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Liked the response by one Nipate forum member on topic Ruto owns a massive chicken farm in Eldoret. Read below. Ruto has 5,000 chicken in his farm, and a hatchery.
Go on YouTube and type chicken farming in Kenya and you'll find ordinary Kenyans with 5,000 or more chicken with similar poultry house. That poultry house is no more than 3 million to set up. If you have the tenacity and passion for farming like Ruto, the bank will loan you the money tomorrow.
I think people need to really get on the ground and see what is happening with our middle class before pointing fingers that all the wealth is fake, and stolen money.
There are thousands if not tens of thousands of ordinary folks raising 5,000 or more chickens and making more money than a salaried bank manager or even senator. When you see them on the road with nice cars, you'd think they are waheshimiwas or drug dealers.
Assume Ruto has 4,000 layers out of the 5,000 in that farm. A tray of non- kienyeji eggs is going for kshs 450. A tray of eggs has 30 eggs. do the math: that's 1.2M/month.
If you subtract feeding expenses, he's left with not less than 800K/month from chicken alone. That poultry set up you saw on his video cuts labor by 80 percent. You need not more than 3 employees to collect the eggs and pour the food and clean the place.
The problem with the generation that's blogging here every day is that they were raised to go to school, get an engineering degree or medical doctor or lawyer, get an office job and live happily ever after as an intellectual.
That's why you see most bloggers here are only good at talking politics, or quoting Shakespeare and talking about who's more intellectual than the other.
They're pretty much practicing what the education system taught them. Kenya is a brand new phenomena whereby a lawyer is making tones of money doing jua kali work like running a hatchery, a dairy farm, a service based investment-on the side.
The salary from his office job is to facilitate those ventures that bring three times what he makes in the office. The average lawyer, doctor, engineer is collecting an ordinary salary with a home in Buru or even Umoja. Kajwang was living in Komarock before he entered the gravy train that's politics.
How many of his learned colleagues still live in Komarock? Of course, I am not saying that Ruto is a clean politician cos I don't know of any. But his entrepreneurship skills ought to be appreciated and put into perspective. a guy his status has no business looking for money through small scale farming because what he showed is small scale.
There are no large scale hatcheries and chicken farms in Kenya compared to what you find in developed countries. Right now, anyone can enter into agriculture and make a killing if done well but in another 20 years, all those small scale farmers will be swallowed by the big fishes using economies of scale.
Make hay while the sun shines. I have a lot of respect for Ruto; he's creating employment in his area and feeding the kenya population.
There is no small job for this man. Another of Ruto's area of investment is real estate.
Few years ago, he was interviewed with a white helmet inspecting his construction projects. He said he likes to get his hands dirty on developing real estate. In 1890s, nearly 80 percent of US population was engaged in agriculture.
Today, only 2 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture. Reason: agribusiness uses technology to out- compete a small scale farmer who cannot invest in multi-million dollar machinery, hybrid seeds, robots milking etc.
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Go on YouTube and type chicken farming in Kenya and you'll find ordinary Kenyans with 5,000 or more chicken with similar poultry house. That poultry house is no more than 3 million to set up. If you have the tenacity and passion for farming like Ruto, the bank will loan you the money tomorrow.
I think people need to really get on the ground and see what is happening with our middle class before pointing fingers that all the wealth is fake, and stolen money.
There are thousands if not tens of thousands of ordinary folks raising 5,000 or more chickens and making more money than a salaried bank manager or even senator. When you see them on the road with nice cars, you'd think they are waheshimiwas or drug dealers.
Assume Ruto has 4,000 layers out of the 5,000 in that farm. A tray of non- kienyeji eggs is going for kshs 450. A tray of eggs has 30 eggs. do the math: that's 1.2M/month.
If you subtract feeding expenses, he's left with not less than 800K/month from chicken alone. That poultry set up you saw on his video cuts labor by 80 percent. You need not more than 3 employees to collect the eggs and pour the food and clean the place.
The problem with the generation that's blogging here every day is that they were raised to go to school, get an engineering degree or medical doctor or lawyer, get an office job and live happily ever after as an intellectual.
That's why you see most bloggers here are only good at talking politics, or quoting Shakespeare and talking about who's more intellectual than the other.
They're pretty much practicing what the education system taught them. Kenya is a brand new phenomena whereby a lawyer is making tones of money doing jua kali work like running a hatchery, a dairy farm, a service based investment-on the side.
The salary from his office job is to facilitate those ventures that bring three times what he makes in the office. The average lawyer, doctor, engineer is collecting an ordinary salary with a home in Buru or even Umoja. Kajwang was living in Komarock before he entered the gravy train that's politics.
How many of his learned colleagues still live in Komarock? Of course, I am not saying that Ruto is a clean politician cos I don't know of any. But his entrepreneurship skills ought to be appreciated and put into perspective. a guy his status has no business looking for money through small scale farming because what he showed is small scale.
There are no large scale hatcheries and chicken farms in Kenya compared to what you find in developed countries. Right now, anyone can enter into agriculture and make a killing if done well but in another 20 years, all those small scale farmers will be swallowed by the big fishes using economies of scale.
Make hay while the sun shines. I have a lot of respect for Ruto; he's creating employment in his area and feeding the kenya population.
There is no small job for this man. Another of Ruto's area of investment is real estate.
Few years ago, he was interviewed with a white helmet inspecting his construction projects. He said he likes to get his hands dirty on developing real estate. In 1890s, nearly 80 percent of US population was engaged in agriculture.
Today, only 2 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture. Reason: agribusiness uses technology to out- compete a small scale farmer who cannot invest in multi-million dollar machinery, hybrid seeds, robots milking etc.
Source:
