**"Contest: How I Store and Preserve my Farm Produce

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I am a proud farmer from the North in the central area of Nigeria and mostly in this part of the world you find people who farm and I happen to be among them farming has been in our lineage from the start

I grew up with farming tools in my hand because my father was a great farmer, and I've learned from scratch. Right now, I have various plants planted on my farm, such as rice, corn, tomatoes, maize, groundnut, yam, cassava, okra, pepper, beans, and more.

Each of these plants has its farmland I planted those products on my groundnut farm I plant only groundnuts so that they will have all the photosynthesis they need for them to germinate well in planting you must consider the source of nutrients and energy to the plants, groundnut among others is one of the difficult farm products you can harvest

After cultivating the farm you plant the groundnut seed and then you weed two times before they harvest during the harvest after removing the groundnut you must wait for it to dry on the farm before removing it back home and in this process sometimes if the rain does not stop the groundnut can go bad and that will cause you a lot of money because maintaining groundnuts is very difficult and you must have space to keep it when you bring it back home so that sunlight dry it

It has to be dry properly for storage if not it will get spoiled at the end of the day

Rice on the other hand is very easy even though the soil in which we cultivate rice is very strong but it doesn't make the work hard on us after the cultivation we pick some grasses to allow the rice to spray and produce after putting fertilizer shortly the harvest and when you bring it home it doesn't take much effort to store because it dry easily

Cassava is long-term products that last for 1 to 2 years before harvest which makes it harvest a little bit hard because you will have to weed it twice a year and the probability of losing it to the cow that are roaming about during those years is very high Fulani people a very heartless they are people who allowed their animal to feed on others people crops especially cassava yam and beans we hardly harvest those because they allow their animal to eat it after we have planted it

I also plant corn because we eat corn flour as our routine food in the North corn is very special because every home uses it as one of their meal and that is why is very expensive for those that buy from the market but for us that produce it we have it in abundant

Okra pepper tomatoes vegetable I plant them in my backyard for my easy reach for soup making, engaging in a farming system is very important even as a worker if you engage in farming you would have a lot of savings from your salary income because you will use your farm products I as food supply

I am a proud farmer from the North and farming is what we do

Most of these products I stored with the help of sunlight after drying them properly I store them in bags in a safer room where there is no water and no rats sometimes this product takes me a year to finish even though we have a storage mode some people use chemical for preservation but my parents use pepper and ashes for their storage and that has worked for us for years

Why we stopped using chemicals for storage because we used chemicals to store beans one certain year and it almost killed the whole of the family after we consumed it and that is how we stopped using chemicals for storage

This method of storage has helped us with the groundnuts if they properly dry safely for a year the corn also dried two times a year before finishing consumption and for yam, we sell it after harvest because stored yam can easily get spoiled even though we used to have preservation for the yam seed so that we can have it for planting in another year

After clearing a secure place we place the yam in such a way that it will have air and a cool environment

For okra, after slicing it we dry it in the sun and it can stay without getting spoiled and without any chemical supply on it the same goes for tomatoes and pepper I can just slice my tomatoes and pepper dry and install it in my store room I can use it anytime I want because it doesn't have any chemical support

Cassava on the other hand also with the help of sunlight with dry cassava and stored for use even more than 2 years you can eat your stored cassava without the supply of chemicals on it and the same goes for our corn we use the sunlight in keeping it safe for our use

My farm product has zero effect on humans because I use a zero storage system I have learned the hardware from my parents because chemicals applied for storage almost killed a whole of my family and since then we use only sunlight and for beans we used the ashes and dry ground pepper for storage and it saved the Beans clean

We have one farming system aside from irrigation we only have the rain season which starts from April to October

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