Welcome To SDAc's Re-Invented Cost-Saving Fish Farming Ideas Mini Site

View our CATFISH PHOTO GALLERY - (Created on 26th September 2009 during my visit to a large Earthen pond fish farm in Akute, Ogun state)!
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I call this website a re-invented version because in contrast to the Pre-2007 site, this one is designed to ensure the highly rewarding experience you have while here, makes you RECOMMEND its featured products and services to others you TRULY care about. Click here to learn why I decided to re-invent the site.

This website is NOT an ego-trip. It is a key component of SDAc's strategy to empower individuals and groups to adopt Best Practice systems in conjunction with PC/Internet technology in their practice of Integrated Farming so as to become more profitable. Click here to learn more about this site which I call a precursor of SDAc's Integrated Fish Farm/Research & Extension Advisory Services center.

If You Own A Farm Biz, This Site Is For YOU!

We have a saying out here that many roads lead to the market - so each person can USE the one s/he prefers. I initially started out with an Integrated Fish Farm business plan in 2002 but for almost two years struggled futilely to find willing equity investors or partners - not even via the Small and Medium Entreprises Investment Scheme(SMEIS).

So in 2004, I decided to focus MORE on using my other shills in speaking/training, web design and custom software development to build an income stream source from which to launch my long-standing dream of running a farm business.

Even though I was convinced my above mentioned skills made me potentially useful to farm business owners, I soon discovered, from trying to sell my services to them, that many could not see (or maybe I did not employ an effective method to show them) how I could help them make MORE profits with LESS effort and at LOWER costs.

Today, having successfully made financially rewarding in-roads into non-farm businesses providing them these same services/solutions, I "RE-Present"(MORE intelligently, and hopefully MORE effectively) the BENEFITS I offer individuals and groups operating micro to large scale farm businesses out here. That is of course in addition to revisiting the startup of my Integrated Fish Farm/Extenssion Advisory Services Center.

If YOU own a farm business that is run in the peculiar socio-economic environment that exists in Nigeria/Africa, there is a VERY good chance that what I offer on this site WILL be of potential interest and benefit to YOU.

Products & Services On Offer

Some of the products and services offered by the SDAc, are provided free via this mini-site and/or on request. Others can only be accessed by attending a Custom On-Demand Cost-Saving Farm Ideas? workshop that we can organise for your group. Click here to learn more. Also, please study our TERMS and CONDITIONS before you make use of any of our products and services.

1. Business plans - or Feasibility Studies Preparation

Do you need to put together a DETAILED, REAL-WORLD RELEVANT business plan document for use in pursuing your farm business startup/expansion?

Would you also like to get a software based version of your business plan that allows you to input changes that occur (e.g real-life increases/drops in market prices, quantities etc) to generate an updated financial analysis/projection for your business plan?

I can work with you to do this, and more. Click here to tell me what you want me to do for you.

2. Custom Software Development To Facilitate BOPMS? Implementation In Farm Businesses

Every serious business owner or investor/financier wants to know at the end of a production period exactly how well the business s/he has interest in has performed.

Farm data recording and preparation of formal accounts to assess your farm business' performance does not have to give you nightmares. Neither should it burn a hole in your pocket due to fees you have to pay others to get it done for you.

I offer to hekp you setup what I call a BOPMS? and also build custom software to automate the relevant data recording/analysis and accouts preparation tasks that need to be carried out to compute five(5) powerful Key Performance Indication Tools - specifically Two(2) Financial Statements and Three(3) Performance Measures.. Click here to learn more.

3. Custom Software Products That Automate:

a. Project Startup Costing : This customisable software does auto-computation of farm startup costs requirements e.g. construction matrials quantities estimation and costing.

b. Feed Formulation : This application automatically derives quantities of feed ingredients(e.g. maize grits, fish meal, wheat offals etc) required to formulate a balanced ration with a specified target crude protein content, metabolisable energy level etc.

Click here to learn how you can gain access to these software products.

4. Custom Natural Self-Cleaning Aquariums Systems For Schools, Hospitals, Homes and Offices

These aquariums continuously STAY biologically balanced(with clear, non-green, and clean smelling water) even though they DO NOT use filters, pumps or indeed electricity.

Owners will have NO need to empty these aquariums out for cleaning at ANY time. Real-life systems ranging from 12 months to 4 years old are available for inspection.

Indoor(wood framed) models and outdoor (aluminum or concrete framed) models can be built. Live and/or dry feeding options. Installation and set-up PLUS maintenance will be done by us. Natiuralisation of artificial aquariums also available. Click here to learn more about our Natural Self-Cleaning Aquariums.

5. Cost-Saving Farm Ideas? Workshop(& Target Audiences)

A Custom On-Demand Cost-Saving Farm Ideas? workshop can be put together for any audience regarding the subjects covered on this site, which they express interest in. Click here for details of this service, including examples of target audiences that could find this option useful.

This Site Aims To Fills A BIG Gap In The Farm Business Industry

How many farm businesses out here do you know that can produce (on demand) detailed ACCURATE farm records and accounts reports covering the entire operations for a production period.

Reports which would show the owner(s) - and investors or fianciers hoping to get their money back WITH interest ! - EXACTLY how much was produced AND earned in monetary terms? How many farms do you know that keep track of ALL assets and liabilities on a regular basis for planning and decision making?

Do you know of any farms that compute powerfully revealing Key Performance Indicators(recognised/used even by potential loan-lending institutions) periodically to "measure" how healthy the business is at any point in time? How many farms are you aware of that do formal budgetting and futuristic farm management planning/forecasting to cover intended production perods?

