A young entrepreneur and farmer, Amadi Kelechi Princess has narrated her journey into animal husbandry at the young age of 23 and how she recorded early success.
The 28-year-old in a chat with TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) gave an insight into what led her into animal husbandry and how she has been able to sustain it after undergoing her National Youth Service Corp (NYSC).
According to Amadi, her breakthrough in pig farming as a lady, started when she was searching for a white-collar job but stumbled on a pig farm in Oke Aro, which turned out to be the biggest piggery in the whole of West Africa.
Continuing, she said that it changed her mindset about doing a white-collar job as she decided from that moment to settle for farming and it’s been no going back since then.
Amadi revealed that her family also supported her dreams from the beginning as her mom ensured some liquid cash was given to her to venture into the farming business, adding that apart from being given start-up capital her mom also played business advisory role to help it grow well.
She explained that all the money she saved from NYSC was added to the little her mum gave her to kick-start the business.
She added that she really started small with just 20 animals but today her farming business has blossomed to a very big one.
Amadi noted that while many farmers ran out of job in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, and the ASF disease her farming venture known by its business name Supreme Meat Ventures, SMV has continued to wax stronger and also redefined piggery in the last few years of venturing into it.
She explained that no government policies has affected her business but hopes to solidify her relationship with some business partners to exploit the untapped market.
Asked if she has been stereotyped as a female farmer, Amadi responded in the affirmative, saying that initially she had issues relating with her staffers since they were all majorly males but her tenacity, hardwork, and passion has prevailed, adding that those male staffers now give her the respect she deserves and it has aided the workflow positively.