 my brother yes do you know that you're an inspiration I'm not so sure you're not so sure no one is telling you do you know they're like when I posted that I want to meet entrepreneurs from Malawi everyone was telling me the first person that you need to meet is you do you have an idea that people celebrate you in this country no no let me tell you something entrepreneurs like him are so humble that's why they have me they are number one bragger in the whole of Africa I am not humble I'm I'm so sorry I'm not humble I go around and brag about Africa is doing something great to change the narrative of Africa my name is Kremint Taunan I'm the founder of Thai farms I'm a Moravian and I'm doing my business right here in Malawi so I was trained as a nurse and I graduated in 2019 so from 2019 to 2020 I was just moving up and down looking for job so out of frustration I decided to go into agriculture so what I'm doing now here is agriculture and agriculture is my full-time job so I got this inspiration from the frustration I had because my thinking when I was at courage I was like okay I'm going to get a job as a nurse but it didn't come out then the only option for me to survive was to go into farming and for me to do farming in 2020 I had to sell my phone at 70 US dollars a nest and you are wearing a gear like this a self man-made farmer I want to know how it's all started because when you see a nest in Ghana you need to wear green or white but this is a gear of course a farmer a nest that became a farmer yeah how okay I decided to go into farming out of frustration see after I graduated in 2019 from a nesting school I had to move up and down looking for a job but I was not lucky I was not hired so the only option for me was to go into farming you graduated as a nurse of course I'm looking for a job of course you're not getting a job of course and out of all the things that can be done you decided to go to farming of course yes do you know that in Africa we believe that farming is for poor people you spend so much money in school and decided to become a poor man how it's everything okay with you let me check very okay so you know what to me yeah I had a feeling like you know we have land here in Africa veteran we have water then something just come into my mind to say you know my mom used to do this we survived through farming so now I think I can also survive through farming and I put down all the papers from nesting school and I pursue a new course a new career that's farming so from 2020 today I've been doing farming hundred percent I've never decided to say no I think I can drop this and I go start looking for job I'm proud and I'm contented I'm proud to be a farmer no do you mean it's more worth it being a farmer of course I'm proud that I'm eating what I'm producing that's it listen so 2020 we're in 2023 exactly where did it start I mean how did you manage because you didn't have a job how were you able to find the whole farming because I mean we believe that farming cost a lot of money no it's a farce so in 2020 April I decided to go into farming so the first step was to look for a land so I discussed with a friend and that friend said okay I'll help you find a land where you can lent it so we managed to get an acre of land then next move was how do I get capital so the only way for me to get capital was to sell my phone so I sold my phone at 70,000 quattro which is around 70 US dollars so I took 70 US dollars and invested in farming so I moved from town to this village and the money to get a house I was able to pay 3000 quads roughly which is maybe 20 US dollars per month so I took 70,000 I divided it into two one for my rentals for for the house and secondary for the lentals for the for the farm okay so from there now now story comes in as I was working I had no option where to get money I had no phone to sell again and regenerate little something for my survival so they kicked me from the house because now I was faring to pay lentals after three months so I moved from here where there was a house here to to the garden and I decided to put up a temporary house in the garden and continued with the with the initiative he first moved to from town yeah from town to this village to this very was the first place that he stayed so he's here and and and for historical purposes I decided to put up a men's meal for the community and for myself as well no I mean when you came to rent yes this was the first place this was the first price yes and then now you've built what men's meal so what I did was when I made money from my my my garden I decided to buy this was the first space to buy so I decided to buy this because I was I was I was frustrated I was like no no one can push me out of a house because of 20 US dollars so I said okay once I make money that person will be the victim I'll buy that land and put it to the community so I decided to buy this space and put up a men's meal for the community and I kicked him completely in this village so this is a men's meal that you built yes of course for the community yes of course so we're filming at six o'clock in the morning yes that's why you don't see anyone in here but very soon you're going to see people here okay so I decided to buy this for the community one secondly when community comes in here they do men's crashing once they're done crashing their corn I only get the brand and they will do it for free so if I get the brand they'll do it for free and they take the brand I process it and make life stop feed so you don't charge anyone of course yes from here yes when when you were kicked out from here yes what did you stay now okay I would take you down yes so I moved here and put up a temporary shelter right there in the garden so you're staying in the garden yes once you're farming in there yes I want to see I want to see that no no we'll go down there where's the house this is not a house of course yeah but this was where I built my temporary shelter grass starched and all that that's why I decided to put up some some trees here and that that tree here in Marawi quite regus a tree I decided to put up that one because this is now where