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5 Unique Strategies To Sustain Your Farm In 2023

Sustainability in farming is the ability to run a profitable farm for a long time.

Sometimes people never realize that they are either making profits or losses because they didn’t plan for sustainability of their enterprise.

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Principles Of Farm Sustainability

1. Cost Reduction

Here you can reduce costs by having the necessary resources in place for example:

  • You can reduce labor costs of cultivation by buying good bulls to do for you the cultivation or getting machinery
  • You can reduce the costs of buying manure and fertilizers by owning at least a cow at the farm that will give you manure.
  • You can have short term and long-term projects in order for the sort term to finance the long term.

2. Revenue Boosting

  • Having more than one project at the farm
  • Running a selective mixed farm
  • Maximally utilizing all your land
  • Strategic Marketing strategies

3. Mixed Farming

Mixed farming is combining two or more independent agricultural activities on the same farm serving different purposes.

A typical case of mixed farming is the combination of crop cultivation with diary farming or in more general terms, crop cultivation with livestock farming. Mixed farming maybe treated as a special case of diversified farming.

This particular combination of enterprises, support each other and add to the farmer’s profitability.
If you have a piece of land lets say 2 acres, its advisable that you have numerous enterprises at the farm. You need

Long Term Projects

  • Banana 1yr
  • Hass Avocado 3 years
  • Coffee 2 years
  • Cocoa 3 years
  • Oranges 2yrs
  • Mangoes 4yrs
  • Pawpaw 8months
  • Cassava 1year

Short Term Projects

  • Tomatoes 3months
  • Watermelon 3months
  • Greens 2months
  • Spinach 1 month
  • Sukuma wiki 1 month
  • Cabbage 3months
  • Strawberry 4 months
  • Carrots 3 months
  • Beetroot 2 months
  • Onions 4 months

Animal Projects

  • Rabbits 4 months
  • Goats 8 months
  • Layers 6 months
  • Broilers 1 month
  • Diary 1 year
  • Piggery 6 months

Advantages Of Mixed Farming.

  • Farmers can keep their keep their fields under continuous production.
  • It enhances the productivity of the farm land
  • It increases the per capita profitability
  • Both farming compliment each other.
  • It enhances the productivity of the farm also.
  • Reduce dependency on external inputs and costs. In the example of mixed cropping of animal husbandry and crop farming the crops and animals components can also complement and support each other.
  • For example, the crop farming gives feeds to animals, and in turn the animals can supply fertilizers to the crop. So this reduces the need and cost of fertilization and animal feed. The animals (such as cattle and sheep) can also perform weeding which reduces the need for herbicides.

Note: If you can be able to reduce costs and maximize revenue, then you will run a sustainable farm.

4. Irrigation

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Irrigation allows you to grow crops all year round and harvest money all the time, you must plan and budget for water accessibility at your farm like digging up a deep well, this means you can grow and have production at any time of the year hence becoming sustainable in the market.

5. Plant Crops and Stock Animals At Different Stages

For Crops imagine you want to supply a consistent market with fresh vegetables or other things like mushrooms. You need to be planting almost every after 2 weeks or month such that when you start harvesting, you can harvest continuously.

Let’s say you want to be the biggest supplier of tomatoes in a specific market, and you have 10 acres. It’s not advisable to just do the 10 acres at once because you want a big harvest.

Start with one acre or 2 and keep planting new plants every after a month until you cover up your 10 acres. By the time you start harvesting, you will always have tomatoes from your garden.

Those who are targeting export market or any other modern market, consistence are key. They will ask you for 200kgs of tomatoes every week and you will only supply for 2 months and you are no more

What can you do on 5 acres?

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Acre 1: Animal Projects

Here we can decide to partition this acre into different blocks and have all animal projects here. Having animals will give you manure for your crops and daily income like from diary cows.

You will need to construct structures for semi-zero grazing to keep your animals there as you source our for their feeds

  • Cows 5
  • Chicken 1000
  • Goats 30
  • Rabbits 100

Acre 2: Fruits Orchard

You will need to have some long-term and short term fruits; you can plant 80 mangoes trees, 250 orange trees, 700 passion fruits you can as well plant over 400 pawpaw trees on this one acre

Fruits have a ready market mostly in urban markets and you can choose to add value to them. Fruits also give you consistent harvest for a long time

Acre 3: Vegetables (Horticulture)

Now you need the short term projects and vegetable are perfect for this, most vegetables grow for 4 months or less like cabbages, tomatoes, spinach, lettuce, onions and others.

