{"id":9513,"date":"2022-10-03T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9513"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","slug":"grasscutters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9513","title":{"rendered":"GRASSCUTTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a business opportunity you may be interested in investing in through Mission Resource: raising grasscutters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you think of African wildlife, you tend to picture lions, giraffes, hippos and monkeys. If you&#8217;re like me, you are not so familiar with the grasscutter.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/EAA49ED3-D27B-4B3D-B18E-95E356A701B3-1-scaled.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3024\" data-original-width=\"4032\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/EAA49ED3-D27B-4B3D-B18E-95E356A701B3-1-scaled.jpeg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scientific name of the animal is\u00a0Thryonomys swinderianus. Also known as a cane rat.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They can reach 2 feet in length and 11 pounds in weight.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why raise giant rats?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For food, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grasscutter meat is considered a delicacy. And when it comes to nutrition, it is a healthier alternative to other meats: low in cholesterol and high in protein, calcium, iron, and phosphorous.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our director in Ghana, Emmanuel, tells me that a full grown adult grasscutter can fetch 300 Ghana cidis (currently equal to $30 US). And even a 2 month-old grasscutter can be sold for 150 cidis. That&#8217;s excellent money for something that breeds easily in captivity and doesn&#8217;t require any special feed &#8211; just grass.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emmanuel is currently experimenting with raising grasscutters and will be looking for an enterprising businessman or woman to take on some of the offspring his current group is producing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/252C2D42-6B6B-4E1B-851A-EE49F2EED1B7-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a business opportunity you may be interested in investing in through Mission Resource: raising grasscutters.\u00a0 When you think of African wildlife, you tend to picture lions, giraffes, hippos and monkeys. If you&#8217;re like me, you are not so familiar with the grasscutter. The scientific name of the animal is\u00a0Thryonomys swinderianus. Also known as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9516,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions\/9516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}