From helper to driller

Since 2017, Jacana has trained several entrepreneurs in manual borehole drilling. There are currently 20 drillers active. When a driller receives an assignment to drill a borehole, his team consists of a fellow driller and two to four helpers. The driller in charge...

SMART Entrepreneurs for rural entrepreneurs

Jacana focuses on small scale entrepreneurs; for example water for farmers, training and mentoring for beekeepers or chicken farmers and so on. Baseline Before Jacana starts a project in a new rural area, we like to know more about the people living in the area. We...

2023, the year of the SMART-market

The turn of the year invites us to reflect on the past, Jacana has just evaluated the last 7 years and, thanks to your help, has come to some wonderful conclusions. We started small with business training and guiding entrepreneurs. After the first year, we specialised...

Making your own poultry feed

In a business training which Jacana conducted in May a female entrepreneur and two women groups wanted to expand into raising chickens, both laying hens and meat chickens. As always in a Jacana business training, they did a calculation of the cost of keeping chickens....

Want to learn making of affordable greenhouse tunnels?

Together with a professional and very experienced greenhouse builder https://www.haygrove.com/zm, we developed an affordable high quality tunnel and tested it. Now we are looking for small-scale entrepreneurs who can sell and build these tunnels as a business and in...

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