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@Simply_Seruya
Jun 23, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Pig #farmers gather here.
Who told you pigsties must be soiled and dirty?

I've said and repeat that pigs are some of the cleanest and intelligent animals.

Knows where to eat, poop, pee and rest from.
👇👇👇

#COVID19
#agribusiness
#Dearfarmers
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Oct 23, 2020
Hatching and Brooding Chicks
Planning to start hatching? You got your first batch of chicks but don't know what to do next?

Let me take you through the interesting life of a chick.

Eggs, embryo development, hatching and brooding depends on you 100%. So no buts.

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In the previous thread, I emphasized the need to raise your flock before you invest in an incubator. Calculate your needed capacity and raise hens with cockerels that will ensure you have fertilized eggs in the right quantity as per your capacity requirements. Be patient. Plan.
Don't depend on others to supply you eggs for incubation.
Reasons:
1. Most farmers are not keen on breeder stocks, lowering quality.
2. Most farmers inbreed leading to poor quality chicks n unexplained deaths while growing.
3. Assured supply on need basis. No excuses.
4. Fresh
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Oct 22, 2020
Want to run a successful hatchery?
The old question of what came first between an egg and chicken can be quite informative to you as a farmer.
Don't start hatching eggs you don't own especially if its commercial.
Raise your chickens breeder stock based on your capacity.
One of the many mistakes hatchers do is to start hatching without breeder stock. You end up relying 100% on other farmers to supply you eggs. These farmers have established buyers and would be hard to break their relationship for you. Thats why u end up not meeting your capacity.
So start with the chickens. Raise your hens and cockerels ensuring they grow up without any infections. Choose the cockerels from another farmer to ensure you don't inbreed.
If your capacity is 500, you will need 500 eggs within 10 days. For maximum hatching, stick to 5 days.
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Sep 26, 2020
Mr Follow Follow- Fela Anakulipo Kuti
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Time to put your best leg forward.
Weekend is here😊
Not forgetting my sister @funshographix who amplifies the Pan-Africanism. May the soul if the legend Fella Anakulipo Kuti rest in music.
@IrriHub today no piping. Dance😊
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Sep 9, 2020
Plant Population vs Price
Plant population affects your yield and ultimately what you get at the other end.

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Planting few plants and complaining how prices in the market are low leaves you among the agrifailures.
Learn to harness the economies of scale to your advantage.
You can only benefit from low plant population if the prices are hiked. Yet this happens once in a blue moon.
For crops that attract market flooding but are always needed, strategically use your ability to acquire economies of scale.
Even at the worst prices, you still smile.
For example:
Let us do quick maths here for beginners:
Plant: Capsicum
Land size: 1 acre
Population: 10000 (min)
Maturity: 70 days
Yield per plant: 1kg (10000kgs) min
Market wholesale price: ksh. 50/kg
Gross: 50x10000=500000 (min)
Deduct your costs/expenses.
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Aug 27, 2020
Value Addition in Agriculture.
Let's simplify it for farmers.
It basically means changing your raw farm produce into a processed product eg grinding chilli or turning a byproduct into something useful eg packaging farm manure for sale or using farm wastes to produce biogas.
Value addition can be as simple as attractively packaging your produce in branded packs to appeal to buyers. This is where marketing comes in handy.
Given the risks in handling harvests, value addition can reduce post harvest losses and cut a competitive edge for farmers.
We need to push our farmers not just to farming but encourage them how to create value for their farm produce.
This also ensures they are not left at the mercy of brokers.
Value addition is simple and should not be made to appear complex.
Let farmers think beyond harvesting.
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Jul 23, 2020
Farmers, we are mobilizing contributions to buy this young farmer a knapsack sprayer, kales seeddlings, spray and feeding program for his kales venture.

I will train him in seedbedding, transplanting and use of the knapsack sprayer.

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This boy is in primary. The dad died in petrol accident at River Sio in Busia.
He lives with grandpas.
He said he is doing this to pay his school fees when schools open.
That's what I have gathered so far.
Please send me your names and figure when you send the money.
We are at 1600.😊
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