| ndbros4justice: 8:47pm On Feb 16 |
Emmafly:
With due respect to the op, you should have tried to get before the venture and then make your investing decisions. But it seems you have already engaged your investments before looking for advice.
I am proud to say I have been following epainos since the times he was on pistotita and fluentinfor moniker and I have never regretted taking his advice on this forum in the agriculture section. Even his criticisms of his are legendary advice if you really don't want to make gross mistakes.
All what he has said is correct. The most competitive and riskiest of businesses is agriculture and it is also full of opportunists. Only real farmers who fear God will tell you the truth when venturing into agriculture.
I will advise you to avoid extending the lease, do shorter life span crop like the cassava and use the proceeds to acquire a land for longer span crops.
Agribusiness is not a get rich quick or wealth flaunt game, it is a business where you pay attention to every detail because the loss in agriculture is irrecoverable. I was gifted a free land to farm and after the first harvest the owner became jealous without me knowing. Owner waited for me to do the next planting and at flowering told me to come and clear my crops that she want to plant corn. I had no choice but to succumb.
I wish you all the best.
Boss you're so on point! Jealousy of land leasers no be here ooo!
That's how my boss lost 2 hectares of maize 6 weeks to harvest.
The abroad based owner of the land just sent their village youth to clear the farm overnight.
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| atesunate16(m): 12:04am On Feb 27 |
Delve:
I have been following this thread and I think I should just give my honest opinion.
To start with, I am a pig farmer and I have done plantain farming before. All what Epainos has been saying are all through.
I want to appreciate the op that created this thread and started this journey but I can find fault in this your journey. #5000/month per room for pigs is too high but maybe it's due to your location because here, I rent #10,000/year, hope you see the difference.
Also for your crop farming, I pray you don't have bitter experience on that. Farm owners do take advantage when they see that their leased land is used for crop with longer life span. After the expiry of the agreed duration for leasing, they can just say that they want to make use of their land and you will be left with no choice than to vacate... Don't think they will sell that same land to you.... They will not do that.
I wish you success in your agric journey
Amen
Thank you so much boss
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| atesunate16(m): 12:05am On Feb 27 |
Emmafly:
With due respect to the op, you should have tried to get before the venture and then make your investing decisions. But it seems you have already engaged your investments before looking for advice.
I am proud to say I have been following epainos since the times he was on pistotita and fluentinfor moniker and I have never regretted taking his advice on this forum in the agriculture section. Even his criticisms of his are legendary advice if you really don't want to make gross mistakes.
All what he has said is correct. The most competitive and riskiest of businesses is agriculture and it is also full of opportunists. Only real farmers who fear God will tell you the truth when venturing into agriculture.
I will advise you to avoid extending the lease, do shorter life span crop like the cassava and use the proceeds to acquire a land for longer span crops.
Agribusiness is not a get rich quick or wealth flaunt game, it is a business where you pay attention to every detail because the loss in agriculture is irrecoverable. I was gifted a free land to farm and after the first harvest the owner became jealous without me knowing. Owner waited for me to do the next planting and at flowering told me to come and clear my crops that she want to plant corn. I had no choice but to succumb.
I wish you all the best.
Hmm, thanks so much for the input boss
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| atesunate16(m): 12:06am On Feb 27 |
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It's been a while I came here. I've been so fixed up
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| atesunate16(m): 12:07am On Feb 27 |
Python farrowed on February 15th 
She brought us 8 bouncing piglets
This was Day 2
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| Olusharp(m): 3:18am On Feb 27 |
atesunate16:
UPDATE: CROP
1 acre acquired on lease for 2 years
Projecting 5000 suckers of pineapple to  be combined with cassava and maize
Hoping to use proceeds from maize to offset Cost of Production (COP) for pineapple and cassava.
Land clearing ongoing. I'm going to send pictures later on.
Seedlings ordered.
We're getting set.
please do you mind sharing prices
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| jidestroud(m): 4:55pm On Mar 07 |
atesunate16:
UPDATE: ANIMAL
I plan to start small. After several consultations, I have decided to acquire two pregnant sows.
I visited the proposed pen today and had a discussion with the owner. I'll be renting five pens:
Place each sow in a separate room for them to farrow
Utilize two more rooms after weaning
Keep one room for feeds and all other supplies
A room costs #5,000 per month
Also today, I went around to check for good sows and priced them. They are expensive, but I'm still negotiating.
Later in the week, I'm going to prepare the pen, fumigate, and get things ready for the Queen Mothers.
Jeeeezzzzz, that crazily expensive. Or did I read that wrong? N5,000 per month? N60k per year for just one pen? So how many do you intend renting?
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| jidestroud(m): 4:58pm On Mar 07 |
ideepaul:
5*12 months=60k per room * only God knows how many rooms you have collected...I hope you did your market analysis very well sha...and for the crops, all I can say is "May God continue to strengthen you cuz this is going to be a very difficult journey, but i pray you win"
Exactly what I thought. That's way to much for renting a pig pen. Though I'm interested in the area where he's setting up. All the same, the price is ridiculously high.
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| jidestroud(m): 5:01pm On Mar 07 |
atesunate16:
Yes I did some surveys in the locality here
I got a discount for the rooms
Starting with 5 rooms
2 to house the incoming sows till they farrow
Then utilise 2 more after weaning
I'll get boar just before the next cycle in a room
Would also use part of a room for store
What do you think?
Still ridiculously high. Mind telling where that is ?
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| jidestroud(m): 5:07pm On Mar 07 |
atesunate16:
UPDATE: ANIMAL
Apologies, these past days has been hectic
I picked up this amazing Queen Mothers on Tuesday 28/01/2025
Pregnant Sows
What name should I give them?
Are these the pens you got for N5,000 per month? A wooden pen? Not even wooden with pallets? Hmmm... something somewhere isn't adding up.
All the best. Take care
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| ChybuzzDD(m): 8:38am On May 31 |
atesunate16:
Python farrowed on February 15th
She brought us 8 bouncing piglets
This was Day 2
How's it going? You're no longer updating the thread
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