Hello Hive

It is no doubt that technology has helped us a great deal and has still been continually useful with out farming activities. Little machines which such as the pumping generator set and the larger tractor for tilling/ploughing the ground has been the most important currently. Not everyone can afford a tractor, infact most states in this part of the world do not have tractors. In available states where there are tractors we often hire them to do our work on lease. The year that I engaged in commercial farming of cassava and corn I remember leasing a tractor machine 🚜 that tilled the ground for us at the rate of 40k naira per acre.

Another useful and Important machine is the pumping machines for wetting our crops. This one is particularly useful in the dry seasons when there is no rains for pumping our crops and for growing vegetables especially. Without this it becomes a tedious labour to grow vegetables during the dry seasons of the year. And because most vegetables we consume do not have a proper preservation methods to keep them for longer periods yet, they have to be grown and harvested every now and then (rotationally)

Just yesterday on our way back from the farm i noticed that this locally grown vegetables are already drying out due to severe heat from the sun.
Local farmers who do not have the appropriate technology to farm often supper a great deal. While we use the generator set to pump water to wet our own veggies, the local farmers here make use of buckets to fetch water from the river here to water their crops. It's a long tedious and tiring process. This local farmer has grown her vegetables bed at a very long distance away from our making it difficult to assist her with wetting her crops.

Any delay or breaks in wetting the veggies bed has a negative impacts on the crops. The weather is on the high side these days thereby resulting in an increase in the no of irrigation days. And no matter how much buckets of water is poured into this veggies bed, it can never be as satisfactory as using a pipe and the generator set

Here are vegetables that are almost a month old compared to other vegetables that we have harvested at 6weeks below.

Even at 6weeks of planting, the former vegetables may not be ready for harvest after the efforts made to grow them. Due to the reduced frequency in of wetting the veggies, a good portion of it is drying and withering off already.