Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Jun 14, 2011 9:50:04 GMT 1
For three years after his youth service in 2005, Gbenga Ibikunle, a Business Administration graduate, was pounding offices all over Lagos searching for a job. Although Ibikunle had fortuitously undergone a short training in snail farming on the farm estate in Ondo State where he did his service year, the spell was just a formality to him. He was convinced farming wasn’t it; he was looking forward to securing a juicy white-collar job in Lagos.
Three years at home and with no job in sight, Ibikunle was compelled to start thinking of applying the snail farming training he had had productively. “It wasn’t as if I was particularly enamoured of the idea,” he told this magazine. “But, at least, that is the only area I can say I had a training that I can apply with ease and there was space to practise it. It would keep me busy and kill the boredom that I was increasingly finding most frustrating, but it wasn’t as if I thought anything great of it.”
That was then. Today, Ibikunle has been thinking something of snail farming. Two years ago, he was able to source N25,000 which he ploughed into constructing a snail pen at his backyard. A year and a half after, the graduate small-scale snail farmer was surprised he could make about N200,000 from marketing the snails. The effort has been paying his bills, with something extra to diversify into another small-scale business.
Ismail Abdulazeez quipped that Ibikunle is toeing the snail farming too unambitiously. He probably should know. Abdulazeez is managing consultant of Thy Snail and Grasscutter Consult, a training and advisory concern that teaches newcomers to the snail and grasscutter farming on how to achieve easy streets through the venture. Abdulazeez enthused it is possible to start snail farming with a capital of N100,000 and earn a profit of up to N1mn within a year.
Get across to Ismail AbdulAzeez of THE THY SNAIL & GRASSCUTTER FARMS @
httP://snailriches2.tripod.com
www.thethyconsulting.com/thebeautyofsnailfarming.htm
Three years at home and with no job in sight, Ibikunle was compelled to start thinking of applying the snail farming training he had had productively. “It wasn’t as if I was particularly enamoured of the idea,” he told this magazine. “But, at least, that is the only area I can say I had a training that I can apply with ease and there was space to practise it. It would keep me busy and kill the boredom that I was increasingly finding most frustrating, but it wasn’t as if I thought anything great of it.”
That was then. Today, Ibikunle has been thinking something of snail farming. Two years ago, he was able to source N25,000 which he ploughed into constructing a snail pen at his backyard. A year and a half after, the graduate small-scale snail farmer was surprised he could make about N200,000 from marketing the snails. The effort has been paying his bills, with something extra to diversify into another small-scale business.
Ismail Abdulazeez quipped that Ibikunle is toeing the snail farming too unambitiously. He probably should know. Abdulazeez is managing consultant of Thy Snail and Grasscutter Consult, a training and advisory concern that teaches newcomers to the snail and grasscutter farming on how to achieve easy streets through the venture. Abdulazeez enthused it is possible to start snail farming with a capital of N100,000 and earn a profit of up to N1mn within a year.
Get across to Ismail AbdulAzeez of THE THY SNAIL & GRASSCUTTER FARMS @
httP://snailriches2.tripod.com
www.thethyconsulting.com/thebeautyofsnailfarming.htm
