Supplying fertilizers to cocoa farmers in my community

Isaac

Berekum, Ghana

47% repaid

Entrepreneur

Name

Isaac

Member since

March 2015

On-time repayments

148 installments  •  64%

About Me

Isaac Mensah is my name. I come from Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region of ghana. I had my both Basic and Secondary education at Berekum. my house no. CR/043 can be located at Continental road opposite Excel Filling station, Berekum. Or when you drop at Berekum , just board a car from the main Station and ask of the Excel Filling Station, my house is just located at opposite the Filling Station. Am the second born of my parents and my hobbies are Football,Reading,Learning.

My Business

My Busine I have been involved in the
cultivation of food crops. My love for agriculture did not stop though I am a Marketing manager at Ahenfo Radio Marking Department. My long life dream of becoming an entrepreneur motivated me to start an agro chemical shop in my community. I did a survey in my area and realized that most of the farmers in my community are gradually
changing from the traditional method of
using just hoes and cutlasses in farming and have embraced the modern trends of cultivating on large scale, which can be made possible through the use of machinery and agro chemicals.
However, the few agro chemical shops that were available at the time were into what I term as “just buying and selling” without educating our farmers, most of whom are illiterates on the right and appropriate procedures on how to use these chemicals they sell to them.
My passion to offer quality and better services to farmers in my locality so that the chemicals they use in farming wouldn’t have any adverse effect on consumers led to me opening an agro chemical shop in 2012.
After the necessary education and equipping myself with the necessary knowledge concerning the application and use of agro chemicals and use of farm implements and machinery, I employed one person to help me manage the shop and he takes charge when I am not physically present.
I am now able to support my family and other ventures I enter into due to the proceeds I earn from my Agro chemicals shop.

Loan Proposal

Dear lenders, with this loan,i am going to purchase in more agro inputs such as fertilizers, weedicides,selective and non selective ones,farm machines such as super gro,sunshine machine, jacto machine, c p 15 machine etc to help the working of farms easy and also harvest more. This loan would assist me to extend my shop in a very big size level, in terms of farms inputs and tools.I would also have an access of getting in or employing more workers to help me strengthen the living standard of my buissness,so that i can meet needy of farmers in my community.

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Loan Info

Project Type

Classic Loan

Disbursed amount

$365.00

Date disbursed

May 5, 2016

Repayment status

Late

Projected term

24 months

Lenders

MindMuse

Talking Rock, United States

B

blahblah

Nuernberg, Germany

kuebel

Vienna, Austria

ads68

Melbourne, Australia

mepster

San Francisco, Ca, United States

Dave Bogard

New York, United States

Diego

Monza, Italy

Christopher Hey

Sudbury, Canada

roark22

Geneva, Switzerland

The Zinc Team

San Francisco, United States

Humble Bundle Community

San Francisco, United States

Dave Magnan

Québec, Canada

Manayon Domingo

San Miguel Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Ph 3115, Philippines

Perlita Domingo

San Miguel Guimba, Nueva Ecija, PH 3115, Philippines

MS

Mona S

United States

JG

Jake Gibson and Beverly Picardo

San Francisco, United States

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