1 Farming is grea (2/2)
Decide on the choice of horsepower, the country of the manufacturer, the brand, take care of spare parts, find out if the service centers or can repair one or another type of mini-tractor in the car repair shop or mechanization workshop nearest to the dacha. How much does it cost for money?
What time will it take, the processing of a crop with fertilizers, the collection, which containers to use, where to store, how to recycle, how to carry, how much will it cost? Who will buy and at what purchase prices? How much will the examination of the laboratory and medical book cost?
What profit from this he will receive. How much of this will he be able to pay to repay the loan and the accrued interest? Will his profit be greater or less, will he have to pay VAT or not?
Is the game worth the candle or not?
Not forgetting the risk factors in agriculture is a common thing. Will it be too dry a year, or vice versa a wet one? Maybe the seed material is infected or the crop can be beaten by pests, which will affect the reduction or even the harvest will disappear ?!
It's not easy. So you need to take insurance for the harvest! It's all waste and now the business plan is ready. From it it turns out that planting products on 2 hectares is not profitable, it does not pay off anything, the farmer can simply easily go into minus.
Yes, that honey is definitely not worth those stings.
It is easier to take a loan of 2 hectares and try to grow special garden crops to give 40 hectares. It will not be so scary for money, and according to his calculations, there is even a small chance of getting a plus.
Having issued all the documents Dara became a private entrepreneur. Taking a loan at the Bank at 36 percent per annum as collateral, he left 2 hectares of land.
Meanwhile, his neighbor has already ripened the harvest - he gathered 25 tons of tomatoes and 40 tons of potatoes per hectare. But the purchase price was in the city in the market and the supermarket was not the one that the neighbor was counting on. Not 1.25 dollars for 1 kg, but only 11 cents. Taking into account the collection, storage, transportation, parking fees, etc., it was cheaper to allow the crop to rot on the plot.
The neighbor tried to sell his goods as best he could. He put out boxes near the road and sold them right there. Part of the goods put on the local market. The price he put was 50 cents per 1 kg, but now the annoyance, all his neighbors in the precinct, also planted the same thing and their harvest was also a success. So the price of tomatoes was 12 cents altogether, and they gave 8 cents per 1 kg for potatoes instead of 54 expected by their neighbor. Such prices were in the city in the markets and supermarket shelves.
When he wanted to deliver the goods to supermarkets at a price of 50 cents per 1 kg, they offered him a price of 10 cents. On that neighbor naturally refused and Dara, having come to visit his neighbor, saw the whole picture, in the fields, huge pyramids of towering tomatoes and potatoes. Farmers engaged in decorating.
Here, involuntarily, Dara remembered an old story, which he had read as a child, as an enterprising foreigner, used tomatoes as fertilizer. But this is clearly not the case. The neighbor, having been tortured by these tomatoes, simply gave Darre five boxes of 20 kg each for free.
Buy in the purse mini-plant for the processing of tomatoes and potatoes, none of the neighbors did not dare. Since it is not a fact to buy finished products, someone bought them, but they needed the cost to pay off their debts. Woe to the farmers, nothing else was left but to declare themselves bankrupt ...
Sad experience, suggested Dara new idea ...