As a farmer you have to learn how to be patient because raising crops or life stock takes time.
Plus, it might not always turn out the way you expect.
Farming comes with lots of unexpected circumstances, like , pest inventions and disease outbreaks,market glut.
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Slow or unexpected results shouldn't frustrate a farmer set on being successful. Instead, take it in stride and plan for how to get it right next time.
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Develop a Student Mentality
Uproach the industry with a student mentality you also have to be willing and able to adapt to new technology, environments, and methods.
Curiosity comes hand in hand with a student mentality, and as a farmer you need lots of it to find success.
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Knowledge and skills
Knowledge and skills pair nicely together.
In addition to learning new things, you need to be knowledgeable in every aspect of your farm.
This includes close familiarity with every crop, finding out what works best for the farm, and how it operates.
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Be a Problem solver.
As a Farmer you also need to be a problem solver . A successful farmer knows how to deal with issues on all fronts of the business.
You need to be able to identify and solve problems in order of significance.
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Be Organized
As a business owner you have to keep track of a lot of factors, to keep your business running.
To become successful you have to be organized, staying on top of your daily tasks, and remember a lot of farming is driven by time, product, and labor management.
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Be Good With Numbers
When it comes to facts and figures, the farmer have to know what to do with them. Numbers plays a bigger role in farming and most farmers don't know.
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As a farmer you need to have financial skills, in order to track inventory, budget, and analyze profits, among others.
Being bad with numbers can lead to miscalculations when it comes to plant growth.
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Be a good Salesman
To get where you want to be your business needs to make sales. In order to keep your farm afloat, you have to make a profit. Doing so requires customers. You need to be able to communicate effectively in order to network, market,& sell produce.
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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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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.