Expanding my cocoa farm

Bukari

Kumasi, Ghana

21% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Bukari

Member since

March 2016

On-time repayments

194 installments  •  56%

About Me

As a second born to my parent, and the first male born, my parent had to do whatever it takes to get me educated so that i would be a successful person in the future to take care of the family,
I schooled and was ready for senior high school, my father feel seriously sick and couldn't work anymore, I had to go through difficulties for four years in the high school and i graduated,
Since finances became a problem to the family i couldn't further to the tertially stage, I thought of a business plan to start so as to help me solve the financial problem,
Currently Im on a business but it isn't growing up since the finance it needs to build it strong is a problem to come by,
The land or place i found myself, the business can mature if there is a finance to back it up,
Since i can't further my school because of financial problems, Im more interested in setting up my own business and build it up,

My Business

This new business is to produce a good called cocoa, cocoa is a plant that is produced in some part of Africa including my country Ghana. This good is very useful in demand in my country because it's the main sources if agricultural income for Ghana, we export cocoa to foreign countries, cocoa sinuses to produce a lot of products such as chocolates and Milo,
I choose have chosen this business because it is a very lucrative business in Ghana, to talk about rich people in Ghana, most of them are cocoa farmers,
The main cost of this business are fertilizers, insecticides and the production tools, one needs these to be able to have an effective cocoa production.
The profit from this business can be used for other things due to high level of profits, it can be used for reinvesting in the cocoa business again and for setting up different businesses.

Loan Proposal

Cocoa has become one of the lucrative business in Ghana, now a bag of cocoa cost $125 and it increases and never comes down because of the high demand of it, it is exported to foreign countries for production of many products such as Milo,chocolates and so many others. Cocoa nursery are very small cocoa tress grown from the cocoa seed used for planting, I will buy 400 cocoa nursery where one cost $1, so the 400 cocoa nursery will cost $400.
Out of the remaining $100, I will buy weedecides which will cost me $50, this weedecides will be used to clear the weeds from the land so that I can plant the cocoa nursery on the land. and I will use the remaining $50 to hire some workers to help me spray the land and plant the cocoa nursery. Vast employment will happen because people will be taken to the farmland to help work on the cocoa farm land and then pays them, when the cocoa is cultivated as well it will be exported out of the country for other purposes.
I will earn so much money from this business because its the greatest and main sources of income to Ghana, it will really bring benefit to others and myself. Giving enough concentration to the business, the profit out of it will be uncountless, meaning there will be so much profit.

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  • Lotus Flower    Feb 20, 2020

    Previously conscientious borrower on two earlier loans,
    stopped repaying his lenders in October 2019.

    NOTE: Zidisha collects its Fees from the lenders' money
    before sending the Net Disbursement to the borrower.

    Net Disbursement + Fees = PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE LOAN

    The PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE LOAN is
    the amount that was funded by the lenders
    listed below. That is the amount that has to be
    repaid, in full, over time, in installments, as agreed,
    by the borrower, through Zidisha (the intermediary),
    to the lenders listed below.

    Would upgrade the review if the borrower
    starts repaying again, consistently, as agreed,
    so that the lenders' money could be available
    in their lending accounts again, to be able to
    help fund other borrowers in the future.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$554.00

Date disbursed

Mar 23, 2017

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

55 months

Lenders

G

guenter

Bremen, Germany

M

mbarbier

United States

SteveFylde

United Kingdom

Fred

Germany

Lotus Flower

United States

Jeremy

Washington State, United States, United States

PG

Paul Graham

United States

Diego

Monza, Italy

roark22

Geneva, Switzerland

Joseph Abell

Brisbane, Australia

Craig Newmark

United States

The Zinc Team

San Francisco, United States

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

Katja

Switzerland

A

Anonymous

United States

CN

Craig Newmark

United States

JG

Jake Gibson and Beverly Picardo

San Francisco, United States

A

Anonymous

United States

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  • Bukari    Sep 29, 2019

    I want to reduce my repayment amount for a while so I can make payments because it's a little bit tough for me interms of money. Thanks

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  • Bukari    Jul 9, 2019

    I want to increase my repayment amount a little bit as I have not made payment for a long while now,
    I traveled out of Ghana and I'm back again,. And since I've start working I want to increase it a little bit for now, and will surely increase it much larger than this as time goes on.
    Thanks to you all.

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  • Bukari    Sep 9, 2018

    Its so hard for me so I wants to plead with my lenders for this maxive reduction of my repayment, I know that before this year ends everything will be normal and my second business I'm trying to put up will be a sucess and i will increase my repayment maxively, thank you all

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  • Bukari    Aug 21, 2018

    There has been slow downs and lost in my business these days making it difficult to come by higher profit so please i wants to continue with the 5GHS for a while, thanks a lot

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  • Bukari    Jul 14, 2018

    im encountering difficulties in my work thee days, i will increase it back as soon it gets better, thanks

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  • Bukari    Jun 18, 2018

    I'm encountering
    Little difficulty this week, sorry and thanks for understanding

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  • Bukari    May 31, 2018

    I've encountered a little lose in my work so I'm reducing for only two weeks, thank you

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  • Bukari    Apr 30, 2018

    i want to increase my repayment amount to a little bit high for now, this is because i have started recovering from a loss i had in some few months back. Thank you

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  • Bukari    Jan 29, 2018

    Zidishs keeps reflecting my repayments but never reflected my 12/01/2018 payment,
    I have no problem loosing that money because looking on the other side, My good lenders were able to lend to me huge amount without worries, and why should I worry loosing 10GHC to zidisha,
    I was just trying to let them reflect it because I was thinking its unfair for not reflecting it once I kept on telling them about it,
    Yet still they have not reflected it, so now I cares not, whatever they do its up to them, but I just hope they do not repeat it,.
    Thank you Lenders, I will increase it back once my account issues are solved and stable.
    Thanks a lot

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  • Bukari    Jan 26, 2018

    There have been technical issues involved with zidisha about reflecting repayments into my account and its been over two weeks now but still problem is not solved so I would like to reduce repayments for now,
    I will increase it back once the problem is solved and my past payments are reflected into my account.
    Thank you.

