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Raising grasscutters (also known as cane rats) is a growing business in Nigeria and across Africa. While the demand for grasscutter meat is high, one major challenge farmers face is disease outbreak, which can lead to serious loss if not handled properly. In this article, you’ll learn about the most common grasscutter diseases, their symptoms, how to treat them, and how to prevent future outbreaks. Whether you’re a beginner or already running a small grasscutter farm, this guide is written in plain language with practical tips you can use immediately. 1. Diarrhea (Scouring) Symptoms: Watery or loose droppings Soiled bedding or cage floor Weakness or loss of appetite Causes: Poor-quality feed or sudden feed changes Dirty drinking water Wet and unhygienic cages Treatment: Isolate the affected animal immediately Give Electrolyte Glucose solution in drinking water Administer oxytetracycline or neomycin (as advised by a vet) Prevention Tips: Clean cages regularly Give clean drinking water d...

Let’s be clear… Grasscutters are not goats. They’re not pigs. And they’re definitely not chickens. So why do some farmers feed them like one? ❌ Dumping any leaf ❌ Pouring kitchen leftovers ❌ Relying only on grass ❌ Overfeeding with cassava peel soaked in ignorance ALSO READ HOW PROFITABLE REALLY GRASS CUTTER BUSINESS Grasscutters are 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴. And when you give them the wrong things, 3 things happen: 1. They waste it. 2. They don’t gain weight. 3. You burn money, one meal at a time. The goal is not to 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. The goal is to nourish them for growth and profitability. So before you serve the next pile of greens, ask yourself: Is this feed growing then or just filling them?

  Let’s run the numbers together… Today, the average price of a colony of Grasscutter (1 male + 4 females) is ₦210,000. Now imagine you have just 50 colonies — that’s not even a full-blown commercial farm yet. 50 colonies × ₦210,000 = ₦10,500,000 That’s over ₦10 million worth of value… Right from what most people still call “bush meat.” No noise. No drama. Just animals multiplying and bringing in returns. COMMON GRASSCUTTER DISEASES AND HOW TO TREAT THEM ✅ Grasscutters eat mostly free forage ✅ They don’t need as much space as poultry ✅ Demand is growing faster than supply ✅ And breeders are willing to pay full price — upfront. This is not theory. This is the exact model many of us use to quietly build 6–7 figure revenue from the comfort of our backyard farms. In the book Grasscutter Farming Secrets, I broke down how to breed them, feed them, market them, and grow your colony from 5 to 50 and beyond.

 Cashew cultivating business is a quiet cash spinner, you may never know until you take part in it or be more like a seller. Nigeria as country is truly draining cash out from cashew exportation. For the time being we are the number 6 makers of crude cashew nuts in Africa, falling under Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Burina Faso, Ghana and Mozanbique as per cashew affiliation. There's more cash in handling or cooking cashew than selling them crude, the proportion is 1:10. For that reason the clergyman for Agriculture Mr Audu Ogbeh said in 2019 Nigeria would never again be selling crude cashew nuts however will rather process/cook them in other to profit from the significant expense of sending out the nuts For Nigeria to turn into the second most elevated exporters we want to trade around 500,000 tons of crude cashew, we are far beneath the objective. This is the place where you can come in as a financial backer or business person in other to assist with accomplishing this objective. Someon...

  Edible vegetable oil is oil comprised of any of the safe to eat oil bearing seeds that exist in nature. Many of those seeds are produced in big portions in Nigeria. Amongst them are: groundnut, oil palm fruit, soybeans, cotton seed, sesame seed, melon seed, etc. This write up will attention at the processing of groundnut into oil and cake. Although the manufacturing method is nearly the equal for nearly all of the seeds with simply moderate variations withinside the manufacturing line. The manufacturing line of oil from groundnut is: seed preparation, seed pressing/oil extraction and filtration. A common groundnut oil mill has the subsequent facilities: decorticator, cooking kettle, infant boiler, oil expeller and clear out out press. For a small/medium scale mechanized groundnut oil mill, the start-up capital is among 5 to 6 million naira. This will cowl the value of land, construction, furniture, procurement and set up One tone of groundnut seed ...

 Palm Oil Tree Plantation is one of the most useful plantation in the world. Nothing in palm tree that is not useful, from the fruit to the palm frond, everything is used for one thing or the other that brings benefit to man. The use of red oil palm fruit to extract edible and useful red oil has been in practice all over the world for many centuries. Almost the entire economy of countries such as Malaysia depends of palm oil plantation and exportation. Making the country one of the biggest player in the palm oil industry. They account for the estimated 5% of global productions. Malaysia is currently producing more than 20 million tonnes of palm oil and holds the second largest palm oil producer position in the world. According to tales, Malaysia got their palm fruit from Nigeria who used to be the origin of this product and one of the biggest producer in the past. Whether that is true is yet to be verified. But what really happened to this sector of viable agriculture in Nigeria? I...

  Before we get into the technicalities of growing plantains, let's take a quick look at their history! Plantains have been cultivated for thousands of years and their origin seems to be the Malaysian peninsula, New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. These trees can reach a height of 7 to 30 feet, depending on many factors such as variety, amount of sun, soil, and overall climate. In fact, plantains are a hybrid of two species of banana:   Musa acuminata   and   Musa balbisiana.  Unlike bananas though, plantains are never eaten raw, but always cooked the same way you would cook a potato! PLANTING PLANTAIN TREES: Plantain trees are grown from long, 12-15 foot underground rhizomes. If you choose to grow plantains from rhizomes (same idea as growing from seeds), you'll need to dig a very large hole. We recommend purchasing a small plantain tree to ensure good, healthy growth and avoid any future growing problems. This in turn yield some very large and impressive leaves (a...

Searching for a rewarding business that will win you cash and make you effective? One of the conceivable productive organizations that you should drive your consideration regarding is poultry cultivating. Peruse this guide and discover how to begin a poultry ranch in Nigeria, alongside alternate insights concerning poultry business. Poultry cultivating in Nigeria: for what reason is it so engaging? As a matter of first importance, poultry cultivating is inconceivably worthwhile, on the grounds that consistently individuals expend huge amounts of the poultry generation. Be that as it may, the interest still remains dissatisfactory. Heaps of Nigerian poultry items are imported. With this import, there are insufficient local poultry merchandise at the nearby Nigerian market. Around 160 million individuals in Nigeria are customers of the poultry items. Eggs, turkeys, chickens, and numerous different items can be named poultry. This noteworthy number demonstrates to u...