kenfarm is pertionate about information sharing on this platform knowing very well the implication of venturing into an investment without full knowledge.

When you seek for information from the reliable source, you are at the long run cutting down on risk factors. Risk factors are peculiar to every Biz and some can only be reduced while some can be eradicated completely most time with the right information.

So when you spend cash on getting information before venturing into that Agric Biz, you are taking the right steps in the right directions. You do not want to experiment with your investment.

Picture showing one of the biggest risk factor for plantain plantation you need to consult expert to fix ahead. Like I said early, some risk factors are avoidable while others which are caused by nature are not avoidable but can be reduced to the bearest minimum.... Do not assume you know enough to stand alone

Purchase our TME production book and get 70% of the info needed as far as cassava value chain is concern.

Cheers!!

kenfarm is pertionate about information sharing on this platform knowing very well the implication of venturing into an investment without full knowledge.

When you seek for information from the reliable source, you are at the long run cutting down on risk factors. Risk factors are peculiar to every Biz and some can only be reduced while some can be eradicated completely most time with the right information.

So when you spend cash on getting information before venturing into that Agric Biz, you are taking the right steps in the right directions. You do not want to experiment with your investment.

Picture showing one of the biggest risk factor for plantain plantation you need to consult expert to fix ahead. Like I said early, some risk factors are avoidable while others which are caused by nature are not avoidable but can be reduced to the bearest minimum.... Do not assume you know enough to stand alone

Purchase our TME production book and get 70% of the info needed as far as cassava value chain is concern.

Cheers!!

For the purpose of educating kenfarm potential followers and client….pls read the below info:

A client contacted kenfarm help desk and below is his Query

I have a cassava and plantain plantation
Weeds has been a major problem. Manual weeding has been too expensive.
What chemicals can be used without harming the crops sir?
And also what types of fertilizer can be used and at what stage.
Thanks



Below if kenfarm response:

Good day Madam
Controlling weed can be very challenging especially if you have elephant grass as the major weed in by your farm. However, you can apply either contact herbicide or systemic herbicide.
Contact herbicide are often applied during the rain period because it action start just 1hr after application. Rain is not expected to fall on the weed just after applying any herbicide.
Example of contact is paraeforce
Paraeforce act on the leaf

Systemic herbicide is the type of herbicide that start action 12- 24hrs after application. It simply means that after application of systemic herbicide, rain must not fall on the weed for 24hrs else the rain water will dilute the concentration of the herbicide rendering it inactive. The reason I said earlier that contact herbicide is preferred during rain season.
Unlike contact herbicide, systemic herbicide act on the leaf, stem and some time the root depending on the active ingredient.
Example if systemic herbicide is glyphosate.
So for your farm, if the dominant weed is elephant grass, I will recommend you use round-up herbicide or glyphosate herbicide
Follow the manufacturer direction on what Qty to apply
But if your farm weed is other weed and not elephant grass, I will recommend you apply paraeforce mix together with atrazin powder and spray. Atrazin is a herbicide that act on the weed seed and root. It action is even stronger as the rain fall on the weed

As for fertilizer, I may not be able to advice you well enough since I did not do a soil fertility test of your farm soil. I mean to say that the type of fertilizer, Qty of fertilizer and method of application is scientifically dependent on the test result of your soil fertility test. We do soil fertility test and we often put recommendations of how to improve our client soil fertility after retrieving the soil test result
However, if you supply kenfarm with a response to the below questions, then I may be of help in term of what type of fertilizer to apply
1. How old are the crops you intend to apply fertilizer?
2. Have you applied any fertilizer at all since after planting?
3. Did you do a soil test of the soil before cultivation ?
4. What type of crop did you plant


Below is my client follow-up response to my above Questions 1 - 4

Thank you so much for this invaluable information.
In response to your questions:
1. Plantain stems was planted May last year but not producing fruit yet. Only applied fertilizer once at planting stage
2. Cassava planted too last on a plot, growing well but fertilizer applied once too
3. Now finished planting cassava this Monday on an acre- fertilizer applied before planting
4. No soil test was done before planting. Is it too late to do one?



