30/12/2025
My 2025 FARMING YEAR REVIEW
As usual, I share my views, struggles, lessons, and outcomes from the farming year and here we are at it again.
Lessons Learnt from the 2025 Farming Season
📌 A country that does not value its local farmers is not ready for food security and fighting hunger yet.
2025 was a huge loss for local farmers, especially grain farmers. I lived this myself due to government policy of grain price control, but no action was taken by the government to subsidize inputs like seeds and fertilizers for the farmers
This led to a high cost of production. The resultant effect is that many rural farmers will be discouraged from producing in 2026, leading to a higher cost of food and increased food insecurity among the populace, and in long run enriching exporting countries.
📌 Climate change is a reality, and it is here to stay.
During the period of May–June, we experienced three straight weeks of no rainfall, which dealt drastically on the crops, resulting in poor yield, not as expected. It was also during our fertilizer application period, so we resorted to foliar application and manual watering as we could, but it was not sufficient.
📌 I also realized the power of communication.
The community where we got a space this year was a totally new and quite distant one, and I was quite afraid how things would turn out but by creating a good and beneficial relationship with the people, my team and I got full support we needed — from getting labour, to security, through to the harvest period. (Get good rapport, E get why😁)
📌 Soil test is as important as getting a good Seed.
We really invested in getting a good seed (Bayer DK 777), one of the highest-yielding maize varieties in Nigeria. However, its impact was subdued because the soil was populated with pest and diseases, and we lost yield to pests and disease even after applying many remedies like using our own compounded neem oil which was quite helpful though.
This would have been avoided if we had run a soil test.
📌 Marketing is key to profitability in agro-commodities, and processing adds more value. Value addition is one pathway to the market that is profitable.
We spotted a good market area in maize and sorghum produce and are working towards expanding in 2026.
(So, we are open for partnership and support. You can DM or email [email protected])
Finally I want to thank God Almighty for strength, Grace and mercies running this business as a student is one of great sacrifices and steps to fighting this food insecurity issues in our nation so we keep pushing.
Special shout out to our workers, team, friends and family for support and to everyone for supporting God bless you all.
Cheers to Better year Ahead.