AGRITREASURE

THE OFF-SEASON Off season is the season after the rain has gone for the year.  It varies across different nations, and regions.  For Nigeria,  the off season starts from October a d ends in March on the average.   Exactly what can farmers do in the off-season?  It depends on what kind of farm you have. But regardless of the type of farm, the major off season works are as follows: 1. Equipment maintenance.  Farmers need to do maintenance on their equipment to get it ready for planting in a few months. Your equipment has been used long hours over just a few weeks, so it needs a little extra TLC to keep it running in good shape. 2. Forward plan You may want to do a lot of planning for next year. Making sure that you have a plan for which type of crop go into which field, which hybrids or varieties are going into which field, and that each field is prepared ahead.  3. Increase attention given to your animal farm.  If a far...

Have you ever laboured hard to produce your animals and crops and in the end still have to labour to sell off your product? Has it been hard for you to get that agricultural produce you want in the right quantity, quality and at the right time. With Agriconnect, you are just a moment away from achieving buying and selling of agricultural produce with ease. Our aim is to link potential buyers of agricultural produce with sellers, solving problem of 2 clients with a single move!!! Let us know what you wish to buy.... Tell us what you wish to sell AGRICONNECT..... Selling and buying your agricultural produce with ease!

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 ...

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A team of researchers in chongqing Jiaotong University in  China has found a way to turn desert into forests, they created a paste from natural materials found in plant, this paste when mixed with sand, turns it to a soil suitable for  crop growth. With the paste, the sand has been empowered with qualities of soil; water,air and nutrient retention.   With this breakthrough, it took just six months to transform 200 hectares of a chinese desert into a land rich with different type of crops. It is our hope that some day in Nigeria, our research will be developmental and get to this level of solving problems, for the sake of all of us. 

With the increasingly diverse use of cassava products in Nigeria, cassava farming is getting more lucrative with every passing day. This farm product has always been a source of livelihood and food for millions of Nigerians. 90% of Nigerian households consume cassava products everyday. Some of the meals are: garri, cassava-flour, animal feed, commercial caramel, and a lot more. As the population of Nigeria, and Africa as a whole continues to grow, the demand for cassava products will continue to skyrocket, leading to higher revenues generated by cassava farmers. This widespread consumption of cassava products will continue to place it as a cash crop that always gets bought after a harvest, and guarantees a good profit after sales. Freshly harvested cassava tubers MODEL FOR OPERATIONS AND COST 1). Selection of a Good Site. When getting a site to setup a cassava farm, an area with deep well drained loamy soil, adequate rainfall, and warm & moist climatic conditions...

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