Tag Farm budgets

Understand how to budget and estimate your farming income and expenses to allocate funds for inputs, labor, loan repayments for quality animal and crop production.
Use the Gross Margin analysis (GMA) results for tips, guides and ideas to reduce costs, and increase sales to make extra profits. Finally, learn which farm records to keep per crop or aimal reared for future decision making.

Best Agriculture Business Ideas for the youth in Africa

Best ideas for Youth in Agriculture

How can a farmer make extra money? By practicing agribusiness; this is professionally treating agriculture as a commercial venture beyond growing crops and raising animals. Mitigate risks and diversify operations for sustainability and survival.

10 best Agribusiness ideas in urban farming

kitchen gardening in containers

In addition to growing crops and rearing animals profitably, this article outlines 10 business ideas in urban farming. The ideas are fit individual, group or company investors.  To explore them, we will make two assumptions about the urban agriculture sector;…

How to be successful in profitable urban farming

Are you searching for the secrets of running a thriving kitchen garden? Your dream of that lush garden brimming with vibrant vegetables, fragrant herbs, and juicy fruits is a true dream for millions of urban farmers like you. You can…

9 best solutions to the challenges in Urban farming

corn/maize growing in near a town

Urban farming has many social, economic and health benefits. Unfortunately, it faces many challenges that limit its full production and marketing potential. As a result, its not priority area in urban and city planning. In many countries in Africa and…

What is Urban Farming? See how easily you can start

Urban agriculture

This post focusses on what is urban farming and types of urban agriculture like vertical and zero-acreage farming to show how you can do it as an individual or a group. 30.8 per cent (14.7 million people) of Kenyans live…

6 ways to make money in climate smart agriculture

Are you looking on ways to solve climate change risks such as floods and droughts and make money while at it? You can promote climate smart agriculture (CSA) to mitigate farmers incomes and yields despite facing droughts and flooding. Climate…