Funding a farm isn’t easy. Equipment, personnel, and promotional material all rapidly eat up precious resources. If you’re a new farmer, you’re probably searching for ways to reach the startup capital you need or to get those necessary cash infusions to boost your ability to scale up. One of the most innovative ways to start a farm today is crowdfunding. Crowdfunding a farm boils down to convincing your friends, family, and community to invest in your dream farm. The funding method offers a kickstart to your marketing strategy and a funding option with no repayment, all in one tantalizing package. Every farm needs a financial plan to succeed. Join us as we uncover this topic with Mothupi Kgopa, Afrifarm Crowd Co-founder and CEO.
ABOUT AFRIFARM CROWD
Running four poultry farms in Limpopo and Gauteng focusing of meat production, eggs and
hatching of broiler and layer chicks with a target of producing 1 million eggs by end of 2021
with a turnover of over 4 million in a space of eight months during the year of Covid-19.
Managing production of eggs
Managing production and sales of day of chicks
Importing and manufacturing poultry equipment
Managing own animal feed shop
Managing manufacturing of wood shavings and egg trays
Managing production and sales of point of lay chickens with a record sale of 4000 sold in a
week at R100 each.
Afrifarm
Co-Founder
Director at African Farmers Magazine: Training over 700 farmers a year at our chicken farming master class. We have trained people in SA, Botswana, Angola, Russia, and UK.
Content Creator and Strategist – eThuto – a digital platform helping learner’s access brilliant teacher online anywhere they are in the world.
Author three books:
1. Best Selling “African …
Director at African Farmers Magazine: Training over 700 farmers a year at our chicken farming master class. We have trained people in SA, Botswana, Angola, Russia, and UK.
Content Creator and Strategist – eThuto – a digital platform helping learner’s access brilliant teacher online anywhere they are in the world.
Author three books:
1. Best Selling “African Wealth Paradigm Shift” - a personal finance book.
2. African Wealth Little Money Bird – financial literacy book for children.
3. Chicken Farming Master – a chicken farming book for those interested in starting commercial chicken farms.
Puno Chairperson – A manufacturing stokvel producing tissues
Co-Founder - Farming Stokvel – a 20 000 chicks per month producing stokvel with the aim of owning a milling company
Teach SA Board Member – An organisation recruiting top graduates to become teachers Mathematician – Trained Maths Teachers in Gauteng, Northern Cape, Western Cape and Free State.
Helped improved mathematics results in 78 schools in Free State from below 40% to above 70% from 2015 – 2019.
Education: BSc Degree in Mathematics, Computational and Applied Maths and Economics. Hons Degree in Journalism at Wits University pending research.
Serial conversationalist and entrepreneur Nthabiseng Seleke is a twentysomething who is obsessed with courageous living and maintains a sense of curiosity in all that she does. She is passionate about contributing to the growth of small businesses in a more meaningful way by helping them amplify their voices through her writing and editing services business. Although she underwent formal training as a fashion designer, the work that she now does is more centred around serving entrepreneurs. Her work at both AlexBiz and THUD allow her to do just that.
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