Purchase of fodder

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About Me

Hallo Zidisha Team,

I'm an entrepreneur working on dairy and poultry farming. I started of with poultry farming specifically to raise my living standard and care for my ailing mother who is now disabled after a road accident.

I worked hard in the poultry farmer and through Zidisha, I was able to rear over 300 chicken for sale of meat and eggs.

This venture really improved my standard of living and was also care for my mother.

My ultimate goal was to venture into dairy farming of which I now have 4 milkers with a production of 65 litres a day. This was possible after I sold a parcel of land I had acquired years ago. I practice zero grazing so I have to buy fodder and water for the cows. They are now all incalf and start calving down late July consecutively.

I thank zidisha Team for enabling me get this far especially when I needed funds for purchasing feeds, poultry equipment and even buying the chicks.

I look forward to your help whenever I need it.

Thank you.

My Business

My business currently is mainly dairy farming. I have 4 milkers (Holstein Fresian cows) with an average production of 65 ltrs currently. They are almost calving down (due) starting end July this year.

The milk sales are at us$. 50 wholesale and. 60 per ltr retail . The milk is sold to households, hotel at the highway of Nairobi/Nakuru and a local shop.

The sales are used to purchase feeds (hay), supplements and minerals and pay my farm help. Any surplus goes to my house expenses and mums meds.

I sold all my chicken and will embark on it in August. I have had good experience with rearing chicken and I'm now able to manage a poultry farm better than when I started. I expect to make better profits in the next season.

Loan Proposal

The loan will be used to boost purchase fodder.

Currently fodder is selling US$ 3.00 an increase from US$. 80. This is because the stock of fodder i had was purchased directly from the farm. It is currently raining but not as expected so there is no hay available as most farms have just planted. Hay is now very expensive so most of the sales is going towards purchasing expensive hay. We also have to spend more on transportation of the hay because it's not available locally.

This is of course lowering the profit margin but we pray that the weather improves and its available again.

This are the challenges of dairy farming but

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