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THE FARM CEO (Issue 36): Rabbit Farm Business Startup As Alternative to Traditional Livestock Businesses, The Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Private/Closed Facebook Group Debuts, A Permanent Solution to Africa’s Low Per Capita Protein Consumption

[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

This 36th issue of The Farm CEO features ONE page less than previous issues as the first of a series of new content changes I will be implementing to streamline it with what I’ll be doing on the pages of the new Farm CEOs Club Facebook Group. Basically, subscribers will be invited to become members and the content generated there will be used to source highlights to feature here.

Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

this issue

[URL] Rabbit Farm Business Startup As Alternative to Traditional Livestock Businesses P.1

[URL] The Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Private/Closed Facebook Group Debuts P.2

[URL] A Permanent Solution to Africa’s Low Per Capita Protein Consumption! P.2

[URL] FREE Advert Spaces P.3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 36 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 8th February 2016)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 36 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 8th February 2016)

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1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.

3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.

4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products

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1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

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Rabbit Farm Business Startup As Alternative to Traditional Livestock Businesses

In a 2013 farm business ideas article (click to read it here), I wrote an article in which I made the case for Rabbit farming as a viable low cost means to boost availability of high quality protein towards raising the appallingly low per capita protein consumption in Nigeria/Africa.

In my usual habit of walking my talk, I have since gone far in my efforts to get involved in starting my own rabbit farm business (as part of an integrated Farm Business Support Centre offering I’m working to launch in Benin Republic).

While a student in the University, I’d operated a micro rabbit farm business in the backyard of my parents’ Lagos-Gbagada home.

Back then, I would sell my slaughtered and roasted rabbits, wrapped in foil paper, to health conscious seniors like Mrs. Lois Omagbemi (mother-in-law to Mary Onyali, the former African sprints champion).

Today, I’m keen to get my farm CEO clients and those aspiring, to see Commercial Rabbit farm business as the worthwhile venture that it really is. A quick google search on the web will show that the awareness of this lucrative venture has grown a lot in Africa.

My earlier mentioned article (click here to read it) highlights key benefits accruable from engaging in rabbit farming, so I will not repeat them here.

Instead, this article is meant to share with you excerpts from an exchange I had with an aspiring farm CEO working a day job, who showed interest in venturing into commercial rabbit farming, after a paid consultation session.

The recommendations I make to aspiring farm business owner today are being more and more influenced by what I’ve seen happen to other farm CEOs I’ve served over the past few years.

Nigeria in particular is a market with too much unpredictable variability.

For instance Bird Flu for poultry and Swine Flu for pigs are examples of diseases that diligent efforts of other countries’ government agencies in collaboration with their farmers have largely brought under control or eliminated.

Sadly, in Nigeria, I was shocked in Feb 2015 (i.e. last year) when an elderly Kano based Farm CEO told me over 700k birds had been lost to Bird Flu even though little news of it was known to the public and the government was doing more of talking than acting to end it.

That’s why the problem remains till now!

All of that led me to conclude that Catfish and Rabbits would offer less risky and more pocket friendly opportunities i- hence my decision to focus on recommending micro livestock like rabbits and fish.

Unless you have personal funds to invest immediately for a large scale operation, I feel most people need not invest in an elaborate business plan to startup

Like any other business, putting a business plan together will often be advisable. However, where it concerns rabbitry, I have a slightly different orientation. Like I told the farm CEO I mentioned above, when we met in his home, you can start very small with 3 to 4 does and 1 buck (or possibly 9 to 12 does and 3 bucks etc), and rapidly multiply them to a large operation in just one year.

My observations out here have taught me that it pays to startup small with a business like rabbitry (especially since you have a day job) to ensure one gets the hang of rearing them competently.

The best part, is that you can start small in January and arrive December with a big operation due to the rabbit’s unique high reproductive and growth capability.

That low cost start-up approach is one I personally prefer most people start with.

