The Super India Farming Giant

B. Soundararajan, Chairman and Founder of Suguna Holdings

Suguna Foods Limited, a division of Suguna Holdings, is India’s largest poultry company.

Interview From Tomatoes Farmers

Ques1: What is your good name and Address?

Mr. Madhukar Kakad,
At post: Mangul, post: Dagadparna,
Tah: Barsitakdi, Dist: Akola (M.S.)

Steps To Building Pig Pen House

How Do I Build A Natural Farming Deep Bed Pig Sty?

Below I outline the basic principles of building a deep bed pig sty. This concept can be used for building a small sty to keep just a couple of pigs in your back yard to raising hundreds of pigs.

1) Build pen housing

 

Dimensions will vary dependent on how many pens you want under one roof and the number of pigs you want to keep. Below are the dimensions of my single pen pig sties.

From a small-time farmer to director of pig breeding body

A small-time pig farmer from a village in Ludhiana, who rose from rags to the riches with the help of just with three pigs in 2009 presently has as many as 300 pigs in his farm,

Goat Diseases, Symptoms and Treatment

Hello farmers, I found this educative and informative to you guys that are into goat farming. Just read below........

Introduction
The goat suffers with various diseases, which are caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites and other non-infectious agents. The diagnosis of the goat diseases not only based on the clinical symptoms is most difficult, as many diseases resemble one another.

What To Do If Your Chickens Look Seek

By Frank Agroplanet

photo from steelkitten

•Isolate sick bird(s) immediately

•Dispose of dead birds promptly and properly

•Observe the rest of the flock for signs of disease

•Call veterinarian, animal health technician, or Extension agent for advice and assistance •Do not move birds or eggs off your farm

•Do not add new birds to flock

•Do not visit other farms

Make Million of Money with Local Chicken - By Frank Agroplanet

 By Frank Agroplanet

Do you gave up your dream of becoming successful poultry farmer because of negative experience you’ve had in struggling to become great farmer? Is it because you lost huge amount of money trying to become poultry farmer? But, do you know you can actually make a lot of money by raising local chicken? Common, give it a try! Local chicken can fetch you lots of money and make your dream comes true.

Local chicken have naturally built in a way that allows them survive and reproduce with less management. 

7 Rules Of Raising Catfish Fingerling: by Frank Agroplanet

Raising catfish can be fun and exciting for the whole family! Your kids will come see you more often. All your grand kids will talk about is going fishing and your neighbor will love you or hate you.  It can be a very expensive experience if you don’t follow a few basic rules.

Secrete Tips For Managing and Care Of Day Old Chicks

Poultry hatchery business is a highly specialised job and, therefore, the industry is characterised by a few accredited firms mainly concentrated in some parts of the country. 

Usually, poultry farmers place their orders for day-old chicks from these hatcheries through agents and distributors. However, given that demand for day-old chicks is more than supply, (sometimes orders take as long as a month or more before they are executed especially during peak periods), desperation on the part of the farmers and agents has resulted in sourcing and supply of chicks from unknown hatcheries yet the birds are the foundation of poultry farming.

I Wish I Had Quit My Job Earlier - Fish Farmer Story

To all inspiring fish farmers and unemployed persons out there, I saw this inspiring and motivated success story, and believe it will help in a way to bring closer your dreams. Read below.....

Had Onesmus Githui realised during his 27-year tenure at Telkom Kenya that fish farming was a lucrative venture, he would have quit in his first year of employment.

The project did so well in his first year of starting, he was amazed. “In the first six months after starting fish farming, I made a profit of Sh130,000. I was impressed,” he told Smart Harvest at his farm in Kairi village in Kabaru, in the foothills of Mt Kenya.

9 Tips To Start Agribusiness Without Money - Frank Agroplanet

9 Tips To Start Agribusiness Without Money

By Frank Agroplanet

Here in Nigeria, considering the economic state of country, self-employed remains the key. Most people that wants to into Agribusiness and farming these days, are facing with one thing holding them back that is money.  The banks are reluctant to lend to start ups, because most banks believe that first timers in the Agribusiness or Farming tend to fail when hit with challenges. Also, a tough economic climate makes it hard to borrow from friends and family, and funding it on your life saving with little or no experiencewith big risks.

Sometimes, when you do need some cash, government agric loans are for people who’ve been turned down by banks, or with connections. But funding isn’t always necessary.

