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Another planting season is here. What are you planting?

Omoka1999:
[I have a good contact in Delta state
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If you have any link on better coconut species, let know

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What are you planting this season

Time to plant pawpaw

Watching

We shall see

Nawa oo

steel5800:
Thank you for your response.

You're welcomed

steel5800:
Wow. Op advised a spacing of 3m by 3m but a quick Google search showed an ideal standard spacing of 7.5m by 7.5m. Pls which spacing is suitable for the Malaysian dwarf?

If you have enough space, you can even go as far as 10m spacing and can also cultivate other things in between.
3m spacing is very ideal if you want to optimize your space. Try to plant your trees at the same time so that they can grow uniformly without one dominating the other. Each will have equal access to sunlight

NaijaPropagato:
In Lagos, in Surulere near the Sports Complex, they sell coconut with the water on Sundays. In Rivers State (Bonny), years ago, they had and still have coconut estates that they used to farm, dry the meat (Mockerel) and export to England before the focus shifted to Petroleum. These were villagers that farmed the coconut estates and traded with Europeans but after the petroleum boom, most of them left it and it is now government property.

We need to go back to Agriculture

Another rainy season is here. What are planting?

Let's invest toward this

4. When you plant coconut or any fruit in general, you need to give it protection against diseases and some animal intruders. Make sure you ward off cattle and goat, weed around them to prevent hibernation of rodents and other animals that pose as threat.
Provide adequate nutrients and water to enable the plant develop strong immunity against diseases.

Evidenx:
okay sir thanks. I intend planting coconut and paw-paw.

Start immediately. Take a forward step

Remember to plant yam in sack this season

3. Nutrients
Nobody can survive without food. Same here, nutrients are food for the plants. Though you may not know, that fruit whether orange or coconut or pawpaw is sweet is a function of the available nutrients to the plants.
If you have any orange that's not sweet, just provide some nutrients to it, the taste changes immediately.
How does nutrients gets to the soil?
Bacteria and Fungal play the role here. Have you ever wondered why people turn sour fruits to sweet fruits by digging round the tree and pouring sugar round it?
Here is the science behind it. Bacteria like sugar. Bacteria feeds on the sugar and releases Nitrogen nutrients to the plants.
Manure and Compost are major nutrients source acted upon by both bacteria and fungal
Make sure you have nutrients source and always replenish as when due

2. Soil type
Irrespective of your plant, the soil type is one of the factors that determine the output both quantity and quality. Same way bone provides support to humans, soil provides platform for plant growth. Avoid clay and waterlogged soil. Seek for well drained sandy or loamy soil.
Another issue here is soil chemical. The soil PH. Soil PH tells you whether the soil is acidic or alkaline. Different plants perform at different scale of PH. Acidic soil of about 5 to 6 is good for both orange and coconut.

Whatever soil type you have, don't be deterred, there are ways to improve the soil and make it better. Israel was initially desert but today, they can feed the whole world.

1. Species
Species type can make or mar your investment. For example, I have an orange specie that produce two types of oranges.
Type A orange is very big and attractive but big for nothing. No water inside and not sweet. This consists about 60%
Type B orange has one funny shape but very sweet and much water inside.
If out of ignorance as I did, invest on this specie, believe me, no returns of investment.
In another note, I have another orange specie, the original orange, took about 5 years to attain maturity and fruit. This specie is my joy, fruits all over it, the yield is excellent. It has water and very sweet. I had wished all my orange trees are like this.
Please pay attention to the species you're buying

Whichever you're planting, one thing is very important.
GETTING IT RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING.
The foundation of everything matters a lot. Same applicable here.
1. Right species
2. Good soil type
3. Nutrients
4. Protection against disease and other treat
5. Water water water !!!!
6. Supervision

One challenge you may get with orange is marketing. A lot of middle men. Coconut is easier to market than orange. Coconut is scarce, the demand is far higher than the supply.
You will make more money in orange if you sell directly to the Aboki. Avoid the middle men as much as you can. If you take care of your Orange trees by providing irrigation, manure, pesticide etc, the orange that will be produced will be big sizes, sweat, and fresh. By this way, buyers will rush for it

ibinaboonline:
You export coconut to Turkey?

Have market for coconut oil (cold processed)

Ephiezy4real:
I will advise 100 trees per 4,000 Square meters (1 acre) at 6m x 6m spacing. 1,000 trees will need 10 acres

6m spacing is too much if you want to optimize your land

Ephiezy4real:
Can you tell us the yield per tree sir? And the revenue per tree just as coconut gave you about 50k per tree. Which one would you say is more profitable?

Very nice question.
Well nourished orange tree can give you about 8bags of oranges per annum. Each bag costs about #7,500.
8bags x 7,500 = #60k
The orange here is not all these grafted (Agric) orange trees. Am talking about the conventional orange tree.
If you're investing in orange plantation, just forget the Agric type that fruits within 3 years, it will not give you good result. It's good for your domestic consumption. For commercial purpose, go for the normal Orange trees with thurns all over it, it takes about 5 years to fruit, by then, it has attained it maturity. One of this may be equivalent to about 3 of the Agric type in terms of output.
I hope I made some point here.

Ephiezy4real:
Well done OP, those are actually older varieties. We now have new improved varieties (malaysian dwarf) that fruits in 3 years, dwarf, more prolific and fruits for up to seven decades

Contact me on 08168457917 for proper check on your variety

Evidenx:
How many coconut tree can I plant in a 100x100 land?

You can plant up to 100 using 3metre spacing

Drsnives:
No enough land just 200 by 100

Then, go for coconut

Drsnives:
Master, I have 2plots of land and am thinking of planting palm but there, with this your coconut matter am confused, please which of them pays more?

Don't be confused. You can try both

PraizHim:
Obyno I hail oh. Your class/ course mate

I salute you

Dshocker:
I was actually talking with someone on this forum on coconut plantation.

I plan to use 100 hectares of land for the project.

Constrain right now is the finance, which i hope would be available before the end of the year.

God will provide

Kensab:
So does it mean coconut farming is more profitable than palm?

Both are good. Each has it's merit

Dshocker:
What type of coconut did you plant hybrid or native?

Both

Dshocker:
Who do you sell to?

Many including fruit sellers