I wrote this proposal some time back to present to you as a solution for protein. Small groups can grow these pole beans, which are very easy to grow, I researched online from an African perspective and U.S, as to the costs, set up, and maintenance of Bean production. This business is very profitable and since beans is my plant I am doing this for myself as well. I suggest or recommend however, that every team member has one plant they like to grow, one that is profitable and highly needed. Also it is good to study the companion plants that accompany your plant. That is a separate matter and won't be discussed here, although it is good to list them, so I included a small section on companion plants for beans. This is without any set up for companion plants, related costs, suggested proposal, etc. I could add this at any time. Beans are a staple food that can be added with rice, herbs, vegetables for a complete meal. This will cut down on using animals and thus save on meat costs. Meat is very expensive on the continent. And its simply a lot of meat for hundreds of students to be eating everyday best to invest in beans for protein. Also I suggested an exotic variety of beans be grown in the greenhouse. There are over 50 different varieties of beans with different taste, textures, and nutritional values. These beans here, in the proposal, Climbing/Pole Beans, have the most yield, are resilient to disease and easy to grow outside where we have lots of land. This proposal calls for 10 acres, 33 tonnes of beans per season, 4 growing seasons, set up costs around $20,000 for seeds; this is an U.S price for seeds, not including trellis equipment costs, I don't think it will be more than a few hundred dollars for wire and poles. The profit for this proposal is estimated to be an estimated $110358.00 per year.









Supports for Climbing Beans and Peas



Supports for Climbing Beans and Peas
Vertically growing plants are an attractive feature of many vegetable gardens as well as being an excellent spac...


Garden Trellis - How to Make the Best Supports for Climbing Vegetables








Garden Trellis - How to Make the Best Supports for Climbing Vegetables
Training climbing vegetables up supports is a great way to get maximum yield from minimum space. Building your o...




Climbing Beans/Pole Beans


16 Varieties in East Africa


3 Recommended Varieties


CAB-Bureruka, CAB2-Gasirinda and RWV 1892-Ngwirurare


These are only available in East Africa. Unable to verify or exact cross type with American Pole beans.


U.S Variety of Climbing/Pole Beans


KENTUCKY WONDER POLE BEANS - HEIRLOOM - PHASEOLUS VULGARIS


Kentucky Wonder is a brown-seeded bean noted for its exceptional flavour and its heavy crops of 9" green pods, borne in clusters. Pods are oval, thick, gently curved, meaty and tender, and they're stringless when young. It's been proven tops for productivity, flavour and wide adaptability; it's delicious fresh, frozen or dried for shell beans. Pole beans yield much longer than bush beans, right up to frost. Plant at the base of poles, trellis, or a fence.


URL leading to link: Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans - Heirloom - Phaseolus Vulgaris - 10 Seeds


R 19.00


Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans - Heirloom - Phaseolus Vulgaris - 10 Seeds
Kentucky Wonder is a brown-seeded bean noted for its exceptional flavour and its heavy crops of 9" green ...


Fortex
Bean Seed


Early, dependable pole bean with an extended harvest period.


Growing to over 11", Fortex produces extra long, round pods. Early and very productive, the beans may be picked at 7" in length for extra slender, "filet" beans. Dark green, firm-textured pods are completely stringless and delicious at all lengths, even after the seeds enlarge. Walnut brown seeds. Avg. 1,050 seeds/lb. Packet: 50 seeds.


PRODUCT PRICE QTY
Packet $3.95
250 Seeds $10.80
500 Seeds $18.90
1,000 Seeds $30.45
5,000 Seeds $124.95
25,000 Seeds $533.00
100,000 Seeds $1,953.00


Link leading to Fortex snap beans: Fortex Bean Seed - Johnny's Selected Seeds



Fortex Bean Seed - Johnny's Selected Seeds
Fortex












Disease that Attack the Beans


The diseases that attack beans include the following;


Anthracnose
Root rot
Ascochyta blight




The yield of beans can be summarized as follows;


Climbing Beans/Pole beans give a better yield than bush beans because they are disease and rain tolerant and can be inter-cropped with other crop like maize/corn.




