Vegetable Farming in Zambia: How We Grow Sweet Pepper
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- In our most epic ever tale, we share the story of a sweet pepper crop that was almost lost to a formidable enemy: Bacterial Wilt.
Sweet pepper is a major crop at Winterthorn, and is one of the high-value crops we that are part of our strategy. But it can also be one of the most difficult crops to grow successfully and requires a lot of skill, determination and good fortune.
The crop of red and yellow sweet pepper that we planted in Dec 2021 in our shadehouse at Westgate became one of the toughest experiences that our farm has ever had.
It all started off so positively and the crop was growing well. That is until we saw the first signs of a wilting disease that would soon leave us losing hundreds of plants.
But despite all the challenges, our Team managed to come through the trials and learnt some valuable lessons along the way.
I suggest u try Korea Natural farming. By applying OHN, LAB and the likes all these issues in the soil will be forgotten
Thanks
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, but was saddened seeing that mountain heap of peppers that had to be discarded. All plant diseases can be prevented and cured, as they're all linked to one nutrient deficiency or the other, but the nutrition must be administered to the plant in the correct redox state, and properly chelated. If you don't mind, I'd like to suggest that you look into "Regenerative Agriculture" by John Kempf, it could really be life-changing. Also, I'd like to suggest two books: Mineral Nutrition and Plant Disease, authored by Lawrence Datnoff and Quality Agriculture, authored by John Kempf.
Keep up the amazing work you do, cheers!
Indeed
There is no way l would treat at that time, knowing the long waiting time before next harvesting. Risking some plants dying and still be able to harvest all the fruits, even from dead plants is the risk I would have taken. I know you respect your supplier and appreciate their "free" advise, but you would have been better off saving the cost of the chemical and labor to apply it.
I was a feed mill livestock officer for years and know how such enterprises operate.
Thanks Patrick.
Indeed, the saga of that crop something we learned a lot from.
Looking back after the heat of battle had died down and assessing our day-to-day decisions is sobering.
A lot changed in our farm and farming after that, including how we view suppliers.
It took me a while to know how to even tell the story. Mind you, I find sharing the stories cathartic and a great help.
Take care.
Indeed! It takes time to change the mindset, you are doing a wonderful job of educating us all .I have learned so much about growing these delicate, high value peppers.🙏🙏🙌🙌
Thank you!
HELLO MONDOfarms, your videos are always educative and inspirational. what advice do you have for anyone who wants to start Agric business in horticulture without any prior croup knowledge?
As the old saying that goes something like: "the journey of a 1,000 miles starts with one step."
Keep researching and get oit to farms for visit as much as possible.
But believe in yourself.
Im from Jamaica.Im a farmer also.I grow the Goliath & Revelation variety.Im currently reaping 10weeks now.Thanks for the tips in case I ever come across this problem
Best of luck!
Another Jamaica in the house here. I am from the livestock sector and worked at Vet Lab and Bodles Research Station after college.
Impressive work.
I do have a suggestion
Please research plastic mulch. I think it could improve your productivity of peppers.
You would lay down your drip Irrigation pipe first. Than cover it with the plastic mulch. Then poke holes through the plastic mulch then plant your peppers.
Cost and availability of plastic mulch in Zambia could be a problem.
But if possible try one row as a try run.
With this method you will use a friction of water and the plants grow and produce way better
Ok. Thanks.
Plastic mulch is not yet readily available in Zambia.
Meantime, we have started using straw as mulch, which is quite effective.
We will feature it in our videos soon.
I could kind of pick up some of the vernacular words as they were similar to my tribe from Kenya. But please can you put subtitles because I felt I lost a lot of information with the words I could understand unfortunately 😅. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
I hear you. The video you are referring to was from some time ago.
We have improved the amount of "translation" we include in the comments when including footage from the farm videos updates in our local languages.
Sadly, there is nothing we can do about the older videos that were already finalised and uploaded to TH-cam.
Your such a good presenter.I enjoy listening to your videos.
Glad you like them!