This gives you chance to earn money as you wait for the long-term projects to grow

Acre 4: Other Crops (Seasonal Crops)

Here you can grow the temporary seasonal crops like maize, soya, sunflower, ground nuts, sweet potatoes, cassava and maybe beans.
These can help you in food security, feeding your workers, animals and earning you extra income.

Acre 5: Banana Plantation

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In our last acre, we have banana which we all know as matooke. A staple food for Ugandans mostly in the central part.
In one acre you have at least 445 pants and you can harvest over 40 bunches every month from this plantation.

Conclusion

Sustainability means keeping in production all year round and continuous profitability in your farm business.

For you to run a sustainable farm, you must adopt the above principles and apply them at your farm, trust me you will run a sustainable farm business

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Managing Your Farm Successfully, 5 Super Strategies

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After starting your farm, let’s say you have finished planting your crops and stocking your livestock. What will determine your success is how you manage your enterprise. We tend to think that farming doesn’t need a lot of management and time but it does.

This is where most people go wrong, you start a project, invest a lot of money in establishment and you don’t give in your best at management stage. You risk loosing all your input.

Let’s look at some of the key considerations in management of a farm for productivity, sustainability and profitability.

key Strategies For Managing Your Farm?

1. Time And Commitment

Since we are talking about farming as a business, I will take you to the business side first. When you start a business lets say a boutique, do you leave the shop closed and never go there every day? Not really you must wake up every day and open your shop for people to buy.

Even if you have workers there, you can’t take a week without visiting your business.
This is the same for farming; it’s a business that demands a lot of your time and commitment for it to pay you off.

You must dedicate time for it at least once a week or after 2 weeks maximum. But surprisingly most people doing farming mostly the working class cooperates take even a month or more without visiting their projects, what happens, the workers steal things, plants and animals die off and in the end the farmer makes losses.

They start saying farming can’t make you money, I invested a lot now check the loss. That’s why the most successful farmers in east Africa are retired people and people who have decided to do farming as a full time business. So if you are not ready to give time to your farm, better not start it.

2. Record keeping

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Let’s first go back to the business line, imagine you have a hardware business, you buy and sell building materials. Without proper records how will you know how much you bought a specific item and how much to sell it then how much profit are you making or loss.

In order to track your progress as a business, you must have a system of keeping records. Most of our farmers don’t know whether they are making profits or losses because they never keep track of all their inputs.

Starting from day one ,you must have a book for your project or farm, write down everything you buy be it a hoe or a panga, note down all expenses like labor and in the end calculate and see the total amount of money you have invested.

This will be easy for you to know whether you are making a profit or loss. Other records you need are livestock data; each animal should have a data base to track its behaviors. In crop, you must record every activity you do like land clearing, planting, spraying and others.

Actually you need to have a farm office where all documents are kept. I visited some Kenyan farm and I was shocked. This guy had only 5 acres and many projects on it; he had his home there and a farm office with a computer, printer and full time internet.

For everything that got out of his farm is first recorded in the office and payments are made. What was shocking was, even for him to get a banana bunch from the plantation for home use, he has to first sign for it at office.
This is what it takes to operate a farm as a business

3. Human Resource Management

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First of all you need to recruit competent staff at your farm, have at least a trained farm manager and other workers depending on the size of the farm.

Don’t just get anyone from the village because they are idle to manage your investment. Most of our farmers employ some relatives who have been idle in the villages, a son to an uncle and other relations like that.

Consider The Following As You Recruit

  • Honesty
  • Self Confidence and energetic
  • Commitment and the Zeal to work
  • Positive Attitude
  • Creativity
  • Technical and Knowledgeable

You may not need many full time workers at the farm since they need a lot of resources in feeding them and paying them monthly, you can have contractual workers who come in whenever work is there. It all depends on the size of your farm and the enterprises there.

After recruiting these workers, you must learn how to mange them and retain them for a longer time.

How To Manage Your Farm Workers

  • Paying them on time and well
  • Respect them and appreciate their service
  • Surprise visits and supervision
  • Salary increment
  • Visit your workers or attend their parties/Functional events
  • Provision of staff houses
  • Let them sign for their wages
  • Bring them some gifts like clothes, sugar and bread whenever you visit the farm to motivate them
  • Work with them when you visit the farm
  • Allow them to grow their own crops within the land; they will feel they are part of the system
  • Make sure you get all the details of your workers in a bio data form such that incase they get a problem ,you know who to contact

4. Hygiene

For livestock, you must ensure that animal houses are clean all the time, poor hygiene causes a lot of disease outbreak and your animals might die off.