life was and believe you me later on even in my writings I've indicated to say this should be a protected area once I die I should be buried here because I was almost buried here life sure and how do you feel any time you come in here I I feel motivated each and every hour when you are staying here how many acres do you own zero zero acre it was going through our mind I was like okay no matter what but I have to survive because I've been rejected you know I was trying and my thinking was I'll be picked as a nurse but it didn't work so I've come here started renting a house they have kicked me from that house because I'm faring to pay lentils I had no option but to be here my brother he had zero acres of land of course how many land do you own now now I have 175 acres which now translating to 70 hectares of land how many people have you employed I've employed 32 permanent workers and I'm also hosting graduates from I agricultural University of I mean along with Agricultural University of Mara and natural resources they're here with me that bring internship and I've also some agricultures from Wimbah Courage of Agriculture they're here they're being mentored by a nurse and Ness who didn't have a job of course and Ness that was staying this place is like ten by ten oh I am so proud of you thank you very much I see you have cattle farms doing of course of some cattle some go some sheep and some pigs some chickens some guinea fowls some guinea pigs some rabbits some takers some chickens some a lot it's a lot so that comes to my next question what kind of farming are you doing in here so what you're doing is integrated organic farming what does that mean so it's a self-sustaining type of farming so what you're doing is we do crops we do livestock's no chemicals no chemical fertilizer no pesticides no vaccines we get herbs from the farm we give it to livestock's as as as as vaccine and later from the livestock we get manure we bring them down here we get some some some maybe agricultural waste like banana stems we process them and we feed our pigs and we get manure back here so I don't buy anything for for the farm or even for myself if if I'm to buy anything it's air time for my phone and secondary is such the last I make my own I make my own toothpaste I make my own toilet paper I make my own food yeah sure no I really want you to take me around thank you and we'll continue from there thank you very much where was your first farm so this first was my first farm so the first crop I did was tomatoes I planted 15,000 seedlings of tomatoes in 2020 how much did it cost you to plant that I costed me around 50,000 was around 50 years dollars okay then the actual work I was doing myself plowing planting all that I was irrigating I had no palm I was using some watering cans you know and the cans I had to I had to borrow from the community as well I hired the watering cans from the community a whole I had to hide from the community as well what did you have that I had nothing just ideas and now the community are working for you of course yeah the community is working for me and I've also tried my level best to transform the community from 2021 to that I've managed to give out 200 pig lice to the communities so that once they're lacing the pig lice they should be able to pay school fees for their kids sure I mean this is crazy and you know what when I was coming here people are like you know people here that there are a lot of thieves here you know most of the youths around here they will just come in and get away your stuff so I was like no I'm going to transform this community all the youths which I said to be thieves they're here with me they're working with me and you can see from here to my house it's just a little bit far yeah but I've a lot of stuff here some sugarcane and bananas and everything here no one comes in and get it for free and disappear so why because I've engaged the community as well because it didn't have a job you see so if you've created something for them food for them why would they still still let's go back with the 15,000 tomatoes that is 15,000 15,000 that you planted yes what was the first profit that you made so from 15,000 I managed to get 7 million 400,000 question roughly that was maybe close to should be maybe 70 7 7 7 thousand you use only $50 yes of course and you made $7,000 of course yes from farming yes no I don't believe you no this is real you know ask people around me you know when I was coming here I was literally block and I've managed to build all this through 50 us dollars that's what I've used no run no grant no rich uncles no art so I've been building this from scratch and all you did was to sell your phone of course yes can we just have a message to the youth of Africa that have phones that cost thousand dollars five hundred dollars seven hundred dollars and still writing CVs to go look for jobs what has been the major challenge bringing all this farm together the biggest challenge has been a capital you know that's why you know I was kicked out from that house and what and what it was the issue of capital had it been I had money when I was starting this I believe the farm could be very huge by now but I believe in beauty something in pieces yeah and I'm very patient for that because it has taken me patience to to be where I am today the reason why I did nowhere shoot this morning because I really want to do this I really want my feet to fill the soil why the money is in the dead exactly and Africans are trying to avoid the dead but I'm just telling them we have to go back to the dead and I'm leading by example by not coming to this farm with a sheet my feet are in the dead you know I always tell my my fellow friends and my guys who are working with me here to say okay there's clean money in there what what what what is the reason of having dirty money but with I mean clean money but with data mines but but but if your mind is clean your hands are dirty you're fine that's why we are data here but our minds are very clean we are eating organic foods exactly okay we are eating clean money no stress no art let's go date how do you irrigate the farm so