If you want to make much money, looking to cultivate a crop that wouldn’t demand you insecticide and fongicide. Here are the 6 secrets to succeed garlic cultivation.
🛑Six SECRETS OF GARLIC PRODUCTION IN AFRICA.
🚫Garlic(Allium Sativum) is one of the rarely, yet most profitable onions that is easy to grow!
🚫Anyone can grow it so long one follows its do’s and don’ts.
👉🏼Following are the secrets behind success in producing a successful crop:
- Planting Method:- Garlic is best planted after separating cloves from bulbs and later planted by inserting or pushing the cloves(small divisions that make a bulb) into the soil. It is however, best to peel the cloves by removing covers. This ensures best quality seeds as rotten ones will easily be identified and thrown away. Peeling also encourages quick germination and emergence.
Peeled Garlic germinates within 4-5 days compared to the unpeeled that may take 10-20 days depending on soil type and irrigation frequency and efficiency. The best spacing is 5-8 cm between plants and 30cm between rows. - Planting Season:
Garlic does well when planted in the right season. In Cameroon, the best time to plant Garlic is from Late October and November. This is so since Garlic bulbs grow better and thrives best with lower temperatures. Other seasons would produce poor small bulbs with less natural sap.
3.Nutrition:-Garlic is a heavy feeder crop as such, it needs proper nutrition from planting to harvest. Soil must be enriched we strongly recommend agroFood FM biofertilizer ( Clic ) . This should be incorporated into the soil at least 10 days prior to planting.
2 weeks after emergence, give Animal Liquid manure fertilizer @ 10 litres/ square metre as growth booster.
At week 7-8 add bio fertilizer you can join us to learn how to produce yours ( Clic ) for bulb enhancement.
This should be accompanied by mulching which must have been there from planting for better phosphoric usage and sulphur intake- essential elements in enlarging bulbs.
Crop Protection:- Garlic does not need any spraying of any kind as it has self disease and insect repellent qualities.
5.Best drying Method:- Garlic usually gets ready for harvest after 6 to 8 months.
At this time, bulbs protrude above ground level as foliage turn yellowish…sign for readiness for harvest. Bulbs with mother attached stems are pulled out of ground and tied in bundles of 15-20s and hanged by tying with a rope and suspended on any pole or roofing rafters inside a building for gradual drying.
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N.B: Never dry it in the direct sunlight as this reduces its weight and natural juice quality.
Note that keep this hanging not more than 3 months as you may lose its weight.
- Yield Potential and Profitability:- Garlic has yield potential of 1-2/kg/ metre square on the average( can be more with top management), meaning a farmer can harvest an average of 5000kg/ Lima (50m ×50m). That’s about 100× 50kg bags.
In Cameroon garlic wholesale price. In 2022, the approximate price range for Cameroon Garlic is between US$ 0.79 and US$ 0.33 per kilogram or between US$ 0.36 and US$ 0.15 per pound(lb). The price in CFA Franc BEAC is XAF 436.51 per kg. The average price for a tonne is US$ 785.71 in Douala and Yaoundé.
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