1. If you want to start farming potatoes we have a potato farmer who is selling all the equipment/machinery you’ll need all at R480k ✌️
2. This for Grain Farm Mangers looking for employment 🫶🏽 If you got what it takes to manage a 500ha of grains ✌️ my DMs are open😅
3. If you know anyone who owns a SugarCane farmer and is looking for an experienced Sugarcane manager please 🙏 show yourselves!!! @IllovoSugarGrp
4. If you need a website for your startUp Watoto is the plug✌️ they’re a NPO based in Kenya ✌️😅 check them out @watotocoding
5. Do we have onion farmers on the TL??? There’s a market for you😅DMs are open!
6. Investors Corner
If you are around Bethlehem (hope that’s right spelling) FS and you have some money you’d like to invest in a farm👍 There’s a 141ha which belongs to a family and they need you🫶🏽
7. Emerging farmer in NW needs your mentorship and guidance please assist✌️
8. Once again there’s a student who is studying Veterinary Medicine in Budapest who needs your assistance with practical work during his July Holiday in South Africa🙏 Livestock farmers kindly assist
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- In SA from November till May/June every year the onions you buy from the stores are not fresh (storage onions) that why the prices are always high...
- Fresh Onions June - Oct
1. Soil
- Always fix the soil first!!!
- Good farmers do soil samples every after 3 years!!!
- Onions love loamy soils
- Work the top soil for good drainage atleast upto 75cm
- 30cm top soil should be fine and loose (use a rotavator if you have one)
2. Seed
- Onions are sensitive to day light length.
- If they receive too much or too low light it will affect your production yield immensely
- Always buy seeds from a reputable seed(ling) suppliers
1. Tomatoes and Potatoes are one plant, the difference is one produces fruit 🍅 and the other produces tubes 🥔
2. A tomato tree has the ability to grow 15cm every week
3. Tomatoes can be yellow, pink, purple, black and even white
Thread
This thread is for "open field production"
1.Soil
A happy soil leads to happy plants.
1.1 Soil Samples : do your soil samples before you work the land to check if the land is suitable for production.
1.2 Soil should be tilled to the depth of 20-40cm for best root development
1.3 Ridging
A simple description of what ridging is - "creating a hip of top soil " . It is advisable to plant your tomatoes on ridges rather than on a flat surface. Benefits of ridging includes, improved root development, keep roots free of excess water during flooding...