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 Food prices usually rise due to an increased cost in raw ingredientsIn a nutshell, food prices are rising due to increasing costs in taking raw ingredients from the ground and converting them into the groceries that you can purchase at your local supermarket. Food prices throughout the world have gone up sharply and Oxfam has already given the world the warning that this trend will grow over the next two decades. Read more.Compare Supermarket Prices in Kenya | BeiYangu
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/7/2011 Posts: 112
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Food is the Business? Perhaps.
Three things in the world that will become gold:
Food, Water, Energy.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/23/2010 Posts: 2,221 Location: Sundowner,Amboseli
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Abby wrote:Food is the Business? Perhaps.
Three things in the world that will become gold:
Food, Water, Energy. Couldn't agree more! Remember, as folks get more and more stressed out, they graze more! @SufficientlyP
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Rank: Chief Joined: 3/24/2010 Posts: 6,779 Location: Black Africa
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Sufficiently Philanga....thropic wrote:Abby wrote:Food is the Business? Perhaps.
Three things in the world that will become gold:
Food, Water, Energy. Couldn't agree more! Remember, as folks get more and more stressed out, they graze more! Farmers (of staples) will drive Ferrari's then? GOD BLESS YOUR LIFE
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/21/2006 Posts: 608 Location: Ruiru
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youcan'tstopusnow wrote:Sufficiently Philanga....thropic wrote:Abby wrote:Food is the Business? Perhaps.
Three things in the world that will become gold:
Food, Water, Energy. Couldn't agree more! Remember, as folks get more and more stressed out, they graze more! Farmers (of staples) will drive Ferrari's then? Not a majority of our farmers. Too subsistence to even afford a decent light truck (pickup). But I agree, serious farming is rewarding. "..I am because we are. "― Ubuntu, Umtu,
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 3/31/2008 Posts: 761 Location: Nairobi
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GGK wrote:youcan'tstopusnow wrote:Sufficiently Philanga....thropic wrote:Abby wrote:Food is the Business? Perhaps.
Three things in the world that will become gold:
Food, Water, Energy. Couldn't agree more! Remember, as folks get more and more stressed out, they graze more! Farmers (of staples) will drive Ferrari's then? Not a majority of our farmers. Too subsistence to even afford a decent light truck (pickup). But I agree, serious farming is rewarding. True but again the erratic weather conditions is a bit messy. I once tried wheat and burnt my fingers seriously coz of the weather. First season, lack of rains, 2nd season too much of it. I did maize which did quite well only for thugs to harvest half the shamba. Maybe greenhouses would do better then When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty
of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/9/2008 Posts: 5,389
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With the current food prices: one cabbage 80bob, one onion 5bob, one tomato 5bob, debe of potatoes 450bob, am seriously considering farming.
Squeezing 100,000 cabbages (@80 bob) in 1 acre will give you 8,000,000 bob in 4 months.
400,000 onions (@5bob) in 1/2 acre will give you 2m in 4 months.
Harvesting 500,000 tomatoes (@5bob) from 1/2 acre will give you 2.5m in 3 months.
Thus by leasing 2acres of land in the outskirts of Nairobi one can easily make Ksh. 12.5 million every 4 months (or 37.5m per yr if under irrigation).
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/12/2006 Posts: 42
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True, smart farming is the new thing,but being realistic is also healthy in this biz. Have seen a guy burn with his tomatoes produce to the point of contemplating suicide but again that was him.
****************Cabbage at 80???? Konow of a supermarket in Kiambu where they selling them from 5 bob!
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Rank: Chief Joined: 3/24/2010 Posts: 6,779 Location: Black Africa
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kachero wrote:Cabbage at 80???? Konow of a supermarket in Kiambu where they selling them from 5 bob! Juzi tu there was an oversupply of cabbages from farms. I think the farmers were selling as low as 3 bob (really nice cabbages) Of course the middlemen who bought made a killing by reselling. Agricultural produce is very volatile (in pricing) Potatoes also experienced a spike (bei ya chips ikaongezeka) but then it went down hard. GOD BLESS YOUR LIFE
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