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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.

HERE ARE THE DETAILED ADVANTAGES OF GRASSCUTTER FARMING

1. They can easily be reared at home

2. They command a very good selling price as a family that is made up of five grasscutters is sold for N45,000 or more. A serious and dedicated farmer can have close to 200 families at a time.


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GRASSCUTTER FARMING IN NIGERIA

There are many decent ways to make good money farming small garden plots or backyard and a lot of people are using these methods to earn part-time or full-time incomes. Rearing Grasscutters in Nigeria in this type of space is one of the best way to earn cool money in MILLIONS.

Grasscutters (a rodent family), like many rodent species have been and continue to be a delicacy in a number of countries, in Latin America, Africa and Asia where markets exist for a wide variety of rodent species for consumption, grasscutters are often preferred over other sources of meat. The vast majority of these animals are still gathered from the wild and several species have been hunted so extensively that they are now extinct. And this offers small-scale farmers, investors, businessmen and all those with wealth-mind set, an economic incentive for raising grasscutters in captivity.

Grasscutters are widely distributed and valued in West and Central Africa. The meat is of a higher protein but lower fat content than domesticated farm meat and it is also appreciated for its tenderness and taste. More recently, intensive production of grasscutters has been undertaken in many African countries, including Nigeria.

Research carried out over the last two decades has allowed the selection and improvement of stock for captivity with much knowledge and techniques for grasscutter production.


Practical information is readily available for anyone interested in grasscutter farming/production in Nigeria.


Grasscutter has been overhunted and savanna habit is often at risk during the dry season from bushfires, which are lit during bushmeat hunting expeditions. Grasscutters are not the most prolific of rodent species but the high demand, attract market price and small amount of investment required makes grasscutters a suitable mini-livestock activity for income generation in many part of Nigeria.


There are few Nigerians today that are making brisk business in grasscutter rearing. Grasscutter farming in Nigeria if pursed with the benefit of the right information and knowledge now available, is a very viable commercial venture. Grasscutters are mainly herbivorous; require neither imported component of food nor expensive medical expenses if strict hygiene is maintained. They are easy and very cheap to raise. Gestation period of the grasscutter is about 154 days or five month.

Grasscutter meat is a delicacy in Nigeria today and are served in big hotels and restaurants as well as some joints patronized by middle to high level people.

Depending on your experience, grasscutter can be packaged to outfits as pepper soup meat, suya, frozen or dried meat. Most Chinese are looking for the meat as regular meal and also to entertain most of their guests from abroad.


If you rear grasscutter in commercial quantity under good hygienic condition, fast food restaurants such as Mr. Biggs, Tantalizers, Sweet Sensation etc will be your regular customers. They will only need your assurance of regular supply per week. There is also good market for grasscutter meat in the international market if only you can do a good packaging.

Nigeria`s economic recovery programmes have necessitated a radical shift from total dependence on government for job to self employment. One such attractive area for self employment is Grasscutter farming. It is a great money-spinning business that can provide a substantial source of protein to complement Nigerian carbohydrate meals. Sadly Nigerians inclination to go into business in the field where thousand have already made their fortune has led to the ulter neglect of such lucrative area as Grasscutter farming in Nigeria.

Many who are also into the business of Grasscutter farming are unwilling to let others know about the farming methodology. The techniques are after shrouded in secrecy.

rearing and reproduction

A male and female grasscutter attains their sexual maturity at 5 and 7months respectively.  A male grasscutter can be paired with 3-5 females.  There are two methods of mating – permanent and controlled mating methods.  The gestation period is 152 day (5 months), meaning that with good management, the animal can litter twice in a year.  The average litter size is always 5.  The young ones can be weaned in about 4-6 weeks, after a resting period of about 10 days mother can be paired with the male again.  They are mature for food in 10-12 months, which raise their body weight to about 5-7kg.  They have the possibility of producing 2 times a year with good management and feeding, and they can constantly reproduce 4yrs before selling them out as old layer. Handling Grasscutter can be handled either by tails or by the limb.  For easy handling, wire mesh cages can be used to move animal from one place to the other. Feeds and Feeding Procedure