Elijah
Karatina, Kenya
100% repaid
Name
Elijah
Member since
January 2014
On-time repayments
26 installments • 58%
I am a graduate with a degree in Biochemistry ,i live in Karatina doing horticulture and poultry framing as my core business. My aim is to increase my business volume and employee as many local as possible. There is always ready market for my produce and in fact i cannot satisfy it. With the zidisha loans I will be able to expand the horticulture produce and add more broiler chickens. This will also improve my returns and give my business more muscles as I climb higher.
My business is farming I engage in horticulture specifically tomatoes, cabbages, among many others. I also have broilers chickens and local chickens which I want to increase systematically to for both. Currently I have two farm workers and would like to add two more after increasing my production. I would therefore need a loan that could trigger the growth am anticipating. This venture will not only help me but the school leavers who end up idling due to joblessness. All my produce are sold in the local market. I make an average of KSH 30,000 as profit from farming every month. A loan of $1000 would help me to add more chickens and increase my input for the farm produce.The market is wide but my ability is limited by lack of sufficient capital to expand as I have to wait for some time. I have sufficient water supply but local wild life always pose a threat to my produce as they sometimes invade and destroy some of the vegetables.
This loan will benefit me in buying one suck of broiler finishers which costs about ksh 3 400 and will be used to boost the final feeding stage before i sell the chickens in two weeks time.The reason for borrowing is that i increased my flock from 180 to 250 which has really overwhelmed me in terms of feeding. Since there is ready market for my chickens, i would like to increase the flock strategically to 1000 chicks from next month. I would therefore like to work with the zidisha lenders. It will be much easier for me to pay this loan since i not only do poultry but horticulture and I have cabbages which will be taken to the market in the next one week. Please assist me to attain this objective mutually.
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Project Type
Classic Loan
Disbursed amount
$59.00
Date disbursed
Feb 5, 2014
Repayment status
On Time
Projected term
6 weeks
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