To encourage those who choose to go that small size startup route, here’s a 4 part zero cost offer of support I’d like to make as my own contribution to your DIY efforts. It’s what I had in mind to do all along if you went for it:

1. I will research and send you information about, and contact details for individuals and organizations you can connect with to get startup rabbit breeding stocks and other requirements.

2. I will gladly accompany you to examine rabbit stocks with providers you connect with. While there, I will interview the operators to establish the quality of the rabbit gene pool they work with, the breeding procedures they follow etc, so as to reasonably ascertain reliability of what they offer. It goes without saying though that one can never get 100% certainty.

3. It would be my pleasure to provide hands on practical rabbit farm management training for you to get you started in your operations. I will send you downloads links to 2 comprehensive manuals on rabbit farming, so that the hands on training will not take much time, or effort.

4. I will help you proactively search for buyers, and also share the many processing and sales/marketing ideas I have used successfully to sell my own raised rabbits.

5. When the rabbitry business is stabilized (6 months all being equal), you can then look at ways to integrate catfish farming – and again it would be my pleasure to help in any way I can.

The only thing you’ll have to do to make ANY of the above happen in terms of my support, will be to cover my expenses.

It would make me very happy to see you succeed in starting your own business in a manner that is convenient and pocket friendly. I believe it is possible to do so with rabbit and fish farming. But I am convinced those who are able to master rabbit farm business the way I advocate will have a massive competitive edge in the marketplace.

I say this based on the personal plans I have to launch mine, after years of careful observation and study of healthy living driven diet trends here in Nigeria/Africa. I will be putting my insights and expertise at your disposal.

That’s my token contribution offer, to support you in achieving your stated goal.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must be my client in order to take advantage of the above zero cost support offer. Click here and here as well as here, to review products and services I offer, that you may wish to order (such as the Excel-VB Ration Formulator, the Poultry Farm Manager, the popular Feed Formulation Handbook and other information products).

Now, having said the above, if you’d still like to have something of a formal
document to work with, say to guide your expansion plans, here’s another offer.

I can use mainly my email and phone contacts, as well as online research where possible, to put together what would possibly be best referred to as a Feasibility Report for a Low Cost Rabbit Farm Business Startup.

Among others, I would go through my Farm CEO client contacts (in and out of Africa) to get relevant
additional details to combine with what I get locally in putting it together – including the aspect of integrating with catfish farming.

I would also visit their farms – and other well known farming establishments I have contacts in – to get more information for the feasibility report, since that’s my zone. Another thing: I could even explore buying high performing breeding stock for you to startup with! (You cover expenses of courses).

Note one of the major differences here (compared to the elaborate business plan option) is that I would not move around locally in Nigeria to identify, connect with and get farm specific data via face to face meetings. It would not be as comprehensive, but it could give you something to study as an action plan
implementation guide.

[IMPORTANT NOTE: Again you MUST be my client to take advantage of it.]

Now, the above report may also prove useful after you’ve started small and grown your rabbitry say for 6 months

By then you would have your own farm specific data that we would be able to post into my template’s spreadsheet tables for the feasibility study to generate real world reports/analyses that we can then present to convince prospective investors with!

The above in my opinion, will inspire more confidence in the minds of those we approach, because they will see on-farm proof of how rabbit farming can rapidly generate returns on a small investment. More importantly, they would be impressed with your demonstrated efforts to start where you are, with what you have.

If this additional adapted feasibility report offer idea appeals to you, or you would like to have a full featured, comprehensive business plan prepared for you, click here to send me a message.

[FREE DOWNLOAD EDITION] THE FARM CEO (Issue 34): Hope Agwulonu – Abuja based Farm CEO – Publishes 60 page Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farming Business – Download Your FREE Chapter Preview, Chapter 1: The Serious Biz of Catfish Farming, Why Farm CEOs Need to Read Non-Farm Related Articles, Are You a CEO/Expert With Practical, Experience? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation],Your Own Money Making Information Product Built by Me!

[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

This year’s 4th issue of The Farm CEO™ features is FREE to download for non-subscribers (click here now).

