4,300
kg per hectare
For
one Acre:
● Land preparation (initial ploughing) 80,000
● Ridging (making the beds) 60,000
● Holes preparation (digging and mixing manure) 100,000
● Manure (1 canter lorry) 100,000
● Seedlings (1,100) 120,000
● Transplanting seedlings 70,000
Total ₦530,000
₦530,000 * 2.5 = ₦1,325,000
• 8 –
15 50KG bags of NPK
• Urea fertilizers
• seedlings
The
most serious insect pests attacking stored maize are the
maize and granary weevils (Sitophilus spp.) the red and
confused flour beetles (Tribolium spp.) Angoumois grain
moths (Sitotraga cerealella), and the larger grain borer
(Prostephanus truncates).
•
Maydis leaf blight (MLB)/ Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB)
Causal organism: Biopolaris maydis
• Turcicum leaf blight (TLB)/ Northern Corn Leaf Blight
(NCLB)
• Curvularia leaf spot
• Banded leaf and sheath blight
• Charcoal rot
• Fusarium stalk rot
• Bacterial stalk rot
• Common rust.
It
takes about 60-100 days to reach harvest. This depends your
weather and the variety you use.
Under
the soil and weather conditions of the experimental site,
the best land preparation method identified for maize
production could be double tillage of ploughing followed by
harrowing or ploughing twice.
Make
sure you purchase quality Maize varieties. They include
varieties that are preferred by consumers, grow fast, give
good yield, store well in soil, resistant, and are tolerant
to major pests and diseases.
In
order to attain better weed control and high maize
performance, farmers are encouraged to plant maize at a
spacing of 75cm x 25cm or at closer spacing of 50 cm x 25cm
with one plant per hill.
The maize plant produces high dry matter yields and therefore
has a high requirement for nutrients especially nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and
potassium (K). It is not usually necessary to apply fertilizer to supply all the
crops nutrient requirements. Crops planted in paddocks that have recently been in
pasture can usually extract a significant portion of their nutrient requirements
from the soil. There are a number of reasons for this fact:
• Maize has a deep rooting structure (up to 1.8 m) and this allows it to utilize
nutrients which have dropped below the root zone of shallow rooted pasture
species.
• Cultivation of paddocks which have been in long-term pasture can result in the
release of up to 300 kgN/ha from soil organic matter.
Recent research has shown that high fertility dairy farm paddocks, including those
with a history of dairy-shed effluent application may not require additional
fertilizer.
Long-term maize paddocks will normally require higher nutrient inputs.
When determining crop fertilizer requirements always obtain a recent, representative
soil sample. Don’t apply more fertilizer nutrients than you need. As well as being
expensive, applying excess fertilizer above crop requirements can result in nutrient
losses to our waterways
Planting at a spacing of 25cm x 75 cm is best to properly manage weed infestation. Weeding: Small scale farmers can use hoes or use their hands to uproot weeds. The disadvantage of using hoes is that, if not careful, the farmer might damage the roots of the maize
Maize is usually harvested at around 35% dry matter content (DM). If the DM is too high, it will be difficult to press all the air out in the bunk, and this will encourage heating. If the DM is too low, the maize is not ready for harvesting and therefore liquid losses will be huge.
Maize requires a temperature of 26°C – 300C, rainfall of between 75cm – 1 5ocmper annum and a well-drained sandy loamy soil of pH6-7.
https://www.veggiegrow.ng
https://www.cropscience.bayer.africa/za/en-za/resources/articles/the-growth-stages-of-a-maize-plant.html
https://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr25(7)17/6.pdf
https://www.xtremereturns.com/weed-control-managing-your-maize-farm/
https://www.lely.com/farming-insights/harvesting-maize/#:~:text=Maize%20is%20usually%20harvested%20at,liquid%20losses%20will%20be%20huge.