ECONOMIC POTENTIALS OF STRAWBERRY
Strawberry farming is very lucrative. The initial
capital committed is ridiculously small.After 3months of transplanting of runners from fruit
sales, surprisingly, enormous returns flow in on a two-hectare farm, the
estimated sales proceeds could reach about N5m with a profit of about N3m.
On the international market scene, strawberry can
generate the following exchange since our fruit bearing much is needed. (The
period fall on the European winter season) where there is a short supply of the
fruit.
Strawberry serves as one of the major raw materials
in the manufacture of fruit juice (beverages) and jam.
Cosmetologists use it as a raw material for the
production of lipstick; the pharmaceutical industries use it in the coating
tablets and spicing syrup. The Breweries use it in the brewing of malt drinks,
and the Biscuits Company uses it as biscuit creams.
AUXILIARY
INCOME
Apart from fruit sales, income from strawberry
fields comes from seedling propagation. After harvest, during the resting
period, strawberry plants grow in length and at each segment of the stem it
establishes a stand. The stand also establishes are cut off to propagation
seedlings, which are generally called cultivars of runners.
STRAWBERRIES FRESH FRUIT TIME TABLE SCHEDULE ON PICKING (N150.00/KG)
Months
|
1st
Week
|
2nd
Week
|
3rd
Week
|
4th
Week
|
Kg
|
Np/Month
|
Nov.
|
120kg
|
130kg
|
150kg
|
180kg
|
580
|
87,000.00
|
Dec.
|
210kg
|
250kg
|
300kg
|
350kg
|
1110
|
166.500.00
|
Jan.
|
1400kg
|
1460kg
|
1550kg
|
1620kg
|
6030
|
904,500.00
|
Feb.
|
1750kg
|
1880kg
|
2000kg
|
2000kg
|
7630
|
1,144,500.00
|
Mar.
|
2000kg
|
2000kg
|
2000kg
|
2000kg
|
8000
|
1,200,000.00
|
Apr.
|
1800kg
|
1500kg
|
1000kg
|
600kg
|
4900
|
735,000.00
|
Total
|
28,250
|
4,237,500.00
|
Success depends on good Management.
THE HEALING POWER OF FOOD, VEGETABLE AND FRUIT
VITAMINS what wonders thy have performed
Vitamin A - Dissolves kidney stones
Vitamins B - Aids the deaf
Vitamin G - Softens cataracts
Vitamin C - helps hay fever
Vitamin C - Relieves Arthritis
Grape (Vitie Vinifera L) is one of table
delicacies it is a good source of minerals like calcium, phosphorus, Iron and
vitamins like B1 & B2. Grape juice is a mild laxative as well as stimulant
acting on the kidney.
You
must learn this important lesson, vitamins are truly medicinal and foods which
contain them can be used to treat and cure disease. Yes common ordinary foods
such as apples, cabbages, oranges, tomatoes, berries, melons, passion fruits
and Irish potatoes etc.
How did vitamins originate?
When
the war of 1914 revolutionized affairs of kings and nations many of men’s
efforts came to a halt, but not our progress in food science into the Maelstrom
of war whirled something called a “vitamin” and amazing fact uncovered.
Long
weeks at the sea, the members of the crew began to develop acute rheumatism and
tender, bleeding gums. Some of the men swelled up like blowfish and died. But
within a new weeks after survivors landed a shore and ate of fresh fruits,
vegetables and milk, they got well “vitamins did it”.
For
example, over in London a great hospital was filled with English children who
lay quiet and white with rickets. A woman doctor named Hume was curing them by
feeding them with “COD LIVER OIL”. Across the pacific, a Japanese naval officer
was checking Beriberi one of the most dreadful nerve disease known to man was
cured by eating large quantity of Brown rice and vegetables. Further more,
lemon juice was used to cure scurvy in Britain.
A Dutch chemist who by
merest chance had found out that rice polishing (the outer hill of the grain)
could cure certain types of nerve paralysis. Theories were proven as a result
of all these research, the belief that a lack of certain food element could
cause disease. The fact remains that the true source of vitamins and the best
source is FOOD. Even the most common fruits and vegetable are veritable
treasure stores of vitamins.
Finally,
you can use the vitamins in foods to wage a successful fight against deficiency
diseases to preserve your health and to prolong your life. The only requirement
is that you acquire the necessary knowledge and apply it.
QUOTE:
VICTOR LINDLAHRS TITLED “YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT”.