FarmTech:
Nice one buddy. I suggest you consider rearing some saleable animals that will provide you with plenty manure.

ichidodo:
Filing the YEAP form for Federal grants and assistance in this venture...Hope The Honourable Minister for Agric looks favourably at my Expression of Interest application....

stagger:


All those who wish to apply to YEAP should check the thread out. I put up a summary there:
https://www.nairaland.com/2177369/youth-employment-agriculture-programme-yeap/1#31566758

By the way Ichidodo, I want to know if you are within the age bracket for the YEAP program. Which area are you putting in for, because plantain does not seem to be in the priority value chain areas advertised for.

I am above the 18-35 age bracket but I will still apply; you never know.

ogb5:
[s] This is death sentence to the plantain.

Plantain do not do well in waterlogged soil

I beg you in the name of plantain, relocate the plantain to somewhere dry. [/s]

ogb5:
This is death sentence to the plantain.

Plantain do not do well in waterlogged soil

I beg you in the name of plantain, relocate the plantain to somewhere dry.

ichidodo:
Rubbish...This isnt internet farming , if you dont mind.

AreaFada2:

Some plantain can do reasonably ok on wetland but may not be at their best. They can also become prone to fall/partially uprooted by heavy wind.
From observation years back, intercropping rice with okra is cool. Plantain can have large leaves/shade, which rice may not like. But if the plantain are sparse, rice would be grown & harvested before becoming shady.
Grandma had acres of rice and plantain back in the day.

ogb5:
[s]

Please yourself, experience is the best teacher. I have been into plantain for years and currently have lots of acres dedicated to plantain.
We can do a photo competition to know who is the internet farmer.

You can grow plantain and get 10 ton per hectare, someone else with better knowledge will get 40 to 60 ton per hectare.



Plantain does not like waterlogged land. It will not die but it becomes stressed and prone to diseases. From my observation in the riverine areas of bayelsa and delta states, plantain grown in the swamp does not do well, while those grown on the dredged soil above the water level does very well.

In commercial plantain farming in India in waterlogged soil, they dig trenches to drain the water during the monsoon season and use the trenches to irrigate the farm in times of low rainfall.[/s]

ichidodo:
Rubbish, my plantains are doing swimmingly well enough and the flood plain isnt a swamp but fadama with two earthen dams, two ponds as artificial reservoirs to control the water level as well as allow for freeway to all water flow always instead of soaking the entire area thus our plantain sit on drier yet conducive deep black soil...... Now, sod off.

ogb5:
[s]

You are a big fool. Why do you now say your plantain sit on drier soil. Initially you were claiming that plantain does well on waterlogged soil. Big fool who knows nothing and thinks he knows something. If you don't want people to comment on your thread, then don't create a thread. Instead of coming online to insult those far better than you. Goat[/s] .

ichidodo:
Why dont some troglodytes mind their own business or better still, go f**k themselves, instead of strutting about like pompous stupidt arrseholes...?

ogb5:

[s]
You are doing 10 acres which is just 4 hectares and you think you have arrived, pity you.
How much do you think 4 hectare of farm will fetch you that is making you to be very pompous. You know what, screw yourself.[/s]

Lesgupnigeria:
[s] @ichidodo
You will not want to know hundreds of acres of plantain ogb5 is currently cultivating.
There are some on this platform that are practical farmers doing bigger things but don't make noise.
He is vast and has the practical expertise in farming.
I am sure he has encyclopaedia of farm pictures to show for it[/s] .