Sterlingsolutns:
Azura and Osssiomo power plants were constructed and working perfectly without a penny investment by the federal government versus nipp power projects that are beset with so many bottlenecks. Lcc at a time constructed their road and maintaining it before Lagos state took it over from them. Any project that is not economically viable for the private investors to key in to should be deferred otherwise we will run into bankruptcy Dangote and private modular refineries are moving in strides Bua own is coming up strongly while the government refineries are languishing even with all the turnaround maintenance

How can anyone justify additional debt burden? Madam minister just informed us that Federal Government retained revenue between January and May 2020 was N1.48 trillion and debt service was N1.25 trillion. If we continue with this trajectory, in a very short while, debt service will be higher than retained revenue. The government should just make the environment conducive for the private sector to thrive and take the back seat. They should just accept the fact that power has changed hands unlike before when petro dollars still imbue government with strength and they can grand stand

iwaeda:

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Alphafarms:


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Alphafarms:
@ sterlingsolutns, yes it is really profitable, as for the FCR, it takes 7 months to get close to 1kg, with little input.

As for the expensive to maintain angle, i don't really understand your point, all fishes lives in water and if using concrete or trapouline pond, the water is changed as when necessary as in the case of catfish.

As for the market, believe me when I tell you there is ready Market which our local production can't meet at the moment, that's why we are urging fish farmers to come in and tap from it.
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Alphafarms:
In Nigeria of today, anybody that tells you he or she is into fish farming, the type of fish that comes to mind is catfish. How ever, this thread is not in anyway, trying to belittle or discouraged anyone from farming catfish. As a matter of fact, I also hatch/produce catfish seedlings, and farm catfish and I have been doing this since 2007 till date, and I can tell you that catfish is profitable and interesting to farm.
Early last year, I was opportune to go for a short course on tilapia fingerlings production, and I can tell you that tilapia is highly profitable and interesting to venture into.
Here are some advantages of tilapia over catfish
1. Ready market: most of my customers are hotels, restaurant, cold rooms, exporters etc. No room for panicking, there's always market available.
2. Storage advantage: unlike catfish, tilapia can be refrigerated and store for a long time, that is why cold rooms also buy, because it can be stored.
3. Export: Do you know you can export tilapia(red) directly from your farm to US? As in a frozen form. Information they say is key
4. Dried/smoked: It can also be dried/smoked, as in the case of catfish and the likes.
5. Variety: There are silver/black and red tilapia, unlike catfish which has only black as colour.
6. Less cannibalism: Tilapia cannibalize less, unlike catfish.

These are some advantages tilapia has over catfish.

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Seedforthagro1:
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They bought and cultivated thousands of Gamhar RZ F1 seeds (rainy season tomato variety) months back.

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willybaby:
just the force up Sir... Actually it was a little boy of 15 that sprayed d farm

willybaby:
Good evening all....
Updates from. Farm15 coming up..
Our corns story is truely the survival of the fittest..
Pictures coming

hacts900:
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okoroemeka:
for your no 1 question it's better to check your market and see the type they prefer,maybe take a photo or two,so we can diagnosis the variety or you can divide the land and plant half of each and see the outcome.(2)from the practical experiments conducted in sacks,there's no possible way a cucumber planted on the soil direct will outperform those planted in sacks, because whatever nutrients that is applied in sack remains there,but nutrients applied on soil can easily leech into the soil after a heavy rain and go far down the root zone were it will be useless for the crops but the only drawback in sacks is the back bending,bone wrenching work of filling the sacks with soil.our cucumbers planted in sack are light years ahead of those planted on soil

willybaby:
earlier post on the thread addressed some points you raised and answered some questions too, diuron is a pre mergent, googling is good but most recommendations you'd get ain't available in Nigeria
Force up was used

willybaby:
Grasses are all dieing, some corns are dieing, cassava is doing very well

emmaodet:


Though, after re-planting, we are experiencing a good growth.

emmaodet:
This is the groundnut harvested yesterday.
Local seed type ready for harvest.

