Preservatives and yoghurt business

I have been thinking of lately that there is no reason to complain about the expensive yoghurts in the shops.

The reason being that we should all be in a position to make our own

One needs bacteria cultures – if you aren’t in commercial yoghurt production, it might not make sense buying these. If you just need yoghurt for self, there is another way of getting the bacteria’s needed. Buy a small tab of natural yoghurt from the shops – the bacterial in it continues to grow and thus you can use this to create much more yoghurt for your entire family

Heat full fat milk – I litre or so until 110 f and wait to cool until 105 f; add the natural yoghurt. If the milk is hotter than 105f, the bacteria’s in the natural yoghurt will die and thus no yoghurt will form

Anyway , food for thought!

Decion Making

Decision making

In the last 2 weeks I have been trying to make a decision which I thought it was the most important in my life. I felt like I had a ‘do or die’ alternatives, I sought far and wide to try figure out ( but more so gain backing) but I couldn’t reach a decision.

from Google images

So, I did what I know how; ignore the problem with the hope I will see God with a post it note with the answer I needed. After giving up for a while, it hit me that the easy decision isn’t always the better one. The problems is while you are in such a situation how do you know which one is the real situation – for instance someone considering to go to employment as opposed to study. How do you know which route will pay off for sure, how do you know that studying will have better yield than gain experience. At that time it all seems like there are only two options but in reality you could end up being an entrepreneur – in which case was the study/employment more important than getting your hands dirty right away. Not to mention the money used for study could have added onto the capital.

Well, I think sometime is is good to have the ‘don’t care too much’ attitude; I think this is what they call removing yourself from the situation

Anyway, have a look at WWW.DOREP.ORG

Seeds......Kenya seeds company!

Kenya seeds – farming!

Today, I was on a mission during my lunch hour. This is what I tend to do on my dinner time as firstly I carry my packed dinner as I cannot afford to buy dinner all the time and secondly the office is in a rather remote location for access of Chips etc…..

Sunflower seeds

So anyway, been online looking for the prices on seed. It is no secret, I want to be a farmer for a living. However, researching the various aspects of farming is proving tricky. Most of the information is not online or rather I would need to phone mum or dad for this information; obviously I dare not mention their information is only limited to their location ( venture and physical location). My mum tends not to disclose information on various aspects of farming that she would not like me to venture into; currently the entirety of farming. And so have had to go for alternative source of information

Anyway, I found the website for Kenya Seed; I am not saying they are the best or anything like that, this is the online website of the kind I found. http://www.kenyaseed.com/barley.html

was more interested on the Katumani maize seeds – maturity in 120 days means 4 month and thus in a year I can have 3 harvest with some sort of irrigation. I would not recommend this seed if you want to feed Kenyans with the maize- yellow maize doesn’t go down Kenyans throat. Anyway, for my kind of business this will do just fine. I don’t want to farm cows at this stage so, I don’t need the fodder in large quantities as well, so it all works out

I just wish that the GM food gets here faster and that the website start showing their pricing!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t get this about the Kenyan websites, no one shows the price and no one tends to think of offering wholesale information etc…..

Having said that, i have read somewhere in the news recently stating that farmers in Homabay are now farming passion fruits and hay because Maize is not as profitable. They sell a bag of Maize to the brokers for KES 2,000 instead of selling to the govt for KES 3,000 because they dont want to have to deal with transportation. Now imagine that a farmer has 200 bags of maize; a KES 200,000 loss just because he cannot be bothered by transportation costs?

Anyway, if you got the pricing for the seed company please drop me a line on Kenyanenterpreneur@gmail.com I would appreciate

The chicken run

So, another day in the office and another day when am thinking being an entrepreneur has got to be hotter and more money than any kinda job; unless you are a CEO someone or full of no ideas.

Anyway, back to chicken. I have read, not experienced, that chicken rearing is such a hustle

Some of the issues

- Poor feed quality

- Lack of market

- Lack of day old chicks

- Vetinery services or lack of

- Lack of information on good chickenery (husbandry sort of thing)

- Who eats broiler meat anyway

So I thought, this has got to be the business of the future thinking of it

So many competitors and so many non-loyal chicken farmer

Here are the reasons for it

- Don’t need a lot of land

- Don’t need as much capital as keeping cows

- In 2 months there is cash in flow

- We all need chicken on the plate

so i think this is why many people go into chicken farming, and am soon to be one of those

Clearly if you arent kenyan or live in a cave ( no excuse) Kenyans like their chicken tough- proper free range; the chicken does a couple miles every day one way. They are call Kienyeji! The thing is they are indigenous and inter mixed breeds. furthermore there is no organisation i know of, that sells day old indigenous chicken throughout ( a cracking business idea if well researched and thought through). After all, it takes 21 days to hatch an egg and with an incubator you just need to ensure that the eggs are ferterlised. viola

oh yeah and indigenous chicken costs around KES 300 depending on you huggling skills

An indigenous chicken, most favoured to broilers in Kenya