The beans take 3 months to ripen offering possibility for 4 planting seasons annually with a hectare/2.47 acres yielding 3-4 tonnes/ 3.30693 tons-4.4092 each harvesting season.


Estimated proposal from 10 acres of beans


10 acres x 3.30693 = 33.0693 tons


N28,000 price in Lagos for 100kg bag of beans


33.0693 tons times 2000lbs = 66138.6 lbs divided 100kg/220.426lbs = 300.048996035 100kg bags times average cost of 100kg bag $91.95 = $27589.5051854 per season.


4 times a year 4 times $27589.5051854 = $110358.020742




How many seeds needed?


Suggested reading for calculations of seeds needed per plant type link: http://www.johnnyseeds.com/assets/in...eld_charts.pdf




Climbing/Pole Beans seed costs. Using the Fortex Pole Bean






100 feet row =420 seeds produces 80 lbs of beans.
1 acre = 46, 000 seeds produces 11,600 lbs of beans.


Cost of 10 Acres of beans?


100,000 Seeds costs $1,953.00


Amount needed for 10 acres 460,000 seeds = total costs of seeds $19530


Seeds can be gathered from beans and replanted, below after the how to plant section, I give a description of the process.

How to Plant Climbing/Pole Beans




PLANTING
Pole beans will grow in a climbing vine and require a trellis or staking. Bush beans will spread up to 2 feet but do not require support. Watch this video to learn how to support beans properly.
Do not start seeds indoors; they may not survive transplanting.
Seeds can be sown outdoors anytime after last spring frost, minimum soil temp is 48 degrees F. Plant 1 inch deep, a little deeper for sandier soils. Cover soil to warm if necessary.
Bush beans: Plant 2 inches apart.
Pole beans: Set up trellises, or “cattle panels,” and plant 3 inches apart.
If you like pole beans, an easy support for them is a “cattle panel”—a portable section of wire fence—16 feet long and 5 feet tall.Livestock panels are a heavy gauge galvanized welded wire fencing material. They are also commonly called "cattle","hog", or “sheep” panels.
The beans will climb with ease, and you won’t have to get into contorted positions to pick them.
Cattle Panel: 16 ft. 4-Gauge Cattle Panels-33150739 - The Home Depot




16 ft. 4-Gauge Cattle Panels-33150739 - The Home Depot
Provide a sturdy barrier or enclosure for your cattle or other livestock using this Cattle Panels. Features zinc...




For a harvest that lasts all summer, sow beans every 2 weeks. If you’re going to be away, skip a planting. Beans do not wait for anyone.
Rotate crops each year.




CARE
Mulch soil to retain moisture; make sure that it is well-drained.
Water regularly, from start of pod to set. Water on sunny days so foliage will not remain soaked.
Beans require normal soil fertility. Only fertilize where levels are low. Begin after heavy bloom and set of pods.
Use a light hand when applying high-nitrogen fertilizer, or you will get lush plants and few beans.
Weed diligently and use shallow cultivation to prevent disturbing the root systems.




PESTS/DISEASES
Aphids
Mexican Bean Beetles
Japanese Beetles
Cucumber Beetles
White Mold
Mosaic Viruses
Woodchucks
Cutworms
Bean blossoms will drop from the plant if the weather is too hot and too much nitrogen in the soil will prevent pods from setting.




HARVEST/STORAGE
Beans are picked at an immature stage, when the seeds inside have not yet fully developed.
Look for firm, sizable pods and snap or cut off the plant. Do not tear the plant.
Store beans in a moisture-proof, airtight container in the refrigerator. Beans will toughen over time even when stored properly.
Beans can be kept fresh for about 4 days, or blanched and frozen immediately after harvesting.
Beans can also be canned or pickled.
RECOMMENDED VARIETIES
‘Bush Blue Lake’ (bush): Keeps flavor well after harvest.
‘Bountiful’ (bush): Early producer.
‘Fortex’ (pole): French variety, large beans.
‘Kentucky Wonder’ (pole): Will produce a bountiful harvest.
WIT & WISDOM
Beans are commonly used in everyday expressions to indicate something of little value. Consequently, someone who isn’t worth a hill of beans is seen as being worth very little, although one could argue that today a hill of beans costs a pretty penny.