Great detail sir. Thank you for sharing.
I could relate to your challenges. Good that you overcame and managed to compile this much info and share with others. Cheers from Zim
Glad it was helpful!
Hi, Mondo farm is doing great work in trying your level best in the production of bell peppers. Wonderful job you're doing. one Expert advice to your production team, kindly help your spray team with gloves as they do the sprays, especially when using chemistry. Hope one day to visit your farm
Thanks!
Yebbo. We always encourage/push them to actually wear the PPE we provide.
But mwandi... umwina Africa...
Anyway, I am glad, they have gotten much better at adherence to procedures over the years. We will keep pushing them.
That was quite a fight! Bravo
Indeed. Farming can be challenging.
Very informative video. Thanks for your generosity.
Most welcome
Hi there. Following you from Zimbabwe. Thank you for sharing your journey...its good to share so that others are armed when they go through similar challenges. I'm finding your videos very informative.
Welcome aboard!
awesome work my guy. how do you safeguard your farm from theft?
Thanks, Kody. Theft hasnt really been an issue so far. We had a couple of our chaps take some plumbing items some time ago, but we caught them and fired them.
Our main strategies are:
A) We have built a strong loyal team who have a sense of ownership of the farms. This is done by paying them well and looking after them (funerals, health, leave days, etc), and especially treating them with respect.
B) Building good relationships with our neighbours.
Thanks for best videos and for letting us in to be part of Mondo farms we appreciate your help as we learning from you champ
Our pleasure!
Excellence Tutorial of Sweet Pepper... You scored ABOVE & BEYOND...... I don't like it; I LOVE IT.. Thanks Mondo Farm C.E.O
Glad you enjoyed it
Kilimo bora ya kunufaisha Africa kiuchumi na lishe bora. Pomgesi sana MONDO Farms
Thanks 😊
Nu yu dah se uno pepper dah
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Can I irrigate using a rain hose?
it depends on which type of crop. Personally, I don't really like rain hose irrigation.
We bought a rain hose set in 2021 and rarely, if ever, use it for much.
What size land do you have
Our farms are both quite sizable.
🙌🙌🙌🙌
Thanks
I follow your channel from Edmonton in Canada.
I am from Zimbabwe.
Keep up the good work.
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for your honesty in the video. As a farmer in Kenya, I've had my own stressful experience with bacterial wilt in tomatoes and peppers and can 100% relate. Comforting to know I'm not alone. More research needs to be done on this to help farmers as I know several who are struggling with this. Congratulations on your resilience and keep it up!
Thanks. Farming can be tough at times.
But we keep going.
The trash heap has spoken! Yes! Yes!
I have had some terrible experiences with sweet peppers, from thrips, snails, slugs to bacterial infection to fungus.
However, you made a pertinent point, which is to grow a lot of it to offset the losses. I made 'money' on that crop nevertheless. ...I love the way you say "money".
Thanks 😊
Cow urine is great for the soil. It's great for eradication of the nodes in the soil. Pepper is big money across the globe, especially the Jamaican Scoth bonnet, plant groundnut or beans after the pepper harvest, or put some cows in there.
Thanks.
Air flow is everything for healthy plants + soil. If you plant too close then they're not drying out fast enough. Mold & fungis thrive on moisture.
Indeed
You are amazingly resilient. You took your losses in good faith, right from the set up of yhe shadenet through the growing of the crop. Thank you for such a great video. I am in Nigeria.
Thanks Henry. Yoh, that experience was one of my hardest in farming up to that point. But there were a lot of lessons learnt.
We have gone back into growing sweet pepper and it is progressing well.
We will share more videos next month with some of our latest adventures
Thank you, kind Sir,for sharing these vital informations with us.
