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2.4 TYPES OF BUSINESS.
It is a flower farm, where flowers are grown in a green covered field. These
flowers are sold in harvested flower buds, seedling or those to be transplanted to
other places.
The owner started the business because there is high demand of flowers especially
during the month of December and Holiday seasons because of different occasions
taking place and many customers need fresh flowers. It is a product industry kind
of business hence produces the flowers in plenty to customers.
2.5 PRODUCT / SERVICE
Jami flower farm is a product kind of business hence flowers are produced from
the farm thus sold to the customers. Visitors especially those visiting the Rift
Valley Province take interest in the farm and thus take a stop over to buy the
flowers for various occasions and to their homes.
In other cases flowers are harvested from the and taken to the factory where they
are sorted to different demands of customers, some customers need flowers that
still have the buds growing on them and while others need flowers to be planted.
2.6 JUSTIFICATION
The business involves Agriculture. The location of the business is in a green land
with enough water from the rivers and the county council also provides piped
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water. All this started from a small farm to a big ten hectares land and it continues
after when the customers increase the flowers in the farm decrease. The major
requirement of the business is to cater for the needs of the customers of Eldoret
town, Iten and to other places of the country hence this gave a challenge to the
business to grow at large.
2.7 INDUSTRY.
The flower farm in the Agriculture industry will get supplies from different
countries for plating different types of seeds. Unlike seedlings from Kenya this will
improve the business by producing different flowers.
The business is small growing business, labour machine needed are few because
work done is by use of hand. It’s very competitive because of one flower farm
called Equator Farm which has a branch in Chepkoilel campus. The flower farm is
not seasoned just because flowers are grown every month and when they are
harvested there is already others to be harvested.
2.8 BUSINESS GOALS.
There stated short term and long term goals will be as follows.
Short term goals.
 Make profit each and every month hence improve the farms growth.
 To satisfy the each customer needs every time they come to purchase the
flowers.
 To sell more flowers each and every day.
Long term goals.
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 To improve and make high steps of running a flower farm after there years.
 To make the business standards well maintained in the farm.
 To open more branches in the years to come in different places of the
country e.g. Nakuru, Kitale and Kisumu.