Snail Farming vs Grasscutter: Which one is More Profitable?
Grasscutter
and snail is a hot cake in the agricultural sector of Nigeria today
and the wise and smart ones as been able to detect and denote it before
time, however there are a lot of controversies going on out there about
which one is more profitable than the other, well I will be clearing
your thoughts and shining light on the both in this post.
Really,
the both farming “Snail and Grasscutter” are in high demand but
there is still a little more difference, I have had my experience farming
and running the two as a business in Nigeria and I have taken my observations
and inference.
I receive
lots of emails on from this Blog daily on various aspects of agriculture
and most times I try to do justice and answer them but lately there
has been more questions on which one is the most profitable venture
between snails and grasscutter.
I must
say most new farmers and people venturing into agriculture for the 1st time are always optimistic to know in details the market
demand for a product but as an experience farmer, have come to understand
it is not about the market strength alone, you must also put into consideration
the start up capital, cost, management, maintainance, feeding amongst
other things this is what will sum up together to determine how profitable
a venture will be.
Snails
and grasscutter both feed on grasses but there are some kind of concentrate
feeds for them, they also feed on maize, vegetables, some specific kitchen
waste and industrial waste from breweries and food companies “majorly
for grasscutter”.
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Snails
and grasscutter makes a super great delicacy and they contain an extremely
low cholesterol which makes them more delicious and good for both nutrition
and health purpose, but with all sense of humility I will confidently
say “market-wisely” there is more demand for grasscutter than snail.
There
are some reasons why this is so, I will try and touch some of them for
you to know.
Grasscutter
before the time scientist systemic breeding use to be a bushmeat and
most people are fond of it, making hunters always on the outlook for
them in the bush to have them killed but if we continue this way, the
entire grasscutter in Africa will soon go to extinct so the scientific
way of confining them in hutches and cages at home makes it easy and
possible for us to produce grasscutter all through the year and have
more of it anytime we need them, as a matter of fact through experience,
the percentage of order for grasscutter in the market today is so high
that we can’t even meet it.
Most eateries will ask if we can be supplying
them on a weekly basis but the gestation period of grasscutter (5months)
makes it almost impossible to have a weekly supply ready for buyers
(eateries, hotels, clubs and food industry).
Apart
from the fact that grasscutter is having a very high demand, it is also
profitable in terms of price – 4 grasscutter (colony) sells for 35
to #40,000 so you know what it means if you can produce 10,000 to 20,000
grasscutters.
On the
other side, snails are profitable too and of good demand but the gap
is so high between the demand for grasscutter and snails.
So I
can advise you to start grasscutter farming or you can start both snails
and grasscutter farming and you will make your profit, another beautiful
part of the business farming of snail and grasscutter is that it doesn’t
cost much.
It doesn’t
require so much from you in terms of feeding and this makes the farming
easy because you are not spending so much.
Following the release of
FAO, that Nigerians are consuming a very low protein this makes the
production of more animals as a source of animal protein very important
to improve the diet of Nigerians and produce quality food for our Nation.
I hope
you have gotten what you are looking for?
Kindly
share your experience or drop your questions below.
