The whole of 2022 and past years Farmers have been making losses in tomatoes farming due to supply exceeding demand.
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High quantities of fruits rots in the farm or markets, this is because farmers don't know how to preserve or add value to their tomatoes. Farmers lose more than half of total tomatoes produced.
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Make Tomato Powder is an idea we need to embrace in 2023,With drying tomatoes & making tomato powder it will avoid waste and make good use of excess tomatoes reducing post harvest losses.This will also help in times of low supply,consumers will consume dried canned tomatoes
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Excess and surplus fresh tomatoes should be transformed into preservable powder, to be sold off season.
With Tomato powder Consumers only add the powder when cooking. No artificial colourings, additives or preservatives. Tomato powder can last more than a year in storage.
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Propagation: waterMelons can be direct seeded, or propagated to a seedling and later Transplanted.
For the direct seeded, the planting depth is about 1cm to 2cm and between row spacing is 1.5-2m, while the intra-plant spacing is 40cm-60cm.
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Fertilizer application.
At planting, we start with Phosphorus fertilizer eg Yara power, NPK 23:23:0 or DAP
This is to enable the young seedlings form a good roots network a healthy stem and leaves.
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1. Proper business planning, when formulated ahead of time helps you focus better on your farming growth and success, to execute projects and fulfill your vision.
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2. If you take the time to set action-orientated goals, you are more likely to achieve those business goals in a timely fashion.
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3. When planning ahead, you can assess risks and opportunities. Identifying any associated risks prepares you to weigh and categorise them, prioritise and create an effective response plan, thus changing risks to opportunities.
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Before getting into farming do a good market survey. 1. Check market trend for the last 5 months.
2.Check the current trend, in term of prices and quantities consumed. 3. Read between the line and connect with the market for the next 5 months.
Farm inputs
After choosing the crop of your choice.
-Do a good research on inputs, especially seeds.From the market you can also get the varieties of their choice.
-Visit few farmers and get to know the best fertilzer and agrochemicals they are using.