Agribusiness

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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

Thank you for the support,
With this loan i find it very important to my projects, I have problems of fertilizer for this reason i have found the need to add the amount i have of ksh 2500 and buy the fertilizers atKsht850 a bag of 50kgs , This will ensure high yield of tomatoes production.
Ksh250 will use to purchase pesticides the remaining amount of ksh 1900 i shall utilize it to prepare the land for plantation.
Since tomatoes is in high demand in my locality i find ready market for the same.
I believe with this i will be able to increase my profits to high margin of ksh 300 from the current ksh 150 per day.

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