AGRITREASURE

In one of the foundation articles written on these blog,  I dealt with how agribusiness differs from conventional businesses. Agribusiness play  by its own unique rules which must be strictly followed.  I always preach these caution, especially to conventional business people having interest in agriculture or already set up one.  It will interest you to know that of all the available agribusiness options,  poultry business stands out as one of the most lucrative,  yet most dangerous venture,  it can lift you up in a minute and it fold up and drop you back to your starting point in the next minute,  if proper care and caution is not taken. Below are the few areas you should look into,  if you have started or about to start your poultry business.   1. Have your business thoroughly planned out.  You don’t  just start ,  you should have a plan,  the number you wish to produce,  the market survey , ...

Couple of weeks back, precisely December 9th, 2017, I saw a news headline "FG begins aerial spray against Quelea birds, other pests in Bauchi"  It was the first time I am reading such headline, I was able to isolate and interpret what “ pest” and aerial spray” is, but I had no idea what  Quelea is, also I have not heard of aerial spray as mode of combating pest in Nigeria prior that time. So I promised to embark on a research into the new “ guy” Quelea compelling us to bring out agricultural fighter chopers/ jets. In my mind, I thought its another stronger novel pest, evolving from an older specie we already know, like the case of the fall army warm we had to deal with in 2017. I was wrong, Quelea is not new, as a matter of fact it has been described as far back as 1758 by Linnaeus and its preferred locality being  India, this was however corrected to Senegal by Scater.  Reichenbach in 1950 gave the bird the generic name Quelea. Quelea is the most nume...