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Feasibility Study On Pig Production And Step to Pig Management

* Feasibility Study on Pig Production and Step To Pig Management. * INTRODUCTION Pigs are animals of pink, black, or brown skin, with short legs a broad nose and short curly tails. They are basically for meat production called pork. They are heavy feeders and grown rapidly too. They can eat nearly anything and it contains a great quantity of oil and fat which reduce the number of people that consume the meat. Pigs has been regarded as an unclean animal, it naturally likeness for dirt and decayed materials for food. In Africa, due to the poor breed of pigs that are seen every day and more especially, the level of approach to its rearing which is just the ordinary, practical way among the low – income earners. This method leaves a lot to be desired as far as pig breeding and consumption is concerned. The authorities in food nutrition have proved that pig offers the best potential of satisfying the meat needs of the human population when compared with other livestock kept by man. Af...

Crop Seedlings, Fruits, & Vegetative Crops in Nigeria

Farm Seedlings in Nigeria Available for Sell: a home of seeds and economic trees Seedlings. We sell different hybrid seeds from different company and certified researched centers from different part of the world. TECHNISM seed Company and a host of other brands from Agric research centers from different part of the world. France and East west premium seed from Thailand, Europe, Israel,USA, England, Germany, France, Netherland, Sweden, Canada, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, Australia and Central America. Hybrid (F1) Seeds such as the following are available : Garden eggs,Cauliflower, cabbage, carrot, onions,watermelon, squash,Green beans,Cucumber,Okro,Chinese cabbage, Lectuse,African leaves,Tomatoes, hot and sweet pepper,beetroot,Dwarf Indonesia paw paw seeds, European Egg plant,Ugu seeds, okra, pepper, vegetables, to include fruit crops, root and tuber crops along side with rhizomes, beetroots, cassava, carrots, ginger, potatoes, onionions, legumes, garlic, ephemeral, annual,...

Price List For Collapsible Fish Tank Or Mobile Tarpaulin Fish Tank in Nigeria

Here Are The Price list And Sizes of Available Mobile Tarpaulin Fish Tank For Those Interested In Fish farm. Discount can be considered for serious persons and depending on quantity 16ft × 10ft × 4ft @ #150,000 Naira 12ft x 10ft x 4ft @ #145,000 Naira 20ft x 10ft x 4ft @ # 180,000 Naira 20ft x 15ft x 4ft @ # 230,000 Naira 10ft x 10ft x 4ft @ # 140,000 Naira 10ft x 7ft x 4ft @ # 135,000 Naira 10 ft x 6ft x 4ft @ #130,000 Naira. other sizes available are as such 4 x 6 x 4ft 5 x 8 x 4ft 4 x 10 x 4ft 6 x 8 x 4ft 7 x 12 x 4ft 15 x 15 x 4ft e.t.c. They are of the thickness 0.54mm (540 microns) and comes in varying colors. and varies in water capacity from 2,000 liters to 80,000 litres. We also have another set of quality that are below the budget of  #100,000 naira and far less in price and in different sizes. Also product can be tailored to the size or sizes demanded. Discount can be considered if stocks are ordered in Large quantity and also depending on siz...

Latest Info On Snail Farming In Nigeria You May Never Know

Latest Info You May Never Know On Snail Farming In   Nigeria : As  lot of People look for a getaway venture from poultry and fishery business, the offensive smell from livestock with larger body mass, for those who like to cut there share in Agric and would not like the stress and don't have the time to consistently monitor your farm animal as you have in piggery, rabbits, grasscutter, poultry and the cost of pumping water, and a low cost mega venture in the livestock business sector of Agric, Snail rearing is another untapped venture in Nigeria and Africa at large. You can do this business without the need for a single staff and undue over head cost. Be you a civil servant, private enterprise employee or worker, or be you a business man with a plot of land or a long time acquired acres of land languishing and wasting away somewhere, believe me, like magic, you can turn these to another money making venture as snail is a great delicacy in Nigerian dishes home and abroad, hot...

15 Top Farming Ventures In Nigeria

15 Top Lucrative Farming Ventures in Nigeria In Order of Significance: Note: Before Anything in farming, just be sure to Put in place security provisions on your farmland as top priority for the safety of lives and property before anything else so that you don't toil or labour in vain. To achieve this feat, you can employ the service of community or trusted security persons or the service of ferocious and unfriendly foreign breed guard dogs as such as Pit bulls, Rottweiler, boerboel, German Shepherd, Russian Huskey, or Caucasian. For me I am most comfortable with the use of Ferocious Guard dogs on crop farm with a dog keeper on sight with someone on site to manage the dogs. As an effort to contribute to the list of most lucrative farming ventures in Nigeria in their relative other of significance and to shed more light in the most seemingly oblique corners of Agriculture in Nigeria and as such not to misguide the members of the public on the viability of these Agricultural inclin...

