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epainos:
From everything I have read here...hmmmm

Imagine the other guy acting like a consultant..lol. he has 60,000 cobs, but his team cannot tell him he should sell at min of N100.....he came here to say rubbish. Lol. And then said you were right that his team told him after he had made a mockery of himself....lol. same person wants to do abrakatabra calculation again...lol.....See...keep taking suggestions and advice from fake farmers. Real farmers have told you...Guess what? They have left. They won't say much. I only pity you. Leave these fake farmers alone and take your product to where you are told. Pray for favor....and if you don't make profit...give God the glory..bounce back to your farm.

Production amendment is too late..... you have poor germination or not...high yield ...or not ....should not be your focus now. Selling your corn is what you should focus on. Leave these paper farmers calculating rubbish.

See...just survive this. Loss or gain...just survive it. The most important thing is getting cash to return to the farm.

You can count the numbers of cobs per bag yourself...and put the bags on scale. Get your data and don't listen to any useless data coming from someone who has 60,000 cobs but doesn't know the price to sell. Lol.

My advice to you.....take retailing more seriously. If you roast one corn and sell at 3 for N500 also.....do your calculation na. Your brain should start working. How many hubs can you set up, sell roasted, and boiled corn? How many cobs can each hub sell a day? That's what your focus should be after this production.

If you can sell just 100 cobs per hub per day and you have 5 hubs, you should harvest 500 cobs per day. So. What do you need to do? You cultivate what can give you 3,500 cobs per week. And keep planting that per week. You don't need to fill your whole farm at once. You go gradually. But go learn how to do staggered production and how to tackle pests very well. There are different strategies for staggered continuous production and filling the farm at once.

If you do staggered production and retail you corn, you will never regret it. This period we are is not for selling to agents. Go read my threads, and I preach retailing. Reduce production and focus more on retailing. Spend less on the farm but make more profit retailing.

It may surprise you that a farmer who retailed his tomato on less than a plot of land made more profit than a farmer who cultivated 6 plots. Lol. You are a small-scale farmer mehn. Learn retailing. Downsize production. That guy who advised you to go all out and increase production is your enemy. Learn from the lady who bought N16k goods and spent N7k on transport. So, do you think she will embark on such without knowing she is going to be profitable? She is smart. Lol. Only you entered a business and did not know your profit or marketing strategy before starting. Lol.

After doing proper market research, you may have to cultivate 500 stands per week or even less. It may be up to 1,000 or more depending on the outcome of your research.

If you like...keep expanding your farm.. you will only make agents richer while you lament endlessly here. And you will start discouraging others from farming. There are so many losers like that around. Don't be one. Learn retailing..learn marketing... Downsize production.

Good luck!

oilyngbati:
Thanks for letting that ipob terrorist know and if any of those kidnappers masquerading as ‘freedom fighters’ come close to your land, send them back to their miserable ancestors. They are eyeing Anioma land because they want to turn it into another sad east and render it economically unviable like they’ve turned their 5 plots of dot land

igbosarejews:
You're not an Igbo speaker of Delta state, wating concern you. Can't you manage Urohbo, Itshekiri, Ijaw and Isoko. Ozuwor

wiseoneking:
Who cares about your retuning , moreover in this small group Nairaland, this is the first time of noticing you. We actually welcome creation Anioma state and it be part of the greater SE region in future.

subcbouy:
So what does asking for a state have to do with having had a governor for 8yrs now? Wasn't other ethnic groups served like Anioma, apart Ijaw and Isoko? Nawa for una sha!

Ayemileto:
It should be at least 223 per bag on average.

The women used 4 of those big beans bags, and 3 of those 50KG rice bags.

I came up with the 223 figure because the women took 18 for N1,000, and they had 87 stacks after grouping the maize into 18 per stack.

(87x18) divided by 7 will give a little over 223 for each bag.

If we add an extra 50 for the stacks that are more than 18, then it can go up to 230 per bag on average.