Can Fresh Green Bean Seeds Be Used to Replant?



Each bean pod contains four to six bean seeds.
Saving your own seeds from beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the garden can be cost effective and rewarding. Not only will it save you the time and expense of purchasing new bean seeds, you never have to worry about whether your garden center still carries the type you prefer. When it comes to saving and replanting bean seeds, the process is simple, but does involve drying the seeds before they can be replanted.


Seeds from Fresh Beans
Allowing fresh beans to mature on the vine is the first step in gathering seeds for replanting. This means letting the bean pod fill out completely before picking it. As the tiny beans inside the pod continue to grow, they will reach their mature size in one to two weeks. The pods begin to turn pale green or white, and feel leathery to the touch. When left on the vine, or picked and hung upside down to dry, the pods darken and become brittle. The dried bean seeds inside the pod rattle when the pod is shaken.
Replanting
Beans often mature too late in the season for growing a second crop from the seeds, but if your area still has at least 60 days before the first expected frost, the beans can be planted for a new crop. Many gardeners save seeds from beans for the next year's season.




Storing Bean Seeds
Storing bean seeds in a glass jar keeps them fresh and ready for planting the following year. Check that the jar is moisture free and the bean seeds are dry before storing the beans. Moisture causes problems with mold and mildew during storage. For best results, place the jar in a dark, dry area with temperatures between 32 and 41 degrees Fahrenheit until planting time.
Considerations
Characteristics of plants are typically preserved in the seeds, making it important to carefully choose which plants you allow to go to seed. Choose a bean plant that exhibits the traits you prefer, such as the size, color and flavor of the beans. Look for plants that are healthy and disease- and insect-free for the highest quality bean seeds. Hybrid seeds do not reproduce true to the parent plant. When saving bean seeds, gather the seeds from an open-pollinated variety that has not been grown near other beans that it may cross pollinate with. Although cross pollination does not effect the appearance or flavor of the bean, it may effect the offspring grown from the seeds of the bean plant.


How to Process String Beans for Seeds





Heirloom beans, like "Kentucky Wonder" grow best from home-collected seed.
String beans, or green beans, are a staple of the home vegetable garden. Planted when temperatures are warm, they pop out of the soil from seed in a matter of days and the delectable pods are ready for harvest about two months after seeding. Beans can be planted every two weeks up to 60 days before first frost for a continuous supply for fresh eating, freezing, canning or even pickling. That can add up to a lot of seed. To save money, once you find a variety of heirloom bean you like and that grows well in your garden, plant a few extra to process into seed for next year's garden.



1
Insert 24-inch wooden stakes at four corners around a few developing bush bean plants at the end of a row. Stakes are not necessary for pole varieties, as they should already be growing on a support.
2
Run brightly colored string or plastic tape around the stakes and tie it off or tie a piece at eye level to the support of a few pole bean plants. Marking a few plants with a visual barrier helps you avoid accidentally picking all your beans when harvesting the rest during the season -- it can be hard to resist picking every last juicy pod.
3
Drape row cover material over the staked area or over the support of the pole beans if you are growing more than one variety of green bean in your garden. Cover the plants before flowers bloom. Secure the row cover to the ground with metal soil staples. Though green beans are self-pollinating, their flowers are visited by bees and insects and some cross-pollination can occur when you grow more than one type of bean. Since they are self-pollinating, pods still develop without the help of insects. Cross-pollination is somewhat rare, so you can skip this step if you are not too particular.
4
Remove the pods from the vines when they are brown and thoroughly dry. Seeds should rattle in the pod. The entire plant can be removed from the roots and hung in a cool, dry place until brown if a frost is predicted, or you just don't like the look of brown, dying plants in your garden.
5
Break open each pod by hand, when you have only a few handfuls to shell, and remove the hardened bean seeds by running your thumb along the joint of the open pod.
6
Place the pods in a large burlap sack or old pillowcase if you have many pods to shell. Fasten the top with a piece of string. Place the sack on the ground and walk and jump on it a few time, turning the sack occasionally. Alternately, you can hang the sack and swat it with a stick or baseball bat a few times. Either way, the hard seeds, break from the pods undamaged.
7
Place the largest, best looking seeds in a clean glass jar. Fasten the lid and mark with the variety of the bean and the date.
8
Store in a cool,dry place for up to five years.








