0:04 with the hybrid person you make a
0:07 minimum of 10 bucks go as high as 700
0:18 hello guys welcome back to Startup GH my
0:20 name is katel Michael in today's video
0:22 we are going to speak to a gentleman who
0:24 is doing cucumber production if this is
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0:31 see you my name is
0:35 I grow cucumber as you can see okay
0:39 green pepper tomato
0:42 watermelon cabbage so on the same field
0:45 no on different fruits different fields yeah
0:47 yeah
0:49 how long have you been doing the farm
0:52 from my childhood days I started with my
0:55 dad so personally
0:58 I do my I started my own two years ago
1:01 okay but even with my own I still work
1:03 with my dad so I do my own part time
1:07 then my daddy soon
1:09 educate us on
1:12 cucumber production is it profitable
1:16 yeah cucumber is profitable because of
1:21 you don't need much to start it yeah it
1:23 doesn't take much money
1:26 if by the grace of God Market goes well
1:29 you make your money so can you please
1:30 walk us through the land preparation
1:33 with the alarm preparation
1:36 or depending on the land you get when
1:39 the land is that kind of land that
1:43 it has been used already you need to put
1:44 in manual
1:47 then after that you plow it
1:51 or you plow then you add manure
1:54 but then you do your sewing plowing
1:58 currently an acre is 300 cities yeah
2:00 yeah
2:03 yeah so after plowing which manure do
2:10 you use we use a cow dunk or that of the
2:13 chickens do you buy those yeah we buy them
2:15 them
2:20 with the chicken droppings currently a
2:23 sack they put it in the engine yeah one
2:36 how many do you need for Anika
2:40 you need our approximately when you get like
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2:48 socks will be okay how how many acres
2:49 are you doing this is half this is how
2:51 many did you use
2:53 this one I didn't apply you didn't apply
2:56 yeah okay why
3:00 because the time that I think I actually
3:02 I didn't plan to come and work on the
3:04 land so it become like something quick
3:07 and you have to order or for the manure
3:09 before they bring it so if I should be
3:11 waiting for that you know it will delay
3:15 my process yeah okay so after the alarm
3:19 preparation is done what do you need
3:23 preparation you need your seed your seed
3:26 yeah your fertilizer
3:29 then other inputs
3:33 talking about seed how many varieties
3:34 do we have
3:37 the varieties we have a lot okay I can
3:40 just mention a few that I know
3:43 we have the local one that we normally
3:45 use how do you call the local they look
3:48 around here we don't have any name for
3:51 you yes refers to the local one then we
3:54 have the hybrid okay with the hybrid I
3:55 can talk of
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4:22 the variety is daku yeah then we have
4:28 darina okay we have two Q okay yeah we
4:30 have others we have a lot
4:33 why do you choose this yeah
4:36 oh this special variety
4:38 like this is the first time I'm doing
4:40 its bar
4:43 the the dealer of the seed made me
4:46 understand that it is more advanced than
4:50 the other ones the Tokyo the Murano and
4:52 the other
4:57 yeah it's yield and it lasts also done
4:59 those ones
5:04 oh we saw it directly yeah
5:07 okay do you have a question
5:10 with the measurement yeah no
5:12 we don't have any special measuring
5:15 because we don't go by the pure and
5:19 Greek matter where you use a
5:24 rules to to strengthen up your lifestyle
5:27 of course I've seen that is it's in line
5:30 yeah somebody that calls me see is a
5:32 line because I've been into the work for
5:33 a long
5:36 and we also use lines in doing some so
5:39 it become easy for me and when you come
5:41 to my farm you may think of Youth
5:45 the the the the line but no how much did
5:46 you buy this
5:51 the seed is in such a so this is a five
5:54 searches one course
5:59 um 160 cities yeah we have
6:02 a thousand pieces of ceiling each sachet
6:16 wow
6:19 and even with this depending on your
6:22 spacing this is my spacing and you get
6:24 you see that there is space in it so
6:26 depending on your spacing that you use
