One of the prevailing adaptation trends with food insecurity and economic hardship, is people choosing to grow their own foods.

More people are now seeking to grow their own foods to meet their family food security and supplement household budget in this time of food inflation.

As this unfolds, cucumber, amongst other crops, becomes a crop of importance.

The fruit is incredibly easy to grow, and requires modest inputs and adapts to diverse conditions, grows rapidly and yields many fruits.

This thus makes the crop readily adoptable and a fast money spinner, which would huge earnings now, retailing at higher price than we had seen.

But just as it’s easy to grow the production also is delicate.

A fungus disease could seize all plant stands overnight and unfavorable conditions abort fruits decimating yield and snapping margins; this with other limiting factors making production fail.

Having in-depth knowledge thus is prerequisite to a successful cucumber venture.

This episodes embodies this with knowledge given from years of engaging in the sector by Ugo Mammah, informing what it takes to grow cucumber successfully and profitable.

Ugo shared his backstory of navigating agriculture landscape to crop production, which offers practical guide to would-be farmers on navigating career journey, clarity and purpose, and overcoming adversity.

The episode dealt with cucumber farming from two aspects of successfully growing cucumber and also selling the produces from production and at a good price enlightening on effective sales and marketing strategies.