Entrepreneur
Name
John
Member since
September 2016
On-time repayments
27 installments • 30%
About Me
About Me
My names a John kiptum i was born in the rift valley province to a family of humble background.
i was able to joint a primary school in my village and further went to a secondary school where my parents worked very hard to see me through secondary.
and joined college in livestock and agriculture technology.
After campus i secure employment with a private companies for some time and made enough capital to joined farming at home.
My Business
My Business
I am a farmer who major in tomatoes, recently i have started planting 'potatoes, sinces they are on high demand to local hotels and people for chips .
On a small piece of langd of about half an acre. of we sub divided into sections where we plant potatoes , vegetables and tomatoes aiming to sell to local farmers and food stores in town.
I chose to do farming when i released my fathers land is big enough to support me and my brothers, i love farming and i enjoy doing it.
With a rotation in harvesting we make profits of a proximately 2800 a month and use to improve our life's education for siblings and family upkeep.
This loan i find it very important to my projects, I have problems with manure for this reason i have found the need to buy two dairy cow at 430 US DOLLARS, This will produce milk and manure.
22 US DOLLARS will be for transportation.
Milk will be for sell and manure will be used in the farm.
I believe with this i will be able to reduce cost of manure and have good production.
Loan Proposal
If given the loan i will be in a position to solve the problem of fertilizer for this reason i have found the need to buy 80kgs bag of fertilizer at sh 2000, This will promote productivity.ksh 500 will be for transportation the other amount will be for labour and other money will be for buying insecticides .
With the help of this i will able to venture in new markets.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$12.00
Date disbursed
Apr 3, 2017
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
3 months
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