Loan to buy seedlings for a tree nursery

Daniel

Rusinga, Kenya

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Entrepreneur

Name

Daniel

Member since

February 2016

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About Me

I am Daniel Otieno Omonge , I was born in 1976 in the rural village of Nyakach in Kisumu county, in the republic of Kenya. I was the 1st born in a family of 9. My parents were peasant farmers involved in maize and sorghum farming.

I grew up in a very loving environment though my parents had a very low income. I did not proceed with my education to high school due to lack of funds to support my education. After dropping from school, I got married in 2003 and our marriage has been blessed with 5 children.

I am involved in mixed farming and tree nursery for commercial purposes. I grow lots of fruits like grafted mangoes, paw paw, watermellon and oranges. My farm is organic and I do grow food crops like maize, sourghum and tomatoes.

My Business

From my tree nursery I sell upto 200 trees on average per day which bring an income of KES 700 on a daily basis. The tree nursery is doing very well. I have integrated food crops in the farm and the high yield maize crops serves as food for my family. I have many customers because i have the best of what they need because I put a lot of effort in my work. I would like to expand my tree nursery and add fruit trees like; grafted mangoes, pawpaw and mangoes.

Loan Proposal

I am seeking a loan of KES 19, 933 that will enable me to buy assorted improved fruit seedlings and plastic bags for making compost heaps for use in the organic food farm.
-KES 7,000 will be used to buy assorted seedlings.
-KES 1,000 will be used to buy cotton bags for making tree seedlings
-KES 2,933 will be used to buy horse pipes for watering the plants.
-KES 10,000 to hire an additional labourer

I look forward to expanding my farm.