DAIRIES OF A SMALL SCALE FARMER

BEFOREYOU QUIT YOUR JOB AND GO INTO FULL TIME FARMING

Dear farmer,

Has the thought of quitting your job and going into full time farming crossed your mind before? How about this? "I'M WASTING TIME ON THIS JOB, LET ME JUST QUITAND FOCUS ON MY FARMING."

Dear farmer there is nothing sweeter than being your own boss, you choose when to work, you choose when to knock off, you choose when to increase your own salary and you are in control of your own life. At least you know that whatever you put into your farm  will benefit you directly un like meeting deadlines for your boss and at the end of it all your boss is the one who is rewarded.

Dear farmer, if you are still flirting with the idea of going into full time farming, by the time you wake up you will find the market already saturated.

Dearfarmer, I know you have saved up the money you need to start and I know you evenhave a piece of land. You have probably watched documentaries of people thatquit and are now big names in the farming circles. Dear farmer, I know you haveread of people that took the risk and never looked back and now you feel thatyour job is just wasting your time, you feel you can do better doing your ownthing. Now more than ever you feel you are ready to be your own boss.

Dear farmer BEFORE YOU QUIT YOUR JOB ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS

1.      Am I ready to adjust?

Dear farmer, if you choose to quit your job and go the farming way, you need to be ready to adjust your lifestyle.

You need to know that by quitting your job, you are simply choosing not to have an income next month end and that means you need to have a backup that will sustain your expenditure for the next 5 months before you harvest your fish and make sales or before you harvest your tomatoes. Before then, how will you take care of the rentals and other bills?

2.      Do you have the Knowledge?

I always consider the losses I make and the money I loose through the mistakes I make as tuition fees. I have learned the hard way that its best not to pay tuition fees using the last money you saved up before you quit your job, because if this happens, you would have learnt your lessons yes but you would be so broke to even plant chibwaba (pumpkins) in your back yard. Dear farmer, before you quit your job acquire the necessary knowledge, try out a lot of things, learn your lessons, make your mistakes and by the time you quit, you would have learnt the pros and cons.

3.      What Do You Want From Farming?

Dear farmer, I know what I want from farming and I would urge you to do the same. I know you think you know what you want but if I asked you to write it, you would probably do it in  one word, ( money, prestige, everyone is doing it, just trying, just passing time etc.) However, is that reason good enough to make you quit your job however small it is? Is your reason good enough to give you a reason to start again even after making a 200%loss? Is you reason good enough to convince your family to relocate to that incomplete farm house that has no electricity? Is your reason enough to make you fight even when farming doesn't make sense?

Dear farmer, before you become part of the statistics of the people who quit their jobs joined farming and went back to ask for their jobs back after 8 months you need to know exactly what you want from farming.

DEAR FARMER YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THE AUTHOR IS A FULL TIME FARMER AND HE IS ENJOYING IT.

If you want to enjoy farming, you need to take yourself seriously and treat it like a business

David Kabani

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