by elyjay | Feb 18, 2013 | Farming
Oil palm is a native of tropical west Africa wild types exist in forest areas of Africa. From here, it has been distributed throughout the world. The main exporting counties are Indonesia, Malaysia and Nigeria. The oil palm belt of Nigeria span from Cross river State...
by elyjay | Feb 9, 2013 | Business
With the recent technological advancement in Nigeria, computers and okadas business farmer are finding it difficult to get work done on the farm. Majority of the farmers who cultivate more than 10 hectares of land are forced to reduce their hectarage to below 5....
by elyjay | Feb 3, 2013 | Business
CUCUMBERS (cucumis sativus) Is a very important ingredient in vegetable salad cultivated mostly in northern part of Nigeria. Experience has shown that it also performs very well in the south, especially in the Savannah areas of Oyo state [ Shaki, Iseyin, Igboho, Baasi...
by elyjay | Jan 14, 2013 | Business
Updated (June 3 2020) We have been doing quite a few articles about watermelon recently. The first in the series explores the nutrients and vitamins contains in watermelon, the second article looks at how you can make money from growing watermelon in Nigeria. The...
by elyjay | Jan 12, 2013 | Business
Watermelon, citrullus lanatus rank third among the world highly cultivated crops, superseded only by potato and tomato in that order. In fact planting watermelon made me become lazy and mono cropper. Before I started planting watermelon, my chief crops were maize,...
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