, Cabbage, Cucumber, Corn, Basil, Watercress, Cauliflower, Radish, Carrot, watermelon, melon, etc. Go get manure and turn it to compost. It is a gradual process. Check threads in the Agricultural section.

2. If it's farming for profit. The first assignment is to carry out market research. Go to vegetable markets around you and know what sells well. You can't go wrong with cucumber as your first crop. Most farmers start with it. Check Agric section to learn more.

Vegetable production is very profitable.

You can train yourself. Do travel inside bush to go pay anyone for training. Train yourself.

Thanks , actually I'm not really aiming to make profit out of it now, it's just to have experience. And if at the end of the day it ends up been profitable then I guess I'm doing something right .
I was actually planning to start with pepper before, what did you think?

iamdannyfc:
Thanks , actually I'm not really aiming to make profit out of it now, it's just to have experience. And if at the end of the day it ends up been profitable then I guess I'm doing something right .
I was actually planning to start with pepper before, what did you think?

There are three main kinds of pepper popular in Nigeria - bell, chilli, habanero.

Take out your pen and go to market to find out the following:
1. retailing prices
2. Wholesale prices - prices those retailers buy in large open market
3. Agent prices - prices farmers get paid.

You can position yourself in any of the 3 above, but the easiest and least profitable is number 3, while 1 is the most profitable and requires deeper researches and resources to achieve.

Then, take note of prices fluctuation. Try to seek good counsel so you can predict almost accurately the price of your products when you will harvest them.

Thenafter, try to know what you need to produce. Get the cost of everything. I believe you can make a better decision this way.

But I know you can get it right with chilli habanero, and cucumber.

Pistotita:
There are three main kinds of pepper popular in Nigeria - bell, chilli, habanero.

Take out your pen and go to market to find out the following:
1. retailing prices
2. Wholesale prices - prices those retailers buy in large open market
3. Agent prices - prices farmers get paid.

You can position yourself in any of the 3 above, but the easiest and least profitable is number 3, while 1 is the most profitable and requires deeper researches and resources to achieve.

Then, take note of prices fluctuation. Try to seek good counsel so you can predict almost accurately the price of your products when you will harvest them.

Thenafter, try to know what you need to produce. Get the cost of everything. I believe you can make a better decision this way.

But I know you can get it right with chilli habanero, and cucumber.

okay thanks, i will first make the market research as suggested by you.
But what about ferterlizing the farm, bcus from what i have been reading in the agric section,going organic seems impossible now bcus forming a compost take about 8 month. Any advice about this?
For the vegetable i'm going to grow, it seems that is not a problem since mixed farming is allowed

iamdannyfc:
okay thanks, i will first make the market research as suggested by you.
But what about ferterlizing the farm, bcus from what i have been reading in the agric section,going organic seems impossible now bcus forming a compost take about 8 month. Any advice about this?
For the vegetable i'm going to grow, it seems that is not a problem since mixed farming is allowed

Old skool farmer. 8 months?

Pistotita:
Fenandez

It amazed me how a Nigerian teenage boy got through with a solid mineral international business deal in the United States to make his first million dollars. And this boy was not even born in the US. He migrated to the US in his second year of his high school. I studied the life of this great man, and it really shaped my thought.

Late Chief Antonio Oladeinde Fenandez, an extra - ordinary ambassador was so powerful and rich that kings, queens, princes, and princesses flocked round him. He had many deals with George Bush Sr. and they were a bit close. Fenandez children called the great Mandela, "Uncle Nelson" or "Uncle Mandela". That's to show how close Mandela was to his family.

Fenandez, a man after knowledge
His zeal for knowledge prompted me to look deeply in his lifestyle. He searched knowledge via Ogboni Fraternity, and was one of the highest ranking officer during his time. The fraternity is of Yoruba race, and can be said to be in the same category with Freemason. Igbo's Nze Na Ozo, and South South's Ekpe are in the same category too. These are gatherings and societies of honorary men in the society according to human standard.

Are you saying you know more than these men? Are you more knowledgeable than Chief Dehinde Fenandez? Do you think he did not think about science too? Perhaps religion and zeal to seek knowledge is fo.olishness. If it is foolish, why would a powerful man like Chief Fenandez walk along such path?

