Purchase silage chopper machine

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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

I wish to acquire a machine that chops fodder for my dairy cows.
I have for the longest time been chopping manually using a panga. It is cumbersome for the farm helps especially with the increase of cows. Most of the time the farm helps don't stay long because they complain the work is too much so many at times I have to hire casual labourers to assist.
The machine will reduce the work load and hopefully the staff turnover.
The machine costs US$ 280.00. I currently have US$ 130.00. If granted then I can purchase the machine.
I pray for your assistance.
Thank you.

Income Source

I am farming dairy (milk) poultry (eggs and chicken meat)and vegetables (kales, spinnach and traditional vegetables). My customers are mainly the local households, local shops and vegetable vendors and currently because of the quarantine, demand for the same is high.
Currently all produce is sold directly from the farm.
All repayments are directly from sales of the produce.

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