entrepreneur making ksh 150,000 per month with his innovative farm venture

If all goes as planned, Hillary Simani
will be a millionaire in a few years.

The Bachelor of Science in Animal
Health (Egerton University) graduate’s
farm in Vihiga is producing 400 eggs
daily and with a market value of Sh 20
each, the 28 year old farmer rakes in
about Sh 8,000 a day. With feed and
other costs being about Sh 3,000 a
day, Simani pockets about Sh 5,000 a
day.

"Already, Simani is earning at least Sh
150, 000 a month and soon the figure
will double when his Machakos
poultry farm reaches its capacity".
And yet, he remote controls his farm
operations from Machakos County
where he stays. The Vihiga farm, where
he hails from, is under his parents and
a few employees .

After graduating in 2008 from Egerton
University, he got a job at an Agrovet’s
shop in Nakuru but the income was
peanuts. He moved to Machakos in
search of green pastures three years
ago.

Indeed, he found greener pastures
there. While he started the Vihiga farm
with 83 chicks, which has now risen to
640, the Machakos farm has even
bigger prospects. Here, he has a stock
of over 800 layers and more than 500
chicks.
Soon, he projects to collect 600 eggs a
day from the farm. With an average
price of Sh 10 per egg, Simani could
rake in Sh 180,000 a month. Add that
to the Vihiga income and the young
man could earn at least Sh 300,000 a
month by the end of the year.

Interestingly, Simani has his chicken
incubator in his bedroom. The
incubator was loaned to him by the
Youth Enterprise Fund early in the
year.
"I was passionate about poultry
farming from an early age. I just
wanted to fully exploit it when I
decided to leave my agrovet job," says
Simani.

Simani, who carries out extension
services to farmers in Machakos and
Makueni Counties, is currently
hatching his own Kienyenji chicken. By
the end of the year, he will pay up the
incubator’s loan that amounted to Sh
20,000.

"Success in farming requires patience.
Profits come slowly," says Simani. He
says chicken are delicate animals and
require close management to yield
profits.
"The youth should bid their time,
manage their livestock properly and
cash will come flowing," he advises. He
utilizes Mkulima Young website to
market his chicks

original arricle appeared on mkulimayoung.com