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“How To START And

Create WEALTH Through

Grasscutter Farming.”

By

Chinedu Eluwa


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INTRODUCTION

The information I am about to share with you is my personal

experience. I was hungry for success and I made it happen.

I made it happen because I was not lazy. I have the full

conviction that if anybody too would practice what is written

here, the person would soon be giving their testimonies.


Now Pay Attention and Learn

I want to inform you about an incredible tool of economic

empowerment and how it improved my financial status and

opened my financial eyes to the inherent possibilities,

monetary and material benefits that lie untapped in

Agriculture.

Youths have failed to embrace the numerous material and

financial benefits Agriculture brings to whosoever is ready for

it. The reasons for this can be attributed to so many things but

I will highlight two (2).

First, is the lack of adequate financial education and

lack of the knowledge of the subconscious blessings of

any agro venture.

Secondly, the “get rich quick syndrome” that has engulfed

their minds. Most Youths have continuously neglected the law

of labour. In every labour there is profit, but they under the

guise of no employment perpetrate crimes so as to make

money, crimes ranging from internet scam, kidnapping,


robbery etc. This they do without knowing that a lot of money

can be made legally and lots if not empires can be built on the

Agric sector.

I am not saying that the unemployment status is good, far

from it, it is a curse. A man that fails to provide food for his

family has denied the faith. What I am trying to say is that

wealth abounds in all legitimate endeavors, and that it’s high

time for the largely unemployed youths to look inwards and

become Creators- Creators of employment that we were

created to be.

Youths have failed to understand that life is a cycle and we

keep cycling out. Just like our fathers got to this very stage

that most of us are at now, and their fathers before them, some

of them took the illegal steps to acquire wealth and ended up

not so well, so also some of the youths have taken the road of

ill-wealth and alas, they will also end up the same way. This is

because it is a natural law that whatsoever a man soweth, that

shall he reap. The Holy book shows clearly how people that

make wealth in illegal ways end up:


“As an ostrich lays her eggs and not hatch them, so shall they

live their riches in the midst of their days and at the end, they

shall become fools.”

I saw the numerous opportunities agriculture offers since my

childhood and I have keyed into it and I tell you, it continues

to bless me financially, materially and spiritually. And also I

can substantively say that I receive more in terms of financial

reward from my agro ventures than most of my mates that are

on a paid employment.

I am a Masters Degree Candidate that has understood the

power in agriculture and is on a quest to enlighten more

youths on its potency. Am following my dreams, and I intend

to feed the “whole nations” of the earth before my sojourn on

earth is over.

Agriculture is big business.


GRASSCUTTER FARMING: AN EFFECTIVE

WAY OF CREATING EMPLOYMENT.

My name is Chinedu Eluwa, am a Political Theorist (B.Sc Pol sci, M.Sc

Pol sci in view, 2014), I started analyzing the role that micro-livestock

farming will play in the near future in terms of creating decent

employment for the youths-men, women and young people during my

National youth service days in 2009 at Ondo State, and this analysis

took me to forestry research institute of Nigeria, Ibadan (FRIN).

This was where I saw an animal that made me think twice-

Grasscutter.

For the first time I was seeing Grasscutter being reared.

Grasscutter otherwise known as cane rats are widely distributed in the

wild and are mostly found in central and West Africa. It is popularly

known as “Nchi” in Igbo language. Its meat is a popular delicacy


known also as bush meat and is eaten either roasted or as pepper soup

and can also be used for cooking other native delicacies.

“Anu Nchi” is not as common as the poultry-chicken, turkey, beef or

goat meat. This is the reason why it sells more per kg than Chicken

and turkey, and also why it is known as the “delicacy for the

rich.” Grasscutters belong to the rodent family and is biggest after the

porcupine, with an adult Grasscutter weighing about 4 to 10kg.

Grasscutter is a big delicacy in Nigeria’s diet. Everything but the hair

is eaten. The nutritive value of Grasscutter is relatively high. The crude

protein content of the meat is about 22.7% compared to 20.7% for

rabbit meat, 19.25% for chicken and 18.2% for beef.

One can depend on Grasscutter farming for his livelihood. In fact,

Grasscutter farming creates job opportunities for urban and rural

dwellers. The business of producing, processing, transporting, storing,

financing, and servicing Grasscutter products create employment for

many people.

My quest to understand more about this wonderful animal and how to

commercialize them took me round so many organized farms and

through so many documentary materials in the quest for more

information about profitable Grasscutter farming. This I did because I

know that adequate and accurate information is among the key

requirements for success in whatsoever venture one undertakes.


After equipping myself with the necessary information needed to set

up the venture, I started facing challenges in the form of:

·Lack of Capital

·Lack of Space

·Fear of Failure

Now let me discuss these issues briefly...

I want to make it clear that all these issues I outlined above are

challenges but if you look at it from the right perspective, you will see

that they are opportunities. Because every challenge is an opportunity

to learn something, and just like Abraham Lincoln said; learning is a

continuous process.

· Lack of Capital:

In March 2012, after attending a “one on one Grasscutter

training” at Ogun State, I came back home in a high spirit, high

spirit not because of the “one on one Grasscutter training”, but

because of what I had learnt from the young man, a graduate (a

certified accountant) who was the owner of the farm. During the tour

on his farm I was so amazed because I was standing in a Grasscutter

farm with about 450 to 500 Grasscutters “fully alive” roughly valued

at about N2,000,000.


