Soy beans (THE NEXT GOLD)

[biraru]

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[MarkMarco]

@Abba

something worth shocking i read from your pdf is Triple Super phosphate fertilizer costs $150 in Europe, ferking $800 in kenya and ooh my God another ferking $900 in rwanda . Right here is what i have been complaining . The cost of input for agriculture in africa slows down speedy growth.

As @Deorro calls me that i have a minute brain, this brain has sent me to do some research … at this point ill pick a fertilizer producing company called http://www.bohraindustries.com/images/bohra-industries.png located in india . I dug deep into the financials and paid a little bit attention on their asset base and what i discovered is amazing ;

The company total assets is 1,755,800,000 indian rupee( this includes all the machines , cash at bank and vehicles… )= ksh 2,516,839,423.17!!!
begs me to ask a question: how many saccos in this country can combine resources to set up similar factory with a capital base of 2.5 billion that produces fertilizer that reads “MADE IN KENYA”!!!

Foolish us find solace and peace in importing staff with middle men making a killing($800-$150= $650) . A fertilizer in Europe cost $150, hapa kenya goes 8 times more, do you expect farming to break even. Saccos and private sector should tap this opportunity .I know ,i know just like sugar barons there are fertilizers barons who will either adulterate or weed off anything that threatens their niche , but this is where the govt has to come in and encourage this local growth.

Weed out these barons by striffling their necks and their network will collapse.Whoever wants the financial books ya Super phosphate manufacturing company in India hii hapa

cc @Okwonkwo ,

Nice research Bro

[Mediocre]

@R_Silver

I’m not sure we should use the phrase ‘cartels’…to me it seems like we use it to cover up for failure to plan and lack of strategy. Si eti GoK has put in place support for farming and watu wanapotosha resources; ki ukweli they have not put anything. We have talked about Big 4, lakini gova haisaidii wakulima to access affordable credit, haijapunguza tax on farm implements (machines, irrigation systems, greenhouses, etc), fertiliser and agrochemicals are overpriced vile @Abba amesema, and of course, the cost of fuel/elec is ridiculous. Without a major change in the way we do things, we can forget these lofty dreams of large scale agriculture benefiting the common man.

The IMF and EU discourage farm subsidies in Africa while heavily subsidizing their own industries to protect their produce.