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GRASS-CUTTER FARMING IN NIGERIA.

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MARKET Grasscutter is considered a delicacy within our environment and there's hardly enough to meet demand. In addition there's an increase in foreign demand for the animal especially from Asian market. RISK The risk level of cane rat farming is low compared to other livestock. The input is low and returns is high as they are very prolific animals and require little care when compared to other livestock. FEEDING For every livestock farming  feeding cost usually surmount to about 70% of running cost. Which is what makes grasscutter farming attractive. The cost of feeding is really low as they feed on anything vegetable. They would eat elephant or napier grass, guinea grass, congo grass, gamba, alfalfa which are all readily available in our environment. They would equally eat tubers such as cassava, sweet potatoes, yams, fruits such as pawpaw, banana, plantain, corncobs sugar cane, hydroponic fodder, formulated concentrate feeds etc. Cheaper was of feeding grasscutt...
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HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS FROM BANANA AND PLANTAIN FARMING

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Banana farming is the most neglected farming in Nigeria. Yet, holds more promises and profit potential than most other farming. Knowledge is power and useful, but when it is kept away from the others it becomes useless! In this post we want to take a look at plantain and banana farming in Nigeria and how to get started. You can be making N1million monthly from plantain and banana farming if you take it to commercial standard. If people in Nigeria today could sit down and review their living standards, they would realize that most of their complaints for poverty and their inability to take care of their situations were actually their own making. Why would the city be clustered with hungry people who are doing nothing when the surrounding states are made up of vast expanses of productive farmlands? Why would people prefer to suffer even when they can make millions from farming without stress? Take up banana farming today and see how much you will be making in the next two years....
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SOME COMMON POULTRY DISEASE by ayoola najeemdeen jnr.

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Common Poultry diseases  are no doubt one of the major challenges facing the  poultry farming business industry  in Nigeria . There have been many cases where farmers lost several thousands of dollars’ worth of investments due to sudden poultry disease outbreak. Poultry diseases are commonly caused by Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites and Fungi. Apart from this, improper poultry farm management skills, feeding of unhealthy feeds and unclean poultry environment can also leads to poultry disease outbreak. For instance,  Infectious bronchitis  is a very contagious  poultry disease  that is spread by air, feed bags, infected dead birds, infected houses, and rodents. So therefore, farmers are advised to keep tab on their chickens for any sudden disease like this that can ruin multi-million dollars of investment.  What is poultry  disease?  Any condition that results in deviation from normal function. That’s simp...
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