It features highlights from Hope Agwulonu’s newly published guide book for Catfish Farm Business practioners, enthusiasts, support specialists and even students.

Like I’ve told as many as will listen, I do NOT believe I need to do it all, with regard to providing useful guide book publications on the various aspects of Best Practice Farm Business Management. Many authentic farm business owners can share wisdom, about how to successfully run the businesses they are engaged in.

This is why I have adopted the strategy of encouraging interested Farm CEOs to get their unique knowledge, insights and experiences published in book form, for use by others looking to follow in their footsteps.

I use my Ghost-Writing service to support clients in various fields (e.g. Legal Consulting, Leadership Training, Business Coaching, Farm Business etc).

Title: Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farming Business -by Hope Agwulonu, CEO of Progidence Farms Limited, Abuja – Nigeria

Subtitle: How to Start Your Own Low Cost Catfish Farm Business

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FREE EDITION

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Beyond the generic information found in most manuals, this 60 page publication, despite being a quick-start-guide, offers useful best practice/real world relevant information in different chapters – as shown in the chapter headings outlined below.

CONTENTS 1

Chapter One | The Serious Business of Catfish Farming 2

Chapter Two | Choosing a Location for Your Farm 7

Chapter Three | Construction & Mode of Operation 14

Chapter Four | Production of Catfish for food (&/or fingerlings etc for sale) 23

Chapter Five | Prevention & Treatment of Diseases 33

Chapter Six | Harvesting Operations and Procedures 41

Chapter Seven | Finding Profitable Buyers 45

Chapter Eight | Record Keeping for Performance Measurement & Decision Making 51

Conclusion | Next Steps? 58

References | Recommended Reading 61

About the Author 63

AUTHOR (Hope Agwulonu’s) NOTE

“Catfish farming is serious business. Not just by virtue of the lucrative returns it yields when done right, but also due to the heavy demands it places on the owner to keep it running that way (i.e. profitably!) for the long term. In my experience at Providence Farms Ltd, not everyone can make a success of catfish farming. Certain qualities are required which are more important than just having the money or required capital. This book highlights the key attributes you need to succeed in Catfish farming, and also discusses theoretical requirements in conjunction with practical considerations you will need to provide for, if you wish to successfully start and run your own profitable Catfish farming business, without stress, and with peace of mind.” – Hope Agwulonu, CEO, Progidence Farms Limited

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FREE EDITION

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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[PDF] Hope Agwulonu – Abuja based Farm CEO – Publishes 60 page Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farming Business – Download Your FREE Chapter Preview P.1

[PDF] Chapter 1: The Serious Biz of Catfish Farming P.2

[URL] Why Farm CEOs Need to Read Non-Farm Related Articles P.2

[URL] Are You a CEO/Expert With Practical, Experience? [Hint: CEO Spotlight Interview Invitation] P.3

[PDF] Your Own Money Making Information Product Built by Me! P.3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 34 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 25th January 2016)

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS FREE EDITION

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 34 of THE FARM CEO (Monday Monday 25th January 2016)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.

3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.

4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

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NOW LIVE: Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farming Business -by Hope Agwulonu, CEO of Progidence Farms Limited, Abuja – Nigeria

NOW LIVE: Quick Start Guide to Catfish Farming Business -by Hope Agwulonu, CEO of Progidence Farms Limited, Abuja – Nigeria

Subtitle: How to Start Your Own Low Cost Catfish Farm Business

I am VERY excited that this e-book is finally available for sale in Hope’s online store. We’ve worked hard over the past 3 months to get it done, and I’m proud of the final product we’ve ended up with.

Beyond the generic information found in most manuals, this 60 page publication, despite being a quick-start-guide, offers useful best practice/real world relevant information in different chapters on Record Keeping for Performance Measurement, Diseases Treatment & Prevention, Harvesting Operations & Procedures, Finding Profitable Bulk Buyers (& Low Cost Processing for Storage/Sale)

To download a FREE preview, click here to make a request

quick-start-guide-BIG-new

THE FARM CEO (Issue 33): 13 Year Old Boy’s Invention Solves Key African Agricultural Problem, Agricultural innovations can help African farmers compete, boost food security, From Invention to Innovation in African Agriculture, Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent, Agriculture is a new critical market force

[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

In this third issue for this year (2016), all five reports/articles showcased are from third party websites on the theme of “Innovation in African Agriculture”.

