7 REASONS THAT MAKE MOST FARMERS FAIL IN AFRICA THAN IN OTHER CONTINENTS

1. THEY ARE ABSENT

Absentee farmers will always fail. To succeed in farming, you must be around your farm most of the time one way or the other. Please there is nothing like ”whatsapp” farming! 

2. POOR RECORD KEEPING

They don’t keep proper records. Structures and order usually bring increase. What you don’t measure may not grow and may even die. And you cant keep everything in your mind.

Buy a book and record everything you do.

3. THEY DO NOT NETWORK

Those who do the farming business just by themselves without meaningful and proper interactions with farmers (breeders) that matters will pack up sooner or later. No one can succeed alone. A smart farmer knows that there are webs of interactions with farmers, vets, nutritionists, agronomists, and other notable professionals that will make farming successful.

4. QUALITY MATTERS

They like cheap inputs instead of going for quality. A cheap mentality at the expense of productivity will always lead to frustrations. When a farmer is fanatical about cheap inputs, he is digging his business grave.

5. DO NOT OVER EXERT YOURSELF

They bite more than they can chew. Some farmers, in a bid to make it big fast will take on more than they can handle financially and technically. And of course they will crash!

6. THEY FOCUS MORE ON WORK, THEN SCIENCE

When a farmer focuses more on activities than the laid down scientific obligations, he is bound to fail.

7. FARMING IS A TIME BOUND ACTIVITY 

Everything you do in farming has got a time frame, once you miss that time your productivity will go down. For example when you are late in applying basal dressing fertilizer in maize there is no reverse it means Gh are late and expect low yields.

Not only in farming business but also it affect many businesses like importing and exporting, transportation section, education system, as well as consultancy services.