Here at MaVeggie Dot Com, I have been appointed Chief Executive Officer effective 1 March 2015. After hiring of countless managers who failed to deliver on the vision needed for a 140 hectare farm, I decided to quit my job and go full time into farming. The lessons are that, farming cannot be done through cellphone, you need to be there 24/7. My father, Mr S Moyo is the Projects Manager - with a team of 8 employees, we implement daily chores. Every evening, we have an informal meeting to review the work for the day and strategise chores for the next day. Since the departure of the last manager, we have taken the farm to greater heights. the farm in little less than 2 months is on its way to deliver over 1000 bunches of vegetables per day and is sure to record its first profit by July 2015. We farm English Giant Rape, Mustard Florida Broad Leaf also known as Tsunga or MuChina, Covo, Kale, Choumolier, Okra, Pumpkin leaves, potatoes, tomatoes and spinach. Now back to the diary:
Today it was bonus day - a budget was put aside for overtime. All employees took it and we went straight to work on planting a quarter hectare of English Giant Rape (EGR). We are behind time to reach at least 1500 bunches of veggies per day. The task at hand is to transplant on 166 lines, 50m long at over 300 plants per line. We did 40 lines today. That's a feat for half a day's work. We postponed vegetable picking today so expect the market to be dry tomorrow.
Our MuChina is coming on well, producing 100 bunches per day while the English Giant Rape is good at 500 per day. We expect our two fields to ramp up production to 1000 bunches/day of EGR within 3 weeks. We expect MuChina to come close to that in a month's time. I will only be sure of success the moment we reach 5000 bundles per day delivered. we aim to be there or close to there by August 2015
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