Dear Farmer,
Farming is a career.
A career is a vehicle to carry you to a destination.
Do not die on the journey. Know when to get off.
#FarmerSamson#TheWizardFarmer
The fastest way to fail in farming is trying to know everything by yourself.
Recently, me and 4 other ginger farmers tested different selective herbicides from different companies simultaneously.
Everybody sacrificed a tiny portion of land for testing.
Within one week…
We already knew:
which one worked
which one stressed the crop
which one was a waste of money
and which company was just selling packaging.
That’s the power of community in farming.
Alone, it could have taken months of trial and error and a lot more money to figure out.
That small collaboration saved all of us from making expensive mistakes on large scale applications.
Some farmers see other farmers as competition.
I see them as data sources.
I know a lot of farmers like to move in silence.
But agriculture is one industry where the right network can literally save your season.
Find people growing what you grow.
Share information.
Share updates.
Share failures too.
Your farming circle matters more than people think.
One good farming circle can increase your profits more than another acre of land.
Tag a farmer that gives you useful information.
Nobody hates a woman more than the man who can't afford to support her.
There I was, sitting alone on a park bench, minding my own business and trying to come up with ideas for my next article in the spot where I used to relax with Heineken.
Then, on the bench beside me, I found my article.
A man was on his phone, visibly agitated, speaking loud enough for half the park to hear.
"I want her to move into my house and be a good wife, cook, clean... not to support her for the rest of my life! That's not part of the deal!" I paused. Isn't it? I wondered as I took another sip of my chilled Heineken.
Isn't that the very arrangement traditional relationships have historically been built around? One partner provides financially while the other manages the home, raises the children, cooks, cleans, and offers emotional support.
A few seconds later, he shouted again. "She wants me to make all the money! I thought she was a good girl, but she's just a leech!" That wasn't where I expected the conversation to go. For several more minutes, he called his future wife every name in the book of angry men. I stayed on my bench, partly because the Heineken was too good to waste, and partly because I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
I'll give him this, his vocabulary of insults was remarkably creative for someone whose understanding of relationship roles seemed so remarkably limited.
Still, I kept asking myself the same question.
If you want a traditional wife, what exactly did you think the traditional arrangement was? Curiosity got the better of me.
The more I thought about that phone call, the less it sounded like one man's frustration and the more it sounded like a contradiction many people never stop to examine.
The first step to doing anything is to believe that you can.
Everything I have accomplished in my life felt unachievable at first. You can't know how everything is going to happen, so stop thinking that you need a detailed plan.
You will figure it out like you always do.
🎓 WHO PRODUCED MORE FIRST-CLASS GRADUATES IN NIGERIA?
School —Number of First-Class Graduates in 2024 (%Share)
🟣 Covenant University — 339 (21%)
🟣 Afe Babalola University — 226 (14%)
🔴 FUTA — 519 (8%)*
🔴 University of Ibadan — 428 (6%)
🔴 UNILAG — 340 (3%)
🔴 FUNAAB — 122 (3%)
🔴 UNIBEN — 385 (2%)*
🔴 University of Ilorin — 256 (2%)
🔴 UNN — 252 (2%)
🔴 Bayero University — 180 (2%)
🟣 Private Universities 🔴 Public Universities
Note: Universities marked with (*) convocated two sets together
About 17% of private university graduates earned first-class degrees, compared to roughly 3% in public universities in top 10.
UNIBEN recorded the highest number of first-class graduates (385), while FUNAAB recorded the lowest (122).
Covenant University had the highest proportion, with 1 in 5 students graduating with a first class.
#Statisense
(Intellpoint, 2024)
…with all the first-class graduates we have in this country, we still bring in foreigners to construct basic projects. We don’t produce enough of anything; y’all should touch grass with these stats.
What is the top engineering school in Nigeria, and what is the first-class rate there?
It’s wild that we have a bunch of first-class graduates who can’t complete a simple clean water project in their communities without needing to bring in foreign workers.
@bavariafarms Very hard to grow but given the right atmosphere, it's the most profitable. Te best option is a 35% shadenet especially during the dry season.
A hectare of it will generate millions in revenue and any farmer who is good at bell pepper wouldn't grow any other crop!
@DStvNg This account has been disconnected since yesterday and was disconnected four days ago previously.
Dstv is not honoring the not to be missed offer.
In partnership with @farmpluglagos, we are announcing a discount for fertilizers to all members of this community, we are giving Calcium Nitrate to all farmers here at the rate of #53,000 Naira per bag. Magnesium Sulphate goes for #57,000 Naira and CalMag goes for #33,000 Naira, they are all on discounts.
Same discount applies to NPK 20:20:20, NPK 15:15:15. Special fertilizers for Tomatoes and Cucumber are also on discounts.
If you are located at Abeokuta, you can contact @kullafarms and if you are at Ibadan you can contact @belugafarms
On which of these do farmers spend most of their money on?
Where do we need the most support on?
A. Seeds
B. Fertilizers
C. Insecticides/Pesticides, Acaricides and Fungicides
Tag that Pepper 🌶️ or Tomato 🍅 farmer. Pepper bandits are cooking…
@Nig_Farmer@woye1@akinwale_cfi@Millishield01@sarnchos@BelugaFarms@kullafarms@farmpluglagos@Naija_farmers
#pepperfarmer #pepperbandit #pepperbandits #pepper #capsaicin #pepperdem #tomatoes #supportfarmers #africanfarmers #naijafarmers