Also important to note is putting a disinfectant section at the main gate of your farm such that whoever enters the farm doesn’t bring in the germs and likely disease causing agents in the farm.

5. Basic Agronomic Practices

In managing your farming enterprise, you must ensure you follow the basic agronomic practices in agriculture. Mostly for the crop production: Here are some of the major good agricultural practices

i) Mulching

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This is the process of covering the soil and make more favorable conditions for plant growth and development.

Benefits:
  • Mulching prevents water evaporation hence keeping water in the soil
  • It prevents growth of weeds since it creates a bad environment for them to grow.
  • It helps in reducing soil erosion in times of heavy rains.
  • Its boosts germination
Materials Used In Mulching
  • Dry grass
  • Plastic mulch
  • Saw dust
  • Coffee husks
  • And other dry agricultural wastes that decompose

ii) Irrigation And Water Management

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You must plan to have water on site to produce through out the year, not only waiting for seasons. You can do this by conserving water like rain water harvesting, having water tank to reserve and keep water for the dry season.

Types Of Irrigation
  • Drip irrigation
  • Sprinkler irrigation
  • Bottle irrigation
  • Hand irrigation

iii) Soil Management And Fertilizer Application

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Soil is a key factor to any plant growth and development, you must develop and mange you soil well. Soil alone is just a growth media and may not be useful if it doesn’t contain the major nutrient elements.
What the soil needs to have for plant growth:

Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus, Calcium, Organic matter and other micro-nutrients
You can get these into your soil by applying fertilizers like: NPK, CAN, and organic manure like
compost, cow dung, chicken droppings, rabbit manure and other liquid fertilizers.

Organic manure mainly farmyard takes over 4 months to be utilized and used up in the soil so you
will need to keep adding to keep your soil nutrient rich.

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iv) Weeding

This is the systematic removal of the unwanted plants from your garden. Anything that you dint intend to grow and it grows in your garden is a weed.

Weeding helps to reduce competition for nutrients in the soil and also control pests since some insects breed from those weeds. It also helps to keep your garden clean and easy to walk
through

Ways of weed control
  • Spraying with herbicides: this involves use of selective or non selective herbicides to spray and kill the weeds; it can be done before or after planting.
  • Hand weeding: this involves using hands to pick out weeds; it’s more effective as you don’t risk destroying your main crop.
  • Use of hoes and other tools: this involves use of tools like hoes however in some delicate crops this might be a risk to destroy the main crop as well.

v) Pruning And Thinning

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Pruning is a selective process of removing some old, affected, excess branches and leaves off a plant to
allow it grow better and reduce competition of nutrients. We prune as well to allow light through the plant for easy photosynthesis using tools like knives, pair of scissors etc.

Thinning involves removal of some plants from the garden to give more space and room for good growth
and yield. This is important on all crops like fruits, vegetables and other perennial crops.

vi) Pest control

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This is the process of identifying, preventing and controlling pests. A pest is anything that attacks, destroys and reduces the value of our crops.

Types of Pests

  • Animals like man or rodents
  • Insects
  • Diseases
  • Weeds
Pest Control Methods
  • Biological: This involves use of other rival animals to feed on the pests; you can bring in a dog at the farm to chase away squirrels or monkeys.
  • Chemical: this is the use of pesticides to spray on the crops. This is so effective but risky and not healthy.
  • Cultural: this involves use of cultural practices to prevent pests, its an organic and natural way of controlling pests like crop rotation, mulching , deep cultivation and others.

vii) Crop Rotation

This is a systematic practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons. It is done such that the soil is not used for one set of nutrients and helps to reduce soil erosion and increase soil fertility and yields.

It also helps to prevent soil born diseases and insects. You can grow some cereals, legumes and other crops interchangeably season after season.

Conclusion:

Starting a farm alone is not enough to guarantee success in the business, managing it and maintaining it is actually the biggest determinant to whether you make money or not.

So lets all give much attention to managing our farms for best results and with this we will become agribusiness men and not just peasant farmers.

in the next blog, we will discuss how to make sure your farm is sustainable, however you can as well read: 7 Proven Tips For Starting A Successful Farm In 2023 For Beginners

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7 Proven Tips For Starting A Successful Farm In 2023 For Beginners

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Farming is one of the oldest practices of man, so we tend to think that starting it is as simple as eating food and that anyone can do farming.

