Hello Hive.
While farming is not really an easy task, storing harvested products properly from destructive pest is yet another challenge.
Especially when one is a commercial farmer you stand at a huge loss when pest destroys stored grains.
Imagining after investing so much into planting and growing the grains and deciding not to sell immediately, one keeps these grains in storage and this happens.
No body will buy grains with any kind of weevils in them.
Worst still these weevils can destroy grains to a point that it becomes totally useless that even we the farmers cannot eat them unless we feed them to the goats
We have just lost a bag of beans to weevils
It happened that during storage few in the month of January we have exempted a bad from been filled with the chemical substance for storage thinking that its possible the chemical agents affects it and when we try using them as seed for the next planting season, it have have some adverse effects.
We were advised to leave it in the pods without peeling them out as you can see here.
We were advised that the beans were safe from weevils been inside the pod but this was wrong, I noticed some weevils in our store and started a hunt only to realize that the stored bag of beans for immediate consumption and planting purpose has gone totally bad.
If we didn't want to use a chemical storage method, another method of storage would have been for us to pour the bean in plastic containers and add as much pepper, the pepper makes the environment hot and unfriendly for weevils, may be that would have been effective rather than what we have done here.
This year we had a good harvest of beans and although we often planted grains for consumption, sometimes we sell some of these grains when it appears that we cannot eat up all the grains before the next planting season.
And just like the way people trade crypto we also wait for when the price is high and very much profitable before we sell.
For instance a bag of beans is sold for around 20k now but before mid year we can sell for 35k and make more money....
Well today marks a huge loss, the beans is not edible as food anymore and am yet to decide the next move.
