Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for Maize

The use of digital extension, educational videos and agricultural 3D animations is very limited in Africa.
Animated training video can help to promote Good Agricultural Practices (GAP). Their application has the potential to increase yields significantly and improves farmer livelihoods in rural areas.
The Sustainable Smallholder Agri-Business Programme (SSAB) therefore used well-proven and research-based analog training material to develop 3D animated training videos to further promote GAP application.
Please see our animated training video on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for Maize (information apply to Ghana).
(The video is intended to be shared with other development projects, providers of agricultural extension services, farmer groups...)

[@kossiakpalou8223]

Best video 🎉

[@adebowaleamosadediran6236]

Thanks so much.appreciated

[@tendaniels6813]

Very informative

[@user-il3zn7sq2k]

That was good

[@africadreamin]

Excellent video.

[@PhilipGama-cw6jm]

You indicated that your spacing of 0.75 X 0.25 gave you 53 300 plants and therefore planting holes. You also said you bought 4 bags of NPK and 2 bags of UREA fertilizers. You indicated that you apply 2 beercups or 8 g of fertilizer ( of each type) per planting hole. If you multiply 8 g by 53 300 you will get 426 400 g which equals 8.528 bags ( 426 400g /50 000g ) of NPK . Likewise 2 bags UREA = 2 X 50 000g = 100 000g . At 8g per planting hole you need another 8.528 bags of UREA and yet you had 2 bags only. This doesn't seem to add up. CAN YOU EXPLAIN!! Alpha from MALAWI.

[@marianvan-ess4822]

Please can you help me by getting some of the rope to buy

[@marianvan-ess4822]

Please how can l get the rope to buy

[@zamfrostfoods6071]

3500 kg of Maize per hectare isn't good yield. Depending on the seed variety, weed control, application of correct quantities of both Basal dressing fertilizer (NPK), top dressing fertilizer (Urea) and receiving the correct amount of rainfall and weed control, 1 hectare should give you over 9000 kg of Maize.

[@agri-businessfacilityforaf5698]

Thank you very much for your observation. Indeed, maize yield, especially hybrid maize yield, can reach much higher yields. However, maize yield is affected by many factors like agroecological zone, but also on the applied good agricultural practices e.g. rainfed or irrigated, type of irrigation, type and amount of fertilizer being used, planting density and planting in rows, as well as the variety. Kindly note that the information given in the video applies specifically for Ghana and here observations showed that yields around 3.5 t/ha were more realistic before 2018. Nowadays, much higher yields can be expected.

[@ikechukwuuwajumogu9050]

This 3500kg per hectare sounds a bit poor. Does it mean u used opv or hybrid. Alot of hybrids claim u can harvest more than 6000 kg

[@ikechukwuuwajumogu9050]

It's been very insightful for me. Thank u

[@agri-businessfacilityforaf5698]

Thank you very much for your observation. Indeed, maize yield, especially hybrid maize yield, can reach up to 6t/ha. However, maize yield is affected by many factors like agroecological zone, but also on the applied good agricultural practices e.g. rainfed or irrigated, type of irrigation, type and amount of fertilizer being used, planting density and planting in rows, as well as the variety. Kindly note that the information given in the video applies specifically for Ghana and here observations showed that yields around 3.5 t/ha were more realistic before 2018. Nowadays, yields of 5 - 6 t/ha can be expected.