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FUNKY		#31 Posted : Friday, November 04, 2011 12:01:18 PM
Rank: Veteran Joined: 4/30/2010 Posts: 1,635		Guys i am looking for potatoes to make crisps. Please advise any contacts.
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For Sport		#32 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:29:21 PM
Rank: Veteran Joined: 12/23/2010 Posts: 1,229		House team digs into theft of seeds Quote: Some farmers have attributed the crisis in the crop’s production to lack of effective policies to guard against their exploitation. I'm not so sure what these "effective policies" would be. It seems to me that when a crop is "regulated", the farmers suffer. For some reason, crops with "well" established regulatory framework (Maize, Sugar, Tea, Coffee etc) attract corrupt deals which cost the farmer.
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mozenrat		#33 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:22:34 PM
Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/18/2008 Posts: 796		Njung'e wrote: richdad wrote: Start the business when the produce is scarce. Wish you well. p/s Remember to share the success story. Currently doing a 10.5 acre piece for the third season and hope to add a further 6 acres at the start of next year.....Let's say you have not been there and therefore,not good enough to comment.Thank you! @Njunge, do you do cabbages.. Need some advise on this whole Gloria v Fanaka v etc... seed business
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Njung'e		#34 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:47:37 PM
Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi		mozenrat wrote: Njung'e wrote: richdad wrote: Start the business when the produce is scarce. Wish you well. p/s Remember to share the success story. Currently doing a 10.5 acre piece for the third season and hope to add a further 6 acres at the start of next year.....Let's say you have not been there and therefore,not good enough to comment.Thank you! @Njunge, do you do cabbages.. Need some advise on this whole Gloria v Fanaka v etc... seed business @Mozenrat, Nope buddy.Sorry but i hope you find help. @Incognito, Didn't see your post until now (I spend half of my life in the gutter section ).Sorry for the belated answer.I would say fair although the last water fed crop was hit by frost bite on the nite of the first day of this year with devastating effects. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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benmute		#35 Posted : Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:59:34 AM
Rank: Member Joined: 6/20/2008 Posts: 35 Location: Nairobi		Here's someone else involved in the same. http://www.ukulima.co.ke/read.php?10,20
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Kriscalf		#36 Posted : Thursday, May 10, 2012 4:37:52 PM
Rank: New-farer Joined: 6/26/2011 Posts: 46 Location: Embakasi, Nairobi		I was also interested in trying this out. Still is. But was caught between farming & playing middle man. I will share the story of how it goes once I set myself up. Thanking the contributors. The stars will never align, & the traffic lights of life will Never go green at the same time.
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subzero		#37 Posted : Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:22:52 PM
Rank: Member Joined: 1/10/2008 Posts: 365		Kriscalf wrote: I was also interested in trying this out. Still is. But was caught between farming & playing middle man. I will share the story of how it goes once I set myself up. Thanking the contributors. You can be both farmer and middleman. And i would encourage you to do just that. Middlemen can make alot of money. But being a middleman is not easy you know ...... contrary to popular opinion, middlemen also make losses at times, huge losses!! you want to be middleman between farmer and wholesale market, or between wholesale market and large consumers, like fast-foods? do you have ready market already? Have you studied the market well enough for long enough?
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mozenrat		#38 Posted : Monday, May 21, 2012 4:14:12 PM
Rank: Veteran Joined: 5/18/2008 Posts: 796		Njung'e wrote: mozenrat wrote: Njung'e wrote: richdad wrote: Start the business when the produce is scarce. Wish you well. p/s Remember to share the success story. Currently doing a 10.5 acre piece for the third season and hope to add a further 6 acres at the start of next year.....Let's say you have not been there and therefore,not good enough to comment.Thank you! @Njunge, do you do cabbages.. Need some advise on this whole Gloria v Fanaka v etc... seed business @Mozenrat, Nope buddy.Sorry but i hope you find help. @Incognito, Didn't see your post until now (I spend half of my life in the gutter section ).Sorry for the belated answer.I would say fair although the last water fed crop was hit by frost bite on the nite of the first day of this year with devastating effects. I have actually been doing both Potato and Cabbage farming for the last 3 years or so... replacing one with the other after harvesting and once in while throwing in Peas but I have to say I'm ready to quit Potatoes. I find it so difficult to make money.. Mara frost hits you just weeks to harvest time and you end up with bean sized potatoes ama there is a bumper harvest in Molo and it messes up all the prices.. Yet I've consistently made some good cash on Cabbages rain or drought...
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Mucene		#39 Posted : Friday, December 11, 2015 12:06:27 PM
Rank: Member Joined: 8/4/2012 Posts: 155 Location: Kenya		Started farming potatoes this season and I just came across this thread. What are your experiences guys If you don't want to go to plan B have a good plan A.
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mthaka		#40 Posted : Tuesday, December 29, 2015 12:32:15 PM
Rank: Member Joined: 9/30/2013 Posts: 254		someone selling agricultural land in nyahururu at 500 k an acre,kindly advise, take it or leave it
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