Maize farming

Mandla

Lusaka, Zambia

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Mandla

Member since

February 2020

On-time repayments

56 installments  •  45%

About Me

I was born and raised in Zambia. I started my primary school at Lake road PTA school in Lusaka till grade 3 when I moved to Chengelo School, a boarding school in Mkushi which is in central province of Zambia. I was at Chengelo right up till my A-Levels when I finished in 2007. My Father who was the bread winner of our family passed on about 2 months before I wrote my IGCSEs in 2006, but thank God I managed to finish and pass them. After his passing, things got really tough for me and I had to learn to fend for myself. I had an uncle who was living in South Africa at the time and he volunteered to help me pay for my tertiary education so in 2008 I moved to Jahannesburg south Africa where I was enrolled at Monash University South Africa to study Business management. I studided there for 1 and half years until my uncle began to experience some financial difficulties and could no longer pay for me. I then had to stop university and would find different ways of trying to make money in South Africa, such as being a tourist guide as the World Cup was close. After the World Cup in 2010, I decided to leave South Africa to return back home to Zambia. My mother had an interior decorating company which she asked me to help her run as she became busy with her new job working as a lawyer for the government. I managed the business until 2012 when I decided to go back to school and I enrolled at ZCAS (Zambia Centre for Accountancy Studies) to study Marketing. I was being assisted with finance for my studies by one of my late fathers friends, and he helped for about 1 year then I had to again fend for myself. It was during this time that I developed an interest in agriculture and farming. I lived on a farm, but it was not productive at all. I decided that I could use the land to help finance my studies and got in horticultural farming growing tomatoes and cabbages. I started in 2013 and it helped me up until I obtained a BA (Hons) degree in marketing in 2018.

My Business

I am a small scale farmer based in Lusaka-West. I currently produce vegetables such as tomatos, cabbages and fresh maize which I supply to local markets and supermarkets. I am also about to start supplying seedling to surrounding farmers using a seedling nursery which I recently constructed. There is a huge demand for these commodities in the the surrounding markets and a supermarkets as the demand for food can never be met due to the ever growing population in Lusaka. I chose this business because I love to farm and to help feed people.

Loan Proposal

With this loan I will be able to buy seed to cover 1 hectare plus the inputs required such as basal dressing fertilizer and some chemicals.i

Income Source

I sell other products such as horticultural produce which has always got demand even in the current economic climate. This should help us repay the loan in the coming weeks.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$116.00

Date disbursed

Dec 7, 2020

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

6 weeks

Lenders

Kitty

Hailsham, United Kingdom

S

stroll

Stockholm, Sweden

T

TZ

Singapore, Singapore

Karijn

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wouter Schoonveld

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Fox Family

Costa Rica

JA

Jared Anthony

CT, United States

BS

Brandon S

United States

Hans Moor

Vorden, Netherlands

Jan V

Port Dalhousie, Canada

Donald Major

United States

R

Roman

Slovakia

Uwe H

Germany

World Centric

Sonoma County, California, United States

P

pulisic

United Kingdom

alex

Switzerland

JA

Jody and John

Vancouver Island, Canada

Y

Yohane

United States

E

Eliana

United States

B

Biko

United States

RC

Rino chin

United States

B

Beth

United States

TA

Torres ariaya

United States

LW

Lech Williams

United States

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