Goodvibes007:
You dey mind them topic title should be Ibo boys visit Ned Nwoko. The kind of topic some of the mod push to FP ehn

Chimarto:
this one na Yoruba from his tone of voice 🤣😂

PHIPEX:
You may need.to cry louder, Ned might hear you

PHIPEX:
Is it your Anioma, why are you this bitter? What do you stand to lose if Anioma is created?

Chimarto:
Then stop speaking igbo and bearing IGBO name. My company will capitalize fully on electric vehicles and machine, by 2035,oil will be entirely useless, let see the values of Ikwerres then

Curious345:
Lovely .
Another great Ibo son doing us proud .

Unlike our Ibo brothers inhabiting the ikwerre lands , who are being deceived by some naughty elders and professors and have now found themselves in an identity crises situation ..

Ayemileto:
Thank you.

helinues:
Politicians are all the same

Without being in government but using such convoy

Ayemileto:
Well, like I said in my opening post, this is my first time. So, I'm clueless on how much quantity to expect, and you don't expect me to be selling like I'm doing giveaways with this kind of uncertainty.

All the theoretical maths didn't actually work accurately too. For example, theoretically, A 3 acres land size should take 25KG of maize seeds. But when we planted, we didn't even finish the 20KG bag of seeds (we planted manually. I intend to use a machine to plant next time, so as to address this).

Also, I can see we discussed on another thread about the germination rate. I planted Seedco 510 seed variety, I believed pests removed a good portion of the seeds, even after replanting. you on the other hand suggested the germination rate was poor from your experience.

So, I have to make decisions in my best interests, with all these in mind.

You may be making alternate decisions from the one I'm making, based on the information and experience you have, and that's fine.

Ayemileto:
Well, you're in a very far distance from reality. Like I said, I don't see how I will break even at that price.

And even if I would break even at that price, there's nothing wrong with wanting more money for my produce.

They resell at a rate of 3 maize for 500, but thinks is OK to buy 9/10 maize for 500 on the farm. Literally, they are selling at 3 times or more what they buy on the farm.

And even the 9/10 maize they pick on the farm, they still take more than that even when monitored. They know you can't count everything, so they'll sometimes take far more than 10.

The entire thing they harvested filled like 7 bags yesterday, and everything they paid is 87K, which is not even up to 1/4 of my expenses.

The money I spent on Labour (Clearing, Packing, Weeding, Planting, Spraying of Herbicides etc) is around 400k, maize seeds for an Hectare came at a rate of 45k including delivery.

If I keep selling at this rate, then I'll need about 42 bags to break even, and around 92 bags to make a 120% profit (as you claimed). Do you think a 1 hectare farm can produce up to 92 bags? I'm really curious and will like to learn from you

epainos:
Have you taken your medication this morning?

Ayemileto:
I'm a first time maize farmer, and my maize farm is finally ready for Harvesting. Someone brought in some market women to harvest and buy today.

The rate at which this women purchased is so ridiculous that if I continue selling like this, I won't make what I spent on the project back, not to talk of profit.

It was actually painful because I didn't discuss price with them before they started harvesting, as I assumed the person who brought them already did the discussion, only for this women to come up with a ridiculous rate after harvesting. They claim there's now excess maize in the market.

Another buyer someone called for me offer even worse prices.

It appears they have a maize seller association, where they fix their buying prices.

I'm currently considering harvesting and taking to the market myself, because I'm sure I should be able to sell at X2 of their buying prices (their buying prices is currently between 40 - 55 Naira per Maize on Average, and I think I should be able to sell at 100 - 120 Naira per Maize at the market)

I can't leave the maize to dry because of the rate of rainfall we're currently experiencing.

Any Clue from experienced farmers?

2buffagain:
Lol @ Instagram slay queens based in Naija trying to strike up conversations with diasporan African men. What do we have in common? We know why you are reaching out. We will not save you.

When we were begging you people to vote with sense in this past election you said no, Tinubu's satchet garri is what will make you sell your destiny.

I have already said I will not send anybody back in naija any help. May this hunger make you people do the needful.

You know where these so-called leaders live. Put fear into their hearts. Raid their palaces. Loot their storehouses. Destroy their false sense of security as they live amongst the hungry obedient dogs they believe you to be.

They are not human. Show them what human rage looks like.