Ultra-Modern Farm
All About Group Farming
This service allows you to start farming with minimal capital or skills. We connect you with several others who are ready to contribte, so that you can pool the resources into a fund large enough to run a complete project.
Group Farming
Solves Many Problems
Group Farming is one solution for several unique problems. You can use it because you have limited capital. You can also use it to gain farming skills before starting your own project. Finally, you can use it to diversify your investment in different crops or different seasons rather than tying up all your money in one farming project.
How Group Farming Works
Agriculture is capital intensive. For example, farming a crop like bulb onions can cost up to Ksh250,000 per acre, for a season – that covers just the seeds, labor, fertilizers, irrigating, pest and weed control. Raising that money may not be that easy and risking it all in one project may not be wise.
Group farming is the special tool to help you achieve what you cannot on your own. For example, you can commit just 25,000 to farm onions. Our service puts you together with 9 other people each contributing Ksh25,000 to build up the necessary capital for the whole project. The farming projects are managed transparently with clear budgets at the start ensuring everything runs smoothly and everyone gets their fair share at the end of the project.
Benefits Derived from Group Farming
- You can build your farming venture with the little you have instead of borrowing loans.
- Partcipating in group farming allows you to gain practical skills fast. Participate via group farming to gain such practical skills
- It allows you to benefit from economies of scale with limited capital. For example, mechaniation is possible under a group project is possible than when a very small project on your own.
- Group farming allows you to try farming as a part time gig (i.e. it eliminates the common misconception that farming is like a lifestyle, something you do permanently)
Group Options
There are two broad approaches to the group farming option
Self-Arranged Groups
You and your friends or colleagues form a group, contribute money and start your farming project at Espring Farm. The group members have absolute control over the project - Espring Farm only provides general assistance.
Espring-Managed Groups
Espring Farm organizes farming projects and invites individuals to join in and contribute capital to facilitate the project. These projects are fully managed by Espring Farm but members are involved in every major decision making process.
Why Join Group Farming
Low Capital
Successful farming requires huge capital. In group farming, even Ksh10,000 can be a good startup capital
Link up
with Others
Several people want to benefit from farming just like you. You can easily link up with them for a successful project.
Better
Diversification
Its possible to participate in several group farming projects at once, diversifying your investment.
Make
Farming Fun
Group farming makes things fun. Interact with people and farm season by season, rather than fulltime.
Current Group Projects
Water Supply Station
Building a pumping system to deliver 5,000 liters of water per hour for irrigation from a river.
Water Pan Development
Building 700,000 liter water pan and lining it with a UV-treated dam liner for long term water storage.
High Capacity Pump
Acquring and installing a 30,000 liter per hour water pump for largescale irrigation.
Join A Group & Have Fun Farming
Browse different groups on this platform or create one and invite people to join.