My experience in farming before discovering how to make Agrochemicals on my own was pathetic. Having spent a lot on the farm mostly in procuring chemicals and other inputs,  yields still once turned out so much bad that I angrily left the produce on the farm for the villagers. 

I was really mad and depressed, I thought that would be the end of farming for me. I didn’t return to full time commercial farming for almost one and half year.

I’ve been into full time farming for the past 13 years and I must tell you that in this part of the world the greatest challenge of agriculture is the ever increasing cost of inputs with no commensurate increase in market price.

I remember not too long ago we used to buy a 2 litre bottle of some sets of insecticides for 800 Naira, As a pepper farmer, a sac of pepper then was being sold for 12,000 Naira at peak period. 

Later, the same insecticide increase in price progressively to 1000, 1200, 1500, 1800 Naira with Zero corresponding increase in the price of a pepper sac. Instead, the cost of transportation, fertilizers, fungicides, Nematicides, foliar fertilizers etc.,all increased at the same time.