It has been taken to be more of a traditional practice rather than a business, you will find someone saying; we have been farmers since childhood, my grandfather was a farmer, my parents have been farmers too since we were kids.

In some cultures, farming is seen as an activity for prestige like keeping cows; the more the cows, the more the respect you’re accorded in your society.

Some people just own farms for pleasure as they hope to visit them with friends, take pictures and relieve work stress.

Others farm for subsistence purposes; to get what to eat freely instead of buying the food and this is very important food security.

Others inherit farms for families, so it’s a matter of making sure that the farm remains existing. Most new farmers are starting farming for business to make money.

However, their too much urge for making money very fast and quickly has made them attain losses and as a result many hate farming.

So in this blog, we are going to discuss how someone is supposed to start farming for business and what steps & factors they need to consider while starting a farm enterprise.

Key Factors For Starting A Successful Farm?

1. Land

Before you start farming, you will need to secure land to operate a farm. You can buy or rent land or lease for over 10years. However, the best option would be to own your land and plan for it well without limitations from the owner.

Whichever piece of land you have, it can work. You just need to have a good plan for it. As you choose the land to use, consider the following;

  • Distance from the main road
  • Accessibility to water
  • Slope of the land
  • Nature of the soil. (Black, red, stony or sandy)
  • Road access

Land is a fundamental factor of production in farming so it must be considered as your plan to start farming.

2. Soil

Before deciding what crop to grow, you must first know the status of your soil. Whether it favors that specific crop or not.

Soil status can not be judged by just the color and texture of the soil, you must perform a soil test analysis and get the actual results.

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In soil testing, you test for;

Soil PH

The alkalinity and acidity of the soil, soil PH ranges from 0-14 and if its below 5, then its highly acidic then if its above 7, its highly alkaline. The optimal PH level is one between 5.5-6.8 depending on the crop to be grown.

After testing, recommendations are given on how to regulate the PH to optimal.

Nutrient composition

Here we test for the availability of the main nutrient elements needed for a crop to grow like Nitrogen Phosphorous Potassium and organic matter. This helps you to know what kind of fertilize to apply and in what quantities.

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3. Knowledge

After securing land, you need to get all the necessary information about the enterprises you to do. You can attend trainings related to farming, visit already existing farms or go for consultancy with any agricultural company around you.

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You must have the basic information before you get started and it can also be got from the internet from trusted sources like this one.

Information like;

  • How to prepare land
  • How to plant
  • Good input sources
  • Management of the project
  • Disease and pest control

Information is key to successful farming Don’t start farming because the neighbor or friend is doing it, don’t think you know what to do because you’ve grown seeing farms. You must do research and look for knowledge.

4. Business plan

After doing some research and getting the necessary information, you now go back to your room and draft a simple business plan.

Since we are doing farming for business, we must have a business plan for our business.
A business plan is detailed document which shows all the steps, activities and processes of starting, managing and sustaining your enterprise.

Parts Of A Business Plan

i) Production plan

It is composed of activities involved in the process of producing your farm products right from land clearing, ploughing, digging holes, setting up structures to planting.

It shows what you need to do to produce your output yield. (What to produce, how to produce, when to produce)

ii) Management plan

This shows what activities you will perform to manage and maintain your project up to yielding.

  • Hiring competent farm workers
  • Regular supervision weekly
  • Agronomic practices recommended
  • Irrigation
  • Record keeping
iii) Marketing plan

This plan shows what will be done to market and sell your farm products.
It includes; Awareness, Market research e.t.c

iv) Financial plan

Input and output projections. You must plan for all the costs involved in your project and have a working budget with projected outcome.

5. Capital

After drafting a business plan, you now need to finance and implement the plan. Capital is a big resource for farming as a business. You can get this from personal savings, loans, from friends and family or putting money together as a group and invest collectively.

This is a big problem mostly to youth who wish to start farming; you need to save some money to raise enough capital to start.

Farming for business needs an investment as it stated that “Garbage in Garbage out” (you can’t reap without investing)

6. Passion

Farming is a business that needs a lot of passion and patience. One must be passionate about what they do to realize success out of it.

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If you have the passion, you will keep working no matter the challenges. Develop passion for your farm enterprises and give it your best shot; you will realize the goodies in it.

