Ghanaian musician Trigmatic has revealed the journey to becoming a successful producer of local rice has not been easy at all.
Speaking exclusively on Bloggers’ Forum with Abrantepa, Trigmatic who now boasts of Koaba Rice said failed twice in his rice farming entrepreneurship.
“I was a bit scared, I didn’t understand how it will work… My friend called Richard started introducing me to value creation for the crops…I got interested and said I want you to start with 4 acres and see if it will work. I failed woefully and the first time, it was bad. I didn’t make any harvest, I didn’t make any harvest at all. I went back to the land, called the farm manager and sometimes he will give you stories,” he told.
Trigmatic said though he was very tempted to give up, his friend who has in-depth knowledge in Agriculture encouraged him to work at it again, that also didn’t produce any better results.
“I almost gave up. Then he called me again and told me to try it again. He has lots of expertise in Agric. We started with the Shama again, even that, we failed again. The harvest was bad,” he said.
“The thing with rice is that, when it ripes, it becomes milky in the husk and birds eat it. So you are there thinking, you are about to hit big harvest and the birds start coming in. They are tiny birds, they are not birds that you can kill.”
Other challenges he faced included the distance of the farm, the capital invested in the farm and the minimal knowledge he had about the whole rice farm production.
