Thai Agro and Allied Industries Ltd (TAI) is an agricultural company with Thailand bias, set up to to ensure sustainable food security in Nigeria and Africa
Today, there is a need for a sustainable agriculture in order to tackle the triple challenge of:
🌱Producing more food
🍆Creating more jobs and,
🌶️Preserving the natural resource base.
Small family farmers👨👩👦👦 lie at the heart of the solution.
Sack farming is a home garden initiative that enables home owners comfortably grow their vegetables in bags
A wide range of vegetables 🍒🥕🌶🥒🍅 can be grown in bags
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Sack farming maximizes space, facilitates food security, conserves soil & the environment's resources, as well as providing healthy food for the home all the time.
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🥦Do you know you can make 3 times as much profit farming cucumber in the dry season than in the raining season?
🥦 Learn all you need to know on this #DrySeasonFarming thread.
1. Food security is defined as a situation where both food supply and demand are sufficient to cover food requirements on a continuous and stable basis.
2. Food insecurity prevails if, at any time (occasionally, repeatedly, or permanently), either the volume of food supply, or food demand, or both fall short of requirements (FAO)
Welcome to a week of freebies😎😎
Home gardeners (intending and practicing), let's gather around this table😉
By 10am this Saturday (18th July, 2020), we would host a NO CHARGE Home Garden professional training.
Training Venue - 7 Mann Street, Owerri.
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Fill the hole with enough soil
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Water the transplanted plant generously. You may use supplements containing phosphorous to strengthen root development
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Transplanting seedlings is a very important step in farming or home gardening of vegetables
Seedlings are basically the germinated stage of a seed
Here is a picture story of 5 simple steps to transplant seedlings
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Place the seedling in the hole. Bury some part of the stem in the soil as any part of the stem buried will grow new roots and stabilize the plant
Over the years, we have committed much to our continental vision of food security. We have innovated, taught and practiced smart farming.
In our journey so far, we have had hundreds of stories. Here is one success story:
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Dr. Chika Duru is a professional banker who was encouraged to start her home garden during the lockdown. We provided her with quality farm inputs & technical support. With the lockdown relaxed, she's back to her professional job and her garden continues to flourish😉