Companion Plants for Pole Beans


Keep beans picked to prolong the harvest.
Pole beans are the ideal crop for small home gardens, because they continue to produce beans over a long season and if properly supported take little space. For years, bush beans have been more commonly grown, but they produce more beans in a shorter period, leading to the need to freeze or process beans. Beans improve the soil by fixing nitrogen in association with bacterial nodules on their roots, helping other plants thrive in your garden.


The Three Sisters
The traditional Native American planting of corn, beans and squash makes an ideal companion combination. Corn is planted first, and when it is tall enough to provide support, pole beans are planted next to each corn stalk. The beans provide nitrogen to the corn, and the corn provides a stalk for the beans to climb. As the weather gets hot, squash is planted next to the corn-and-bean combination to shade the soil, keeping it cool and slowing evaporation of irrigation water.




Other Companions
Interplanting with carrots or cauliflower seems to help pole beans grow. Carrots seem especially effective as companions to beans. Summer savory and radishes also have a beneficial effect on beans, although sunflowers seem to compete with pole beans for light and kohlrabi seems detrimental for pole and bush beans. Beans are helpful to cucumbers and cabbage: The beans take few nutrients from the soil and add nitrogen, while cucumbers and cabbage are heavy feeders and need rich soil to produce well.


Beets, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, corn, cucumber, marigolds, potatoes, strawberry, summer savory




Beneficial Plants
Potatoes help protect beans from Mexican bean beetle, while beans help protect potatoes from Colorado potato beetle. Generally, rows of potatoes alternating with rows of trellised pole beans are most effective. Petunias can also be planted next to beans to discourage bean beetles. Marigolds planted among pole beans also help protect against bean beetles and other pests. For the greatest impact, marigolds should be spread throughout the garden to repel pests.




Noncompatible Plants
While beans associate with bacteria to fix nitrogen in the soil, members of the onion family produce and exude an antibacterial substance. This kills the bacteria on the roots of the beans and stops the nitrogen-fixing action. For this reason, beans should never be planted close to onions, garlic, leeks, chives or other members of the onion family.


Supports for Climbing Beans and Peas




Peas
Vertically growing plants are an attractive feature of many vegetable gardens as well as being an excellent space-saver. Climbing peas and beans (especially pole beans) can be some of the most productive plants you can grow, but providing strong supports for these plants is essential. When the seedlings first emerge they may seem small and delicate but by the time the vines have wound their way up to six feet tall with a thick mass of leaves and pods the supporting structure will have to be strong enough to take the weight and sturdy enough to survive winds.


A huge variety of supports can be bought or built for these crops and the best option will depend on materials, time, budget and personal preferences. For ornamental gardens it will be important to consider the aesthetic aspects as vertical supports often draw the eye in a garden and can make a big difference to the appearance. At the other extreme, in community gardens practical recycled solutions often rule and with a little ingenuity all sorts of ‘junk’ materials can be used to make good supports.




Materials to Use


The first decision when creating supports for climbing plants is what they will be made out of. Here are the most common options:


Bamboo canes: These have the advantage of being perfectly straight up to relatively long lengths and are very resistant to weathering, lasting for years. However, unless you can grow bamboo yourself over many seasons they can be costly as they are usually imported all the way from China.
Hazel or other coppiced wood: Here in the UK, hazel can easily be coppiced to provide many strong flexible hazel rods. Traditionally, hazel coppices were cut every 7 years reaching several metres high but gardeners rarely require this length and can cut it more regularly to grow their own attractive garden supports.




Spare Sticks and Branches from Trees: Instead of hazel it’s also possible to use branches trimmed from trees in your garden. However, these are less likely to be as straight or flexible and may be harder to fasten together into a strong structure.




