Vegetable farming Producing vegetables such as tomatoes, ugwu, watermelon, cucumber, pepper, okro, ewedu, etc, can guarantee you a bumper harvest and an amazing return on investment [every 60 days] that could reach 100 percent in profit. We take you into the world of successful vegetable farmers who not only reveal the above stated fact but guide [...]

Are you a Nigerian looking for something to do as business or you just graduated from the college and you are still waiting for that white collar jobs in Nigeria where you can knot tie and put on that corporate suit and jacket everyday? Well let me introduce you to a business that is fast [...]

There is this wise saying: “If you are not idle, you are succeeding a little”. So, start climbing the success stairs by starting up a small snail farm beside your apartment. Snail breeding is one of the numerous businesses that you can start with a very little capital, easy to manage and consume lesser amount [...]

Exports from Nigeria to other countries of the world is very lucrative and can build the country’s economy overnight. Why we are not exporting enough products from Nigeria to other countries is a mystery. Here we present to you the top 20 items you can export from Nigeria and make some dollars. Many people used [...]

There are so many information on the internet on how to start fish farming especially catfish farming but few are detailed enough to really assist aspiring fish farmer to get started. I will be endeavor to make this article as detailed as possible and hope that other experienced fish farmer will add to it as [...]

That backyard of yours may be lying dormant at the moment, a space in which you constantly battle with weeds. You think you killed them off a month ago, but they’re back now, mocking your efforts. Why not convert the trouble spot into something more productive, and invest your weed-clearing energy in growing vegetables? Then [...]

Turmeric is one root crop that receives less attention from Nigerian farmers, but experts say it has huge potentials for local industries and export. Dr. Eddy Nwaogu, the Head, Nyanya Outstation of the National Root Crop Research Institute, Umudike, has been working on the genetic improvement of ginger and turmeric for many years now. He took [...]

It's now well-known, thanks in no small part to the Paleo diet movement, that agriculture began sometime around 9,500 BC, with domestication of animals occurring a few thousand years before that. What’s less well-known is that humans are by no means the first species to figure out some way to cultivate plants and/or animals (or, as [...]

Keeping cows, sheep, chickens, pigs, goats, horses, and other livestock cool isn’t rocket science, but it takes some advance planning. Heat stress can occur anytime the mercury rises above 80 degrees Fahrenheit or so, especially for animals being worked (i.e. draft horses), confined in close quarters without ventilation, or lacking access to shade. Goats are among the [...]

They say that money makes the world go round, but it is food that will always be essential to our survival, so we bring to you the list of countries that export the most food in the world. Continuously growing global population and increasing calorie intake are the main reasons why global food production has [...]

By Jesse Hirsch; Jesse Hirsch is a food writer Ever dream of chucking it all for the simple life? Read this first. “Sorry — you’re low man on the totem pole.” With those words, farmer Eliza Winters dispatched me to the field. I was on rock duty — a tough job on any day, but [...]