Reaching a 3-week Maturing Amaranthus hybridus

  • The Lasgidi Farmer
  • July 4, 2024
  • 14 min read

The leafy green Amaranthus hybridus (known as ẹfọ tẹtẹ, Nigerian spinach) is one vegetable I really think the potential needs to be improved; and I strongly believe this can be done, with the plant’s special attributes. A cheap nature and an unusually high, wide-range nutrient profile enables the green form good source of nutritious food […]

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How Nigeria Can Extract More Value from Its Pulses

  • The Lasgidi Farmer
  • May 19, 2024
  • 18 min read

In early february this year, on “World’s Pulses Day”, I joined Vestance (an agribusiness intelligence firm) on an X (Twitter) space to discuss how Nigeria can extract more value from its pulses. Prior to this event I had always wanted to inform people on how super a crop group pulses are to sustainably reaching an […]

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Reaching an Early Maturing Amaranthus hybridus

  • The Lasgidi Farmer
  • February 22, 2024
  • 14 min read

Reaching an Early Maturing Amaranthus hybridus The leafy green Amaranthushybridus (known as ẹfọtẹtẹ, Nigerian spinach) is one vegetable I really think the potential needs to be improved; and I strongly believe this can be done, with the plant’s special attributes. A cheap nature and an unusually high, wide-range nutrient profile enables the green form good […]

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GMO Adoption

  • The Lasgidi Farmer
  • February 22, 2024
  • 35 min read

We are Informing the Adoption of GMOs & GM Foods all Wrong! Author: Toheeb Azeez 1.       Local and global crises At this time, people are very concerned about what they eat than ever. Cancer is one of the leading killer diseases and causes of death in the world today, and some forms and their increasing […]

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The Art of Growing cucumber successfully.

  • The Lasgidi Farmer
  • February 7, 2024
  • 1 min read

I took time out to write on how to grow cucumber successfully. Venturing into agriculture one of the first crop/things I ever did was growing cucumber. Many of my productions did not go really well. But the mistakes I made, failures I saw, I was able to reflect on them, which guided my subsequent productions […]

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10 tips from my experience to help you grow tomatoes

  • The Lasgidi Farmer
  • April 13, 2020
  • 16 min read

1.       Good production starts outside the field. Laying good foundation is crucial to seeing great results with tomato production. This entails procuring the right seeds and ensuring appropriate field conditions that promote proper growth, development, thriving, and productivity of seeds. Quite a number of productions are impacted and even from the start by pests, diseases, […]

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