Starting a business farming beans and onions

Jason

Naivasha, Kenya

100% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Jason

Member since

April 2014

On-time repayments

331 installments  •  92%

About Me

i am Kenyan citizen by birth born in 1979.i was brought up in naivasha town where i leave to date.i studied at Mirera primary school to 1995 and joined high school to 1999.i joined college and studied computer trouble shooting and electronics.i was employed and worked as IT tutor in college for a period of 5 years. i later trained on HIV/AIDS management and furthered to Psychological counseling.currently am working with ministry of health as a counselor.with current first growing economy i wish to be self employed and even to give other up coming youths an opportunity to access some training on self employment on rearing and breeding of rabbits. our government has tabled fine grounds on entrepreneurship for young persons and Kenyans at large.

My Business

i wish to enhance my current business on rabbit rearing.currently i have 11 does and 1 buck.Rabbit rearing bussiness is doing well in Naivasha as many people have started to adopt white meat and doing away with red meat.am kindly looking foward for your consinderation to fund me.i intend to use this money to expand my business by purchasing 2 bucks one newziland white and california white breeds which will cost ksh. 2,500 (58 dollars)each and 3 newziland does each costing khs. 1,500 (52 dollars) and the remaing balance will boost my rabbits feeding programe.

Loan Proposal

Am so grateful again for the golden opportunity again to to access the third loan application from you lenders.Am now applying this loan to facilitate me start now doing some other type of farming though i will not first do away with the rabbit and chicken keeping, i have just decided to do all business because i believe they will make a difference in my life.For this loan i am applying i will use ksh 12,000 [ 120 dollars ] to hire a land some where in my home village to start this farming of onions and beans from Egerton university . I will also use ksh 9,000 [ 90 dollars ]to help me buy onion seeds.The rest cash of kes 29,000 [ 290 dollars ] will be used as follows, 50 dollars will be used for cultivating, 45 dollars for making trenches to plant beans and onions separately,the rest of the cash of 195 dollars will be used to buy some pesticides and ant-fungle chemicals and also help me during the weeding time.Am timing this rainy season that starts this month of October .After the harvest of this produce they will help me continue with my daily upkeep like taking care of my child school fees and also pay my house rents and house upkeep

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$579.00

Date disbursed

Oct 6, 2015

Repayment status

On Time

Projected term

63 months

Lenders

Brian

Midhurst, Canada

Kitty

Hailsham, United Kingdom

P

phangsang

Seattle, United States

H

hilde

seattle, United States

P

PHU99

Zwingenberg, Germany

Bobrm2k3

Charleston, United States

Evan Lamos

Brussels, Belgium

Paul Buchheit

Mountain View, United States

BuckeyeBob

Ohio, United States

T

thedan33

Czech Republic

Diego

Monza, Italy

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  • Jason    Sep 29, 2020

    Less income

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  • Jason    Sep 8, 2020

    Poor income

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  • Jason    Jul 21, 2020

    Less income

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  • Jason    Jun 11, 2020

    Low income

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  • Jason    Apr 29, 2020

    No income

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  • Jason    Dec 24, 2019

    Less income

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  • Jason    Oct 5, 2019

    Low income

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  • Jason    Aug 28, 2019

    Less income

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  • Jason    Jun 5, 2019

    Less production

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  • Jason    Apr 15, 2019

    Shortage of funds

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  • Jason    Feb 21, 2019

    Due to low income from my project

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  • Jason    Jun 13, 2016

    lenders am okey and doing well ..I also want to reduce my payments a little bit until my business stabilize

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  • Brian    May 5, 2016

    Hi lenders, Jason says he experienced some challenges in his business and his income went down but has promised to make payments on Saturday. Thank you!

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  • Jason    Mar 8, 2016

    hey zidisha,am doing quit well...due to heavy rain my onions plants......were affected so much.am strangling to clear my shamba. at least i get my capital back and God is good its working.thnx

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  • Jason    Nov 10, 2015

    doing good thanks you.

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  • Jason    Nov 5, 2015

    YES YES thank you today and i hope you are fine this day.now my seedlings are doing fine on the bed and within 1 week they will be okay and ready. rains not yet but signs are so promising .thanks friends

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  • Jason    Oct 16, 2015

    for now am not making any money.in fact am consuming but once i start making money i shall adjust.allow me friends

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  • Jason    Oct 16, 2015

    friends am now getting through with preparing my land. am now waiting for clear timing of this month rain

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  • Jason    Oct 8, 2015

    Hey friends?i received 57,622KES from yesterday.This loan shall help me to onions farming business. for now am still preparing land as i wait for rain season may late this month. am planning to have 1 acre of land which already working on it.then when its ready because i have enough money i purchase 800kg of onion seeds and 150kg of fertilizer but this will mature as days move on to start with.Thank you my friends zidisha.

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  • Kitty    Oct 2, 2015

    Congratulations, I hope the new land produces well for you

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