Farm your way to success!
Farming is a risky business. Be a smart farmer and use Budget Mkononi to plan your finances and see how profitable your agribusiness can be.
Farming is a risky business. Be a smart farmer and use Budget Mkononi to plan your finances and see how profitable your agribusiness can be.
Do you want to start an agribusiness, but you're not sure if it's a good investment?
Budget Mkononi is an interactive web-based budgeting tool that's designed to help young and inexperienced farmers identify the basic costs and elements required to set up and run their farming enterprise.
Budget Mkononi was developed by the producers of the reality TV show, Don't Lose the Plot, to encourage young aspiring and inexperienced farmers to view farming as a business, and provide them with the tools and knowledge to own, lease and run agribusinesses of their own.
Through Budget Mkononi, you can explore the relative merits of various commodities and visualise your cash flow requirements for the duration of the farming cycle. Budget Mkononi will help you farm in a productive and sustainable manner, and ultimately become successful entrepreneurs.
Choose from a variety of short-term and high yielding commodities
Use our free budgeting tool to build your personalised budget and see how profitable your business could be.
The tool allows you to see the various stages of growing a commodity and the range of inputs and costs it requires over time.
We provide estimated costs and inputs which you can edit based on what you get from your local suppliers so that your budget is realistic.
Choose from a selection of commodities e.g. Onions.
Indicate the quantity you would like to farm then click “Show my budget”.
Edit the budget, using the pen tool to edit values, add or remove costs.
A summary is provided at the end of the budget. You can edit your selling price and the quantity you will sell.
A few disclaimers are also provided to highlight the various risks and factors that can determine the success or failure of your harvest.
Sign up in order to save your budget, which you can refer to later offline, print or even share it with friends and family.
Next Steps: financial information and more information about growing your commodity.
A dynamic and easy to use tool that's available in both English and Swahili. What more could you ask for?
You can tailor your budgets by editing costs, sale prices, and adding or removing inputs to reflect your specific circumstances.
Do you need a farming guide? Each commodity is listed with further information on how to plant, manage, harvest and finance your agribusiness.
Budget Mkononi has a responsive design that works on internet-enabled devices of all sizes and it is optimized specifically for mobile phones.
You can save your budgets in order to refer to them later, and share them with lenders and financial institutions, to show that you have a viable business plan.
Read what users have to say
"At first, I didn't realise that I could change the prices to suit my situation. But now that I know, I think the tool is useful and will help me to plan my spending."
"The free budget service has greatly helped me in planning and making wiser decisions. It's precise, hence helping in attaining projected profit."
"I would like to thank the team for the good work being done. It has been easy to follow up the budget tool to come up with an accurate cost estimate."
"I didn't know how to embark on this agribusiness journey. Thankfully I was able to look up Budget Mkononi and find useful info about budgeting for onions."
Hello . My name is Jane, your chat assistant!
Broiler Chicken
Kale
African nightshade (managu/mnavu)
Spider plant
Purple passion fruit
Cow pea
Yellow passion fruit
Butternut
Onions
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Spinach
Coriander
Cabbages
Improved Kienyeji chicken
Bee keeping