If you are tired of working for others, try grass cutter farming

Grass cutter rearing can make you to be gainfully employed. At Jovana Farms, we specialize in breeding, training, setting-up grass cutter farms and sales. Grass cutter farming is a great money-spinning business that can provide job opportunities for the young and old; the educated or uneducated members of the society. In addition to these facts, […]

Grass cutter rearing can make you to be gainfully employed. At Jovana Farms, we specialize in breeding, training, setting-up grass cutter farms and sales. Grass cutter farming is a great money-spinning business that can provide job opportunities for the young and old; the educated or uneducated members of the society.
In addition to these facts, it is free from cultural and religious taboos. This makes it to be a universal favourite, breaking all barriers -ethnicity, colour, creed, etc. The situation affords the prospective investor the opportunity of raising grass cutter for local and international markets. If you want to be your own boss and you are ready to work hard and get rich, try grass cutter farming.
If all hands are on deck, over a million jobs can be created in grass cutter sector alone. But Nigerians preference for white collar jobs had led to the neglect of this lucrative agricultural enterprise. The business does not require millions of naira to execute. It can be started with just one family of grass cutters normally called a colony which is sold for N45,000 to N50,000 depending on the specie and age. A colony comprises of one male and four females. They are reared in cages which can be constructed at a cost of N10,000 by any roadside carpenter.
Therefore, with N60,000, you are already in good business. It is advisable to buy them when they are four months old, which is the breeding stock stage.  Grass cutter is odorless unlike fowls, rabbits, pig etc. You do not require an expanse of space to start; the cage can be placed anywhere in the compound or even in the kitchen. In terms of feeding, it is not like fish farming, pig farming or poultry farming, because grass cutters feed on grass.
In terms of yield, one female grass cutter can give birth to as many as six to ten babies at a go. I have even witnessed 10 at once in my farm. So, instead of remaining unemployed, even an undergraduate can take a soft loan from a bank, friend or family member and in a few months be able to pay back the loan and still remain in business. For instance, if you start rearing now, in about four months, they will start having babies because they mature for birth at eight months.
And if you do not have enough space for expansion, you can sell the babies to new farmers; at the end of the day the four females give you seven babies each, you have 28 litters. Invariably, you only have to be patient for about eight months, and if they carry their babies for about five months, you can start cross-breeding them for stronger breeds and in eight months, you start making profit.
Grass cutter meat is also high in demand. It readily comes to mind when people think of ‘bush meat.’ Though for now, the price maybe on the high side, the nutritional value is enormous. It is white meat and has low cholesterols and doctors highly recommend it for health conscious people.
 Arinze Onebunne can be reached on [email protected]