From Sh20,000 seed capital, farmer rakes in Sh140,000 monthly
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Bamboo Farming turns Kenyan farmers into Millionaires
“A harvest can bring in millions of shillings.
Groundnut Farmer PocketsSh 1million Every Season
The 48-year Timothy Simiyu has been reaping good returns from ground nut farming.
The former Primary school teacher started farming Manipinta and Red Valencia groundnuts in his maize farm in
The Agropreneur: Turn Sh15,000 investment in seedlings into Sh1.8m in profit in two years
the ultimate low cost business idea which is an investment opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs
Most business ideas arise from the desire to meet the need of a particular customer base looking for a specific good or service. However, some businesses ideas transcend an entrepreneur’s intended immediate customer base and have national impact. Agro-forestry is one such venture, and Mr Benson Kanyi is among a growing number of Kenyans making a living out of commercially producing trees. This group swears by agro-forestry being a profitable and sustainable business that also meets a national need.THE AGROPRENEUR: David Rotich, 31 making a steady income from his small greenhouse farm
The father of two studied animal health but found crop health better paying after trying to grow quality seedlings.
THE AGROPRENEUR: this agropreneur proves you can make a quarter million from fish farming
They hold 3,000 rainbow trout, which go for Sh800 per kilo.
THE AGROPRENEUR: this 18 yr old student is making ksh 40,000 per month from his one cow
Even before he completes his first year at campus, Martin Kiburi is already earning more than a government-employed teacher.
After witnessing his father’s woes as a dairy farmer, he decided to add value to it.
THE AGROPRENEUR: Average quarterly income of Sh700,000 for Kenneth Kipkorir, 34 from his diversified farming venture
THE AGROPRENEUR: Estimated monthly income of Sh250,000,Wycliffe Fundi, 30s is making ripples with his poultry farming
Started with just Sh3,600 in 2008, Fundi’s Kirata Poultry farm
in Kagare has grown to host 1,600 chicken, 80 per cent of which are
broilers.
Apart from selling chicken, his hatchery can
produce 2,000 chicks in a week or two. “I began with 30 chicks and today
I have 1,600 chicken worth Sh960,000,” he says.
THE AGROPRENEUR:with an Average monthly income of kSh300,000, Mary Gitau-Makori, 29, is laughing all the way to the bank
Fifty-two pigs, 50 rabbits, 200 road runners and two greenhouses.
That’s
what Mary, who holds a first degree in Human Resources from the
Methodist University, boasts on her Doben Resources Farm in dry Ruai on
the outskirts of Nairobi.
