You are a smallholder farmer How can seed choice improve farm profitability?
As a smallholder farmer, you’re the person people count on for fresh produce in your community. It’s a job with many challenges that can impact your income and the health of your business. Sakata is here to offer solutions to help you tackle those risks and maximise your yield.
Secure harvest and improve revenue
The right variety is your key to success
To improve your farm’s revenue, it is essential to produce maximum yield.
While some factors are beyond your control, having access to proven, high-quality seeds can significantly increase your success and support your farm profitability.
That’s why Sakata is committed to bringing you a diverse range of locally tested top-quality vegetable varieties suited to your growing conditions. Sakata hybrid seeds deliver you the benefit of greater resistance to diseases, faster emergence, easier growth and uniform crop production. Sakata offers highly adaptable hybrid varieties such as:
Among Sakata highly adaptable hybrid varieties are:
- Parthenon F1, high yield broccoli with exceptional quality heads
- Avanto F1 and Powerslam F1, uniform and high yield cabbages
- Aicha F1 and Khadi F1, high yield potential okras.
Easy to handle vegetables
You want to be able to sell the maximum produce you grow.
So, it’s important to minimize minimise loss during harvest and post-harvest. Knowing this, Sakata offers a range of vegetable varieties that withstand transportation and storage. Two examples are:
- Sakata Amiral F1 tomato, which is developed for outstanding firmness and can endure handling with minimal cracking
- Sakata Interstellar F1 bunching onion with strong tops that make it resistant to damage and easy to peel.
Facing unpredictable
weather
Climate-resilient vegetable varieties
The effects of climate change are making vegetable production unstable.
Rising temperatures and unpredictable precipitation levels – both drought and excess moisture – are a threat to your operation.
To overcome these challenges, it pays to choose versatile vegetable varieties that will help produce maximum yield. Sakata has a wide range of varieties that adapt well to stress. Some of these climate-resilient hybrids include:
- Accord F1, a resilient cabbage that can adapt to changing weather conditions
- Cardeal F1, a very adaptable beet variety that works well in all climates.
Vegetable varieties that can handle the heat
Tolerance to high temperatures is important to producing maximum yield.
All the more, for summer crops such as squash, pepper, and tomato highly exposed to heat stress. To answer this challenge, Sakata develops vegetable varieties that are more tolerant to heat. Some of these varieties delivering optimal performance even in hot weather conditions are:
- TOM 02407 F1, a high-yield hot-set tomato adapted for tropical and sub-tropical regions
- Milagro F1, a Piel del Sapo melon that withstands very hot conditions.
Improve your farming techniques
Local cultivation advice
To maximise your harvests and get better profits, it is essential to use good farming practices (preparing soil, watering, removing weeds…) and know how to grow each variety.
How does Sakata help you?
- Sakata local teams and distributors are here to support you all season long by bringing cultivation advice
- Sakata local teams and distributors can give you technical leaflets
- As a farmer, you are invited to participate in local open days to discover new varieties and learn agronomic information on how to cultivate them
• You can watch Sakata’s best farming practices videos online.
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Ready to maximise your farm’s profitability? If you want help finding solutions for how to maximise your yields and boost farm profitability, the Sakata team is ready to assist you with support and guidance to help you achieve your production goals.
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