Lesgupnigeria:

From planting to harvest,it takes 11 months

Farmerakinloye6:
almost 2plot, the place am using is 143by 105 feet

Lesgupnigeria:
For your hybrid suckers and affordable, genuine land, kindly call 08164628081 in Ogun state and Oyo state

willybaby:
Planting going on.... a custard rubber of corn seeds was bought a total of 6800 heaps was planted today by 3 people with 2 seeds per heap

emmaodet:


1) When did you plant the seeds?
Planted on 18-june-2020

2) What yield are you looking at?
Expected yield is 2 tons of shelled groundnuts per hectare minimum.

3[b]) What gives you the comfort that the risks enumerated here will not crystallize in your location of contract farming?
Pls can you shed more light on this? your English big small sir for me.


4) When is rainfall fully established in Ogun State and Northern Niger State?
Ogun state normally is from march to September and niger is june to September.
You can have 2 farming season per year in Ogun for a 3 months duration crop while 1 farming season in niger.
Yes, you are right about planting groundnuts twice a year in Ogun. Am doing that presently. Planted first groundnuts in May at Abeokuta and planting the second one in july at odeda

Farmerakinloye6:
sir, you want me to count tomato fruit one one inside crate? Smile... workload will not permit me, don't know in future shaaa

jidestroud:


Don't get me wrong Boss mi, I just wanted to be clear on the per plant. Your harvest is truly good.
For example, when I did my statistics per plant the last time I did Cobra 26, per plant I was able to harvest 5.64kg per plant. i.e average weight per fruit was 85grams.

In summary, that is (5640/85)grams = 66.35 fruits per plant.

So you are absolutely correct with your analysis.

emmaodet:
I had to reduce my company capital exposure to risk by engaging in a contract farming with the farmers.
I don't need to worry about owning a land, workers theft, erratic rainfall, fulani herdsmen etc.
i only gave them improved seedlings with chemicals to offtake at 60% market price at the time of harvest.

Farmerakinloye6:
The total time I was able to irrigate till date was 8 time, unlike my colleague that irrigate more that 30 times.

jethro2:
Good day sir
Yes. I come in once in a while to read on agriculture section. I restrict my agricultural writtings and farm pictures to my Facebook timeline

The 30cm spacing work excellently for cucumber provided you are staking them

I could send you some pictures of the cucumbers we did and the current one on the farm using the same spacing through WhatsApp or other means.

The yield automatically increase because there is more plant giving you fruits

The main point is to make sure your soil is rich in nutrients through poultry waste and cow dung so the plants will not compete

At one point of harvest, we harvested 35 bags of cucumbers from 5 raised bed of 2m *25m lenght

80 of such raised beds can be mapped out from an acre

I tried attaching it here but it's not responding.
I would have love to attach here

You can also Google cucumber raised bed farming with my name Yinka Adesola, I believe several of the pictures, past and current will spring up

The system was first introduced to my team by IFDC as back as 2014

It's a highly productive system for cucumber

OluchiDelly:


Educative thread u have here sis.

My choice of weeding is herbicides. I use any a.I nicosulfuron, such as striker , guard force, i sometimes mix wt atrazine. Nico is selective to corn n very potent, just 100ml in ur tank, u get d magic. But transplanted veggies can nt survive in that land in d next 3 months. I fell victim once, so I stopped using it, cos I cherished d life of my veggies more.
I am currently using glyphosate/paraquat. I improvised a hood over my nozzle at a low pressure to focus/control d direction of d vapour with d hood very closed to d ground to avoid diversion by wind. I spray in such a way that the mouth of d nozzle/hood is directed away from d plants, tho injury sometimes but very minimal. Frustration from workers can make one think outside box.

okoroemeka:
after several experiments on using organic chicken manure(ocm) for fertigation in cucumbers we finally decided to use the method of soaking the OCM in a big vat not putting it in bags and pouring water into it and after turning for 3-4 days the mixture is left to settle for a day so that the solid materials will sediment at the bottom,this method gives faster extraction of nutrients in the OCM,so we simply skim the solution and filter with a fine mesh,we have no method to check the nutrient composition of the OCM but the solution is so potent that if it drops on cucumber leafs that area will turn white in hours just like urea,the organic fertigation was a success no blocked emitters no dramas.with this method it's a cost cutting solution on feeding crops small dose of nutrients even on a daily basis with no added stress either on the body or in the pocket.

asuustrike1:

So are you implying they destroy old buildings?

asuustrike1:

No they shouldn't infact many old buildings are stronger than the ones erected this days