(UPDATED) Making Money from Plantain Business: Easy Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Profiting from Plantains in Nigeria.

Plantain business is a big business in Nigeria. This is one area of agriculture where you can make money faster within 6 months of cultivation. You can start harvesting your ripen plantains within the space of six (6) months. Planting of plantain is a very profitable business. Everyone loves a good one. You can sell them to neighbors, locals and street food vendors. Plantain is a fruit just like BANANA, but bigger, that can be cooked and eaten. Plantain can be used for plantain chips, plantain flour etc. 

Plantain business is one of the untapped areas of agriculture in Nigeria. This is a Goldmine, that is, you can start a roasted plantain business in your area, at major streets or the front of restaurants. You can start with no capital. All you need is the knowledge of planting plantain and area of farmland. You could also use the space available in your compound, maybe at the backyard. 

Plantain business can provide a lot of job opportunities to unemployed individuals in Nigeria. The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, show that nearly 45% of the Nigeria population are unemployed. This is a call to awaken the Nigerian youths - young school leavers, university and polytechnic graduates, who moves about the streets everyday in search of jobs that are not available. Most factory jobs wouldn't do them any good. Planting of plantain for business can be one of the ways to get self-employed and escape poverty. It is not a stressful venture. They just need to acquire the right knowledge of planting plantain.

Best Methods Of Planting Plantain In Nigeria

Plantain has more profit than maize. You can get them cultivated and harvested in a space of six (6) months. Plantain can be used for plantain chips, plantain flour and much more. Here are proper ways to prepare for planting of plantain:

1. Best season to plant is in the May or June of every year, at the tick of the rainy season. However, that does not mean you can't plant plantain anytime of the year. But, plantain requires a lot of rain to help the plants stand strong to the ground. Plantain may not require rain to germinate, but they do need for strength, or they may starts to wither and fall because they are too weak. 

2. Don't buy your land in Lagos but in local states. First plough the land because of weeds - 1st plough and 2nd plough.

3. Make the land level and use only sandy-loamy soil, not clay or loamy soil.

4. In case you employ someone to dig a holler for you, pay them in hole (per), and measure in 60cm before putting a potassium.

5. Use only highbreed species.

6. The best plantain to plant is the "CAMEROON GIANT SUCKER".

7. Every plantain are living organism, as such, a hybreed plant needs nutrition to nature. 

8. In planting plantain, line them all in a row, don't plant them in a zig-zag.

9. Plantain hate trees around them. Spacing is key in planting plantain. 8cm of spacing and watering is also a key factor.

10. Removal of sucker is important after the plant have been harvested.