I believe too little attention has been paid so far to the role that innovation, driven by indigenous individuals and groups can play in taking African farming to the next level and beyond.

The articles showcased here offer insights into efforts being made in certain African markets to do a better job of bringing useful innovations into the spotlight and adapting them for profitable application in relevant enterprises.

We need to keep in mind the fact that ideas, simple as they are, and often costing little or nothing, can lead to massive positive changes in the fortunes of our business enterprises.

Considering that farm businesses generally tend to struggle with relatively low profit margins, it goes without saying that adopting innovative thinking in doing our farming will be the crucial key to making out businesses more successful in terms of profits made as well as time, effort and money expended.

The story of the simple innovative idea used by the Kenyan teenager featured on this page provides an excellent example of what ideas can do if properly harnessed. It’s time for farm business owners in 21st century Africa to begin investing some of their quality time into THINKING up new and better ways to do what they do.

Hopefully, for those of you who are subscribers to The Farm CEO™, this issue’s 5 reports will give you a few pointers/inspiration.

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Richard Turere’s Lion Light system is made out of LED bulbs and a car battery to prevent lions from eating livestock.

By Daniela Walker – 1 march 2013

The Nairobi National Park lays four miles south of Kenya’s capital city, with just one fence keeping wild animals away from humans. This makes for a lot of human-animal conflict, especially between lions and cattle farmers.

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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[URL] 13 Year Old Boy’s Invention Solves Key African Agricultural Problem P.1

[URL] Agricultural innovations can help African farmers compete, boost food security P.2

[URL] From Invention to Innovation in African Agriculture P.2

[URL] Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent P.3

[URL] Agriculture is a new critical market force P.3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 33 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 18th January 2016)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 33 of THE FARM CEO (Monday Monday 18th January 2016)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.

3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.

4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 32): General Considerations for Feeding and Diet Formulation – Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals, A New Guide to Fish Farming in Kenya, Aquaculture Record Keeping, Pond Construction Costing | NAFIS, Tropical Catfish Diseases and Treatments: Bacterial, Viral and Fungal

[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

In this second issue for this year (2016), I feature on this first page, excerpts from a book review published by the National Academy of Sciences of a book titled “Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals”. It’s a worthwhile read.

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1 General Considerations for Feeding and Diet Formulation

A laboratory animal’s nutritional status influences its ability to reach its genetic potential for growth, reproduction, and longevity and to respond to pathogens and other environmental stresses.

A nutritionally balanced diet is important both for the welfare of laboratory animals and to ensure that experimental results are not biased by unintended nutritional factors.

 

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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[BOOK Excerpts] General Considerations for Feeding and Diet Formulation – Nutrient Requirements of Laboratory Animals: Fourth Revised Edition, 1995 P.1

[PDF] A New Guide to Fish Farming in Kenya P.2

[PDF] Aquaculture Record Keeping P.2

[URL] Pond Construction Costing | NAFIS P.3

[URL] Tropical Catfish Diseases and Treatments: Bacterial, Viral and Fungal P.3

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 32 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 11th January 2016)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 32 of THE FARM CEO (Monday Monday 11th January 2016)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.

3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.

4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

ARCHIVES: Click here to view previews of ALL past issues of the newspapers

 

Improve and Sustain Your Crop Farm Land Productivity By Cultivating Nitrogen Fixing Legumes

Apart from artificial sources (e.g. inorganic nitrogen fertilizers like urea, ammonium sulphate, ammonium nitrate etc) as well as limited natural resources from rain water, the fixation of nitrogen by free living bacteria, supplies the balance of nitrogen needs of the soil.

The best known example of such fixation is demonstrated in the symbiotic relationship between higher plants called “legumes” and a group of bacteria (also called Rhibozium). The symbiotic activity takes place in the root nodules of the plant.

