It’s very sad to see people approach farming with little to zero knowledge- or employ wrong hands-and at the end get their fingers burnt. Many invested all their life savings, some took heavy bank loans, burrowed money from other people or use their pension/gratuity- but sadly lose ALL!
Horticultural farming such as tomato farming is not like normal everyday farming. It’s an attention seeking and a knowledge based farming that requires the right approach in order to get positive results.
We consult and coach in up-to-date farming techniques fitting for our geography and market.
We also show people how to maximize little space to achieve great results especially through technical density stocking, sustainable farming, urban-farming and vertical farming .
Tomatoes is highly profitable and could bring wealth within a very short period.
Take for example tomatoes cultivation on an acre of land should produce between 15tonnes to 35tonnes- 15tonnes being a worst case scenario.
So let’s calculate: in mile-12 market Lagos, Nigeria for example, a 25kg crate of fresh hardy 120g size per fruit of tomatoes sells for N3500 during market glut/surplus period and N12, 000 during scarcity.
We said 15tonnes (15,000kg) is the worst case scenario. Hence, when you do the math, that’s 600 of 25kgcrates of tomatoes on an acre. At a worst case you sell all 600 crates at 3500 naira, you should realize a gross profit of N2,100,000.
Note that this calculation is based on when tomatoes is surplus, not scarce and every year it’s certain there would be scarcity of tomatoes for at least for 5-6months straight in Nigeria.
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This entails everything before transplanting of seedlings into the soil i.e. from land acquisition, to land preparation, irrigation installation, mulching installation, and staking infrastructure installations.
There’s a lot to say here based on years of experience which includes time, season, spacing, depth, staking, and so on.
The nursery stage of cultivation is the most important, so once the young seedlings are sick from nursery, they definitely produce sick outputs.
Every stage of planting requires the right know-how, spraying is the most important activity after planting, because apart from disease prevention, you also feed plants through foliar(leaf) spraying, and there’s a proper way it’s done to achieve maximum results.
You need to know:
WHAT TO SPRAY (Chemicals, Fertilizers in quantity measurement, composition based on soil and situation demands)
HOW TO SPRAY (Learn the techniques of handling spraying exercise)
WHEN TO SPRAY (At what stage of the plant, at what time of the day, at what events on the farm, what signs etc)
A good business person needs to prepare a solid sales and marketing plan regardless of scarcity or abundance, there’s the need to have your target market segment and plan on how to serve them.
You don’t have to follow the old rules, there are plenty strategies which we would be teaching.
You also have the opportunity to directly supply some of our partner processing companies and online/offline retail giants which we would inform you on how to go about it.
You will also learn things like:
This discounted program is poised to commence from 27th April, and will hold for 3hours every day, with accompany educative materials, slides, on farm videos to guide our students. Classes are engaging, with practical case studies to help you run either urban or rural type of farm.
Course Requirements
Full participation and maximum attention is needed by students through out all sessions this would be helpful to exchange knowledge and gain from collective learning.
Course Fees:
The classes are divided into two, you can either subscribe for CLASS Basic or CLASS Advance.
Beginners: General Farm processes
General Exposition on Tomatoes
Tomato production manual/working doc.
Advance:
General Farm processes
General Exposition on Tomatoes
Tomato production manual/working doc.
One year tomatoes production support program
75% Business plan discount
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