Bell apple farming is the newest farming business opportunity in Nigeria. We always hear the sayings that an apple a day keeps one free from chronic illness and diseases and our minds usually go straight to the foreign apples which is almost everywhere in Nigeria.

Well, foreign apple is not the only apple that can keep you free from illnesses, the good news is that the tropically grown Bell Apple which most people don’t regard as anything before has been discovered to be highly nutritious and could compete favorably with the foreign apples that we all know. And this where wise entrepreneurs are seeing great opportunity.

If there is any right time for bell apple farming in Nigeria, it has to be now. The need for this local apple is fast growing as well as the business volumes it generate. People are already making fortunes with Bell Apple farming in Nigeria because of the rising demands from fruit juice producing companies.

Nigeria is a blessed country no doubt when you consider so many opportunities that are open for its citizens. The country is known to be among the crude oil producing nations in the world and that has led its citizens away from farming, concentrating all their energies in competing for oil products as if that is the only natural resources that we have, as if oil is the only means of foreign exchange for the country.

Far from the truth, there are thousands of great opportunities within the country and many who have decided to look into that direction are smiling to the banks regularly with pure profits from their various farming business which Bell Apple farming has recently become part of.

We have exposed many farming opportunities in Nigeria and still continuing, which most Nigerians have been looking away from. Call it a secret non-oil exports and you are correct!

You can make over 10 million per year from bell apple farming in Nigeria if you start now and do it well. Bell is becoming as expensive as the other foreign apples and the demand is steadily increasing in the market.

According to some bell apple farmers in Nigeria, Bell Apple farming is a money spinner. There are many business opportunities in the Bell Apple business aside from its farming. One can actually make a fortune raising bell apple seedlings within few months with a start up capital of between N20,000 to N50,000 and multiply his investments in no time!

Bell Apple Seedling Business Opportunity

You can start the business with N20,000 for instance. Bell Apple goes for N100 per seedling and one can start with 100 seedlings which is N10,000 while the remaining N10,000 go into container constructions and other expenses.

Bell apple take about 3 years from the day of planting to to start fruiting and can produce twice yearly. The Nigerian soil and climate condition is very suitable for the plan, especially Ondo Akwa Ibom and some other parts of the country.

In fact, bell Apple can be grown in any soil except sandy soil and as such, it’s something that one can even start in the backyard. It takes up to three weeks for bell apple to germinate and is ready for sale after 10 weeks at the rate of N750 per seedling!

But the tree takes up to three years to begin producing and once it starts producing, it could be harvested more than twice a year with each tree producing more than a thousand fruits per harvest.

There is high demand for bell apple seedlings in the country because there only few trees in Nigeria. The market for bell apple is growing in the country and prominent farmers are on the look out for the seedlings which one can even start with.

Bell Apple has been researched in Nigeria and found to be highly nutritious, medicinal, and very attractive and even bigger in size than the imported apples.

It certainly make a good business sense to go into Bell Apple business of either seedlings or full farming because it is still very new and the opportunities are still under exploited.

Be among the early birds in this business of Bell Apple because Nigerians are becoming wiser and now know that aside from oils, that agriculture is the key for real success.