The continuous cultivation of non-legumes (which some farmers are guilty of) depletes soil fertility over time, and this condition is NOT reversible by fertilization of the soil with phosphorous, potassium or trace minerals.

Legume cropping does the opposite of the above. In other words, it does NOT result in depletion of the land’s productivity. Indeed, non-leguminous crops that are planted on land previously cropped with legumes, actually benefit from the nitrogen fixation that would have been substantially facilitated by the growth of the legumes!

It must be noted however, that the nitrogen status of legume cropped soil is ultimately determined to a great extent by the cultural farm practices employed on it.

The following are three possible scenarios:

1. When a crop is ploughed under, full nitrogen gain is realized – meaning a high nitrogen status is achieved.

2. When the cropped legumes are fed to farm animals, the gain is NOT as great as what obtains in 1. above, but it is still quite appreciable.

3. Removal of the above ground portion (known as “stober”) of the crop, in contrast, leads to little improvement in the nitrogen status of the land.

What use can you make of this?

Well, I suggest you consider mixed cropping of non-legumes with leguminous crops like cowpea for instance. Apart from the yield of useful farm crops for sale or in feeding livestock, you will be able to prolong the “life” of your soil – That’s when compared to a situation when you did not crop any legumes.

It is instructive to note that even though they give “quicker” results and are easier to “use”, inorganic or chemical fertilizers tend to leave harmful residues in the soil with attendant side effects.

As such, they must be used with proper care and preferably in combination with natural methods like legume cropping.

Also, consider this: if you diligently plant legumes on your land post-harvest of your crops, they would help to replenish the soil before the next planting cycle begins.

The above statement refers to farming situations in which land may be left “idle” after cropped produce has been harvested. In the old days, we were told the “rest” or “fallow” period would allow the land recover. However, in intensive crop farming systems such rest periods may not result in significant nutrient status improvement – except something extra is done. An example of that something extra would be to deliberately plant legumes on the farmland for the duration of the so called “rest” period, which would then be trimmed/weeded or removed once planting of the main crop (s) is to resume.

Depending on how long the rest period is, and the legume type adopted, a reasonable improvement in nitrogen status of the soil can be expected if this is done.

Summary

This article has tried to impress upon the crop farmer, the need to lean more towards natural methods for crop farm land fertility replenishment and sustenance, as against short term benefits of exclusive or major use of chemical fertilizers, which often lead to serious soil damage in the long run.

If you plan to stay in business for the long term, producing profitable crop output from your farm land, it is imperative that you give serious consideration to the use of the strategies described here.

No Matter How Bad Things Look You Can’t Claim to Believe In an Almighty God and Accept Gloomy Predictions for YOUR Life!

This is sad, and it needs to STOP:

I am seeing LOTS of “broken” men and women on and off the web…!

Recognizable from their “panic-fueled” words and actions, these people are obviously allowing gloomy predictions from dooms-day forecasters, to make them adopt a NEGATIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE towards perceived impending hard socioeconomic times, and it saddens/pains me so much.

I wonder how, with all the religious beliefs we profess in an ALL powerful creator, we can so easily forget that with FAITH in HIM nothing can defeat us?

How can a self proclaimed believer not know that the Creator can turn his/her circumstances around for the better, regardless of obstacles that may be put in his/her way?!

Too many people are allowing themselves to be led into the defeatist mindset that they should simply dig in and expect the worst in the New Year

What misguided sentiments, from the same people who claim to worship a God that can do ALL things!

If you really believe in the Creator, how come you so readily accept that the worst can happen to you – a believer! – because some people said so??!!

You fail to realize you are a spiritual being with great powers to use what you THINK to influence your physical reality!

Negative thoughts and confessions can – and do -become self fulfilling prophesies. The fact that you cannot see the process does NOT mean it’s not happening. There are laws set by the Creator to guide occurrences in the spiritual universe, by rewarding each person according to the QUALITY of his/her thoughts.

