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By MICHAEL ADEDOTUN OKE
The development of the agricultural sector depends on the need to start creating appropriate plans and the authority of the agricultural sectors to keep improving in agricultural production. This is important because it benefits the enormous and its income generations, which would have produced more profits and income for the farmers overall, as well as in the alignment of usefulness of farm management, which presupposed different cultural management and different hanging fruits and the need to change.
In cropping patterns and choosing non-agricultural pursuits such as livestock husbandry and poultry farming carefully balancing the production of food and non-food crops, fisheries, and dairy products; investing in various fruits such as bananas, plantain, mangoes, and sugarcane; and gathering, preserving, and distributing milk and its byproducts, such as butter, raw milk, and powder.
Even with the various problems of transportation costs and the challenges of managing, controlling, and overseeing as they become riskier and more uncertain, some farmers do have some dispersed cultivations in which they will have to move and transport themselves. The final results will be borne by activities and improvements in cultivation techniques.
However, some farmers only plant one crop in the same plots, harvesting only one crop and earning only one benefit from sale. In contrast, management principles can be generated with the results, stating that the introductions of livestock and combine crops, as well as the income, are very important and necessary in 2025.
It is crucial that farmers who are currently in operation consider combining economic activity.
While the need for crop and livestock production has been recognized indirectly, various excretions can pass through the soil to eliminate the need for farmers to use organic fertilizer.
This will directly lower production costs and, more importantly, aid in the development of synergy, which will support growth and development as well as the management and monitoring aspects. Additionally, protecting rights, the benefits of various livestock production and cropping, the necessary work at the end of the year, and the necessity
Additionally, the benefits are significant, as evidenced by management practices that aid in efficient tasking and control. At the same time, farmers can invest in shares and engage in other activities such as horticulture, agroforestry, livestock rearing, and the cultivation of aromatic plants, while the knowledge and technology required understanding the fundamentals of management and time factors are also important.
Monoculture, or concentrating on just one kind of crop, can deplete the soil.
Therefore, it is also necessary to tailor mixed farming with other crops in order to increase production, reduce stress, improve soil fertilization, and make various nitrogen available.
The needs of planting rooted crops also become established during this time, and there are differences in the timing of planting and harvesting.
Additionally, you gain soil fertilizations, increased yields and productivity, additional income, and time value, and you must always be aware of when to plant and when to harvest.
In order to add value of what they produce, farmers must therefore engage in multiple cropping or crop mixing in the upcoming years and ensure that they are also participating in the establishment of a processing centre as they move towards industrialization.
Crop diversification increases their susceptibility to pests and diseases.
Mixed cropping can be planted in the same plots to control weeds, diseases, and pests that could lower productivity and maturity, and other crops are more resilient to stress when planted in the same plot. If properly managed, these crops can also aid in the development of the nation and indirectly ensure food security.
In addition to reducing risk and uncertainty and increasing income and employment generations, the demand for crops and animals is rising, and the damages caused by unfavorable weather may be controlled.
•Michael Adedotun Oke is Facilitator, Talent Upgrade Global Concept, Plot 232 Kaida Along Old Kuntunku Gwagwalada, FCT Abuja. He can be reached via +2348027142077,+2348188554446