First of all, i am grateful for this forum in getting and hiring a good farm manager.
My former manager frustrated me and i ran at loss last year but so far so good, the person i hired on nairaland has been faithful, loyal and hard working.

Our plan is to do 20 acres of farm - Maize, groundnuts, pepper and tomatoes and he was placed on 80k per month with accommodation during this first year trial period after which his salary would be raised if i see the outcome of the farm and performance.

Our 10 acres maize farm.

1. Maize just sprouting after been planted in mid/late march

2. Over a month old maize

My maize growing.

Sorry guys, have lost track of the weeks old of the maize.
We are about harvesting them.
So picked my pictures from my achieve
Have learnt from experience not to count my eggs before it hatch reason why i didn't create the thread when we started planting with follow up pictures

My pepper and tomatoes nursery

Good work, Emma.

Following keenly.

Land preparation for the tomatoes and pepper - Clearing and ridging

I hired 3 yearly farm workers for the manager for the 20 acres farm though we are still going to use external workers later for one or two operations but it shouldn't be much.

Farm workers from cotonou at rate of 300k per year payable first week of december with a weekly feeding cost of 3,500 naira per week per worker

Tomatoes transfer to prepared bed from nursry.

We had to plant them in a little hole dug at the top of the ridges to be able to conserve more water after raining of manual irrigating.

Pepper and tomatoes on 2 acres

1. Urea applied to the maize likewise NPK 20;10;10 we applied.
2. Fungicide applied to the tomatoes to prevent fungi attack when we noticed a symptom
3. Insecticide applied to the maize

The tomatoes nursery

emmaodet:
My maize growing.

Sorry guys, have lost track of the weeks old of the maize.
We are about harvesting them.
So picked my pictures from my achieve
Have learnt from experience not to count my eggs before it hatch reason why i didn't create the thread when we started planting with follow up pictures

Have you applied fertilizer if "yes" what type pls, they are healthy. 😎

JealousCobra:



Have you applied fertilizer if "yes" what type pls, they are healthy. 😎

I bought bencut npk 20:10:10 but my manager advised that we should get notore npk for future use.
Thanks

Bossman longest time

Mide3367:
Bossman longest time

Heyyy bro what's up?

I noticed you do not have a fence or metal protection. How do you know the boundaries to your farm? These are all recipes that can lead to massive loss.

emmaodet:
First of all, i am grateful for this forum in getting and hiring a good farm manager.
My former manager frustrated me and i ran at loss last year but so far so good, the person i hired on nairaland has been faithful, loyal and hard working.

emmaodet:
First of all, i am grateful for this forum in getting and hiring a good farm manager.
My former manager frustrated me and i ran at loss last year but so far so good, the person i hired on nairaland has been faithful, loyal and hard working.

This is heartening to read. Thank God it's not all bad.

Did you provide mechanised farming equipment to your employee or it is just a hoe and a cutlass to work with?10 acre is a large farmland.

Well done.

Transportation business and farming, this is their season of cashing out.

N so?

Commendable

Nice one.
The Lord is your strength.

Damnnn niggar

You are doing well

Wow!

Kudos!

Would love to go into farming later on

Am working on starting on cassava plancentation soon



Anyone interested to work with me from the scratch should let me know.

I know nothing about agric but am willing to try