SHAMBA PROFIT KIT

Shamba Profit Kit: The Complete Kenyan Smallholder Guide

Stop farming on guesswork. Know the numbers before you plant or buy a single animal.

Most farmers lose money for the same reasons: the wrong crop for their area, fake inputs, a cowshed that cost double, or a harvest sold into a price crash. Shamba Profit Kit puts the answers in one place, written for Kenyan conditions and priced in Kenyan shillings.

🌱 11 crop enterprises, each with a per-acre KSh budget

Maize, beans, Irish potato, tomato, onion, kale, Hass avocado, passion fruit, tissue-culture banana, sugarcane and NEW wheat & malting barley. Each chapter covers where the crop grows best, which varieties to look for, and a week-by-week season plan. It also gives a full cost-and-income budget and a “What if?” table that shows how your profit changes with yield and price.

🐄 7 livestock enterprises and 28 breed profiles

Dairy cattle, beef feedlot, dairy goats, sheep, poultry, pigs and tilapia. You get breed cards (Friesian to Boran, Saanen to Dorper, layers to kienyeji), feeding guides, breeding numbers, health calendars and a yearly budget for each.

🏠 9 animal-house designs with full bills of quantities

Zero-grazing unit, calf pens, raised goat house, sheep house, feedlot, poultry house, pig sty, fish pond and hay store. Each design comes with a floor plan, a cross-section, and a line-by-line materials list priced in KSh. Four of them also have a low-cost version that can cut the build cost by up to about half.

🧪 Fertilizer and crop protection made simple

Soil testing and liming, fertilizer cards for DAP, CAN, NPK and more, and how to get subsidised fertilizer. It covers how to spot fake bags, pest and disease charts for the main crops, and spraying safety. It’s updated for Kenya’s 2025 pesticide review, so you won’t waste money on withdrawn products.

🚜 Machinery: buy, hire or share?

Tools and machines with prices, typical hire rates, and a simple sum that tells you when owning a machine actually pays.

📸 NEW 2026 Photo Edition (152 pages)

Full-page photo openers for every part and real photos from Kenyan farms throughout the book, a new Wheat & Malting Barley chapter with a side-by-side budget, and a new Part 8 Dry-Season Survival: hay, stover and silage planners, weighing cattle without a scale, water pans, and a mix-your-own dairy meal cost check.

📋 Ready-to-use farm records

Budget, cash-flow and cash-book templates, livestock and field record sheets, a planting calendar by region, and a directory of institutions such as KALRO, KEPHIS, PCPB, NCPB and KDB.

Who it’s for

• New farmers choosing their first enterprise
• Professionals and diaspora investing in a shamba back home
• Farmer groups and youth agribusiness projects
• Anyone tired of losing money to guesswork

What you get: an instant PDF download that opens on your phone, tablet or computer. It’s printable, and you can photocopy the templates for your own farm.

Prices are planning figures as of November 2026. Every budget shows its assumptions so you can plug in your local prices. This is a planning guide, not a promise of income.