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Farming

Tomato farming

John DoeJ
EntrepreneurEmmanuelLocationKitwe, Zambia
Project status
100%funded
$24raised
Disbursedon January 7, 2025

My name is Emmanuel Kunda i was born on the 6th January, 2000 in Chilubi island district in Northern province Zambia i am a Zambian citizen a Nyanja by tribe,

I am married and i have a girl child, My wife she is a Lala by tribe from Serenje village.

I started my primary education in 2007 when i was 7 year old at Mulenga community School, in my class i was very intelligent such that my teacher jumped me from grade 1 to grade 2 and and when i reached grade 6 my teacher told me to write a grade 7 Exam of which i did and i passed to go to grade 8, I after i passed i went to Chilubi High School, at this School i wrote exams twice a grade 9 one and a grade 12 one and i passed both of them. Now that from my childhood i loved farming and its income i made up my mind to do agriculture course at Rocky University of Zambia.

I achieved all my hardships through working hard as a farmer, i accumulated money to take myself to college and now i am an agriculture diploma holder.

i started my farming business when i was very little boy my parents used to give each child a potion of land to farm in order for each child to make his or her own money out of it. So now i am grawn up i bought my own 4 hectares farm land.

And i really love my farm land because its fertile and its near the river so farming is for every season.

In our culture we do farming and dancing musklet and this i love it most.

For i want to have 4 children so i want to well plan for their better education and and future, i want them to be highly educated and also to know farming because we all depend on a farmer.

As for my hobbies i really love farming, reading different kinds of books. And playing football.

As from my childhood. I do a farming business i grow many crops such as maize, vegetables, Okra,Tomatoes, onions and Carrots.

In this business i have made a contract with shoprite store to supply them Tomatoes, Carrots and Onions.

I love farming to much because its on demand and the kind of crops i produce they are people's daily supplement. And i make a good profit out of it and every week 2000 i make ZMW profit. And i use this profit 1000 ZMW to buy fertiliser or pesticides when its needed and when not needed i save it and a 1000 ZMW i use it for food at home and every month i pay a 400 ZMW for child's School fees.

But the only challenge i have is the improvement of the irrigation system,

I need 50000 ZMW to buy a big water pamp.

When i get this fund i wanna use 300 ZMW to buy pesticides for spraying to the Tomatoes and 340 i will pay the one who is going to help me spraying because i want them to grow well and i have already the customers who made orders