Here are good news for you, follow these basic rules, you will learn that starting a business with almost no money is entirely possible. This is how to do it:

 1. Make use of the resources at your fingertips. 

You can work from home. Example, if you have chosen to go into farming, maybe raising chickens or croping, your backyard can be your starting point. If you’re intending to go into fruit juice production, your kitchen can serve as your factory.  With these resources at your fingertips, you can actual start up your dream agribusiness/farming without money for buying a farmland or hiring a factory site for your production.  

Make Money Through Worms: Worm Farming

How to Make Your Own Worm Farm

Why buy an expensive worm farm, when you can set up a perfectly good stacking system wormery, for less than  half the price of buying in a fancy branded worm farm from a dealer? You won’t even need to be much of a handyman, nor use expensive materials to produce a neat unit that will look good and function well.

The Principle of the Stacked Bin Worm Farm

Traditional methods of vermiculture have their place, but today’s suburban worm farmer wants a composting system that takes up minimal space, looks good and is clean and convenient to use.  The home worm farmer, or amateur vermiculturalist can use suitable modern products and a better understanding of the habits and requirements of the compost worms in the worm bins to design a system that is both convenient to handle and efficient in the usage of materials and manpower.

Secrete Of Healthy Chicken

Why allowed your chickens drinking water that contaminated with their own poop, whereas you can simple provide poop-free drinker. It is simple, let me teach you how to do that. You can save some money back in your pocket, which may cost you treating the chickens.  In other words, it is an economical way to provide fresh, clean water to your chicken on continuous basis. With this, it saves you enough time for washing the drinkers more than once on a day, and ensure the health of your chickens.  Feel free to follow these steps:

STEP 1

Get the following items: 1. Used Paint Bucket (washed and clean), 2. Poultry nipples (you can get it at poultry shop)

Poultry Farming: How Nakibuuka Defied Age Succeed

Yes! Poultry Farming is lucrative and challenging, but it desire and energy to achieve success no matter what. Read below the inspiring success stories of a farmer from Uganda that made it through despite her age....

"Born in Kajjansi, Wakiso district in an extended family, Rosemary Nakibuka never had a chance to go to school because her father only cared about boys' education. But this never stopped her from becoming successful.

She started a small shop in Kajjansi market, but it was short-lived because thieves broke into it and made off with everything.

Nakibuka also used to sell tomatoes and matooke and it is from this that she raised money to educate her children since she had lost her husband.

IMO MOUNTS BIRD FLU, LASSA FEVER SURVEILLANCE

The Imo State government has mounted increased surveillance across its borders, in a bid to guard against bird flu and Lassa fever disease spreading into its 27 local government areas, the Guardian reports.

The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources, Udo Agoha, who said this at the weekend in Owerri, warned poultry and livestock dealers not to import birds into the state, so as to avert the entry of bird flu into the state.

Agoha said: “There is no case of this influenza here. We have started enlightenment programmes to tell people why and how to curb the spread of the disease into the state. That is why we are warning people not to import birds into the state presently, because by doing that, you would not know when you import the disease. So we are using this medium to call on poultry farmers not to import birds from outside the state, so that we don’t contaminate the stock we have.”

Nigeria 10 Leading Farms and their Owners

 

Before the advent of crude oil, agriculture was the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy. Then, the country’s economy thrived; food was available and affordable. People, therefore, did not go hungry, except in extreme cases occasioned by a serious factor.

With the oil boom era, the country and its people shifted attention from agriculture to oil and gas. Subsequently, graduates of Agricultural Science, Soil Science, Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Economics etc., looked for white-collar jobs in banks and other seemingly lucrative areas, including oil and gas. Little did people know that those who remained in agriculture would today be raking in millions and billions of naira, as their products now grace both local and international markets.

This gives an impeccable signal that agriculture is, perhaps, more viable than other sectors. Also, it is an indication that well planned investment in agriculture is not a futile effort. It suffices that some Nigerian farmers have successfully built some shining legacies that need to be emulated and replicated. Most of them, as observed, are politicians. In this edition, LEADERSHIP Friday brings to the fore Nigeria’s top ten biggest farmers.

OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (OBASANJO FARM)

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is not only a retired army officer, former head of state and politician, he is also a successful farmer. He owns Ota Farm, which is also called Obasanjo Farms. The large farm was formally opened on October 8, 1979, a week after Obasanjo handed over power to a civilian administration on October 1, 1979. At inception, the farm took off as Temperance Enterprises Limited (Farming Venture). It later became Obasanjo Farms Nigeria Limited.

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