Loan to plant beans to pay school fees

Wycliffe

Busia, Kenya

73% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Wycliffe

Member since

February 2015

On-time repayments

16 installments  •  44%

About Me

I am a Kenyan aged 50 years. I hail from Ekisumo village, Nambale district in western part of kenya. I had formal education upto 'A' level and trained as an accountant. After working for 8 years, I resigned to undertake agri-business.
I am a father of 5, 2 daughters and 3sons. The first daughter has completed training in teaching she's awaiting employment. The others are still schooling.
I am intending to expand my business so as to complete fees arrears for my children and also renovate my home.

My Business

I am a farmer, I grow maize,surgarcane,beans and peanuts. Currently I have 1.5 acres of sugarcane in the shamba after harvesting the others. In this part of the country,we plant twice a year, during long and short rains.
Typically, I harvest about 20 bags of maize,4bags of beans and 2 bags of peanuts.
This business is economically viable because I use about $800 per season from planting to harvesting and sell at about $1300 making a profit of approx. $500 every season. This ofcourse after putting aside produce for my family's consumption. Profits earned from this venture are used for schooling my children, meeting normal family needs and renovation of my home.
Because I plant both long term and short term produce, I will be able to pay any loan funded to me on time.
Thanks.

Loan Proposal

I inted to use $40 for ploughing my 0.2ha of land, $40 will be used to purchase seeds and fertilzer, another $20 will be used for weeding 2 times and applying herbicides.
After 60 days,the beans will be ready for harvest, I am expecting about 5 bags from the same. At the current market price of $50 per bag I will make a profit of about $150.
Therefore I am appealing for funding of this project which will help me to pay part of school fees for my son.Thanks in advance.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$100.00

Date disbursed

Feb 13, 2015

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

3 months

Lenders

P

Philippe

Adliswil, Switzerland

BJ

Brandon Joz

North Carolina, United States

Jouni

Finland

ads68

Melbourne, Australia

Treesforpeople

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

mepster

San Francisco, Ca, United States

Dave

Ede, Netherlands

Lotus Flower

United States

C

Chitti421

United States

F

Flower

Netherlands

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

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