Raising Cocoa Seedlings to Pay for My Education

Listowell

Berekum, Ghana

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Entrepreneur

Name

Listowell

Member since

February 2015

On-time repayments

96 installments • 73%

About Me

Listowell Asiedu is my name and I am a man of 26 years old, I was born on 8th November 1988 in a village called Biadan which is about 10 minutes drive from main township of Berekum municipality.
I am dark in complexion and I am 4.4 feet tall. I have 4 siblings with me been the second born of my parent. I am single and studying Math and Science by distance learning at the University of Cape Coast Ghana. The food I cherish most is rice with beans stew and fish. The game I like to watch most is football and wrestling. I like reading a lot and making friends all over the world.

My Business

NURSERY OF COCOA SEEDS
After completion of my Secondary School Education, I started to find something to do so that with a little help from my parents I can continue my tertiary education because I have younger siblings that needs to be cater for by my parent and closely looking at my community I opt for nursery of cocoa seeds simply because, majority of people living in these area are cocoa farmers. They have good land for agriculture and for that matter many of them choose to grow cocoa. I use that opportunity to start to cocoa seeds nursery. Few people were doing that and during the farming season cocoa seedlings become scarce. I was able to produce 3000 cocoa seedlings in my first year of and to my surprise; people were chasing me for it. As I am speaking, I am able to produce 30000 cocoa seedlings throughout the year. This has been the major sources of income to me and the family.
Some of the challenges associated with the cocoa nursery include; ordering of the cocoa seeds, nursery site/space/shade, potting/polybag filling, planting seed, watering, and pest and diseases control. I am able to manage all these challenges and always be in profit. I know with a help from Zidisha and the Lenders my dream can be fulfill

REPAYING OF LOAN
I promise you, I am going to pay back to your satisfaction, because people are patronizing my services, I am able to make profit and can pay the loan from these profits. Thank you.

Loan Proposal

Thank you for giving me another chance to raise loan again. Dear Lenders, I am going to use the amount requested to buy cocoa seeds for nursery. Some farmers have place order for the cocoa seedlings in quantities and quickly have to work on it. Profit from the sale of the seedlings is sustaining me in my education and also catering for family. I want to thank you knowing, you will extend your mercy unto me. Thank you.