{UAH} Ugandan farmer makes £740 ($1,110) daily from poultry farming.

This is a true story that was published in one of the local newspapers in Uganda some time in February or January of 2015 and I remember reading it and thinking wow!

Basically the story is about a poultry farmer who makes a net profit of £667.5 ($994.50) per day. He has over 10,000 egg laying chickens from which he gets an average of 11,100 eggs per day. He says that on a daily basis, he collects about 370 trays of eggs (a tray contains 30 eggs.) He further says that he sells each tray for 7,200/=, that is about £2 ($3). If you do the maths, his daily gross income from the 370 egg trays is £740 ($1,110)

Like any business, he has running costs and the bulk of that is in feeding the layers. He spends about £65 ($97) on the chicken food per day and possibly some more on water and vaccinations. He employs three people that he provides housing for and pays them £75 ($110) per month. This works out at £2.5 ($3.72) on salaries for each of his employees per day so he spends £7.50 ($11) a day on his three employees.

So in brief, the gentleman makes £740 and spends on chicken food (£65), labour (£7.50) making him a net profit of £667.5 ($994.50) per day. For the sake of why I am writing this story, I am not looking at the ethical and moral side of things, I mean how can you make over £600 a day and pay your employee a mere £2.50 a day?

Before moving on to why I am really interested in this story, lets say that he has other expenses directly related to this poultry project that he did not divulge into and that if we consider them we place him at £500 ($745) a day from his poultry project, would living in Uganda and earning £500 a day be a bad idea?

I am writing this while thinking a lot about the many of us Ugandans who left our sweet motherland to find employment else where in the hope of making our lives better and the question I guess I would like to ask at this point is how many of us make £500 a day? Further more, how many of us brave the winters and God knows what else we are faced with in the Diaspora on a daily basis to make not even a quarter of what this gentleman makes? Is it time to pack up and go home? Is Europe or America or wherever you live and work not the promised land after all?

Sometimes when we have had this conversation with a few colleagues, questions have always rotated around something that can bring a stable income once in Uganda. Does this poultry farmer's business model sound like one that can generate a stable income?

With all the knowledge and exposure that we have gained from living out of Uganda, is it time to take the plunge?

http://radiouganda.net/self-employment/ugandan-farmer-makes-%C2%A3740-1110-daily-poultry-farming

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