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

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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

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strawberry farmer in narumoro minting money from his quarter acre piece of land

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strawberry farmer in narumoro minting money from his quarter acre piece of land

After finishing the Primary School,
James 28, could not be able to join
secondary school since the parents
could be able to pay for secondary
school. He started working as casual
labour and bought a knife sharpener
in his village. He was able to save and
started mali mali business which he
did for two years.

He later got a job as a makanga (tout)
where most of the regular customers
were ferrying strawberry from the
Sagana to Karatina and sending them
to Nairobi or Mombasa.

He became interested in strawberry
and sought more information on how
to go about strawberry business from
his regular customers. He left the
makanga job after 2 years and leased a
a quarter of an acre in Narumoro.

Currently he harvest the strawberry 3
times in a week and able to produce
about 60 kg of strawberry every week
which he sends to Mombasa at the rate
of ksh 130. this means he rakes in about ksh 30,000 per month.For the last one year James
has been on this farming he has been
able to pay a deposit of half an acre he
is buying and his family is
comfortable.

James can not meet the demand of
strawberry and thus he encouraging
youth to embrace this farming since its
easy and you harvest the strawberry
throughout the year. James assist
farmers strawberry farming by
providing planting materials (splits ) at
ksh 15, plants for you and assist you in
management at reasonable feel.

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this 18yr old student raking in ksh 40,000 from vegetable farming

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this 18yr old student raking in ksh 40,000 from vegetable farming

December 2013 was a hot season, and
young man pocketed Sh 150,000
He is enjoying his law lessons but is
seems Brian Kinyanjui is having his
attention elsewhere.
He got into farming after inspiration
from his grandmother, and now the 18
year old student is already enjoying
the fruits of vegetable farming.

At his grandmother's one acre farm at
Ngecha in Kiambu County, which he
was just given free to use, Kinyanjui is
slowly making serious money.
Records show he rakes in about Sh
40,000 a month from his variety of
exotic vegetables; He has coriander,
spinach, cucumber, lettuce, onions and
several others.

"I like them because the demand is
good and the margins higher than the
local vegetables," he says.
He raised his start up capital of ksh
600 from his pocket money savings
which he used to purchase seedlings.
He adds that he preferred them to
livestock farming because livestock
production is predictable. If it is a
cow, you know how much it will
produce, and the time it will produce.
With vegetables, you never know how
much will come out," says Kinyanjui.

In December, the gods of vegetables
were on his side. He reaped Sh
150,000 from the sales linked to the
festivities and he avers, "It shows
there is big potential here."
A digital farmer, Kinyanjui gathers
information from agri-business
magazines and interacts with youthful
farmers at Mkulima Young website.
This platform will revolutionize how
graduates and students view farming.

There is money to be made, only a
change of mindset is needed," he
advises.
At the moment, he is recouping profits
back to the a farm as well as spending
a bit of it on his personal stuff. His
vision? "I want to be a digital farming
consultant; a reference for young
people doing agriculture," he
reiterates.

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