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Agribusiness by Proxy.

As an entrepreneur, you are the one who conceptualize the business. You own the drive and energy to move the enterprise forward to success.

Your absence or presence is a key determinant to successful agribusiness.

Running your agribusiness by proxy is a recipe to failure!

This is because the proxy does not possess that passion and drive of the owner. The understanding of the proxy manager is equally limited.

Way out? Spend on training the proxy manager. Spend money on training them in mind set restructuring, re-orientation and on knowledge ( Agronomy or best practices )

Rice farmers. this is for you

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happy Sunday

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Use of Improved Varieties.

Call me to pick

Raise animals.

I'm aware interest rates on savings account is 3.5% in Commercial banks. Fixed Deposits attracts up to 12%.
Loan from Commercial Banks attracts about 20-30% ( including all rates and fees). It is too cheap to lock your money in the bank. But it is expensive to borrow from the bank.

What I'm I driving at? Hows that related to raising animals.

There are various systems of rearing animals:
=Free range
=Semi Intensive
=Intensive.

D epending on which ever system you chose to operate. "You cannot" or "You are not expected to loose money" if you operate it using integrated system.

e.g Excess Cassava harvest is processed to animal feed, their dung and feace are used to manure the land to grow Maize and Cassava. Saving you money from purchase of inorganic fertilizer.

or excess grown vegetables are to fed to your goats, weevil infested maize is used to grow fodder for cows , or cabbage is deliberately grown to feed Snails. e.t.c



There are various strategies to converting animal raising to better investments than keeping in Fixed Deposits or saving accounts.

1. Young animals like cow, dwarf goats, ram and dogs are bought and kept to grow, reproduce and increase their progeny. ( long term)

2. Animal fattening (cow, ram, goats) (short term)


Cavert: All farm animals must be kept in secured places. The fear of cattle rustling and general theft may discourage one.

50% - 100% profit are attainable

available. Cost saving and sustainable

still available

Do you have a fairly good water source?

Fertilization.

The use of fertilizers is unavoidable if you must make good profits. Knowing the crop needs determine the type of fertilizer to be applied.

It could be organic or inorganic. It could be in granule form or in liquid form. Liquid fertilizers could be foliar fed or root fed.

Jettison fertilizer application at your own risk!



Rule of thumb for granule fertilizer application
1. Never apply granule fertilizers too close to your crop.
2. Always cover the fertilizer with soil to avoid being washed away by surface run-off.
3. Too little or too much fertilizers is tantamount to TOTAL LOSS.



Rule of thumb for foliar fertilizer application.
1. Read and Follow the application instructions to the last.
2. Never spray when temperature is too hot. Spray when temperatures is low - early morning and late evening.
3. Apply foliar fertilizer when the soil is moist.
4. Sprayer used must produce perfect mist . Therefore,adjust your sprayer to produce tiny mist before use.

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selling.

Plan ahead

nextman:
Is crop farming the only type of farming?

no sir. That's an input

1. Use of Improved Seeds.

It is pertinent to use improved seeds nowadays Inorder for you to have good yield.

Do you know that there is a CLEAR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEEDS AND GRAINS?

Seeds are specially cultivated, monitored and selected to be sold to farmers who intend to grow grains. eg. Maize, millet, soyabeans, Okra, etc. They are usually pre-treated but then I'll advise that you too equally do some seed dusting with Apron Star and others.

Grains are those produced by every farmer, sold to open market and bought in the open market like mile 12, Ketu market or Oja-Oba in my village. Your own farm produce is a grain.

Buy only seeds from approved and government licenced seed companies.

Note: Not necessarily IMPORTED. Our indigenous Seed Companies are performing wonders. Patronize them!

Unfortunately, Some of the popular brands are not even registered with Nigerian Seed Council. Very sad.

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Large quantity of Seed trays are now available. They are 104 cells. Good for all crops.

This size avoids all post transplant shocks.

The dry season is approaching. Plan ahead

tap into this blessings

Management practices that increases farm yields.

1. Use of Improved Varieties

2. Fertilization

3. Associate Crops

4. Mulching to Conserve moisture

5. Reduce losses in Storage

6. Raise animals


Details coming. ..

happy Sunday to you

This is not Made in China. Durable to last.

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Houstency:
Nice thread Op.. following and learning seriously. Keep them coming op.

I'm glad someone is learning something here.

edenjones:
welldone oga saliu pls i will need abt 2 units on my plantain farm
pls send me detail needs/costs to edenarc052@yahoo.com
also - is it movable from place to place
-is it supplied with hose ,if not help with the costs too
thanks

Sir. It is not supplied with a hose. It is movable and work best when used with a river or stream. If used with borehole, it will drain the water too quickly.

P3:
What's the price for 1000m?

Full kits only for now.

P3:
What's the price for 1000m?

But full kits only for now.

Babalagzy:
Hello,
Do you also sell the stand for the rain gun?

Yes. I provide you stand too. it's made with galvanized pipe.

Determining your farmland size? ??

Whence we all lease land or buy land, We are too anxious to commense farming that we usually neglect confirming ourself the EXACT AREA/DIMENSIONS of the intended land.

Why? the one who is beguelling the land to us has told us verbally that the farmland is so and so acre. And we believed!

===Measure the field with a measuring tape.
===1 hectare is 10000m2 ( 100m x 100m)
===1acre is 4000m2 (100m x 40m)

That way you know precisely your land size and you can better evaluate your profit and losses index.

farm work don't have to stop even if the rains are gone