Plus INFLATION is REAL
Kitendawiliiii...

100K business with a return of 10K every month.

Let me work with a smaller figure just in case small siz did not have savings.

Agri-business

Crop: Cucumber
Maturity: 60-75 days
Planting to last harvest: 5 months

Lease land: 15K 1/4 Acre in Lower Kabete/Thogoto/Gikambura/Waithaka etc
Seeds: 550/= Griffaton Sachet
Labour: 3000/= (Zero if you can dig, plant, water, etc for yourself. After all you are jobless)

Other inputs: 3,000/=

Total cost: 21,550/=.

Working figure: 30,000/=


Seeds planted: 350 seeds. The extra in the packet are for replanting tose that don't germinate.

Harvest per plant: 20-30Kg

working with 300 plants, not 350 seeds.

300x20kg= 6,000 KGs of cucumber over a period of 5 months (planting to last harvest).

Selling price: 30-100/= per KG.

6000X30 = 180,000/=

180,000 less 30,000= 150,000/=

150,000/5 MONTHS= 30,000 PER MONTH.

I have worked with lower figures. A well managed cucumber crop give at least 25KG. Average price is 50/=. Current farm-gate price is 60-80/= per kg.
(Ngara Fig-tree market price is 100/= per kg.)

With a quarter acre, you can first do 1/16 acre. Two weeks after germination do the next 1/16 and so forth. You will have something to take to the market for over seven months. Low and high prices will ''find you kwa soko''.

That is just one tried and tested example.

I have a feeling @Hardwood was doing this post to test waters. To try get a narrative to help his people counter the NASA case of unemployment. I could be right.

@CoolBull
Guess what? I had tried the cucumber, egg plant and courgette (Kojetti) on an 1/8th plot and I only harvested 1 courgette/kojett n it was yellow n looked like it had skin disease. So sasa ujue u are -30k in your capital na all the while unakula na unakunywa. Haya plan B ndo nini?

Pole sana. The first time I did mushroom nilichomeka yet I had a 'consultant'. When I got to do cucumber I decided to take charge of every step.

Did you ever test your soil? What kind of fertilizer/Manure did you use?

1. Tilling. Nikachukua jembe during spare time. I would make sure the digging was '3 jembes down', all weeds were cleared, etc. Don't hire people then sit to read a newspaper. Dig with them.

2. Manure application: I did it myself. Wacha nichoke.

3. Seeds. Bought licensed seeds from a licensed agrovet shop. Germinated seeds in a container before planting.

4. Pesticides: Walked with a registered guy.

5. Trellising: Visited farms and talked to horticulture guys who had gone to school.

6. Market: This is number one. Start research there. When doing projection work with the lowest return ever recorded. Make provision for near-zero harvest and near-zero sales too but always pray that all works well.

My experience: Get all the information, sift and use what is applicable to you. Avoid 'consultants' who don't have even a demo farm. Farming is farming (ukulima ni kulima).

Indeed. Look at the purported date of retrenchment: April Fools day and a Saturday

Holly Moses! I hope you have no sons who will read this one day!

Jogoo 2kg at 150/-, hostess @190/-. We had been promised 50/-.

Two years ago, itumbi was daring anyone whose KPLC bill hadn't reduced to contact him and get a refund.

Right now, the cost of power for the average family that uses over 200kwh is kes.18 per kWh. In 2012, it was 14/-.

We now learn that the number KMs of new roads done is not 3,000 as Ruto told us a while ago. It's not 1,950 as Uhuru told us in the sotn. KNBS puts the figure at 900km.

In the winning manifesto, IPOA was to get prosecution powers to entrench police reforms. Latest bill by Duale is to weaken IPOA further.

We could talk about fertilizer or pretty much anything Jubilee touches.

SGR. It's going to be run by the Chinese. The same guys who did a feasibility study, financed and constructed it. In their feasibility study, the lowest possible charges were as follows.

Passenger - 2,800/-
Cargo. - 120,000/- 40ft container.

Currently, truckers charge 70k-90k for a container.

Luckily, the Kenyan voter is a certified idiot with the memory of a Caterpillar.

In Mombasa, they want to re-elect joho the mountains of garbage notwithstanding.

In Nairobi, a substantial number will be voting for a nutcase who needs psychiatric​ help.

Activists make terrible politicians. Sadly, I think Boniface is all show and not genuine. Unlike Omutata, Boniface comes across to me as an opportunist and this move had been well calculated from the start.