INSPIRING A FOOD-SECURED FUTURE FOR NIGERIA AND AFRICA Kuch99 Agriculture Training Institute has taken a bold step in ensuring a food-secured Nigeria and Africa. The bold step was taken by organizing the flagship edition of its Kuch99 Agro Teens Challenge.…
Dealing with climbing crops can be frustrating. Sometimes when proper care is not taken breakage can occur thereby truncating or inferring with plant growth. When climbing crops like cucumbers lie on the ground as their shoots grow and fruits develop,…
Cucumber is a popular vegetable that is widely cultivated for its juicy, crispy, and flavorful fruit. However, cucumber plants are often plagued by several diseases that cause the fruits to rot and become inedible. The most common causes of rotting in…
Cucumbers are very prolific plants and grow quite fast. In fact depending on the variety, cucumbers mature between 5-6weeks of planting. So you could easily miss their harvest time if careful attention is not given to them. First of all,…
Cucumber farming can be quite easy especially when you’ve mastered the act over time. But there are some problems common to cucumber farming no matter where you are and how you plant them. Sometimes it might be as a result…
Cucumbers are widely cultivated long, lean and green plants. They are fruits and not vegetables as thought of by many, they are actually members of the plant family Cucurbitaceae, which includes other of your favorite fruits like watermelons and pumpkins.…
Pruning simply means to cut off or thin out, in this case it means to cut off some growth points at the base of the vine to encourage faster and better yield. Pruning is best encouraged before fruiting but it…
The cucumber farmer is usually filled with much delight at the first appearing of flowers in his farm, because he is reminded that harvest time is just around the corner. Now imagine the disappointment at the sight of curved cucumber…
Cucumbers belong to the cucurbitaceous family and so they naturally contain the chemical compounds known as cucurbitacin B and cucurbitacin C which makes the cucumber leaves bitter. Cucurbitacin is contained in the leaves, stems and roots of the plant which…
When you hear the word Prune, what generally comes to mind? To remove right? Well, you are correct. To prune means to remove excess (that are unwanted). One of the major goals of pruning is primarily fruit production and so…
