Buy farm inputs for my horticulture business
Victoria
Nakuru, Kenya
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Entrepreneur
Name
Victoria
Member since
July 2016
On-time repayments
86 installments • 13%
About Me
My name is victoria mwangi I am 26 years old, wife and mother of 2 was born in Nakuru county. I completed basic education but I failed to continue with college education due to lack of fees.
My parents were small scale farmers with no education. We relied on a piece of two acres of land and mainly subsistence farming.
I am the first born in a family of eight, my father and mother died in 2007 and 2009 respectively of HIV/AIDS by then I was the only one who had completed form four .my sibling depended on me yet I had no formal job. I have been educating them through casual labour and assistance from NGOs
I got married but things did not change, in my marriage family challenges are similar to what I experienced before. My dream is to see all my children get a good education so that they may have a good future.
My Business
Currently am an horticulture farmer,producing vegetables and tomatoes in greenhouse throughout the year. I started the business in 2012, because of the ready market in nakuru town, my customers are schools,hotels and neighbors, my customers prefer my products because of high quality and i also deliver the products to my customers neighbors. My main challenges is lack of enough capital and high cost of labor. My plans is to expand the enterprise. In a month i make profits of upto $200 depending on demand which i use to help my family. My vision is to build more green houses, with variety of vegetables and tomatoes. I also want to venture into other farming enterprise for dairy, poultry. am proud of my tomatoes because they sell more.
Loan Proposal
Given the loan i will buy
Fertilizer (CAN) Ksh. 17000 Insecticide Ksh. 7000 Special ropes Ksh 3500 and gumboots ksh2000
Total Ksh 29500
The farm inputs will help improve my yields,the insecticides will help me get high quality produce. and the gumboots will be of help while going to the farm especially during this rainy season
My family life will improve and im looking forward for increased yields
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$300.00
Date disbursed
Oct 11, 2016
Repayment status
Late
Projected term
18 months
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Lenders
United States
Jake Gibson and Beverly Picardo
San Francisco, United States
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