Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Oct 21, 2013 9:40:44 GMT 1
The word bank made it clear that the foundation for development and breaking the backbone of poverty is self employment and entreprenurship.The greatest need for the poor is food and shelter, no government can create enough jobs for her citizens. Government creates the enabling environment, while the people create the jobs themselves. It is agro/allied enterprise that can create the highest number of jobs in Nigeria today. Over twenty million jobs can be created through agro/allied business ventures such as farming fish, snails, goat, grasscutter, vegitables, food processing which is still a virgin business venture, but the mad rush for oil money has led to the utter neglect of this lucrative agricultural enterprise.
Grasscutter farming, though a relatively new undertaking in livestock farming is a very lucrative venture. Commercial farming of grasscutter may appear as classy as manufacturing or being in the financial service sector, but it holds great promises and tremendous reward.
Grasscutters (a rodent family), like many rodent species have been and continue to be a delicacy in a number of countries, in Latin America, Africa and Asia where markets exist for a wide variety of rodent species for consumption, grasscutters are often preferred over other sources of meat. And this offers small-scale farmers, investors, businessmen and all those with wealth-mind set, an economic incentive for raising grasscutters in confined area.
Grasscutters are widely distributed and valued in West and Central Africa. The meat is of a higher protein but lower fat content than domesticated farm meat and it is also appreciated for its tenderness and taste. More recently, intensive production of grasscutters has been undertaken in many African countries, including Nigeria.
Among all the livestock farming grasscutter is the cheapest to farm because they feed only on grasses and nuts for optimum result you can add supplements. You can start this agro business venture in your backyard as low as #80,000 which has the capacity to turn into multi millionaire business venture within a space of three year if well managed.
Research carried out over the last two decades has allowed the selection and improvement of stock with much knowledge and techniques for grasscutter productionwhich comes in colony ie four female and one male.
Requirements for commercialgrasscutter farming
Grasscutter breeding stock: This is made up of 1male and 2 female which will cost about #60,000 per colony i.e. a set of breeding stock. A serious and dedicated farmer can have up to 50 families at a time i.e. 10 set of breeding stock.
Housing: This housing depends on individual; one can rent a land outside the home or at your backyard, in a cage, hutches, and cage-hutch or even in a room provided it is well ventilated. The pens (cages and hutches) are best if located in stable to protect them from theft, rain and predators such as man snake etc.For the cage you can use iron/wire mesh, Hutch is the combination of cement or mud block and iron/wire mesh, the iron mesh is used as door.
Feeding: Grasscutters are mainly herbivorous animals which feed on various specific forages with succulent stalks, they show a high preference for grass and particularly favourpennisetumpurpureum (elephant grass) and panicum maximum, they consume nuts, bark and soft parts of grasses and shrubs and roots and tubers. You can as well added food supplements for maximum result.
Equipments and Uses
• Hopper/Drinkers for serving water and supplement
• Buckets for fetching of water
• Packers for packing wastes or swept excretal
• Bruch/Brooms for cleaning
• Scale for weighing grasscutter occasionally or before and during sales
• Transport cages for transporting breeding stock from farm to farm
• Wheel barrow if necessary.
Source: leadership.ng/news/020813/become-millionaire-farming-grasscutter-nigeria-1
Grasscutter farming, though a relatively new undertaking in livestock farming is a very lucrative venture. Commercial farming of grasscutter may appear as classy as manufacturing or being in the financial service sector, but it holds great promises and tremendous reward.
Grasscutters (a rodent family), like many rodent species have been and continue to be a delicacy in a number of countries, in Latin America, Africa and Asia where markets exist for a wide variety of rodent species for consumption, grasscutters are often preferred over other sources of meat. And this offers small-scale farmers, investors, businessmen and all those with wealth-mind set, an economic incentive for raising grasscutters in confined area.
Grasscutters are widely distributed and valued in West and Central Africa. The meat is of a higher protein but lower fat content than domesticated farm meat and it is also appreciated for its tenderness and taste. More recently, intensive production of grasscutters has been undertaken in many African countries, including Nigeria.
Among all the livestock farming grasscutter is the cheapest to farm because they feed only on grasses and nuts for optimum result you can add supplements. You can start this agro business venture in your backyard as low as #80,000 which has the capacity to turn into multi millionaire business venture within a space of three year if well managed.
Research carried out over the last two decades has allowed the selection and improvement of stock with much knowledge and techniques for grasscutter productionwhich comes in colony ie four female and one male.
Requirements for commercialgrasscutter farming
Grasscutter breeding stock: This is made up of 1male and 2 female which will cost about #60,000 per colony i.e. a set of breeding stock. A serious and dedicated farmer can have up to 50 families at a time i.e. 10 set of breeding stock.
Housing: This housing depends on individual; one can rent a land outside the home or at your backyard, in a cage, hutches, and cage-hutch or even in a room provided it is well ventilated. The pens (cages and hutches) are best if located in stable to protect them from theft, rain and predators such as man snake etc.For the cage you can use iron/wire mesh, Hutch is the combination of cement or mud block and iron/wire mesh, the iron mesh is used as door.
Feeding: Grasscutters are mainly herbivorous animals which feed on various specific forages with succulent stalks, they show a high preference for grass and particularly favourpennisetumpurpureum (elephant grass) and panicum maximum, they consume nuts, bark and soft parts of grasses and shrubs and roots and tubers. You can as well added food supplements for maximum result.
Equipments and Uses
• Hopper/Drinkers for serving water and supplement
• Buckets for fetching of water
• Packers for packing wastes or swept excretal
• Bruch/Brooms for cleaning
• Scale for weighing grasscutter occasionally or before and during sales
• Transport cages for transporting breeding stock from farm to farm
• Wheel barrow if necessary.
Source: leadership.ng/news/020813/become-millionaire-farming-grasscutter-nigeria-1
