I come from the Rift Valley province, Laikipia county here in Kenya. I finished my form four in 2004 and joined a public university in 2006-2010. And am now freshly training for a job in building services and design. I earn a steady income of Ksh 30000 per month gross pay. Minus rent, bus fare and other expenditures this does not amount to much as well as for the future ahead.
During school breaks and holidays I used to utilise my parents 2 acres of land by planting a perimeter of cypress trees. Now they are quite big and I was able to push my parents to put a side a 1/4 acre part which I filled with the trees. I own more than 1000 tree on the farm now. Hard to calculate but with closure of government forests private forestry is very profitable plus the good benefits to our environment. I would love to buy equipments to help prune this trees during the December break. I promise to repay promptly.
With financial support I will buy 200 passion fruit seedlings, At home my parents practice zero grazing and thus manure collection is no hustle. Passion fruits are climbers, I will use posts and sticks from my own trees to support them as they grow. Preparing the land will be with already available tools and casually hired tractors. I bought a good hose(from my previous loan) to irrigate in case of dry spell.
I have observed from existing few plants of this fruit on the our farm and seen their good performance. Each plant can yield more than 150 healthy fruits. per season Each retails at Ksh 10. Selling at whole sale price of say Ksh 4 per fruit each plant can give Ksh 600 and thus the whole lot about gross amount Ksh 100, 000.00.
I personally supervise the whole process and give timely reports and my God provide success.
Small scale fruit production
I come from the Rift Valley province, Laikipia county here in Kenya. I finished my form four in 2004 and joined a public university in 2006-2010. And am now freshly training for a job in building services and design. I earn a steady income of Ksh 30000 per month gross pay. Minus rent, bus fare and other expenditures this does not amount to much as well as for the future ahead.
During school breaks and holidays I used to utilise my parents 2 acres of land by planting a perimeter of cypress trees. Now they are quite big and I was able to push my parents to put a side a 1/4 acre part which I filled with the trees. I own more than 1000 tree on the farm now. Hard to calculate but with closure of government forests private forestry is very profitable plus the good benefits to our environment. I would love to buy equipments to help prune this trees during the December break. I promise to repay promptly.
With financial support I will buy 200 passion fruit seedlings, At home my parents practice zero grazing and thus manure collection is no hustle. Passion fruits are climbers, I will use posts and sticks from my own trees to support them as they grow. Preparing the land will be with already available tools and casually hired tractors. I bought a good hose(from my previous loan) to irrigate in case of dry spell.
I have observed from existing few plants of this fruit on the our farm and seen their good performance. Each plant can yield more than 150 healthy fruits. per season Each retails at Ksh 10. Selling at whole sale price of say Ksh 4 per fruit each plant can give Ksh 600 and thus the whole lot about gross amount Ksh 100, 000.00.
I personally supervise the whole process and give timely reports and my God provide success.