Passion Fruit Farming: A Step by Step Guide to Growing Passion Fruit for Profit
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Have you ever looked at your life and thought there’s got to be more?
More than those debts you’re struggling with. More than that job you hate so much. You know that it will take years of your life to achieve your dream if ever it happens.
In fact, most of us have big dreams, yet we’re concerned that the road we’re traveling will never converge with those dreams. But still, we chose to do nothing about it. We chose the road of least resistance – a job. We rely on it to feed ourselves and families, to take our kids to school, to pay taxes and loans.
As a result of this, we surrender our lives and those of our beloved ones to things we cannot control. Things like the economy, pay increment from our employers and so on. We migrate and live in a safe and nice place called, ‘someday.’ We content with a mediocre life that is full of misery and doubt. And that my friend is how far the formal education takes us.
You need alternatives
People are economical with the truth. In addition, few people would like to be bearers of bad news. So they focus on the sweet spot and avoid the harsh reality. But I’ll be more frank with you and hand you the bitter pill. Dependency on one source of income is suicidal.
And while I’m not against getting your dream job, In fact, I have one myself; you must look for other alternatives in today’s economy.
Not unless your job gives you over $200,000 a year and you have enough freedom to spend time with your family whenever and however you want, you need alternatives.
There are umpteen businesses you can initiate but personally, I’d choose Agribusiness anytime, every time. Which other industry offers little to no tax opportunities?
I guessed so. And not just any Agribusiness.
How about making over $20,000 per year growing passion fruits.
That’s massive income for a side hustle. Yes, it’s possible:
Making $20,000 or KES 2,000,000 a year from mere farming is no joke. It takes more and that’s why in this passion fruit farming course, I walk you through all the steps. From land acquisition to orchard establishment, to marketing, to managing risks, to funding, and finding buyers.
Reading through this e-book will give you an unfair advantage over all of your peers making you the best in the industry.
And yes, you can do this.
You want to have some control over your income, you can.
You want to start and succeed in farming, you can.
You want to earn up to $20,000 per year growing passion fruits, heck, you can!
Because let’s face it, the consumers are opting for fresh juices extracted from fresh fruits as opposed to another form of drinks.
This has pushed the demand for passion fruit over the roof.
It’s through this realization that many more stakeholders have come on board to support passion fruit farmers.
Christopher Makomere
Christopher Makomere is a keen entrepreneur with major interests in horticulture. He’s also a marketer and founder of hortzone.com, a popular blog in Kenya dedicated to helping farming start-ups and large Agribusiness corporations to explode their revenues.He studied at Egerton University, School of Agriculture under the department of crops, horticulture, and soils. He has worked with several organizations to transform the livelihoods of small-scale farmers through USAID-KHCP.
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Passion Fruit Farming - Christopher Makomere
Table of Contents
Passion Fruit Farming Course
Acknowledgement
Introduction
You need alternatives
Passion Fruit Farming Ninjas: Case Studies of farmers crashing it
Lesson 1: Dream It
Strategic Planning
SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats)
Chapter one: Preliminary Requirements
Managing Expectations
#1. Land
#2. Climatic conditions
#3. Soils.
#4. Other requirements
Soil sampling and analysis
Chapter two: Site Selection
How to Choose a Suitable Site for Growing Your Passion Fruits
Things to Consider When Choosing a Suitable Site for Growing Passionfruit
Thing #1. The Slope
Thing #3. The Aspect
Thing #4. Row Orientation
Thing #5. Frost Conditions
Thing #6. Wind Protection
Thing #7. Proximity to a Water Source/Rainfall
Thing #8. Proximity to Market Outlets
Lesson 2 – Grow It
Production Techniques
How to design your orchard
Chapter three: Land preparation & Orchard establishment
Conditioning your soil
Land preparation and planting.
Commercial varieties
Other Latest Varieties
Choice of planting material
Intercropping
Lesson 3 – Do It
Farm/Orchard Operations
Chapter four: Orchard management
Irrigating the orchard
Weed management.
Feeding the passion fruit vines
Supporting and training the vines
How to prune the fruits’ vines
Chapter five: Pest and Disease Management
Pests
Common passion fruit diseases and their control.
General pest and disease control measures
Common problems in growing passion fruits and their causes.
Lesson 4: Sell it
Marketing Plan/Strategy
Chapter six: Harvesting, post-harvest, value addition and market overview
Maturity and Harvesting
Yield
Storage
Packing and packaging
How to sell your passion fruits like a pro
Selling for tech-savvy passion fruit entrepreneurs
Major Passion Fruit Processors in Kenya
Other Global Processors
A word on price, safety, and quality
Lesson 5 – Manage It
Chapter seven: Farm Finances
Funding Opportunities
Financial Statements
Balance Sheet
Income Statement
Important tips to keep in mind
Lesson 6 – Keep It
Managing Risks
Insurance
Production
Marketing
Financial
Business Structure & Farm Succession or Exit
Conclusion
About the Author
End Notes & Resources
Disclaimer
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Acknowledgement
Humility is the acknowledgement that without God we wouldn’t have made it thus far.
- Gugu Mona
I’d love to brag to you about how I wrote this book from bottom up with original ideas but I can’t. In fact nobody can.
This eBook is a collection of ideas, methodologies and concepts from different great men and women dedicated to making farming knowledge accessible and usable. Without the passion and efforts of these men and women, you wouldn’t be reading this right now.
Most importantly, I’d sincerely wish to thank my fiancée, Lydia who tirelessly assisted in piecing this e-book together and for her continual inspiration.
And to my graphic designer Nehara from creativelog, I want to say thank you for the unconditional support.
To the almighty God, your grace has been sufficient and always is.
Introduction
Sad but this is the reality
Have you ever looked around your life and thought there’s got to be more?
More than those debts you’re struggling with. More than that job you hate so much. You know that it will take years of your life to achieve your dream if ever it happens.
In fact, most of us have big dreams, yet we’re concerned that the road we’re travelling will never converge with those dreams. But still we chose to do nothing about it. We chose the road of least resistance – a job. We rely on it to feed ourselves and families, to take our kids to school, to pay taxes and loans.
We continuously build a house of sand that when the wind comes, we’re done for. In technical terms it’s called single point of failure (SPOF). Developing dependency on a job is a dangerous single point of failure. Companies collapse no matter how large, employees get fired, sickness creep in, retrenchment occurs. What will you do when it happens in your company?
If you’re still in doubt, look at the recent scenario in Kenya where over 10,000 employees lost their jobs in a year despite economists having reported an expansion in GDP by 6.2%. Mark you; these weren’t small companies laying off their staff to remain afloat. But were big brands that most graduates would give their souls to work for. What else do you need to believe the system has been corrupted?
If you have a job, your only hope is that someday the economy will be better, someday if only you work hard enough; you’ll get a promotion and may be a pay rise that will change your life. Or for the job seeker; someday you’ll get your dream job and start transforming