It automatically happened that I loved agriculture since my
childhood and I can assure you this is
more passion than actual business .I’ve
been in several countries and gaining a lot of inspirations that triggered me
to do agriculture as a real business and love for it comes later .
My desire about agriculture especially horticulture is to
see it changes peoples life to the same level as those who buy our agricultural
product .I do not say that I will change Tanzania or maybe to change the whole agriculture
sector but through me and other people dealing with it will ensure that even
the government will not take agriculture as the ‘by the way’ sector as it is
now
So, we are looking forward to see how integration of value chain to see what should be added
,what to decrease and collect them into one thing also to see how technology
advancement will help us to achieve them all .
There is the notion that agriculture is for rich people ,
partly I can say YES as sustainable
agriculture and commercial it needs money , skills ,energy expenditure and also
time .By that manner you can see money (being rich ) is needed it needs
INVESTNMENT , Partly I can say NO if you need to do subsistence agriculture for
homestead consumption you don’t need to have that plenty of money though money is not always an answer but you
can witness yourself the difference of achievement to the one who decided to
invest and those not invested
Agriculture needs your full presence regularly not to pour your money and continue doing
other stuffs .Our fellow (European and Asian ) are well advanced in this field
because whenever you find someone is doing agriculture he/she is truly
investing on it although I don’t mean you have to abandon other activities
because am not here to tell you the do’s and don’ts but I am trying to say that the best rewards
comes when one put effort and figure out what you are dealing with in terms of
money , water sources , good seeds , and fertilizers are just inputs and the
rest is management .
Like other business gratification is not something to escape
in agriculture , the problem is we take
money as the only investment to put in the business, we don’t think about time
. Time is another factor that can not be separated with business although most of our Families money as a
resource is so limited to the extent that people need fast rewards .
International market for horticultural product is a long
process although other people succeed but even local and internal market is
available and sustainable enough to not bother about exporting , and its true
that some horticulture products are very marketable to international markets
and can pay you more
To know the market , where and how to reach there , to know
how much lost on the way and during storage will make you know as you are
making profit or not .So we all need a well coordinated system and proper logistics so
that to minimize the rise of price .
May this be a call to the Tanzanian youth who are dreaming
of dealing with agriculture (horticulture ) ,like other business it only need
being ambitious and passionate about the thing you are about to deal with .
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Sante saana Kaka!!! Amenikumbusha mbalii saana Kaka wa mboga mboga #jack maa alisema learn to a people's mistakes not in people's successful
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