Cost Estimate of Cultivating Plantain On One Hectare of Land

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Cost Estimates of Cultivating Plantain on One Hectares of Farmland: First Year Capacity Per Hectare = 1,004 Suckers if inter cropping is needed and for high yield, or 1,600 Suckers or 1,800 Suckers provided no need for inter cropping with a spacing capacity of between 2 to 3 meters, or 2.5meter x 2.5 meter, or 2 meter by 3 meters. Some go as far as stocking 2,000 suckers per Hectare which could result in over use of soil nutrients. The Estimate is as follows. 1.Land clearing/Preparation = #40,000. 2.Planting Suckers at #100 per sucker X 1,800 = #180,000, 3. Labour for Planting/pegging ( 4 man days @ #1,500) = #6,000. 4. Cost of Fertilizer ( 5 bags @ #10,500 naira per bag) = #52,000 naira 5. Cost of fertilizer application (4 man per day @ #1,500 naira) = #6,000. 6. Weed control and herbicides ( mulching / Paraquat and Simazine ) = #35,000. 7. Diseases & Pest Control: (Fungicides= Benomyl, benzimadazoles, flusilazoles, imazaliles, imidazoles, or tridemorph. NOTE: please use ...

Cost of Setting up A Concrete fish Pond in Nigeria As at 13th of August 2016

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It must be said that all forms of fish pond has its advantages and disadvantages, from Concrete Pond to Earthen Fish Pond to Collapsible or Tarpauline Fish Pond. This Analysis is intended to emphasise the cost requirements for 1,000 fish capacity of a concrete fish pond, the dos and donts, the cost of set up & management cost for a duration of 6 months and how to crop and harvest your fish pond every month or every 2 months if you have a set of 6 to 7 ponds. Also these article is intended to suggest alternative feed options to help cut cost against wastage of resources, management approach, employable skills and mechanism, marketing & processing options for a desired result. It must be noted that a minimum of 3 ponds will be needed to start a standard commercial fish farm. The 3 sections are needed for the purpose of Nursery pond, grow out pond for the adult fish, and the 3rd designated for sorting as the fishes grow in varying sizes. Pond Construction: It must be stressed th...

Skeletal And Comparative Analysis Of Poultry to Fishery And Why Farmers Cry

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Here Is A Skeletal And Comparative Analysis of the Difference Between Poultry and Fishery for an informed judgement and The Reasons Why Farmers Cry.   It depends on d capital at hand and the kind of result you want. For u to run an average standard poultry, u need at least 8 to 10 units of poultry cage of 70k/cage to  house 120 birds/ unit cage x 10 units = 1,200 birds at #200 per a week or 2 weeks old broiler, total= #200x1,200 birds= #240,000 worth of birds + (#70,000 per cage ×10)=#700,000+ 200 birds feeds on a bag per day at #3,500 per bag thats= 6 bags × #3,500=#21,000 per day for the next 6 months= #3.8 million alone on feed or at least u half it and feed 400 chicken wt 1 bag per day, then u get #1.9 million naira on feed for 6 months. Plus d cost of pen set up of 400k to 800k all together + 150k for electrical wiring and lightening, gen 60k to #2 million naira Lister gen+ 250k to 500k for borehole +  management and security staff of 80k per month to pay just 3...

Snail Farming Peculiarities: Intensive Versus Extensive, Advantages & Disadvantage

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So let's dwell more on dis extensive and intensive snail talk to include d semi intensive and its challenges, peculiarities and comparative advantage. I tink i should take d time to say that d word  intensive means enclosed confinement and extensive means exposed confinement wt alot more freedom to create more of a natural atmosphere feel for livestock as in free range while semi intensive is a combination of both. Intensive gives u more control of ur animal farm to range from diets, food to body mass ratio measures, health and well being of over all livestock, and it will require ur routine commitment as dis is called d garbage in garbage out method.  U select d feed marsh and formular frm time to time to achieve a desired body mass but d other bn extensive is like set up ur snail farm and go on vacation only to comeback on harvest possibly in months or years as long as d environment is pest and theft safe and under lock and key.  D 2 main types of farming hv their ...

List Of The 11 Most Lucrative Agricultural Ventures In Nigeria In Their Relative Order of Economic Importance.

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List Of The 11 Most Lucrative farming venture in Nigeria in their significant orders: Be you a Medical Doctor, Professor, Lecturer, Civil and Electrical Engineer, Chartered Accountant, Senior Banker, Politician, Architect, Business man, Clergy, or a Teacher, for a fulfilling career and long life, you will always have to embrace nature and end up a farmer as the most revered calling and profession in life. That is to say the most expensive in life surely comes freely in Nature. The most expensive things in life comes freely in Nature. Talk about the air you breath, land, sand, trees, vegetables, food and water, little do we know that these seemingly little things which typifies everything green and graceful should be the most expensive in life but believe me they are not. People say money don't grow on trees but believe me, paradoxically it does. The sand and earth you walk on everyday is an invaluable assets but little do we know that. Let's say you were giving an option to c...

7 Amazing Things You may Not Know about Snail farming.

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7 Amazing Things You may never know about snails and Major Constraint to efficient snail production    1. Aestivation:  This  is  the  period  of  inactivity  in  which  the  aperture  of  the  shell  is  covered with  white  calcareous  substance  called  epiphragm.  This  condition  is  common  during  the harmattan  period.  In  this  condition  snail  can  survive  for  months  without  food  and  water. Under normal or natural condition snails can Aestivate for 3 good years without during and without food. That's why they are livestock with the least mortality rate and record. Aestivation  can  be  prevented  by  watering  the  soil  both  in  the  morning  and  at  night  and other  management practic...