Animal Agriculture

Open main menu Search Edit Watch this page Read in another language Pigs are amenable to many different styles of farming.  Intensive commercial units , commercial  free range  enterprises, extensive farming - being allowed to wander around a village, town or city, or tethered in a simple shelter or kept in a pen outside the owners house. Historically pigs were kept in small numbers and were closely associated with the residence of the owner, or in the same village or town. [1]  They were valued as a source of meat, fat and for the ability to turn inedible food into meat, and often fed household  food waste  if kept on a homestead. Pigs have been farmed to dispose of municipal garbage on a large scale. [2] All these forms of pig farm are in use today. In developed nations, commercial farms house thousands of pigs in climate-controlled buildings. [3] Pigs are a popular form of  livestock , with more than one billion pigs butchered each year worldwide,

Before you quit farming, think about these. 1). Nobody is rich enough to eat his cash for dinner....he must eat food. 2).The world population will never reduce in fact it's increasing rapidly.....they Need food. 3).People will never change stones to food....even if they employ Technology. 4).10 years from now even if everyone will be a farmer we can't satisfy the planet increasing demand....so why quite Now. 5).Farming is a home of choices if you can't feed a person feed an animal.. 6).Before  quitting farming think about your family.....who will feed them? Me? I have mine to feed too. 7).Before you quit farming remember that suit of yours is made from cotton..... #AGRIC_IS_NOW_BUSINESS_ NOT_A_CULTURE  Good evening great farmers!! I'm Ozuluonye Emmanuel

CREEP FEED Maize:50.1kg Fish meal: 3.5kg Wheat bran: 8kg Soya bean meal: 22kg Milk powder:12.5kg Bone meal: 0.5kg Salt : 0.4kg Lysine: 0.7kg Methonine: 0.13kg Lime stone: 0.8kg  Growers mash Quantity (kg/100kg) Maize 45 Soya Meal 7.5 Wheat Offal 12 Limestone 5 Bone Meal 2.5 Palm Kernel Cake 12 Groundnut Cake 15 Premix 0.25 Toxin Binder 0.15 Salt 0.3 Super Liv 0.05 Methionine 0.15 Lysine 0.1 Total 100 kg  Finisher  Quantity:(kg/100kg) Maize 66 Soya Meal 18.55 Groundnut Cake 7 Brewer’s Dried Grain 5 Bone Meal 2 Oyster shell 0.5 Broiler Premix 0.25 Salt 0.5 Methionine 0.1 Lysine 0.1 Total 100 kg "

Cucumbers production depends on variety, growing conditons and plant care. Cucumber plants produce long, green slender fruits, and need warm soil to sprout and flower pollination to produce fruit. There are many varieties of cucumbers, including types that work well for slicing and pickling. The amount of fruit each plant produces depends on the type of plant, the growing conditions and care of plants. You cannot predict the exact number of fruit each plant will produce, but there is an estimated amount per healthy plant. Cucumber Production If you plant cucumbers to use for pickling, plan on growing 3 to 4 plants per each quart of pickles you want to make. Generally, a healthy pickling cucumber plant produces about 5 pounds of cucumbers per plant. If you plant cucumbers for slicing and eating fresh, plan on growing about 2 to 3 plants per person in your household; healthy plants generally grow 10, 6-ounce cucumbers per plant. Heirloom cucumb

Crop Production Guidelines       Field Cucumber Production Guidelines for Hawaii         By: Hector Valenzuela, Randall T. Hamasaki, and Steve Fukuda University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension Service Assistant Vegetable Specialist, Associate County Extension Agent, and County Extension Agent, respectively. INTRODUCTION Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) a member of the Cucurbitaceae family, is native of Asia and Africa, where it has been consumed for 3,000 years. It is a popular fresh market vegetable in salads and also is processed into kim chee and oriental-type pickles in Hawaii. Over 60% of local production is in Mountain View and Kona on the island of Hawaii, Kauai and Oahu. The crop is susceptible to serious losses from such pests as the silver leaf (or sweetpotato) whitefly, the melon fly, leafminers, mosaic viruses, and to soil-borne and foliar diseases. Production volumes are 40-50% lower during the winter months when diseases are more prevalen