I know there are farm warrior in this village, let’s warm the forum with almost highly profitable ideas.
Hapa Kenya ,mkulima hana chake.
Middle man atakukamua
Do you have suitable land, capital, inputs (particularly water which is scarce) a market and above all, patience? Farming is not for the faint hearted.
Keeping all factors mentioned above constant, how’s Water Melon farming
Nothing is constant in farming. Eg, is there a market for your melons nearby and when do they attract the highest prices?
Doesn’t necessarily have to be nearby. You can take your produce where you want it to make good margins…
Middlemen exist everywhere. Just find one and strike a good deal. Preferrably for most of your crops. Work on increasing yield and reducing costs.
Eventually be a middleman as well as a farmer. I will give a thread about how I achieved this as a wheat farmer
Farming is very profitable but you must be guided by careful calculations and proper knowledge of weather and market patterns.
You must be ready to invest your time and money for a minimum of 2 years kitambo uanze kujiita farmer na kuenjoy zile benefits farmers huwa wanaenjoy.
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Crop farming is not for the fainthearted people in Kenya. Jaribu chicken, dairy, goat farming uwachane na mimea
Sani with climate change manenos upon us you cannot predict the weather pattern. I would go with what Shifo has said…animal keeping. Ukijua vile kina my mum waliona na hii Rona when institutions closed unaweza lia on their behalf. No where to take their farm produce.
For the plants, nipande for my own consumption.
Am not a farmer but,I think to be successful you need to be a large scale farmer to hit profitable levels.Otherwise subsistence farming Ni hobby not business…
Naonaga vile majuu wanalima natamani sana. Jamaa ako na tractors zake na chopper
What would you consider to be the minimum acreage for large scale farming? We hear people making do with as little as 2 acres of greenhouse farming and they don’t seem to complain. Or maybe it’s not all fun and there is something they are not telling us.
So with this farming manenos is it so much about having a big piece of land or it’s what you do with the little you have that matters? Again I suppose there has to be minimum acreage for any meaningful commercial farming to take place.
Otherwise for some of us with mbogas in our small gardens we would be fetching some tidy sums of money. As it is the only benefit I get is the constant supply of greens for the household and I guess wifey keeping herself busy in the evenings away from the bored and detached housewives of the estate.
supply n demand. golden rule of farming: don’t grow/rear what you can’t sell if it’s a commercial venture
Dont farm if you have no experience in selling farm produce …Be a broker first …market dynamics , the panya routes, finally supply and demand of individual crops
As an extension officer, I have alot of farming bussiness idea that should be given the first priority if we really need to transform our country to be a food security stable nation. There are several things that people omit but they are very important. For example, small scale farming does not help at all since the population growth is very high at the moment. I suggest that the productive areas should be left for farming business. In other words, people should re-locate to towns and centres so that lans can remain for large scale plantations. Then the food produced is devided equally among the dwellers of that area. This is the only method that will ensure that there is food in the country.
Hapa Kenya kulima ndio the most dipressing activity you can invest your time in. It’s no longer profitable unless you have a ranch. Try something else.
Consider greenhouse farming.