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Unemployed and You Need Help? Agriculture wants to Employ You - Pretty Bird - 11-15-2017
Unemployed and You Need Help? Agriculture wants to Employ You
Agribusiness is a very lucrative business. Take it or leave it! I’m into it and it works out good for me. The reasons why most people run away from agriculture are laziness; inability to take a risk(s); and fear of failing. Of a truth, anyone found giving those reasons cannot venture into any business at all. Business requires you to be hardworking, bold, and be able to to take risks
Let me tell you this: there is no aspect of agriculture that is not profitable. Whether fishery (aquaculture), poultry, pig, rabbit, sheep, goat, cattle, cane rat production, agro-allied business etc. The mistake most people make is that they rush into a business without having a sound knowledge of what they are going into. Some will say, “My friend started it and he/she was successful, so I will do it too.” Did you contact your friend to get more information about the business? You must know the fundamentals or basics of a particular business before you start. Even if you cannot carry out a feasibility study, try and use your initiative to know if your location a favorable environment for a particular agribusiness. For instance, can you start catfish production where natural water is not sufficiently available? Can you set up a pig farm where people don’t consume pork (meat of pig), or it is a taboo to them? These are some of the things people need to consider when going into any agriculture-related business. I know someone will refer to finance as a hindrance. Seriously, money/finance shouldn’t be seen or taken as a serious problem or barrier. A friend of mine always says, “You become a failure the moment you take money as a problem to start a business.” As an intending poultry farmer, you can start with buying and selling 5-10 crate of eggs or start with raising few chickens like 5 broilers chicks or cockerels. Save your profit and plan to expand as your profit increases.
There are some successful farmers who started this way and are now employers of labour. I have tried something like this and it really worked for me.
Once again, agribusiness is profitable, but getting valuable information and researching are important. Visit websites, forums, and blogs in the agriculture niche for more information on how to be successful or make money through farming.
Remember, your country has little or nothing to offer the unemployed. Now is the time to help yourself. As an unemployed, student, teacher, lecturer, civil servant, try and save for your future. Start farming and be fulfilled.
Think wisely!
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