Farming needs 80% passion, and then the rest of the factors like capital come later. Most people tend to do farming with the main goal of hitting big money and they forget this important aspect.

If you don’t love it, don’t do it.

7. Farm Layout plan

You will need to design a layout plan for your land ,say you have 2 acres ,you need to know how many enterprises will you put ,where to position them.

Like the way you need a plan for your house before constructing, the same way you need a plan for your farm.

You may need to hire a consultant to help you out with planning your farm considering many factor like, soil status, slope and wind direction.

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Conclusion:

Like any other business, farming is a serious investment that needs to be treated with all the principles of business development.

If we take farming as a business surely it will give us some good dollars and change our livelihoods.

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Earn Extra Millions From Growing Hass Avocado in 1 Acre.

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The Green Gold of Africa’s Agribusiness Industry, Avocado is one of the most nutritional packed food on the planet. There are various types of avocados but the most famous are Fuertes and hass varieties.

Hass variety is the best due to its health, nutritional, economic value and ready market, it is mostly grown for export and thus it’s high in demand.

This exotic variety was first grown in California by an agriculturalist called Hass and that’s how it was named Hass.

1. Propagation

Hass varieties is propagated through premium grafted seedlings which are now available in Uganda Make sure you only buy certified grafted seedlings, once it’s not grafted then it’s not HASS.
We graft Hass cuttings with a local variety toot stalk and have a perfect seedling for our environment.

2. Production

Productivity of Hass avocados increases as the number of years increase. After 3 years, each avocado plant can produce a minimum of a 200 fruits, 4th year a minimum of 300 fruits, 5th year 500 fruits, 8th year 1000 fruits and 15th year 5000 fruits. It matures for 3 years and has a lifespan of 50 years.

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3. Planting

First thing is to prepare your land buy cultivating it. Then prepare your planting holes of size 3ft wide by 3ft deep. Use a spacing of 5*5 meters from one hole to another ,this gives you a total of 160 planting holes per acre hence the number of seedlings needed.

After making holes, you apply organic manure and plant your seedlings after.

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Earn Millions From Rabbit Farming in 2023.

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Rabbit meat is one of the best source of protein and healthier than other meats. As a result commercial rabbit farming is becoming popular day by day. Rabbit meat contain more protein and less in fat than beef, turkey, pork and even chicken.

Benefits of Rabbit Farming

▪️Rabbit Urine and their Droppings produce the best organic Fertilizer & pesticide
▪️Rabbits are very fast growing animals like broiler chicken. They gain maturity fast and become suitable for slaughtering purpose within 4-5 months.
▪️They need less space to keep them and don’t arouse any smell or noise in the area.
▪️Rabbit gestation period is less (generally between 28-31 days) and a doe give birth of kids after every 2 months. Each time one doe can give birth of 5-10 kids.
▪️Starting rabbit farming requires very little capital or investment.
▪️Food to meat converting rate is higher on rabbit than any other livestock animals.
▪️Rabbit meat is very tasty and nutritious. All types and all aged people can easily consume and digest rabbit meat.
▪️Feeding costs for commercial rabbit farming is also very less. You can easily feed your rabbits kitchen waste materials, grasses, plant leaves etc. with their regular commercial feed. This will help you for reducing feeding cost.

1. Breeds

The common rabbit breeds used for commercial production are California White, Flemish Giant, New Zealand White, Chinchilla and some other local cross breeds.

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2. Housing

Rabbits are very clean animals. They love to stay in neat and clean house with good ventilation system.
Best system is to setup Cages where you can easily monitor and keep records of each Rabbit, control inbreeding and collect the Rabbit Urine and keep the animals in a clean surface.
Keep the kids or young rabbits in a group until they reach 3 months of age. 5-8 young rabbits can be kept in each Cage.

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3. Feeding

Sufficient amount of nutritious and balanced diet food keeps the rabbit healthy and productive. For commercial production, you can feed your rabbits commercially prepared supplementary feed (pellets)

This type of foods are available in the market. Along with this you can add kitchen garbage, grasses, leaves of various trees etc.

This will help you reducing feeding costs. Sufficient amount of clean and fresh water is also required with proper nutritious rabbit feed.

4. Breeding.

Rabbit grows very fast and gain maturity earlier. They become suitable for breeding within their 6 months of age. The gestation period of rabbit is less compared to other livestock animals.

