Farming is a business
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Chibhorani Talk
With Sekuru Taurai
Welcome to Chibhoraniland, land of farmers farming in farms in a country that is very good for farming. Never mind the previous droughts that brought hunger, Chibhoraniland was once the breadbasket of Africa with overflowing grain silos, the savanna teeming with livestock while gardens and orchards were green with vegetables and bearing fruit trees. Quite something close to paradise, I must say. Sadly all this is history now. However the reliable good news coming to my ears is that the evil El Nino that was causing devastating droughts is now as good as dead. Yes, kaput, gone and just around the corner is the incoming La Nina that is bringing normal to above normal rainfall. Of course we will have to be on the lookout pa above normal apa because possibilities of floods and resultant problems are there.
Now normal rainfall is sweet news to any good farmer worth his or her salt because it translates to good crops and good harvests, good pastures and good livestock making it possible for the farmer to smile all the way to the bank while some, because banks are not what they used to be, will prefer to hide their profits under the pillow and risk being robbed at machetepoint or even gunpoint. Here one has to first of all take farming as a business because it is a business. Problem is most of us Chibhoraniland rural folks do not take farming as a business and farm to subsist up to the next planting season, iya inonzi hand to mouth. This is true even for those in areas ‘’white’’ colonialists called African Purchase Land, ikoko kumatenganyika. Here, without going to the field, you will see by the dilapidated homestead that nothing is being produced.
Rural farmers and purchase land farmers, let us take farming as a business. It is not just shop and grind mill owners that are businesspeople, farmers are business people as well when they farm to make profits that will make them rich, even richer than shop and grind mill owners. Yes, you can do wonders even on that small two or three hectare plot. Just aim high, work hard and do everything to the book with the free advice from Agritex Officers and you will surprise yourself as you make headlines in the business community. Kutozofambawo namavhiri mana kuno kwedu kumachonyonyo as a man, woman or youth in the farming business. Ndazvitaura kuti musazoti Sekuru Taurai havana kumbotitaurira zvakadai. By the way, I just bought a Toyota pickup with proceeds from my several farming projects. Migwagwa yacho mhani!
