Archive of posts from October 2024


  • Oct 26, 2024

    Drilling A Bore In the Farm

    Soon after registering our farm land, the first thing we wanted to do was to get a bore drilled. Remember that our land did not have anything. No bore, no electricity, no fence, nothing. It is just barren land. Supposedly, the previous owner used to grow corn using the rain fed method a few years ago. Basically they would sow corn just before rains and the only way the crop would be watered is from rains. Since we wanted to grow a vegetable and fruit forest which needs water year round, we decided to get a bore drilled and setup a sprinkler or drip irrigation system to water our plants and trees. So the first step was to dig a bore.

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  • Oct 19, 2024

    How Good Are Chit Funds?

    I have never understood chit funds. I still don’t. But I have heard great things about the returns on them, so thought I should learn about them from a friend who knows a great deal about chit funds. So thanks to him, I have some data that I collected and decided to check if they are a good investment. Remember that I only have very cursory information and you should not take my advice without doing your own research. I am presenting all the data as I received from my friend and as such I don’t really know any chit funds which offer similar schemes. I do not have any investments in chits, nor will I invest in them in the foreseeable future. But things can always change and if I do invest in them, you will know about it from my blog.

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