Enugu ESMP Final Report For The Proposed Agro Processing And Aggregation Development Centres

Agriculture in Nigeria has been another great attention at adding value to farm produce in order to ensure food sustainability and livelihood improvement of small holders’ peasants. The government of Enugu State has keyed into the opportunity offered by the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project in the State. The APPEALS intervention is one of the various steps taken at improving agriculture in Nigeria to encourage development projects that will enhance farm produce across the country.

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TOMATO Greenhouse Technology Demonstration in collaboration with NIHORT and TERRA-TIGA

A three-day demonstration on greenhouse installation and Practices was conducted to 350 (200 Males: 150 Females) farmers at Bagauda Fisheries institute (Demo plot Site). Among them were 5 people with disability. The participants were enlightened on the numerous benefits of greenhouse technology, the profit to be accrued and Maximum number of plants it can comfortably contain. He further stated that the tunnel size (24 x 8m) contains 6 beds of 2 rows making 12 rows. The intra-row spacing of 60cm will give a plant population of 480. The weight of fruit per plant is estimated at 7kg. Therefore, the estimated…

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