Vegetable Farming in Zambia: Eggplant from Seed to Harvesting

Eggplant (also known as aubergine or brinjal) is a popular vegetable eaten all over the world, including here in Zambia, where our local variety is called impwa. This video shares how and why Mondo Farms has chosen eggplant as our major vegetable crop that we grow all year round.
It dives into our current crop on Dubai 1 and 2, and starts with how we sow seeds in an open field nursery. We then moved onto preparation of beds, before transplanting the ready seedlings in a series of batches. After setting up the drip irrigation on the beds, we then carry out various steps in crop husbandry, leading up the time we start harvesting from each block.
The video also discusses the benefits of succession planting strategy for vegetable farming success.

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Glad it was helpful! We include quite a level of detail in our crop stories.

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They actually have all the automatic equipment like you mentioned, and many more, but I have a strong feeling he opted for manual labor to provide employment to more people!

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Thank you so much for this wonderful information as am starting my farm and Eggplant is the crop that i want to grow and i didn't know how to go about it but after i came across this video, it has helped me

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I kindly recommend that you name your fields African names instead of Dubai and Canada. I thank you for this channel and your way of sharing knowledge with us. May we all succeed in our quest for food security in Africa. God bless you and your team, Amin

[@mondofarms4343]

Interesting comment. On our farms, we name our fields according to the way we want to. The names have meanings and contexts that matter to us. Its sad that some of these names seem to trigger you. All the best.

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Where's is Mondo Farms? I would love to visit your farm Sir. I recently bought a 2 acres piece of land. I really need to get more inspiration from you.

[@mondofarms4343]

Hi, Madam. We are glad you appreciate the videos. Pls keep watching other videos on our channel. We have found that we have to limit visitors to our farm, as it causes us challenges in getting our work done and meeting our deliverables.

[@khalildukuly146]

Hello, sir, I always watch your video for inspiration about my own project in Liberia, especially your video about the water dam. I was wondering if you could tell me how you transfer the water from the dam to the drip irrigation system. Do you use a booster pump and if yes, what's the capacity?

[@mondofarms4343]

Greetings. I hope my answer earlier was helpful. All the best.

[@mupulamusumali7438]

This is so so educational, do you allow for farm visits?

[@mondofarms4343]

Thanks. Glad it's helpful. Farming visits are a challenge for us. Our priority is to do farming tasks and programmes. When we have visitors, a lot of our attention has to go to them, which is not positive for our outcomes. And you can only imagine how many visit requests webget each week. We are working to start having formal Farmers Days like other farms do, when various people can come and see what we do in a structured manner. We will advertise on our channels when we do.

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Nice description are you a lecturer sir in agriculture

[@mondofarms4343]

Not at all. But I am blessed to be able to share my lessons and farming experience with others on this channel.

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[@mondofarms4343]

Hi Mervin. I always appreciate your support and I'm so glad to be a positive force in your life. I'm humbled by your request. Sadly, there is a limit to our ability to interact with other farmers outside of these KZbin videos, which take a lot of time and effort to film and produce. You can only imagine how much we are contacted each day by people asking for advice. We need to make sure that attending to them doesn't affect our ability to perform our day jobs and meet our deliverables. All the best.

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just subscribed your channel snr....what is the land size of your egg plant farm and how many litters of water do you use to water it a day?

[@mondofarms4343]

Welcome aboard. 🙏🏽

[@justbereal4you]

WhTs ur fertilizer routine from transplant to harvest... that would be helpful...

[@mondofarms4343]

I am confident you will find what you're looking for on another video. There are plenty of such on KZbin. Some are produced by NGOs, agrochem companies, Govt ministries, etc. We dont want to down that route yet. The Mondo Farms channel is about sharing our farming journey and inspiring others. All the best.

[@universeboy6304]

How many days is between the drenching beds and the transplanting

[@mondofarms4343]

Interesting question. In the textbooks and guidebooks, they say drench 2-3 days before transplanting. When you're farming in the real world, you sometimes drench and transplant the same day. (Especially with biological fungicides and insecticides, there is reduced danger to the workers coming in to transplant.)

[@kmbewe1]

I am guessing whoever would ask about numbers is needing to answer the fundamental question of whether the venture would be profitable for them, if they worked from a smaller capital layout and smaller budget , that sort of thing. Clearly yours is a fairly large capital input , which might not be so for everyone.

[@mondofarms4343]

I was always brought up to believe that asking people about their business details is inappropriate in most contexts. But you wouldn't believe how many questions we get about our business details. Of course, we share business numbers with those that we should like bankers, shareholders, the taxman of course, and other stakeholders. But not with strangers and not on social media. Other people do share their numbers and costs on various fora. But that is their choice. My approach to business requires a level of confidentiality. Anyway, it triggers me. I will reflect further.

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In Africa we lack farming unions to regulate and control prices ; farmers going into the market by themselves is dangerous

[@mondofarms4343]

Indeed

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Is your language bantu???

[@mondofarms4343]

Yes, indeed, all our languages we speak here are Bantu. Your question prompted me to search the term Bantu on wikipedia... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_languages

[@carmenkringer2806]

Ment wagons n carts to help harvest n take bags away to storage or markets ..not wardens..no body want to feel their in prison😅

[@mondofarms4343]

Indeed. Yes, I understand. We are getting on working more mechanization soonest, but your suggestion of waggons and carts one we will keep in mind. Speaking of prison wardens, sometimes our supervisor has to be very harsh when keeping the team going. That is something that some people find hard.

[@BeeGroundedFarm]

Why is your staff ,so mob rule ,there heavy handed with using fertilisers, pesticides , insecticides their wearing PPE but on one of the videos he’s spraying with his colleague just feet in front on another planting row ,the residue is catching his collar - health problems for him down the road ,your over staffed ,not coordinated with each other. You should be using compost bins and leaving the roots in the ground - go no till and leave cover crops in the ground plant into the fallen ground crops ,bringing life back to the soil - maintaining soil PH level at (6.5-7.5 ) I admire what your doing ,your videos are great but so much messed up crops by the staff problems

[@mondofarms4343]

Indeed

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