A while back I ventured into farming and so far so good. I would like to not only sell my horticultural products but to also do some value addition on the same.
Your thoughts on this will be appreciated as always, picha za shamba zimekataa kuload
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Horticultural produce Ni mingi boss. Gani?
What value addition unless you set up a processing plant?
sema nini umepanda
oh sorre,niko na onions na tomatoes, I was thinking tomatoes could make sauce ama tomato paste
Hapo pa sauce na paste utajiangusha sanaa. Usijaribu… been there , seen it all! … sell kama zilivyo!
uzia shambani ka mimi
boss what happened, market saturation ama?
usiuzie kwa shamba. try as.much as possible to cut out the middlemen.
jipelekee soko depending on the transport cost
@Carbon…kujipelekea sokoni means you have to incur transport cost, market levies, packaging materials cost, plus ujue e.g wakulima market next to muthurwa no farmer/transporter sells what they deliver there…ukifikisha tu hivo, mabroker wanatek over…kaa kando ungoje pesa.
thats the order of things there and YOU CAN’T change it singly.
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Hire a mkokoteni. Jaza hizo vitunguu sumu na nyanya. Sukuma mkokoteni mpaka kwa junction ya shopping center yenyu. Start selling. Thank me later.
Ps: usisahau kununua juara za kuwekea customer bidhaa.
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Ilibidi sauce yote na pastepaste nimwage. Couldn’t sale kabisa!.. nyanya zikaoza ikabidi nikupe zote.
ushawahi peleka?
the last time i was there the market levies was ten bob.
i ended up turning a broker and got very good returns for my produce. mtu kwanza hutembea soko and get the fucking prices.
get five soko mamas and get order from them.
lower than the existing price. watakutafutia other customers.
in my case(karatina) the difference btn the shamba price and the price the retailers were buying was a whole 20 shillings.
transporting a crate with 40-60kgs to the market was three hundred a crate. levies per crate ilikuwa kumi.
so do the math
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Jiuzie mwenyewe. Brokers watakuliza!.. Peleka sokoni, ukiweza leta Nairobi the better.
And for tomatoes always fanyaga timing!..Dec, Jan Feb are good months to harvest and sell… vitunguu hazina shida kausha vizuri and watch the markets… kitunguu ni gani umepanda? Local au nylon?
But at least brokers wa marikiti are better than brokers wa shambani!.. wa shambani ni noma!
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no broker serves your interests.
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nilijaribu biashara ya maembe dodo from hola…mwishowe ilibidi nitafute mkokoteni niuze kwa barabara…maembe dodo tulikuwa tunakula kwangu kwanzia breakfast hadi supper…ukulima sio rahisi wrong timing unakuta bidhaa zimejaa sokoni kila mtu anapanic anauza cheaply juu zitaanza kuoza…hapa ndio broker anaingilia anachukua risk lakini unamuuzia a bit cheaper
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Ume panda nyanya gani @kalel?
huku kwetu hakuna brokers wa shambani. …people from nairobi and mombasa come with canters kwa shamba and you are left with cash. Mind you I am talking about 10 acres…hiyo ntajipelekea sokoni aje??? au hiyo mikokoteni mnasema if in a day when the harvest is good I can produce 3 full canters of 60 crates each?
plus kuhire canter huku upeleke vitu nairobi ni 15k …bila bargain.
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here you are on point.
timing the season is very crucial