New hammer mill machine for dairy herd fodder preparation
Patrick
Nairobi, Kenya
100% repaid
Entrepreneur
Name
Patrick
Member since
March 2014
On-time repayments
189 installments • 94%
About Me
Am a passionate dairy farmer and a sports coach in the sport of badminton. I practice my dairy farming in Bomet county where i focus on keeping dairy cows for production of milk for sale and breed the rest of the cows for sale.
Am currently in the process of expanding the size of the farm in order to have it as a full time job as i have to keep another job in Nairobi so as to sustain the dairy farm. Its full potential has not been realized and therefore have to continue investing for the next few months when the cows calve down and start producing milk.
While away from the farm, I also offer badminton coaching services. Sports coaching takes place in tho exclusive clubs in the Nairobi's park-lands area.
My Business
My main source of income are from the dairy farm and also the coaching services.
I make an average of between US dollars 200 and US dollars 450 per month depending on the month. At the moment, the net returns are mostly invested back into the dairy farm in order to aid the current expansion.
Most of the other income come from the business of buying and selling of badminton sports equipment which include badminton rackets, shuttles, grips and racket strings.
My intention is to fully commercialize my dairy farming business so that i can fully settle into the farm and focus in the commercial production of milk for sale.
My other major source of income will originate from the sale of cows to other farmers.
Loan Proposal
My small dairy farm has had a very positive impact since I started partnering with the Zidisha team.
At the moment I am keen on managing dairy feed preparation systems in order to reduce feed wastage.. Currently, I use a small sized chaff cutter( A two rotary blade chopper powered by a gasoline engine) machine to chop fodder for the cows. The fodder is in two states. The green( maize stalks for silage) and dry ( baled hay and straws) fodder. However, my chaff cutter does well with green fodder as it cuts through the maize stalks easily and efficiently unlike with dried grass(hay). Chopping hay with it results in lots of wastage as the blades slides on it instead of cutting through it. The resulting chopped hay is in varied sizes. At the feeding lot/ trough, the cows choose to eat only well chopped( small chop size) fodder leaving the part that rolled through the machine.
Solution.
To avoid such wastage, I am seeking for a 75000 Kenya shillings ( Approx 750 US dollars) loan to invest in a new gasoline engine powered hammer mill machine. The hammer mill is very efficient with chopping fodder, especially the dry fodder( hay and barley straws). That will in effect dedicate the chaff cutter machine to only chopping green fodder at the farm. Overall effect at the farm is efficient feed preparation systems leading to less wastage and better returns in the milk production.
I thank you all lenders for your continued support. Looking forward to a positive feedback once again as I seek grow my farm.
Thank you all.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$749.00
Date disbursed
Dec 25, 2015
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
7 months
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