Generally, a doe gives birth after every two months to allow it breastfeed and take care of the young ones. Each time it can give birth 5-10 kids. Gestation period stays for 28-31 days.

5. Care and Management

Take some extra care and management to your rabbits. Vaccinate them timely to keep free from all types of rabbit diseases.

Never feed them polluted or expired food. Try to monitor all their activities.

6. Marketing

Marketing process is moxst important part of rabbit farming. Basically, there are no formal markets for selling rabbit products so far like chickens, goats or fish.

▪️But rabbit meat slaughter houses are coming up due to the high popularity and increasing demands of rabbit meat. Right now you can try the local market, restaurants and supermarkets.

▪️Rabbit meat has a huge demand in China and some other countries. So, if you have sufficient facilities then try to export to foreign countries.

Every business goes with some problems. Don’t fear about marketing your products, the rabbit meat popularity & consuming rate is increasing rapidly. And a suitable market place is coming up soon.

So start now and grow with the business.

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Earn Millions from Growing Banana on 1 Acre.

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An acre takes up 440 plants with a spacing of 3*3metres from one plant to another and hole size of 2ft deep & 3ft wide.

▪️While digging the holes, you separate the top soil from the lower soil, and while filling back you use the top soil mixed with a basin of organic manure.

▪️You then get good clean suckers and plant in the middle of each hole at the onset of the rains.

▪️With good management practices like Fertilizer Application, De-suckering, Pruning & Weeding.

After 11 months you will start harvesting your first fruits and 1 acre can give you over 35 bunches every month and this keeps growing.

▪️ keeping other factors constant, if each bunch is 10,000*35 = 350,000shs monthly
Imagine you had 10 acres ,that’s like 3.5M per month. (Prices vary according to season and market ,so better you find market yourself and deliver)

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COFFEE BUSINESS Vs RENTAL BUSINESS 2023.

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As a young investor, you must be keen on where to invest your hard earned money for sustainability.
Am not condemning anything here ,just giving an open personal opinion. Being from the Agricultural and Real estate Background.

1. RENTALS

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Let’s Assume the Cost of land in a good area 50x100ft is 40Millions, Cost of constructing 4 standard self contained double room units is about 90Millions Total investment will be 130Millions.


Imagine they pay you 250k per month for these rooms meaning a month you collect 1M, A year that’s 12M, remove things like renovations paying the security personnel and maintenance, you remain with 10M a year.


You will need 13 years to get out your initial investment and start earning a profit. However the good thing is the value of the land has grown and you may think of selling off the property.

2. COFFEE

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Assuming you have 40Millions at your disposal:
You can buy 4 acres of land in a distant area like 70kms from kampala, each at 7Millions. That’s 28Millions.

1 acre of land accommodates about 450
coffee seedlings if we consider standard spacing of 10ftx10ft.

If each clone/cutting is bought at Ugx 1,500, you will need Ugx 2.7M for all the 4 acres.

Preparing the garden will cost Ugx 200,000 per acre. That’s a total of Ugx 800,000 for all the 4 acres.

Digging holes (pitting) & planting. Each hole will cost Ugx 600. That makes Ugx 1.1M for all the 4 acres.

Manure application. 3 Elfs per acre per year. That’s 12 Elfs for 4 acres in a year. Each Elf costs about Ugx 100,000. That’s Ugx 1.2M for all the 4 acres in one year. Thus Ugx 2.4M in 2 years when your coffee starts giving maximum yields.

Get a simple irrigation system at around 3M

Intercrop it with beans, pumpkins, banana plantation (not more than 305 plants) etc to help you pay the 2-4 employees in those 2 years. PLUS other Miscellaneous costs .

That’s a total of 38Millions invested!

Good quality and well managed coffee clones can start yielding very well in the 2nd year after planting and each tree can give you 3kgs of dry beans.

Each Kg is about 5000shs hence each tree can make you about 15000shs per season and a year 30,000shs
In 4 acres we have 1800 trees *30,000 = 54Millions a year

In 5 years you can make over 250Million

Remember the yields keep on increasing as per the age of the coffee plant.

This money can be enough for you to acquire the best rental apartments in the area of your preference after 5 years

Contact us for Land sourcing, Farm setup and all planting materials and services.

Remember the farmer will have extra large surface of land for future use like forestry, fish farming, piggery, poultry or even selling plots when the value appreciates unlike the rental investor whose land will be all occupied. Invest Wisely.

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