Cultivating fruit trees and raising goats

Rio

Kampar, Indonesia

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Rio

Member since

May 2017

On-time repayments

68 installments  •  100%

About Me

My name is Rio, I am the oldest of three. I have one brother and one sister. I come from rural area in Indonesia. Currently work for chemical company located outside my home province. I want to return to my village, become an entrepreneur and develop the economic of the local people.

My parents are retired teacher. My childhood is not really difficult. I passed primary, secondary and tertiary school without financial difficulty. Even though my parents income was not big, we were still considered economically fortunate in our society. Many people in my village work as rubber tree tapper. Tuition fee is cheap but the quality is not really good. Economy is not really developing on industrial level. Finding a good job and earning a good salary are difficult even though somebody might have high education level.

My Business

My brother and I manage a few parcels of land with a total area of 6.8 hectares (around 17 acres). Some portions I bought by myself and some portions are inherited from our parents. We plan to integrate farming and livestock. We already have a few goats. We have also planted some fruits and jabon trees, a kind of fast growing tree. I am interested in cultivating this tree since it grows straightly, and rapidly and can be harvested in a sustainable way since a new bud can grow after the main body of the tree being cut down.

Currently, we are focusing on increasing our forage production. We plan to utilize the space left between jabon trees by planting indigofera and mott grass. Then we will continue it to space between palm oil tree plantation. My parents have six hectares of palm oil tree plantation. The land is less productive since many palm oil trees are fruitless. I plan to diversify the vegetation within it with indigofera, mott grass and setaria grass. Palm oil trees are planted with a space of 9 m. It means there are still plenty space for forage

My primary income come from my salary as a chemical production operator. My current salary is IDR 6000000/month (around 446 USD a month). I can save 50% of my salary.

Loan Proposal

400 seedlings of jabon (400*@0.4 USD = 160 USD)

750 seedlings of indigofera (750*@0.15 USD = 112,5 USD)
indigofera is a legume used for livestock forage and silage

10 seedlings of mangrove (10*@0.8 USD = 8 USD)
The land is located at the brink of a river. I need to plant them to prevent erosion

Total delivery cost can be around 70-150 USD since they have to be transported between two Islands

The rest of the money I will use to buy goats and to build their shelter. One goat costs around 90 USD

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About Me

My name is Rio, I am the oldest of three. I have one brother and one sister. I come from rural area in Indonesia. Currently work for chemical company located outside my home province. I want to return to my village, become an entrepreneur and develop the economic of the local people.

My parents are retired teacher. My childhood is not really difficult. I passed primary, secondary and tertiary school without financial difficulty. Even though my parents income was not big, we were still considered economically fortunate in our society. Many people in my village work as rubber tree tapper. Tuition fee is cheap but the quality is not really good.

My Business

My brother and I manage a few parcels of land with a total area of 6.8 hectares (around 17 acres). Some portions I bought by myself and some portions are inherited from our parents. We plan to integrate farming and livestock. We already have a few goats. We have also planted some fruits and jabon trees, a kind of fast growing tree. I am interested in cultivating this tree since it grow straightly, and rapidly and can be harvested in a sustainable way since a new bud can grow after the main body of the tree being cut down.

Currently, we are focusing on increasing our forage production. We plan to utilize the space left between Jabon trees by planting indigofera and mott grass. Then we will continue it to space left between palm oil tree plantation. My parents have six hectares of palm oil tree plantation. The land is less productive since many palm oil trees are fruitless. I plan to diversify the vegetation within it with indigofera, mott grass and setaria grass. Palm oil trees are planted with a space of 9 m. It means there are still plenty space for forage

My primary income come from my salary as a chemical production operator. My current salary is IDR 6000000/month (around 446 USD a month). I can save 50% of my salary.

Loan Proposal

400 seedlings of jabon (400*@0.4 USD = 160 USD)

750 seedlings of indigofera (750*@0.15 USD = 112,5 USD)
indigofera is a legume used for livestock forage and silage

10 seedlings of mangrove (10*@0.8 USD = 8 USD)
The land is located at the brink of a river. I need to plant them to prevent erosion

Total delivery cost can be around 70-150 USD since they have to be transported between two Islands

The rest of the money I will use to buy goats and to build their shelter. One goat costs around 90 USD

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$860.00

Date disbursed

Dec 7, 2017

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

5 months

Lenders

P

PHU99

Zwingenberg, Germany

Generaal

Antwerp, Belgium

Gringotts

United States

melissapmeier

United States

Tanya

Nelson, New Zealand

Anna Hoad

Toronto, Canada

WE

Wendy Emlyn

Devon, United Kingdom

Isabella

UK, United Kingdom

Ramon Maghsoudi

San Francisco, United States

Ed

Howells, United States

Emily

San Francisco, United States

JH

Joseph Hwang

Houston, United States

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

AC

Aaron Cannon

United States

Bjørn

Norway

Carrie

Arlington, MA, United States

Mai Phuong Nguyen

Nashville, United States

Raoul

Germany

Helen and Denis

Global citizens, United States

Jim Murray

United States

Stefan Koshold

Mülheim, Germany

DO

Denis Ontiveros

Guildford, United Kingdom

Robert Gould

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Dieter Meeuwis

Deurne (Antwerpen), Belgium

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