I asked him how many he started with.

Do you know how many he told me?

Guess...

“1 male and 1 female.”

He told me he started with 1 male and 1 female and as they increased,

he bought more families.

Here I learnt a big lesson. I learnt that there is great gain in starting

small and growing.

Lesson #1: Start small.

“Forget ye not the days of your humble

beginning for thy latter ending shall be great.”

·Lack of Space

After realizing that I could start small and grow big, I was

yet again faced with the issue of Space.

What did I do?

I quickly went to an iron welder around my neighborhood

and told him I needed a cage to start rearing Grasscutters.


He was amazed! This was because he never knew

Grasscutters could be reared. I gave him the specifications

of the iron cage I had seen in the Vanguard newspaper

seminar advert of Mr Arinze the CEO of Jovana farms and

also a successful Grasscutter farmer.

It was a 3 Decker cage and I used hard wood to make a

bed for them on each deck (this was a wrong move as

Grasscutters chew through the wood and their urine easily

soaked the bed. But I was learning).

This didn’t cost me more than N15, 000 and I faithfully

positioned my Grasscutter cage right in front of my room,


and I was ready for business.

I had yet again learnt a new lesson.

Lesson #2: “you can start anything you want, just

start.”

·fear of failure

What if I failed, to succeed in this venture?

What if I couldn’t rear them?

What if they run away?

What if.....

What if…...

Questions upon questions constantly filled my mind like a scientist

making an inquiry.

But how would I actually know the answers to these questions if I

never actually tried?

So I overcame that fear by getting out of my comfort zone and bought

my first colony of 1 male and 4 females and today, a Successful


Grasscutter Farmer.

Lesson #3: “Nothing is Impossible. All we need to do is just

TRY!!!”

How I Created Wealth Using

Grasscutter farming

I started with 2 colonies- 8 females and 2 males which cost me

about N150,000 (thats for the 2 colonies +transportation and

other equipment).

A female gives birth to over 5 Grasscutlings.

The 8 females littered only once in the first year=

8x4=32 Grasscutlings.

In the first year, the 8 female Grasscutters reproduced

32 Grasscutters. That means i got about 5 families from my

original 2 family investment and the 5 families is valued


at over N200,000.

Now in the second year, they littered 2x which is their

normal littering number per year. That gave me 50

Grasscutlings.

The investment is now valued at over N400,000. Now i also

made more money in this business by simply documenting

and selling my experiences, expertise and knowledge that i

gained from raising them.

These documentations were produced in the form of short

reports, handouts, videos, training manuals etc. The amount

you make here depends on how well you package and market

your intellectual products. Most farmers sell there Grasscutter

videos for N7,500 –N10,000 non-negotiable.

Through my marketing mix, I sold my Training videos and

made some money from it too.


At this point, you see that my N150,000 investment has now

become valued at over N400,000.

The beauty and secret of this business depends on your

LEVEL OF INVESTMENT and MANAGEMENT. You can

start with more families depending on how much fund you

have at your disposal. You can source for capital to start

maybe through the financial institutions, friends and

associates or your own personal savings.

I will strongly advice that you start up this business with your

personal savings and grow it to a reasonable level before going

to financial institutions. This is because in approaching this

financial institutions, they will want to see proof of viability,

that is when your already functioning farm will work in your

favour. But all in all, if you are determined, you can still grow

your farm to a Million Naira business with your personal

savings, just create more space and buy more families once in

a while as your pocket can carry. I started with my personal

savings and it has brought me thus far.


Conclusion

Everything you will ever achieve in this life as regards your

financial status starts with one general principle- DESIRE.

I have taken time to observe so many great achievers in history

and I observed a common trend- They all had what Napoleon

Hill called a BURNING DESIRE.

Friend you too can do this, its all about the intensity of your

desire. With just 1 family for a start, you are on your way to

financial independence.

ACT NOW, TIME THEY SAY WAITS FOR NO ONE!!!


THANK YOU

Thank you for Reading this FREE E-Book.

Grasscutter farming can really help you create more wealth

this year.

If you sell 20 colonies this year at the price of N49,750, you

will be making a cool N990,000

Imagine what you can achieve with N990,000 this year?

A lot!

Now imagine you sold 30 colonies…

That is N1,492,500.

This is a little compared to what you can do.


In my quest to increase my customers and make more sales, I

discovered that over N7,000 Nigerians are seeking to start

Grasscutter farming but they have not been able to find

information on how to start, the best stocks to buy, who to buy

from etc.

I discovered this in a research I carried out to find out the

number of people searching for this information on Google

(This is the biggest search engine in the world).

This is the result of the searches people right here in Nigeria

made on Google about this over the last 12 months…


As you can see, just last month 5,490 (March 2015) from

Nigeria wanted to get into Grasscutter farming.

If you sell 90 colonies to just 90 people, how much is that?

I will leave you to do the calculations for yourself and see what

you have been missing out on.

And the beauty of this is that you can do Grasscutter farming

as a side business, and using the power of the internet, you can


reach more customers faster than you ever thought possible.

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Best regards,

CHINEDU ELUWA

AKA, BIGGIE THE FARMER.

President, ELUWA FARMS.

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