Below is kenfarm response to the above response from our client
In response to your questions:


Client ANS 1. Plantain stems was planted May last year but not producing fruit yet. Only applied fertilizer once at planting stage

kenfarm Remarks: OK if the plantain was planted in May last year, it is expected to have attain puberty now and must have gotten to the flowering stage. Hence, any application if fertilizer now is a waste of resources for the parent suckers. Though application of fertilizer now to the plantain will be beneficial to the up coming offspring in the next season. But the fertilizer will not be useful for the parent which has already attained puberty.. All the parent sucker need now to come out with big bunches is lot of water and hopefully the fertilizer applied at tender age will be enough to produce quality bunches.
If however the fruit start coming out and u realised it small....consult us

Client ANS 2. Cassava planted too last on a plot, growing well but fertilizer applied once too

kenfarm Remarks: How tuberous your cassava tuber will grow depends on if you make a heap. If you make no heap and apply fertilizer, the tubers will still not be tuberous. So if you made heap, good but if not, am sorry do not expect a good yield of cassava......we have a book which is collated by experienced cassava farmers together with plant Nutritionist. The book spell out all you need to know on Cassava production and value chain. You may odder for either soft Copt or hard copy. It will be of tremendous help

Client ANS 3. Now finished planting cassava this Monday on an acre- fertilizer applied before planting.

kenfarm Remarks: if you did not do a soil test before cultivation, it means you be doing a blanket application of fertilizer. But have it in mind that under application of fertilizer and over application of fertilizer are both injurious to the health of your crops. Hence, only critical level is agronomist recommendations.

Client ANS: 4. No soil test was done before planting. Is it too late to do one?

kenfarm Remarks: It never late to check for a soil fertility. The following factors determines whether or not you need to check the fertility of your soil:
1. If you just acquire a farm land that been pur to use for a long period
2. If you have been practicing continuous cropping system
3. If your yield is becoming poor compare to few years back
4. If you are going to purchase ha of farmland for commercial farming
5. If you want to confirm which crop(s) can grow bear on your farm soil
For more detail please consult with kenfarm 08038623884


It strictly to enlighten ourselves
Cheers!!

One area that can be more challenging in plantain farming is getting market for your fruit. After you have invested material resource and human resources on that farm land, harvest time is the time to know whether you will recover your input or lose everything to buyer who will take advantage of you.

If you spend the whole year caring for your plantain plantation and forget the fact that creating your market start from the day you transplanted the suckers, then you have yourself to blame.

The implication is that your fruit will all produce good yield but you be shock to know that the only available buyer are the bolly (roosted plantain) sellers who will offer to come buy at farm gate and pay you #200 per bunch ( e shock you?)

Or bad enough, you pay labour for harvesting the fruit, pay labour to bring them out of farm and pay transport to take them to the market then you settle down to sell and the wholesalers at the market will be pricing a bunch for #300 or max #400

They will even tell you they are doing you a favour by buying it off from you. Then you tell yourself, these stuff are perishable. The more they stay, the more they lose market value which is actually true.

Sadly you eventually sell them off and return home sad.

Make no such mistakes. The benefit of involving professional in the business is to guard you through a whole planting cycle. I mean to say you need the services of professional like kenfarm who will not only sell viable suckers to you. We sell suckers to our esteem client and continue to give them follow up from pre- planting to planting to post planting.

We would give you some clues as to how to recover your investment within a period of time and we also give you clues as to how to make your plantation sustainable. Because if the plantation is not sustainable, then gaining your investment over a period of time is almost impossible.

For you to accomplish your plan and retrieve your investment, 3 key factors must be played well

1. You must plant a viable sucker

2. Your farm soil must be fertile ( we help you ascertain this )

3. The management of the plantation must be man by an experienced farmer

If any of these factors is faulty, I can assure you frustration will surely set in and you will definitely lose your investment if you do not quickly seek for intervention from experience farmers like kenfarm

Downloading info from Google can never be enough to manage farm. Watching video on you tube can never be a good way to gain skill needed to manage your plantation.

Y?
Because which ever way you manage your plantation depends on

1. The out come of your soil fertility test

2. The geographical location of your farm

3. The biological factors and environmental factors peculiar to your farm

4. The availability of labour

I can go on and on

The bottom line is that those info you get online may not be applicable to your farm due to the factors listed above. Every farm is unique.

For consultation, contact kenfarm on 08038623884

Cheers!!

kenfarm:
Any update on Ibadan passport office.....do they have leaf now?

They just got a few to "process some August and September batches" according to them.

Can you imagine such gross, utmost incompetence?

There's no bottom to this country !

kenfarm:
Any update on Ibadan passport office.....do they have leaf now?

No update. Fed up already

Client Question: Why do I need to cultivate a plantain plantation?