This was a man who never for a day dreamt of involving himself in the Nigerian politics, but dined with them. They all begged him for favor including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. And no wonder Asiwaju made his daughter so powerful in Lagos when he was the governor of Lagos State. A man who married 5 wives, and two were from Nigerian powerful royal homes. His wife Chief Erelu Dosumu-Fenandez of the Lagos Royal home was so popular in those days that King Sunny Ade praised her in one his albums. So, are you telling me that you know more than Chief Fenandez? Yet, you are here on nairaland screaming like con.fused goats debating nonse.nse.

Was there a turn around at the end of his life
It is still a mystery to me how Pastor Tunde Bakare was with his last wife in front seat during his funeral service in church, and at the cemetery in Brussels where he was buried. The Ogboni Fraternity was one of the reasons I really studied this man. I mean, why would Pastor Tunde Bakare attend the funeral of an Ogboni man far away in Belgium? He left his church in Ogba, Lagos, and travelled all the way to Brussels to attend a high ranking fraternity member's funeral. Or is Pastor Bakare himself a member?

When I was a kid, I attended an elementary school very close to the home of the great entertainer, theatre pro, actor, narrator, and musician Hubert Ogunde. I know so much about him because he was a champ in the area. Who didn't know who he was? People dreaded him. He would plait his hair (All back style), wore white robe, and gallantly moved around in those days. That was a powerful Ogboni member in his days. So, when I heard Chief Fenandez was a powerful ranking officer, I knew immediately the kind of charisma deposited in him too. So, the question I am still asking is: Did he abandon the fraternity? Tunde Bakare's presence kinda confused me, even till date.

Why should you try to listen to the intuitive fraction if you are a logical oriented person? Think about this question very well. What I discovered is that more powerful, knowledgeable, wealthy people follow the intuitive path more than the experimental.

I was not surprised when Chief Olu Falae was cautioned by Professor Wole Soyinka to remove one of the reasons he was challenging Chief Obasanjo's 1999 presidential election victory. Chief Falae accused Chief Obasanjo of being a member of a fraternity (probably Ogboni, but I am not sure), and that he was not qualified to contest the election. Lol. The same chief Obasanjo who was a general in the military, later returned to school to earn a phd in theology. A man whose letters shake presidents. His letter was one of the tools that unseated president Goodluck Jonathan. So, presidents, ambassadors, wealthy men etc are members of this Ogboni Fraternity. And what are they looking for? Knowledge.

Is there sense in your involvement in religious e-war on nairaland? If you have to debate, do it in peace, and stop releasing venom. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is wealth. And Knowledge is almost everything on earth. If you do not seek knowledge, you are inferior. If you do not have real hunger and thirst for it, you are a failure. And to me, it seems the application of knowledge is intuition.

Brilliant, but every knowledge outside God's provision is not acceptable to God.

blueAgent:
Brilliant, but every knowledge outside God's provision is not acceptable to God.

I agree, but ONLY if one knows God (or if one has had an encounter with Him). The story of Adam and Eve (I am going to write something relaring to that very soon) especially the part they were barnished from the garden because they ate the apple the knowledge. And God sent them out so they do not eat the apple of immortality. Hmmmmm! I have got many questions.

Knowledge is power. The day one launches out successfully into the abstract world is the day one understands the real meaning of knowledge. The only affirmative comment I am going to add here is that: When you know the power of the Holy Ghost and you are intimate with Him, you will definitely not cross the boundary of life knowledge and death knowledge.

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You this good for nothing bigot. So you're religious. You're the reason Nigeria is Nigeria. I'll drag you in every thread you've on NL, until you delete where you called me a failure you won't have peace.

Please, leave this man above me alone oooo. Let him display his frustrations everywhere. He lost 1 ha cucumber farm and he is letting his frustrations on me. Please, allow him. Tolerate him. Otherwise, he may commit suicide. I will take all the bullets for the sake of saving his soul. Just ignore him. Pleaaase! And any other comments from him or others ...just ignore. Thanks!

Pistotita:
Please, leave this man above me alone oooo. Let him display his frustrations everywhere. He lost 1 ha cucumber farm and he is letting his frustrations on me. Please, allow him. Tolerate him. Otherwise, he may commit suicide. I will take all the bullets for the sake of saving his soul. Just ignore him. Pleaaase! And any other comments from him or others ...just ignore. Thanks!

Oga keep on running your mouth. I'll find you. And when I expose your identity. Then we will end this with the authorities. Keep on hiding behind the name. I'll find you. I swear I'll find you. That defamatory skill you've harnessed has made you need with the wrong person. You think this is Just a wanna be farmer that's not knowledgeable. You think you can continue defaming people. I'm your last. I'll find you.