God bless you in all your endeavour !💯🙏🙏
All the way from Guyana!🇬🇾
My pleasure. So glad it was helpful 😌
Really good content here. Well done
Thanks for watching
I really love your videos. I am new to this channel, but I am definitely subscribing. Sweet peppers are one of my favourite crops to eat. I grew it once, and cut back my grocery shopping bill for months. That was last year, some how since I haven't been able to grow them as abundantly again. But I just keep trying. I keep learning, and as soon as the weather heats up a bit, I am sowing seeds, and potting up seedlings again. I love growing my own food. And hope to one day make it a business. Your videos are teaching me so much. Thank you.
Thanks
I have watched all the way, I felt your pain coz we're going through the same thing right now. Our sweet peppers had just reached their first harvesting and we seem to be losing the battle to bacteria wilt. Our media was also supplied by Holland Greentech and we still can't find a solution 😢
Farming. Kukosa.
Beloved a lot of hard work. The question is are we growing food to make people LIVE or to make people sick?
We would never intentionally want to make people sick.
Hi there I just started watching ur videos and I'm hooked up they are great 👍 keep up the great work ur doing a wonderful job at it..u should get more likes and views with these videos..thank u 😊 can't wait for more videos of ur
Welcome aboard!
I think u should sometimes summarize what he said in your language for some of us that is viewing from other countries ... Great job sir
Indeed, rhat is a great point.
We do try to do that. But I'm not always 100% up to the task.
The truth is that I initially started this TH-cam channel with our own Zambians as our primary target audience.
It is even much appreciated because of the amount of vernacular we have in the backstory clips.
But of course, the world is global, and the channel has now gained audiences much farther afield. Our videos are appreciated by people from so many different countries across the world. It is only fair to try and be more inclusive.
I can't edit the old videos already published, but I will try harder to give contextual summaries in the ones we produce going forward.
Take care.
My first time here
Watching from Nigeria
Very educative video sir
Thank you 🙏
Thanks for watching.
sir, what decease did you find out in your pepper?and how did you correct it or how did you cure your pepper? thanks to your reply, your video is interesting
Hi there. We never went back into the issues to find out more, and to be honest, we haven't grown peppers since then. Perhaps a bit of avoidance...
We are focused on egg plants, which has been rather successful for us.
I love your go getter attitude and determination. You are indeed a better farmer who is natural, modern and realistic.
Working along with experienced Agronomist will help you along way.
Congratulations to the good work, I follow your work keenly and so much so good to learn from your Mondo farms channel
Thanks 👍
From Senegal, thank you very much. I've learned so much.
You guys are doing so great.
Thank you! 😃
Thank you for this video. I like the candidness and openness in your video. This is helpful for someone like me considering going into Bell Pepper farming.
You're most welcome.
All the best.
You put a good fight there, did you go back to doing sweet pepper again if so how did you finally deal with the bacterial wilt challenge?
No. Not yet. We focus on eggplant, which is more sturdy and easier to grow.
We will get back to the sweet peppers later this year after we put up some tunnels at our new farm.
This is really educative!! Thank you sir!!
Glad it was helpful!
U know u can eat the pepper 🫑 leaf they taste great try cooking them with rice or stir fry 😋
Thanks for the tip. Had no idea!
...me wah come home a me yaad...🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Thanks. All the best.
A very educative video, please keep on educating us
Thanks
Informative content sir. Keep it up
Thank you, I will
Very intresting vidio and very educative i try tovplant sweet peper
Very good.
Thanks Ba Texson. All the best
Wonderful
Thanks
Very informative. Am doing my research on sweet peppers and i must say this video has helped me a lot. I will always come back here for reference once my seedlings are ready to be transplanted. 😊😊
Thanks and all the best with your project. I strongly recommend getting seeds and agronomic support and advice from a company like Holland Greentech. Their details are readily available online.
Thank you !
Great content, thanks so much for taking the time to share with your community!
What is the size of the shade house?
Gosh, you're bringing back memories of that shadehouse. We pulled it down some time ago and planted soya beans where it used to stand. The disease we encountered made it too risky to continue with vegetables there.
Anyway, it was 50x40m.
@@mondofarms4343 Is that to say you continued with growing bell peppers at a different location on Mondo Farms, but then again with the shade house?