Fertilizer, seedlings, pesticide and labor for potato farming
Kelvin
Nairobi, Kenya
100% repaid
Entrepreneur
Name
Kelvin
Member since
April 2015
On-time repayments
145 installments • 59%
About Me
I am Kelvin Loishorua. I come from Kajiado County. I overcame hardship through the process of multitasking school work and home duties when they were not easy to fulfill them at random.
I come from the Maasai community whereby we value cattle a lot as compared to any other duties. The uniqueness of our land is that it is the place and tribe where we live with wild animals and graze with them. I come from a family of sixteen children where I am the fifth born in the family and the only one who has managed to study up to high school (that is, secondary level).
My dream is to see my young siblings fulfill the dream by making sure they have gone up to university level since my parents have not gone to school. On my side, I have seen the importance of school as much as life is concerned.
My Business
Let me first and foremost thank the Zidisha family for how far you have helped me and trusted me. May God bless you abundantly. Right now I am confident since I joined Zidisha due to what I have learnt and invested through education, job opportunity, thanking so much.
I am humbly applying for the third loan with which I want to major in farming. The farming will take four months and that is March 15th 2017 to July 2017 when it will be ready to harvest. Since it is a raining area, I have decided to plant potatoes as they are easy to maintain and the return margin is a good profit.
The land where I am going to plant my potatoes is a forest area which is rented for at least four years until the trees grow up. On my side, I can see a high profit combining the computer design which I have got from Zidisha loan. It will help me clear the loan as I wait for harvesting time. Since 99% of our people are pastoralists and currently we are experiencing drought in most parts of our country, due to which our cows have died due to lack of pasture and water, that is why I have decided to go for farming of potatoes, so that people can change altitude and go to other areas.
Loan Proposal
With the loan money, I will be able to purchase the following items:
1. pesticide drug costing $19
2. fertilizer costing $48
3. seedlings costing $77.90
4. man power costing $40
The benefit of this farming is I will create employment for other people since in the time on planting and digging we use manpower since there are no tractors. On my side, it will help me to get maximum profit since the cost of one bag of potatoes is $34.50 and the maximum bags you can get is roughly 25 bags per plot and I have rented one plot .
About Me
Am kelvin loishorua ,i come from Kajiado county .I over come hardship through the process of multitasking school work and and home duties where they were not easy to fulfill them at random .
i come from the Maasai community where by we value cattle,s a lot as compare to any other duties.The uniqueness of our land is that it is the place and tribe where we live with wild animal and graze with them.i come from a family of sixteen children where am the fifth born in the family where am the only one who i have manage to study up to high school that is secondary level.
my dream is to see my young siblings have fulfill the dream by making sure they have gone up to university level since my parent have not gone to school and on my side i have seen the importance of school as much as live is concern.
My Business
The businesses i need and willing to expand is to buy latest computer since my business support the community to give the following services online service kra ,driving license renewal, good conduct and online chatting is Facebook, twitter, gmail, Yahoo, and others.
The services are useful to the community because they will not travel from one office and queue for long hours
I chose the business because if it was not zidisha in my first loan I could not be where am ,since I used the fund to do a course and that why am applying my skill to date.
My daily income is around 700ksh to 800ksh per day which is like 8$ dollar .because I do all online service people need including photocopying, printing, scanning.
I use my profit to support my young sister and brother in school by paying school fees ,to support my parent and I also eat there and survive with the amount of money ,also I pay rent for my business .these is my fourth loan
Loan Proposal
when i get the loan i wil use as follows
1.pesticide drug****60$
2. ferlizer for liquid and solid ****48.2$
3.labour and transport**33.8$
4.booster**31$
the farming will be benefit since i will use the pototoes as food for my family and as profit making for the sales of the pototoes after harvesting i.e after 4month
And the people will get job oppurnity ie through planting ,cultivating ,and also the will buy as a basic need that is food.
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Loan Info
Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$189.00
Date disbursed
Mar 13, 2017
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
6 months
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