currently we are still using the old way of doing the doing the irrigation okay we're still using the watering can and we also using one solar pump yeah sure but since the farm is a little bit bigger so we have no option but to use the pump and the watering can so as one is irrigating the irrigating using the solar pump yeah the rest of us we all use the can how do you feel anytime you come into the farm I feel energized you know I feel like you know we we we are now living the life you know this was just a dream to own a farm to eat what you produce now we are eating what we are producing and we are also proud to have land code hours as a farmer yes do you believe that you can become a millionaire out of farming absolutely yes it's possible very possible you know look from 2020 with zero acreage and now we are sitting on hundred a and 75 acres of land that's money to me I define that as money money is not the what reflects in your account money is the assets you have you see so land is the biggest asset so we have land what else it seems like you're growing everything in this farm of course yes this is the tomato yeah yeah so we have tomatoes and we have beans so what is happening now is tomatoes the heavy feeders don't need more nitrogen so beans the fixed nitrogen for tomatoes sure so if I'm irrigating beans I'm also irrigating tomatoes if I'm praying if I'm I'm a prime menu for tomatoes I'm also a prime menu for the beans sure so this was what we called symbiotic or companion cropping the guy who rented a house got kicked out went to stay on his farm with a small size that it's not even 10 by 10 now I believe that this is 100 by no this is to 200 by 250 so the face is 200 by 250 meters and you live within yeah yeah yeah this is your house of course yeah that's my house my farm house and one thing that I really love about this whole place is like you depend on the Sun yeah for electricity yes it depends on what ground water okay and my livestock for my new then very soon we are going to graduate from from from my new to biogas wow but you're talking about getting what do you call it decompose from so that's it so all the my new we always bring them there that's our compost bin later on what we get there is 100% organic fertilizer known as biochar fertilizer see here yeah so let's just enter here see here so this is 240 tons of compost and 240 tons I can fertilize 100 hectares and from 100 hectares if I'm doing corn I can get 20,000 bags sure so the goal this year is to produce 20,000 bags 20,000 bags of organic 20,000 bags of organic corn through this I'm so scared of this guy that I really want to ask is that is a haze on the floor the start the grass on the floor okay good so that's rice straws I use them to keep my my farm free from dust and when you're stepping on those straws you're breaking them and later on I mix with my compost I get compost my new very easy as that and how do you feed a livestock the livestock I give them agricultural waste from the farm so what do you buy nothing I need to make sure I find something that he bought in this house maybe a time maybe but how many cattles do you have 75 75 I just feel some of them that gone already okay no they went out yeah yeah for crazy okay sure hi hi say hi to my hello hey brother how are you doing so you saw them too of course so what I'm doing now is one I'm serving the piglets and two I'm giving out some piglets to communities around here I'm giving them for free once they raise them then later they give me back 30% of the piglets for example if you have 10 if your pig as the river 10 pig regrets I only get three you remain with seven plus the mother so what I do with the three I'll take the three one I'll take it from my farm and the two I'll continue giving it out to the communities around and now I can see people are able to pay trophies for their for their children etc etc and people are also enjoying kappado yeah kappado kappado if you go to the street kappado all over the place man sure nice yeah so how many pigs do you have here at the moment I have 10 pens and a hundred day hundred and eleven hundred and eleven pigs yeah you got pig young sir yeah of course wow sure what don't you have donkeys nah you need to buy a donkey yeah of course I help in terms of plowing I will get one yeah but now I think we need to move from manual to at least yeah sophisticated way of doing farming so instead of buying donkeys here for for for for for problem we should just get a tractor that's that's that's good I just love the sessions man I feel like I want to come and spend a night in here you know I think you should build maybe like a resort that's the goal in here an ethnic large exactly like a large yeah you come you spend a night you wake up in the morning spend time with the animal spend time in the farm put your feet on the ground just I mean connect because I would love to stay here man are you doing anything to impact your what you've learned to the rest of us exactly we we have been training for months since day one I've managed to train over 2,000 farmers you see and free of charge as well you don't think you need to build a school that's the goal so if we go up there I'll be hostile already hostile yes I'm setting up what we call and how it forms innovation hub so that would be innovation center if you don't mind we can go that side and take some shots definitely I'm out of course I will say no to that so the goal is to have at least a very different agricultural school what is the name of the university that deals with agriculture in here one nice the University of Natural Resources and agriculture 10 years back so we need to have interwe agriculture university right here exactly and it's about time the ministry of agriculture and draws this for us to make it happen you don't think so that's the way if you are from allow we leave a comment let me know I think with the practical aspect of even the agriculture school should be held in here so you build the school this one they come in here to learn practical stuff spend two weeks I mean internship for three months they can do it here without doing anything or sort of