AGRITECH, THE FUN, THE EASE.

THE PROS AND CONS OF THOROUGH LAND PREPARATION.

Recently a client engaged me to set up her 7 hectares cassava farm, she was clear about what she wanted and what she does not want. “I already have a cleared land, all I need from you is just technical back up, to get me a good variety of cassava, fix on the soil , bring in fertilizer and help me do routine check up till it is ready for harvest”. It wasn’t my 1st time a client will be describing an 8-12 months job in just 8-12 minutes, ofcourse it is always a pleasure listening to clients farm with mouth! On what she does not want she said “I have planted maize this year on the same land and I suffered a great loss, so poor, I could not even recouped half of the money spent talk more of profit, I felt so discouraged.” I said to myself, “familiar story”, often people have garbaged in to agriculture like that and hit their head hard on a rock. It can be so painful. We proceeded to her “cleared” land and I got the shock of my life. It was nearly as worst ...

Value addition makes you a better, modern and business minded Farmer.

Couple of weeks back, the CEO of one of the farms I work with, called me in and said, " I am tired of this agric business, it pays less, looks to me like you just work for others to eat, Fishes i raised for average for 5 to 8 months, a buyer comes in and get at 550/600 naira per 1, then he goes to an hotel, bar or road side, create a mini processing facilities, make barbecue or pepper soup, sells the head for 1000 naira, and the tail for 1500, I feel cheated. The Mallam that came to buy on my farm, or the pepper soup woman has made 2500 naira from the fish he got from me at 500 naira". Familiar sorry, I smiled and said to her, what this person has done is to add value to the raw fish she got from you, with minimum Maggi, tomatoes and pepper cost, then sell for you at triple the price. That moment I decided I will write on value addition, but along the line, I got busy and it esc...

HOW AGRIBUSINESS DIFFERS FROM THE CONVENTIONAL BUSINESS

Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production, an industry engaged in the producing operations of a farm, the manufacture and distribution of farm equipment and supplies, and the processing, storage, and distribution of farm commodities. The term was coined in 1957 by Goldberg and Davis. It includes agrichemicals, breeding , crop production ( farming and contract farming ), distribution, farm machinery ,processing, and seed supply, as well as marketing and retail sales. All agents of the food and fiber value chain and those institutions that influence it are part of the agribusiness system. Examples of Agribusiness Companies Deere & Company, which makes John Deere equipment, may be one of the best-known examples of a classic agribusiness company. The firm doesn't own farms or produce food products, but nearly every farmer owns a John Deere tractor, baler or some other piece of the quintessential green and gold farm equipment. Monsanto Company, which manufacture...

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