That was why Napoleon Hill wrote in Think & Grow Rich: “You can literally think yourself into disaster” – if you adopt a Negative Mental Attitude.

Some people are actually working towards the above right now, from what I see them doing and saying!

The Creator I believe in is NOT a God of scarcity, but of unending abundance…but He only rewards those who ACT with faith to achieve their goals! – Tayo K. Solagbade

It is at times like these that TRUE believers are identified, and the pretenders exposed.

What many are doing and saying today makes me wonder if they have considered the kind of example they are setting for their kids.

In case they don’t know, it is a BAD one, and kids will be the worse off for it, because they will lack the right mental attitude to deal with hard times!

Instead of – for instance -squeezing the fun out of your life by going into “hibernation mode” via mindless cutting of your spending in ways that threathen your socio-psychological well being(!), why not challenge yourself to explore NEW and IMPROVED ways to boost your income/earnings???

Why not do the above while praying to YOUR Creator, that you claim to believe in, for the wisdom and insights to succeed with your bold plans???

Isn’t that what one who is the “child” of an OMNIPOTENT Creator would be expected to do???

As the saying goes, “A Lion cannot give birth to a lamb”: Whose child are YOU?

I stopped being religious in 1989 (over 2 decades ago).

Instead I’ve over time developed myself spiritually to successfully connect with the Creator so as to make the most of myself in life, no matter my circumstances.

In that process I discovered the truth about why I must never make the mistake of confessing negatively anywhere, or at anytime.

That is why I will continue to be a source of information, education, encouragement and inspiration to ALL who need it, now and into the never ending future!!!

What about you?

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Forget the Gloomy Economic Predictions! Your Success is 99% Within YOUR Control

THE FARM CEO (Issue 31): How ICT can help small-scale farmers, AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL FARMERS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA, Empowering farmers through mobile communication in west Africa, How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-Resilient, Farmer Organizations Work Better with ICT

[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]

In this first issue for this year (2016), I feature 5 reports on application of ICT to development of African Farming. This page’s article echoes a LOT of the sentiments I’ve expressed over the years about the need for small farmers and larger ones to embrace PC and Internet technology to boost their business growth.

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Agriculture in Senegal is threatened by pests such as locusts, birds and fruit flies, drought, flooding and lack of financial support by government – challenges that often pave the way to low output.

The rain-fed sector employs over 75% of the country’s workforce. But Lamine Guèye is one of the small-scale farmers who have been struggling recently since the 2011-12 agriculture production failed to live up to its expectations.

Asked if he has ever heard of the use of ICTs in farming, he told Biztechafrica: “I don’t know anything about it, but I heard someone was saying on the radio that one day we might end up using technology in farming.

“I also heard that in other countries farmers have computers and other equipment to monitor weather patterns such as rainfall, drought and flooding, also check what kind of products the market wants and the prices of those products.

==Preview Ends==

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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:

[URL] How ICT can help small-scale farmers P.1

[URL] AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL FARMERS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA P.2

[URL] Empowering farmers through mobile communication in west Africa P.2

[URL] How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-ResilientP.3

[URL] Farmer Organizations Work Better with ICT P.3

 

Below: Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 31 of THE FARM CEO (Monday 4th January 2016)

Screenshot of the cover for Issue No. 31 of THE FARM CEO (Monday Monday 4th January 2016)

Subscribe to THE FARM CEO, and get this new issue, as well as ALL back issues, in addition to your full subscription of 48 weekly issues.

1) Useful feed formulation/other findings from trusted sources

2) Cost-saving ideas from farm visits as I travel across West Africa.

3) Ads by farm providers/suppliers of all genres.

4). Special promo price offers of my Software and Book products

Full details at http://tinyurl.com/TheFarmCEO

1 year’s subscription = 48 issues.

Subscription Fee = $36 USD (approx) N6.8k [You get my $82 USD Feed Formulation Handbook FREE, as well as FREE Bi-weekly ads for YOUR biz]

ARCHIVES: Click here to view previews of ALL past issues of the newspapers