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aguiyi:

I don't know of any farm close to me

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An alternative is to get matured ones from the wild.

FarmTech:
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An alternative is to get matured ones from the wild.

ok i will keep you posted but do you have idea of the unit price of a full grown snail, it will help me in bargaining with the sellers when i meet them

aguiyi:

ok i will keep you posted but do you have idea of the unit price of a full grown snail, it will help me in bargaining with the sellers when i meet them

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I dont know the price.

aguiyi: Planting has started, made ridges on the land, the plantain are in between the ridges while cassava is on the ridges

good work here, any update of activities n the farm?

OP, this is bold and commendable. In order to succeed u must also consider farm security. 2800x1300=3.64m from plantain alone. Some bank and filling station heists dont yield as much.

In some villages people are known to invade farms not to eat but to sell. Those doing the planting for a fee may be the ones to come at night. Seek advice from locals NL may not be of much help in this regard.

Give us a status report! My prayer is with you, as I seek to be like you in the nearest future

The agric business is not as cheap as government and others make it look on television. We over-romanticise agriculture as a cheap business. No. Real agric business costs money, demands patience and demands massive support by government. In any country where it has succeeded, government has had to back it heavily. We are not seeing that here.


if you have a farm manager who is lazy, sloppy, shoddy or dishonest, you can’t succeed.


Most of the older generation doing agric now may realise they have lost too much money and withdraw, for three reasons - management, capital and the quality of seeds, which is very low in Nigeria. The worst of the reasons is the quality of management. Most of the big-time farmers go to Israel or India to bring experts, but the arrangement never lasts. These people can’t understand this society. But I don’t see why we can’t train young Nigerians to be our own farm experts. A farm manager can come as expensive as a bank manager, and under him, a farm venture can never fail if he knows his onions.

At 200 million population in 10 years’ time, assuming that every Nigerian eats N100 worth of food every day - and that’s very small - we’ll be eating N20 billion food per day. A fairly decent eating account should be N1,000 per day. That will be N2 trillion worth of food a day for all Nigerians. Some people have to produce the food and we can’t continue to believe there will continue to be oil money to satisfy that demand.

aguiyi:

No I don't but I have read so many journals and books on it

Hello Aguiyi -please can you send me your phone no. I will like to contact you.