6:29 to determine the number of circuits you
6:38 I can count like two feet yeah uh I
6:42 prefer spacing my things well because
6:45 when you space it like this there is
6:47 good aeration like air will pass through well
6:48 well
6:52 and the product two will look good how
6:59 it takes five days five days yeah yeah
7:04 what do you do
7:07 a week later
7:09 we give fertilizer
7:17 we give the NPK fertilizer
7:29 there are some we buy 20 20 15 15 or 20
7:30 10 10 yeah
7:42 we apply the fertilizer to boost the
7:47 growth we make it grow faster yeah
7:49 stuff with
7:52 life after affected other application if
7:56 you are using the irrigation the way you
7:59 apply fertilizer in two or three days
8:01 time you have to water yeah
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8:20 we spray insecticide to to deal with the
8:24 insects that attacks it then other Folia
8:29 with the liquid ones for for the growth
8:36 that is you know we are taking this
8:39 he said after one week
8:44 so what you when are you doing there
8:48 is one week for the second week from the
8:51 second week you start doing your spray yeah
8:52 yeah
8:55 if there is insect attack he is playing
8:57 set itself but make sure
9:01 you spray fungicide because the Cucumber
9:05 or fungus do disturbate so when you
9:07 spray fungicide it makes the lips stronger
9:08 stronger
9:11 that's why you have to spray fungicide
9:14 it's very important thing a cycle of
9:25 normally when it's coming we weed but
9:27 when it starts entering into each other
9:30 when it starts forming yeah then you
9:32 have to make sure you do all with this
9:34 before you start forming
9:40 to allow it to have it grow fairly so we
9:43 did for how many times
9:45 uh you see some part those part there
9:48 are no that's the second time
9:52 I'm here to read this side
9:59 it depends on the land some lands you
10:01 only wait for one thing that would be
10:06 all but this is very land It Grow Bush
10:09 very quick every week every week
10:14 or we can have you have to spray
10:18 it's playful yeah yeah
10:21 the Folia makes that it has a it boosts
10:24 the growth yeah
10:28 uh currently I'm using my ZK yeah
10:31 yeah it's
10:37 it make the flowers come
10:41 yeah and then the multi-k
10:43 the multi-k make their leaves grow well
10:45 this is the second time I'm spraying yeah
10:47 yeah
10:59 this very cucumber there are there's no
11:02 much disease that attack it apart from
11:06 the fungi that will Attack eating
11:09 the leaves become yellow
11:11 yeah that is the major thing that will
11:15 raise it aside that when it's flowering
11:18 if there is insufficient water I see
11:20 that the Cucumber will be burning the
11:23 best time to grow cucumber I'll say
11:26 in the cool weather that is
11:28 July that way
11:31 we agree July the weather will be cool
11:35 so it makes yo it makes you have good
11:38 you what about what we're done
11:41 those ones too they are cool with the
11:43 hot weather you see a lot of people they
11:46 didn't grow so when you grow it in a hot
11:48 weather and take care of it you make
11:50 money that's the only thing but it
11:52 doesn't go
12:00 the challenges you have you know like
12:02 when there is insufficient what time
12:05 they they have to be burning that's
12:07 right and then marketing
12:10 when it comes to the marketing to their
12:12 moment where it will be common in
12:16 marketing a full sack will be sold for
12:18 even 50 cities
12:21 yeah there is demand that can movement
12:23 where customers will be calling for it
12:27 yeah so it's demand when the time comes
12:30 there is high demand for it so you have
12:38 mind
12:41 okay it's kakumba very expenses
12:43 like June like this yeah
12:44 yeah
12:49 sometimes June you get Market June July
12:53 get market and then October
12:56 September October 2 you get when you
12:59 have a growing cucumber I want to
13:01 you make Market s
13:10 uh yeah when it's ready January
13:14 the January February to a school but I
13:16 realized that when you grow it uh
13:18 uh
13:26 so it doesn't really do well so maybe
13:30 later December there when you grow it
13:33 to do well and you make your Market too
13:35 so generally to
