Equipment for putting up a greenhouse

Michael

Nairobi, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Michael

Member since

February 2014

On-time repayments

118 installments  •  69%

About Me

I am a hardworking, committed and result-oriented individual with the ability to work under minimum or no supervision.

My Business

My main source of income is my salary

Loan Proposal

This Agribusiness Plan is an initiative of young, flexible, talented and open minded Kenyan Youths who have joined hands to take up farming in a large-scale business operation in production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products. Low cereal productivity is a major contributor to food and nutritional insecurity and low household incomes; hence, extreme poverty and environmental degradation. The high costs of machinery and farm operations, agricultural inputs and labour; and high incidences of pests and diseases, are major causes of low and declining yields. Besides, post-harvest produce losses due to poor storage at household and community levels pose a major challenge to food safety resulting in increased food and nutrition insecurity. Inadequate post-harvest handling facilities lead to spoilage and price instability.
Our objective is to increase food productivity, enhance livelihoods and facilitate transformation of the agricultural sector; by turning crops and livestock production into commercially oriented economic activities, for food and nutrition security, increased household incomes and employment creation, while utilizing the natural resources optimally and preserving biodiversity.
Our goal is to enhance generation, dissemination and utilization of client-driven crops and livestock technologies; knowledge and information for promoting increased agricultural productivity; improved post harvest handling; value addition; agri-business and private sector involvement. The ultimate purpose being to address critical value chain constraints; thereby, spur improvement of rural livelihoods and economic growth within Kisumu County.
We have a parcel of land in Ahero that we seek financial aid to develop. It is a 2 acre piece of land in a prime location, 8Km from Kisumu city. We have a title deed, its fenced, with Electricity and a borehole on sight. Our business operation Scope aims to outline that our activities have:
(a) Realistically attainable outputs.
(b) Ability of proposed activities to deliver the outputs and attain the goal.
(c) Technology dissemination and uptake promotion pathways.
(d) Potential for up-scaling and out-scaling the outputs.
(e) Sustainable mechanisms for exploitation of Project outputs

We will use the bulk of the loan to buy equipment for putting up greenhouses since we have a plan to cultivate tomatoes, fruits(Passion, avocado, pawpaw), mushrooms(seeds and cultivation), french beans, Chillies, Onions and rear dairy cows(2) and poultry (broilers and layers).

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$140.00

Date disbursed

May 13, 2014

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

20 months

Lenders

EricDWalters

Rochester, Mn, Usa, United States

Kitty

Hailsham, United Kingdom

JimVandegriff

Trinidad, California, United States

Namaste250

Pittsford, United States

P

Prysdahl

Marshall, United States

C

Christine99

Vancouver, Canada

Paula

Heerlen, Netherlands

H

howard

Vence, France

P

Pavane

Kungsbacka, Sweden

Matching Fund

Sterling, United States

A

ahgillett

United Kingdom

T

TrademarkMan

United States

E

ewaters1

Australia

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