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  • Bukari    Jan 24, 2018

    Nobody is helping me get my last two weeks repayment reflect in my account???. Well I'm so angry at zidisha right now...

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  • Bukari    Jan 18, 2018

    Hi Lenders, hope you are all fine,
    If any of you can help me out with the picture below,
    Laurie if you see this kindly alert the zidisha team to look into this and let my repayment reflect in my account for me,

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  • Bukari    Jan 8, 2018

    Hello here, its been a while since I posted comment over here for you to hear from me, and I'm sorry about that, I have been away from the cocoa farm village to the city for other personal stuffs, making me busy thus unable to visit my account regularly,
    This time I wants to greet you and to wish you all a happy new year in advance.
    And also I would like to increase my repayment amount a bit for now, because work has started moving good since I came back from my travels. Thank you all and may God bless us, our work, our families and in our every day doings,

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  • Bukari    Nov 28, 2017

    Hi lenders, due to some issues i was out of the country and the person i handed over to take care of my account could not handle it properly for me. but now i am back to Ghana and back to business as well, so i have made all past due payments and i can see that it has reflected. payments will be increased this week,
    sorry for what happened in my account. and will make sure it does not occur anymore.
    thank you all and may God bless you.

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  • Ebenezer    Nov 16, 2017

    Bashiru's contact has been out of coverage for over two weeks
    His references have confirmed that he has travelled. Thank you

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  • Ebenezer    Oct 15, 2017

    Hi lenders , I reached Bukari and he explained to me that he travelled and the person he left in charge of the loan repayments disappointed him. He is back from Burkina Faso and has promised to settle all arrears on Friday, October 20, 2017. Thank you

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  • Bukari    Oct 8, 2017

    Hello here, Hi to you all my Lenders. Its been so many months since I posted comment,
    And I'm so sad to see whats happening in my account after finally visiting it today after months of not getting access to my account.
    I just realized that payments have been miss for so many weeks and its getting me ill-sick right now and don't know what to do.
    Lenders I wants you to know that I have no idea of these missed payments, and here I explains to you why,
    I had traveled to Burkina Faso where my family originated from, I have my grandparent and most of my family in Burkina Faso, I went to visit them in the early beginning of July, expecting to spend only a month but unfortunately it had to be three months rather because I had to help up with some works, this part of Burkina Faso is called "Yungu", its a village part of the country where even electricity is absent, there is no electricity and so its uncommon to have access to phone calls regularly, not to mention of internet, I just even thought its impossible for me to browse over there because I had no internet phone and also I don't even speak or understand French language, apart from my own tribal language called Busanga which is the most spoken language in Burkina.
    Due to this I left my SIM card with one friend of mine so she could be making payments on behalf of me, I left her with some amount of money to use it for payments, I latter found out from her that the money had finished and so I told her to pay with her money and I will give it out when I return and she agreed.
    I finally arrived in Ghana this morning and had settled, I just login to my account and to my shock payments have not been made for so many weeks,
    In fact im short of words because I don't know what to say to make my Cherish Lenders to believe me, and the most disturbing part to me is that my on-time repayment score have been dramatically reduced, I'm so angry at that friend of mine for doing this to me.
    Well I can't say much but to plead to all my Lenders and the entire Zidisha team for the incovinience, it was never done by me and I wants you to know that I would never leave my payments behind but will rather reduce the payments amount when its hard to come by money.
    I wants to tell all of you that I will pay all the past due amount in my next repayment date.
    And I will surely increase the payment amount once the past due payments I will be paying reflects in my account.
    If Laurie is around and had read this please comment for me to hear from you.
    I'm sorry for what had happened in my account and will make sure this doesn't happen again even if I travel out of the country.
    Thank you all and I've miss you all as well, I hope you are all going great.
    God bless you all..

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  • Bukari    Apr 2, 2017

    Lenders, I would also like to reduce my installment amount for some time, this is because I am now investing this loan into a new business, since there is already a cocoa land which I harvest cocoa for sale, I will be able to increase my instalment amount in time again,
    I hope you will all agree with my reduction of the installment amount,
    This will enable me keep up with my repayments and on time repayments score as I work on this new business,
    And also hoping business goes better in time so that I will be able to increase it back,
    Thank you all for your understanding,
    God bless you all.

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  • Bukari    Apr 2, 2017

    These are some of the cocoa nurserys I have paid for,

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  • Bukari    Apr 2, 2017

    Hello to my lenders, I started my repayments on the 31/03/2017, I wants to thank you all for the loan
    I have been able to buy the cocoa nursery which will be used for planting on the land when the land is prepared for it, what I meant by the land preparation is that when the weeds are cleared and some other activities,
    These are some pictures of the nurserys,

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