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GRASSCUTTER FARMING

When you think about becoming wealthy, you probably think of a high-paying job, a high yielding investment portfolio or a partnership to launch a new product or services that will roll in millions. But what assurance do you have on getting adequate funds and market for these services or products?

Have you ever wondered why the government and the private sector are placing more emphasis on small business opportunities and financing in the country today? Have you ever come across a grasscutter farm? Can you imagine the financial gains accruing to those men and women who deal in grasscutter business at one stage or the other?

What about the nutrition benefits the people who patronize pepper soup joints, beer parlors, fast food and eateries are deriving from such timeout? A visit to a grasscutter farm where many cages and hutches are devoted for rearing grasscutter in captivity should serve you a good menu of the profitability of the grasscutter business in the country today.

The grasscutter belongs to the mammalian order and the family of Rodentia and tyronomyidae respectively and is genetically more closely related to the porcupine than the rat. In Africa, grassscutter have very wide ranges but are absent or rare over much of South-West Africa, from the Sahara and from the arid Horn of Africa. They are distributed widely throughout Africa’s semi-humid regions and are found in many forests and savannas. Grasscutters occur in grassland or in wooden savanna throughout the humid and sub humid areas of Africa south of the Sahara. They do not inhabit rainforest, dry scrub, or desert, but colonize the road borders in forest regions.

They are robust animals measuring up to 60 cm (head and body), weighing 4-10kg, heavily built, with short stocky legs, a short rat-like tail, clothed with coarse, briskly and even spiny hairs, which look like short soft quills. General coat coloration is speckled brown or buffy above, paler on flanks and greyish or whitish below. They also may have yellow-brown bodies with whitish bellies.

How to Start Grasscutter Farming in Nigeria and Ghana

Grasscutter is one of the animal that is extremely suitable for commercial rearing for very good reasons. If you are in the village and still complaining about money, you need to be brought out to the village square and be given 24 strokes of hot cane on a hot afternoon. Why? Because you’ve been allowing opportunities to pass you by all these while!
If your family in the village still ask you for money for their up keep, then they need to be taken to the village chief for judgement. After reading this article, I give you 6 – 12

Problems and prospects of grasscutter

The essence of grasscutter domestication was mainly for protein supplementation and income generation, but the low adoption of existing grasscutter farming technology in Nigeria particularly among the unemployed and poor has generated much concern. This study was therefore carried out to evaluate the problems and prospects of grasscutter farming in Ibadan, in southwestern Nigeria. Oral interviews, records review and structured questionnaires were utilised. Questionnaires were served to sixteen respondents. Ibadan senatorial zone was stratified into 3 groups of A, B, and C. A grasscutter farm was selected in each group for breeding and economic assessments. Information obtained were analysed using descriptive statistics like frequency counts, percentages and cumulative costs and revenues. Results revealed that grasscutter farmers are widely distributed in Ibadan metropolis though with higher concentration of 25.0% in Bashorun and Apata respectively, while Iwo road had 18.7%. Majority of the grasscutter farmers were males (93.8%) and retirees (62.5%) who live in their own houses. Farmers, the unemployed and females constitute 25.0%, 12.5%, and 6.2% of the glasscutter farmers respectively. High initial capital (68.8%), stock procurement (56.3%), and time constraint (25.0%) were implicated as major problems facing grasscutter farmers in Ibadan. Most farmers (43.8%) fall between 56 – 60 years of age. Between 2000 and 2005, a total of 179 births and 41 deaths; 190 births and 37 deaths were recorded in farm A and B respectively, while farm C recorded 28 births and 27 mortalities between 2003 and 2005. Farm A, which was started with one colony broke even in year 4 with a profit of N73, 432.00(1$=N126.00), farm B which was started with 2 colonies broken even in year 5 with a profit of N86, 120.00 while farm C started with one colony could not break even within the two years of study.