13:39 screw what is the yield
13:41 for let's say this like half an acre
13:47 half an acre with the hybrid Percy
14:02 yeah like this one you can make
14:05 yeah you can make like 10 Max how many times
14:07 times
14:12 no after maturity okay you harvest like
14:15 you harvest twice a week so it will take
14:19 a maximum of three weeks and after
14:21 maturity yeah
14:23 yeah yeah
14:24 harvesting yeah
14:27 each week you have it two times and you
14:30 can Harvest it for three weeks that's maximum
14:39 does it reduce or it keeps increasing
14:41 let's say today you get two bucks the
14:43 next week are you going to get more
14:46 battery normally over here because we
14:49 Harvest it and that these two are not equal
14:51 equal
14:53 because of the difference in the days we
14:59 Harvest we have the the the it affects
15:01 in the harvesting
15:07 so over here we have us on Wednesdays
15:11 Wednesdays and Sundays so you realize
15:14 that when you harvest on Wednesday
15:17 and harvest on Sunday within this period
15:19 is short it's shorter than from Sunday
15:21 to Wednesday
15:25 so that's when you have different in the
15:27 quantity yeah
15:30 you mean on Wednesday you might have
15:32 more bags
15:35 from Sunday to Wednesday you have more
15:39 yeah then for down from Wednesday to Sunday
15:40 Sunday yeah
15:43 yeah
15:46 so how much is a buck
15:50 currently Atlanta is 300 cities
15:54 yeah is that the highest you can go you
15:58 know it can go as high as 700 yeah the
16:01 maximum it went so far is 700. that was
16:02 in last year
16:06 yeah just this year I think our last
16:34 invest into it
16:37 um depending on the scene because the
16:40 scissors are expensive and you grow
16:43 different varieties but this one person
16:46 you know I'm likely to invest
16:59 yeah from there you know so the most
17:02 expensive thing here now will be the siege
17:04 siege
17:06 it's supposed to be more than the amount
17:09 I've mentioned but because there has
17:12 been rains where I holding water
17:14 it has reduced the course
17:18 so let's see here there might be a
17:21 mistake in my estimation so you will be
17:24 looking at roughly a while they spending
17:25 like two thousand yeah
17:27 yeah
17:30 if I'm calculating even there
17:33 yeah sure
17:36 and they leave us because they are doing
17:39 it yourself but when it there are
17:41 moments where I invite people to come in
17:45 when I think the the weed grows faster
17:48 and you need to clear it within short
17:51 period of Time how much
17:56 by charge for clearing house
18:00 with the labor currently I'm here in the
18:03 car they are charging 400 CD at the
18:05 other side where they are not doing
18:08 irrigation so this side here
18:11 we are here to talk about it what would
18:17 you might pull
18:21 uh I will see you have to prepare financially
18:23 financially
18:27 so that you'll be able to provide
18:30 the needed input
18:32 yeah so that it wouldn't be that your
18:35 team will be lacking on cucumber
18:38 he likes manure
18:41 so if you don't have enough that you put
18:44 in enough money or for it then you
18:46 wouldn't get anything so make sure you
18:50 get your financially sound then you even
18:52 though it doesn't cost much but you have
18:55 to make sure you get enough that you
18:58 provide the necessities
19:06 a crops that you do is which one is more problem
19:08 problem
19:12 so we'll talk about the green pepper
19:16 green pepper is a more profitable ones
19:19 yet it takes a lot of money but I think
19:21 it's more profitable you have to invest more
19:27 previously we have exporters but now
19:29 they are not around so we give it to our
19:38 so if someone needs maybe a bag of
19:41 cucumber and
19:44 he misses in Accra you can you also get
19:45 it to them
19:49 yeah we do we gave it to Carl to send today
19:50 today
19:54 yeah but at times if you are busy with
19:57 going to Rosa to transport it it takes
20:00 our time so we find that stressful but
20:07 your number out so that if someone wants
20:11 to talk on how to do happen by
20:15 no okay my number is zero two four eight
20:16 twenty six
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