Farming is work. Here is what it pays.
Jobs are scarce — one in three people who go looking come home without any. So more of us stop waiting and start creating our own work, on our own hands. Farming is one honest way in. The two tools below help you start with your eyes open: numbers that were measured, spoken plainly.
Can poultry give you a living?
You're not thinking of chickens as a hobby — it's a job you create for yourself, and for those who help you. This calculator tells the truth about that work: the rewards, and where they bleed. What it takes to start. Who buys from you, and what risk comes with each buyer. Where the money leaks, and where it multiplies batch by batch. Put your own numbers in, and see what is possible — before a single rand moves.
Open the calculator →Durban Market Pulse
When you farm, the market gets a vote on what your crop pays — get to know it before planting day. Today's Durban fresh-produce floor, read plainly: which crop is oversupplied, where the price is sliding next, and who is about to get caught holding stock. Each crop judged against its own history — not somebody's feeling.
Read the pulse →Merero makes tools for small farmers. Every number carries its source with it, and any modelled number says so out loud.