Agro Business

For any poultry farmer to have a good yield, immunization of the birds is an important management practice. vaccinating your birds, either broilers, layers, cockerels, and others will help to prevent and control poultry diseases. There are different methods of immunization and vaccines as applicable to different diseases of the poultry.   What is Vaccination? … Read more Poultry Vaccination methods & Important Tips in Administration

Your poultry house is one of the things you should plan well after setting a budget for the business. In most tropical countries, poultry houses are built to protect the birds from natural elements. Usually from rain, intense radiation from the sun, predatory animals such as hawks, snakes, and other animals of prey and from … Read more Requirements for Poultry House – Materials and Space

The importance of brooding in poultry can not be overemphasized. To become a successful poultry farmer, you need to learn to brood your chicks yourself. This will save you several costs – You’ll get the birds cheap compared to when they’re already grown before being sold. Secondly, you will be sure they take their vaccines … Read more Management Practices in Brooding of Chicks

There are various parameters that are being used to measure the productivity of laying chickens. These include egg quantity, quality, egg size, feed utilization, mortality rates, etc. Under good management practices, a layer should lay one egg in a day, and between 310 -340 eggs per year. There are different factors that affect egg production … Read more How to Increase Egg Production in Layer Chickens

The growth and efficiency which should accrue from expensive inputs of protein and energy can be negated by small imbalances in or shortages of essential minerals. Defining the pig’s requirement for minerals is complicated by the interaction that occurs between some minerals and the fact that, not all the minerals in foodstuff are available to … Read more Benefits of Minerals to Pigs and their Deficiency symptoms

Commercial meat rabbit farming is easy and profitable since there’s a huge market for the meat. The amount of rabbit meat consumed yearly is now about 2 million tonnes and the market revenue amount to $10B. While China, Korea, and Egypt top the list of consumers, this meat can be marketed in your local country. … Read more Commercial Meat Rabbit Farming Management practices

Although watermelon is native of tropical and subtropical Africa, it’s grown and popular everywhere. It grows best on fertile sandy soil, particularly on sandy river banks. It also grows well in hot dry areas with an abundance of sunshine. It is fairly drought resistant and will not withstand waterlogging. Watermelon at Maturity The fruits mature … Read more How to know when to Harvest Watermelon

Pigs are omnivores and can eat almost any kind of food, but that does not mean all kinds of foods are healthy for them. We have discussed cereal grains, tuber foods that are used for pig feed formulation, so also high protein sources in the past. Let’s discuss fruits and vegetables pigs can eat, and … Read more Fruits and Vegetables that Pigs can eat Safely

African swine fever (ASF) is a hemorrhagic disease caused by a virus.  Domestic and wild pigs are the carrier of the disease and it spreads quickly. African swine fever has serious economic and production impacts and had affected many countries including, China and the United States and severe other countries in the past. The virus … Read more African Swine Fever – Symptoms and Treatments

Origin of Onion Onion (Allium cepa L.) Family: Alliaceae) is by far the most important bulb crop. Its origin is not definitely known but it is believed to have come from the eastern Mediterranean region and central Asia including Iran and Pakistan. Onions were also cultivated in Egypt at least 4800 years ago as evidenced … Read more Onion Cultivation Practice for better Yield