Managing tomato in open fields is a great
challenge and most farmers are losing money and time trying to work on fields,
which are not adding value.
What must you do to achieve business gains
after investing your hard earned resources?
Am sharing some valuable insights to help you
manage this great business:
1. Avoid
asking questions in forums or platforms whose group foundation has nothing to
do with tomato growing or the crop you are growing. Being smart is a choice and
your resolution to get things done in a right way will stem from this wise act.
2. Tomato crop
tends to get several diseases when there is moisture and favourable temperature
range encouraging bacterial and fungal infections. Cost can be managed and
maintained to a favourable target if you choose a variety which has tolerance
to some of these diseases (this action saves you thousands of money and allows
you to swim in areas which are not high in cost).
Secondly, the use of Adjuvants can help allow
sufficient utilization of Crop Protection Products (CPP)
therefore giving you value for your Kwacha/ Shilling/ Dollar/ Rand.
At this moment you must be very observant to
use available resources at the most effective way because inputs will never go
down but will keep going up and up, but smart farmers will always rejoice and
be in business while others will keep crying and not see the importance of this
great mission.
3. When
you are growing tomato, never allow too many people to guide you, because your
goal and mission to achieve greatness in this dimension is a personal decision
based on your future vision. Visions are born from a different angle and they
need to be nurtured with focus & determination birthed from a disciplined
realisation and knowing that your purpose if not well planned and executed it
can perish!
The choice is yours! Now that you know, your
mission must be stress free.
4. Excessive
water getting to your tomato plant is destructive and can lead to cracking or
bumps on the lower leaves and disease outbreak. The roots on the other hand
will start suffocating disrupting mineral movement and eventually dying.
Have a preventative crop protection program in
place and manage your soil environment so that you prevent diseases as well
manage water logging.
5. The
greatest tomato farmer is courageous and has a will to succeed regardless of
several challenges ahead of him or her.
Finally I want to end today's message with
these wise words, ''You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose
to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire
you to make it happen,'' Israelmore Ayivor.
If you
intend to venture in vegetable growing this year, then we can help to make it
happen!
by Eric K. Mwenda, WhatsApp +260-966-784515
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