by the time they get out they can study our own farms wherever they find themselves that's the goal you are an inspiration thank you and I want to tell each and everyone watching this video please don't don't watch this video without sharing please just share to a friend and family share to friends and family like this video so that it will reach to so many people because personally I'm a big fan and I want you guys to help me get this video out there because this brother right here needs to be celebrated this is why we are on a journey like this to tell you the African story so that you will get out of your comfort zone and go out and create jobs for other Africans my brother I want you to see I want to see your school that you want thank you very much so this is going to be how farms innovation hub okay we are going to have a university here and on top of that we are going to demonstrate different innovations which are related to a smart agriculture so now this is just a temperature water is going to be a wholesale very soon and on top of that this side what you're doing is we are making our own fertilizer from from the compost toilet and on top of that here we also have wasting water from the bathroom so water from the bathroom with so many stuff comes here and you can see the black stuff there yeah so that's what we call it biochar so biochar is biomass which have been converted into charcoal and a low temperature with zero oxygen zero pollution so this biochar fields it it cleans up soapy water and that soapy water goes down it pecorates and you get this garden and on top of that here what you're doing here is we are making our own fertilizer here this is more than toilet wow smell-free okay please get it there's no smell in here yes so this is the biochar thing okay so if you want to use the toilet you open it like that you use it you get a cup of biochar like that you put in you're done that's it you have fresh your toilet off you go once the toilet is full you open it here you get a container here this container is 35 kgs you get it you put it in a pit so what is happening now is we are getting three containers every week that is 105 kgs and 105 kgs that's roughly two bags of chemical fertilizer and the bag of chemical fertilizer here in Marawi is 75 US dollars it means every week I'm making my own 150 US dollars just by using this toilet it means January I'm making 150 US dollars by two five I mean it should be by 52 weeks that is 150 US dollars times 52 weeks that will give you around 7,500 US dollars by just using this toilet this guy needs to be studied and you can see here no sweeping no what yeah no data at all and later on I have this I use it as my compost fertilizer so that's why I'm saying this will be center of excellence innovation hub all the innovations will be showcased right here where do you see yourself in the next 10 years I see myself as one of the innovative farmers a farmer who inspired other farmers what you've done demonstrate that it's possible to make it in Africa why is it that so many youth feels like it's not possible to make it in Africa I think it's the issue of mindset look at my girls they're just freely eating around the farm they go back later I've hundred of them yeah what comes into your mind when you hear the name Africa Africa a land of opportunities so it means there are opportunities on the continent a lot of opportunity it's just that we don't see them or something we don't see them why because of the education system do you think there's something wrong with our education system of course yes what we are trying to solve yesterday's problems that's why we can see today's problem that is deep what do you mean by that look today there's a rooming hunger here in Marawi and if you ask our leaders they'll say no this hang is coming in because we can we can manage to access fertilizer from Ukraine because there's war there but look here we have surplus food here using resources which are found within us look what my turret so here at Ndawi Farms we are solving today and tomorrow's problems but our system is trying to solve yesterday's problems there's a song in Ghana he says yesterday is gone another day has come do something new in our lives exact wow sure see I've been saying wow wow wow I've turned an ambulance just because of him because his story will make you wow you are an amazing man and if you have a message for our fellow brothers and sisters living in Africa what would that message be it's a simple message look around the opportunities next to you grab one and I would say grab one and make the best out of it we have so many Africans that left Africa went to the West did you go to the West before no you made your money from the West no you made your money here yes what do you mean I mean they told us that we cannot make it in here unless we go to the West and come back look around there's so many opportunities I had to grab one and that's for me so you know I believe that there are so many Malawians out there if you had a message for Malawians out of Malawi what would that message be if possible my fellow come back here let's build a new Malawi if there are opportunities here and good opportunities than what you're trying to explore outside there we have water we have land which is also fertile let's utilize it let's produce more feed our people and export if you had a chance to change one thing in Africa what will it be the education system I want to say thank you so much for talking to me I really appreciate your time thank you my dear brother you had to travel all the way from Ghana yep 7,000 plus kilometers yeah just to meet me here in Marawi I don't take it for granted yeah amazing that's why I came in here thank you all so much for watching I mean I am inspired and I know that you are inspired listen to this man right here and I believe that I've got to put his number here emails reach out to him you can even put him from Malawi and take him to your country to train people I think this is why we have this YouTube channel so like this video share subscribe and be part of this awesome family and I'll see you all in the next one