MERITS OF PLANTAIN
Plantain is also a diuretic so is useful for kidney and bladder problems. It is taken throughout the day as a tea to help the kidneys and bladder. It is used in bed-wetting challenges. It also helps dropsy and water retention. Sometimes diuretics should be teamed with a demulcent herb to buffer the effects on the kidneys. There is no research or recommendations that taking plantain tea requires ones. Actually, plantain itself is a demulcent also.
Visit my URL to a more educating benefits of plantain(www.kenfarm.com.ng).
More reason why you should place oder for our plantain suckers today[/quote]

WhatsApp contact is 08038623884

Ken4agent:
Vital info for new plantain plantation owner
The info was necessary because of Qs new and potential plantain farmer usually ask on my SM pages

1. When a sucker is 6months, it has attain puberty and any treatment in terms of nutrient addition is a pure waste of time and resources. All nutrient application is to be done b4 the sucker is 6months. It takes the sucker 5-6months to take all it need to produce good fruit from the soil. Any further application of nutrient after 6months will only make the sucker pseudo-stem grow fatter. I don't think you intend to sell the pseudo-stem

2. A sucker stem that has not bear a fruit will always continue to grow even when it cut off. But the moment it bear fruit it has completed it life-cycle. So whether you cut it or not, it will whether off. This is the reason we often cut off the sucker after cutting off the bunch. Cutting off the sucker will enable more offspring to shoot out around the parent.

3. After 4weeks of transplanting, always apply fertilizer (NPK 12:12:17). If you have access to potash (Eru from Aro) then apply to the base of each stand. When the sucker attain puberty, then heap soil round the base to fortify the root and to enhance more suckers growing around the parent.

For more info, contact kenfarm
Cheers!!

If I don't have Npk

Can't I use Poultry manure as the Fertilizer

How many bags of acre will go for an acre

kenfarm:


Pls can my elder Brother be my sponsor and produce his account details?

No .... but he can send you the money to you or your parents and you use either accounts. That the only way

Are you aware that terracing is one if the solution to that farm land prone to erosion?

Are you aware that planting a viable seed is the determinant factor for your farm success?

Are you are that it is only a scientific soil test done by kenfarm can ascertain your soil fertility after putting to use for a couple of season or before purchase?

Are you aware that hybrid suckers are resilient to desease but not to wind erosion?

Are you aware that kenfarm do not only supply you with viable seed but also give you professional guide to ensure you get it right?

Are you aware that crop production is basically classified into:
1. Land preparation
2. Cultivation of crops
3. Management of crops
4. Marketing if crop

Hence if you hire us we or purchase our viable hybrid seeds, we would be given you proper guide on all the above

Look out for our post on plantation sustainability

Season greating from all of us in kenfarm to our esteem customers. May we live to see many more xmas in good health...IJN

kenfarm:


"Not like its our fault we are menstrating"

Laf won kee person

lmao... Very manipulative human beings they are..
When they want to receive they suddenly forget all men are scum and become humble

kenfarm:
Pls once again, ensure that you get the direct pjone line & URL of the kenfarms who are into the investment stuff.

People!! Pls stop calling me to vent your anger in respect to your whatever investment.

my Agro firm is "kenfarm" and we do not collect cash from anybody for any form of investment.

We are into crop production/farm management and never do investment.

For those folks calling us, pls do not call our hotline for enquiries regarding to any form of investment again!!!

The lady that call this evening to rudely express displeasure on her investment, pls we deserve an aporlogy because your use of words was poor. Even as i try to explain you contacting the wrong coy, you still call back to be more rude.

I wish to ask the said kenfarms who are into agric invest a Q: pls why are your investors calling our hot line??


They have never mistakenly send cash to our account Number. They always sending cash to the right person and start calling the wrong person....Y?

Are yu aware that:
1. The colour of your farm soil down the profile has implication of your farm soil fertility and yield?

2. The colour of the top soil gives you a clue as to which crop you can cultivate. Meaning that if your top soil is Heterogeneous, then it selective of the type of crop you can plant on it

3. Level of Nitrogen is the farm soil indicate the level of organic mater in your farm soil. But do not indicate the % of organic matter

4. The planting history of your farm gives you an insight into whether or not the land whort investing your million on

Do a soil test with kenfarm and the solution to all these will be revealed by our Questionnaire that we/ you fill in as you collect the farm soil for fertility testing.


The picture above is a farm soil in the SW we collected during the week and soil at the moment undergoing fertility testing
Do it right in the coming season and expect a much better different result
Cheers!!