In reality, NO MATTER how small the owner may think his/her business is at any point in time, the FACT remains that it is STILL a business and should therefore be managed as one, if the desired LONG term returns are to be reaped!

ALL the above mentioned best practice tools/methods are crucial requirements for EVERY farm that wishes to truly function as a profit making business.

Among other benefits, adopting this type of best practice scientific farm business management approach equips owners to VERY competently handle the many RISKS and UNCERTAINTIES that plague our socio-economice environement - and often lead to the demise of ill-prepared busiensses.

One example: The petrol price hike - from 65 to 75 naira per litre - by Olusegun Obasajo's government (on the eve of its exit from power in May 2007) - small as it appears to be - has potentially damaging implications for many farm businesses(especialy smaller ones) who are unlikely to have seen it coming and probably had little or no proactive plans of action prepered to prevent it from makig them LOSE profit margins at the point of sale.

This site is ultimately focussed on EMPOWERING YOU to keep more of the money you make from YOUR farm business in YOUR pockets as PROFITS by showing you HOW TO entrench sustainable best practice systems to make your farm operations more effective/efficient. These systems include record keeping and accounts, performance monitoring, farm planning and other tools/resources - enhanced where possible with custom software automation.

Talking About Money In Business Often Involves "Looking At Accounts"

Whenever we talk about money, profits etc, we cannot but talk about ACCOUNTS and at some point ACCOUNTING/ACCOUNTANTS. Over the years MOST of the work I have done for clients has been in relation to IMPROVING preparation and monitoring of ACCOUNTS for businesses. And in virtually all cases, if I did not work directly with the CEOs themselves, I often worked closely with the company's ACCOUNTANT.

With regard to the above, I have so far built customised software for clients(hospitals, church, restaurant, hotel etc) such as:

a. Automated Cashbooks software variously featuring income and expenditure reports, debtors and creditors schedules; imprest accounts management, bank acounts reconciliation etc

b. General Accounts Manager(GAM) software that produces weekly, monthly and annual income and expenditure report PLUS Profit and Loss statement. balance sheet etc - with multiple charts.

c. Church Records/Accounts Management software that prepares end of year income and expenditure summaries reports/accounts; detailed bank accounts reconciliation reports, in addition to managing church membership records database etc.

d. Payslip Generator software that automatically prepares printable Payment Schedules for use in instructing banks to pay staff's salaries into their individual accounts. It also generates printable payslips(six per A4 page) in addition to a printable breakdown report of salaries per departments - which is tabulated and charted.

e. Hotel Records Management software covering income and expense data recording from reception/accomomodation booking, hall hire etc to restaurant and bar sales, laundry, materials stores stock movement, bar stocks movement etc. Produces monthly and end of year operational statement/simple profit and loss report.

f. Restaurant and Bar Manager software covering daily records of bar and restaurant sales - produces daily and monthly pie charted sales analysis for drinks and foods sold. Produces 365 day report of sales and expenses in table format - printable monthly and for year till date summary.

The point I make by stating all the above is that what I offer to do for farm businesses like yours, I am already doing quite successfully for other non-farm businesses. And as my individual and corporate clients have discovered, I see myself as a friend to those I serve, and therefore strive ALWAYS to do what will benefit them.

Click HERE now to tell me what you want me to do for you

I Can Help YOU(Testimonial From A Real-Life Client)

So let me encourage you NOT to regard me as someone who wants to TAKE from you, but as one who seeks to ADD to what you have so you can do BETTER than you are currently doing. I cannot succeed if YOU do not succeed. Therefore it is in my best interest to work HARD to ensure that whatever you engage me to do for you actually WORKS!

Here's what one client wrote on my feedback/testimonial form after I delivered the Custom Automated Excel-VB Driven Payslip Generator? software he ordered for his company:

*Note: I provide custom spreadsheet software development services as an Independent Consultant operating under the name SDAc's Creative Business Solutions(CB Solutions), an arm of my company - Self-Development Academy (SDAc) Limited. Note that "CB Solutions" used to be called "CB Studio" (i.e. Corporate Business Studio).

Click here to view the scanned copy of the COMPLETE feedback form.

If you decide to hire me, expect nothing less in terms of service QUALITY, than I delivered to the client mentioned above - and others like him.

I now invite you to explore the rest of this site to see just how much of what is offered you may have need for, or interest in.

It is my hope that what you learn will make you come back again - and that at some point you will be convinced enough to hire me to help you ENHANCE your ability to STARTUP and/or MANAGE your farm business by incorporating Best Practice Systems through the products and services I offer.

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Lastly, REMEMBER THIS!

I am a Performance Enhancement Specialist, with a bias for Farm Research & Extension Advisory Services provision. What I therefore offer are products/services aimed at helping farm biz owners(and those aspiring) adopt simple, practical and cost-effective systems for starting up or managing their farm businesses at LOWER COSTS, and with LESSER EFFORT. This will enable them enjoy INCREASING financial and other returns with PEACE OF MIND & EASE for the long term. If that sounds like a BENEFIT you would want to have, then click here to learn more about the BOPMS?.

Tayo K. Solagbade
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur
Mobile: 234-803-302-1263
www.spontaneousdevelopment.com(SDAc's Home on the WWW)
www.excelheaven.spontaneousdevelopment.com(Custom XL Software)
www.cbsolutions.spontaneousdevelopment.com(Webdesign, Training etc)
www.iff.spontaneousdevelopment.com(Cost-Saving Fish Farming Ideas)

Page Created: 1st June 2007

Page Updated: 21st April 2012