Todallah Company Limited

21/06/2023

Happy birthday Virus.
May Allah grant you long life and prosperity

24/05/2023

The rice man!

19/01/2023

Great Advice from Miyanda Maimbo.

Want to quit your job for full time farming?
HOLD YOUR HORSES!!!

Farming looks 'easy' & 'glamorous' when you look at pictures people share on social media. Clean fields with drip irrigation, well built packing sheds, tractors and combine harvesters, several boreholes. They share their bumper harvest and yes, that GD6 Toyota, Ford Ranger or fancy truck depicting purchase from proceeds of the farm.

Whilst some may be doing well, profitable, small scale farming without a steady incoming coming from outside your farm project is just self inflicted stress and extreme pressure.
Farming is money/capital hungry.

Lessons I learnt from 20 years in Corporate & 7 years in farming.

1. Start your farming project while you are in full time employment. Don't worry about people calling you a 'cellphone' farmer. You may not even to quit your job if you set up a well oiled project.
2. Don't assume that just because your timing was good and you harvested when prices were high that every season will be the same.
3. Start small, from your backyard or even on 500sqm. Focus on learning/mastering how that crop/veggie behaves.
4. Learn about ferts/chemicals/harvesting. Understand the demands of your workforce, labour requirements.
5. Sales/Marketing are part of your role as farmer, to produce and fail to sell is depressing, waste of resources
6. Network with other farmers, those who have gone before you learn from them.
7. Your project must give you at least 3 times your salary consistently before you decide to quit your job.
8. Bills, fees do not stop or understand that you are a start up farmer and you need time to make money. They still need to be paid every month.
9. Do not compare your farming journey with the next farmer. You don't know their source of income, many farms are many generations old.
10. Farming is NOT a get rich quick scheme, it's a long turn investment that requires many years of patience.

My mantra is simple, start small with what you have focus on learning and pace your growth.

Agriculture

10/01/2023

The world is growing, we as people have to grow along.
How does it happen?
We need to work hard and smart.
Kindly join us this season let's grow rice and onion.
All we need is trust, honesty, openness and clean heart.
CONTRACT FARMING CAN ERADICATE POVERTY IN AFRICA.

Agriculture