darkenkach:
Agriculture wont make me a millionaire over night. It's 2years now and I always to wait for a particular time of the year before I can reap my benefit.

saliubello:
My bigger eye opener came when I realised I could actually lower my cost of feeding my catfishes by making my own feed using sinking pellets. But the biggest eye opener was when I could use locally made but FLOATING FEEDS. Now its all smiles..

More of integrated farming now..I grow my maize and soyabean. i feed them to my fish and VIOLA i collect the big cash via fish sales.

baldwin84:
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...pls what kind of local machine do u use to make floating feed ..kindly share pics..and how to acquire it.thanks

saliubello:
What are the challenges faced by youths engaged in the agribusiness sector? Lets all participate in this exposition to encourage other youngsters who are passionate and enthusiastic about going into agribusiness.

Please share your best practice, challenges, discouragements/frustrations and winning-tickets/successes as youths in your agribusiness endeavour, to inspire others!

Have you heard this? Many Nigerian exporters have been defrauded of huge amount of money in the process of exporting commodities to foreign countries. Do you know why? They were not trained on export operations, management, documentations and the best methods of payment in export trade. This is terrible!!! Nigerians cannot continue to lose money to foreigners in the course of export business. Exporters, why don’t you get a practical manual that teaches the stages of export trade from processing and packaging of commodities to receipt of payment by the foreign buyers. It teaches export operations, export management, export documentations and methods of payment in export trade? It is a contemporary step-by-step guide to export trade. It tells all the contemporary dynamics in export trade. To get it, click on the link below:
http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.htmlWhere did you start as a young agri-entrepreneur?

brownsugar23:
Trust

CedarAgro:
I took a loan from the bank, 1.2million naira with the intention of disbursing to my friend in tranches who will farm for me.
The friend coarse me giving many reasons why tranche disbursement will make the process slow and within a week got 800k from me and more later.
The agreement was that he would start the farm show me my portion and at harvest we harvest and sell.
Guys, this friend showed me the farm, but never the harvest.
It took me some years to pay off the loan from which I never saw both principal and interest.

Learning point:
1. Never ever farm in proxy. You will not benefit from it.
2. A farm that you do not know it's size, and cannot visit at will is not your farm even if you invest millions into it, stop deceiving yourself
3. In all you do insist on following your mind. Even if you fail, your mind will justify you that at least you took all the precautions

SLYX:
I am a poultry farmer. I have been on for 2 years now. My worst experience is ordering birds from poultry plaza. Those guys don't take time to select day old chicks probably because they already have the name. Their birds were dying anyhow. No one should even say management cos it's the same management I had been using before that particular birds and have still been using with success.

Ayanfeoluxyz:
I have learnt Never to underestimate the importance of vaccination in poultry. I couldn't believe my eyes watching IBD(Gumboro) wipe out my pilot layer birds(Isa brown) @ week 7 just because I kept on postponing their vaccination. 51 birds died within 24 hours

SLYX:
I am a poultry farmer. I have been on for 2 years now. My worst experience is ordering birds from poultry plaza. Those guys don't take time to select day old chicks probably because they already have the name. Their birds were dying anyhow. No one should even say management cos it's the same management I had been using before that particular birds and have still been using with success.

benzion72:
Like the word of Orlando Owoh Ohun toju miri lalagbon bi month ba dele ma royin mawi faye. That is weting my eye see for Alagbon prison when I get home I will announce to the world.

My first experience in farming is through proxy. I gave out money for a guy to help establish cassava and Maize two hacter. The guy took me to a place that has been ploughed, seeing the place I was rest assured. That I am a farmer I sent money for planting, weeding and fertilizer. After three months I took my family and car for harvesting of maize. The guy took me to another side apart from where he showed me and point maize on another two hacter and told us to harvest and disappear into the thin air as we are settling down to start the harvesting some people challenged us that are we the owner and we told them we did the farming through proxy, we mention the guy name. Long story short they told me I have been duped.

I forgo the money but the link woman stood her ground and charge the proxy farmer to court but the guy settled out of court and paid back the money


LESSON

1. You cannot farm through proxy it does not work

2. Don't leave everything to God use every means to get back your fund

sefani:


OMG! the guy is a confirmed crook.as in, he directed you to steal another person's farm produce? he won't make heaven! lol