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MY FIRST FARM

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Welcome!   Hello there! you know how you plan everything and it goes well in your mind and then you start but things just take a different route than you expect."The story of my first farm". Well I am a young lady  living in the northern part of Nigeria of West Africa. With a good amount of rain and arable land, I went on with my initial plan of a half hectare maize farm which started with employing labor because I was going manual on this one and of course I could not do such labor alone. So I went in search of help, then I got my first workers (two young men), we had a sit down to agree on prices and work days but since they had experience than me in farming and I wanted to win them over, flexed my unused management skill but then while I kept to my word of payment and I tried to reach out to create a work relationship, they preyed on my niceness, never kept to agreed date or time, made me pass my budget and didn't finish  planting as agreed. I know my faults , one ...