Fencing: Any kind of wire fencing can be used for climbing plants as long as it is sturdy enough. If you have wire fencing along the edge of your garden already it’s the perfect support. If not, recycled fencing can be put to good use when combined with strong poles.




Recycled Materials: In community gardens, left over building materials such as steel rebar (the steel supports used in reinforced concrete) are often used as they are easy to drive into the ground. Spare timber can also be made into sturdy frames.
Bamboo canes for pea and bean support
When using poles, two beans or pea plants are often grown up a single pole. However, having a pole every 6-8 inches is quite costly, so it’s quite common to add something else for them to climb up so that the gap between poles can be increased:


Netting: Most types of netting will do, although the smaller the holes the harder it is to remove the dead stems at the end of the season. I use Pea and Bean Netting which has a large weave of 12.5cm (5" and is easy to drape over a structure of poles.
String: Alternatively, garden twine can be used as long as it is tied firmly and does not disintegrate in bad weather. It’s too late to find this out just before harvest when the weight of the plants snaps the string (I write from experience!)


Wire: More tricky to secure but very strong, wire is good for semi-permanent structures which can be moved around the garden each season.
Beans growing up pea and bean netting
Building the Supports


Once the materials have been collected it’s time to get building. There are many types of structure:


Double row: the classic structure is to plant two rows of beans or peas about 1 foot (30cm) apart and to stick canes in each side, tying them together at the top with string. I often use this method and add an extra cane along the top with a supporting ‘guy rope’ string at each end to strengthen the whole structure.


Wigwam: in this arrangement plants are placed in a wide circle and the canes are either tied at the top or are fastened into a cane ring. This can look very attractive as well as adding strength in all directions. However, the ground in the middle of the wigwam is lost unless a quick growing crop is planted there before the climbing plants get going.


Arch: One of the most beautiful designs, especially when peas are flowering, is to grow them up over an arch between beds or over a walkway. Arches can be costly to make and unless they can be moved they limit crop rotation to the legume and squash families (if you only want to grow edible climbing plants) but those may be sacrifices worth making if you enjoy the display. Attractive steel arches are available from many gardening stores and suppliers.


Wall or Fence: Climbing plants need something to wind their tendrils around so growing them up a wall or solid fence usually requires trellis or netting to be fixed to it. As long as the location receives at least 4-5 hours of sunlight a day this can be a great space saver and has the added advantage of not casting shade on other areas of your garden.


Central Support: Rather like the wigwam structure a single strong pole can be the anchor for many lengths of string radiating out to pegs driven into the ground. To support the vines this needs to be strong and taut.








Suggested Packaging for expedient sales.




How to make Money from Packaging beans
There are about 10 different varieties of beans that is grown in Nigeria, but popular ones are the big white seed called iron beans , the small white seed, the brown improved variety seed called Honey Beans, drum beans or Olotu in Yoruba
There are four ways I personal know that you can make money from bean
1. One can sell in bag
2. One can repackage into 1.2kg, 2.4 kg and 10kg which makes more money than
selling in bags
3. Convert it into flour and sell (the flour could be used for moimoi, beans cake
beans meal and soup ) there is a Nigerian company in London that sell
packaged moimoi in tin like tin sardine
4. one can export beans
Market Prices of beans in Five states
State Price per 100kg bag
Lagos N28,000
Delta N29,000
Rivers N29,000
F.C.T. N26,500
Anambra N27,000
We supply beans in bags for N21,000 per bag but the prices will drop if you are buying up to 1 ton(tens bags ) or more.
State Price per 100kg bag Profit per 100kg Bag
Lagos N28,000 N7,000
Delta N29,000 N8,000
Rivers N29,000 N8,000
F.C.T. N26,500 N5,500
Anambra N27,000 N6,000


Looking at the table you above you will agree with me that there is much save when you buy from us. we also can brand the beans for you in 1.2kg and 2.4kg bags at a very affordable price. The 1.2kg(1.2kg contains 9 cups, 4 derca) goes for N280 and 2.4kg goes for N560.

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