{"id":10142,"date":"2018-05-10T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2018-05-10T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:46:21","slug":"meet-young-this-plant-growing-campuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/meet-young-this-plant-growing-campuser\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet young This Plant growing Campuser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daphine Kiconco hails from a fairly well-to-do background, but the 24 year old felt she was not content simply relying and surviving on \u00a0her parents for every requirement while at campus. She decided she would banish her pride, allow her hands go dirty so that she could take care of\u00a0the \u2018small things\u2019 like course handouts by herself. That is how she decided to venture into growing flowers as her alternative source of income.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-g-rec td-g-rec-id-content_inline td_uid_7_5af40b6a22c0b_rand td_block_template_17 \"><\/div>\n<p>According to Daphine, she did not automatically discover the \u2018gold\u2019 in growing flowers. She had reluctantly set up a simple flower garden at her home place in Gayaza but one bright Sunday when a birthday picnic \u00a0was held at her place, a friend (Sandra) who had also come by\u00a0for the party had a look at Sandra\u2019s flower garden and encouraged her to press on with growing flowers. The friend, Daphine recalled, convinced her she could really make money out of this venture if at all she could invest her time into looking for the best-selling flower species.<\/p>\n<p>Daphine\u2019s friend Sandra owns a flower \u00a0shop in Wandegeya but she doesn\u2019t grow flowers, instead she sells them, both natural and artificial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32817 td-animation-stack-type0-2\" src=\"http:\/\/matookerepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1200px-Raised_bed-1024x718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"488\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that my lectures begin in the evenings left me thinking of a productive way of using my morning hours so I decided to concentrate on my flower project. With the inspiration from how my friend Sandra had managed to be successful through selling flowers I felt this was the actual time for me to invest big in growing flowers,\u201d Daphine told\u00a0<em>Matooke Republic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When she was certain this was the direction to take, Daphine reached out to her parents for advice and after what was quite a long discussion, she was ready to start, thanks also to the fact that she was already well versed with the best species of flowers to suit her intended flower garden size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally loved flowers ever since I was young; carrying them, playing with them\u2026, but by this time my passion was far beyond just playing with them but growing them. One thing I had never admired in life was farming but it\u2019s sort of another story when it comes to growing flowers because they\u00a0do not require a lot of space, they can even be grown on verandas in pots,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents gave me the green light to use our compound at home to set up a bigger garden, and my initial capital was Shs300,000 which I also got from my parents. Even after that big contribution, they would still help me access various flower species according to how my friend Sandra always\u00a0directed me, and that\u2019s how I began,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other plants, flowers do not need a lot of a lot of care and attention, rather they only require frequent irrigation \u2013 about \u00a0three times a day. Some species mature in a period of two months and others even more than that.<\/p>\n<p>After one and half years in the field, \u00a0Daphine told us she has gained more experience in growing flowers which are not only used on events but also for domestic purposes and at burial ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy flowers sell between Shs5,000 and Shs25,000. My initial target was florist friends of mine who own flower shops around town so \u00a0I have \u00a0been supplying them with a variety of flowers. When my flowers are fully grown I can be in position to sell flowers worth Shs150,000 a week. However, my dream is to widen my project to reach a level of exporting them,\u201d she asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The Bachelor\u2019s in Business Administration finalist at MUBS said out of growing flowers, she has managed to pursue her course without putting her parents under any financial pressure and her venture has enabled her make friends in the business field, not forgetting to mention that she is already enjoying being her own boss despite still being a student at campus.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that the student \u2018farmer\u2019 does not encounter any challenges, with the most common of these according to Daphine being fluctuations in the market prices of flowers and high transport charges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daphine Kiconco hails from a fairly well-to-do background, but the 24 year old felt she was not content simply relying and surviving on \u00a0her parents for every requirement while at campus. 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