Coconut farming not economical ???

[paragdere]

Hi all,
Just read on the times of India that farmers in Madurai are protesting for the low price they receive per coconut (Receive only 1Re. 50 paise for a coconut)
Is this true ?? And if yes, does it make sense to grow coconuts if the buying price is so low ?? I understand that the middlemen take most of the profit and finally coconut costs 20-30 rs, but the Rs 1.50 price is ridiculous. Can people harvesting coconuts in other parts of country quote the price they receive for their goods ?

 

[mohanpn]

Coconut farm

Yes,I totally agree about this.
Infact the poor farmers are not benefited for their hard work.
I do have around 2000 coconuts in stock for the past few months and not able to sell it out.
Now the coconut merchants are not interested even though they are more benefited than the farmers.

This is not an individual farmer issue, it is all over India .

Kindly consider this as a major issue and find a better solution for this !!

Thank you

Sincerely,

Mohandas

 

[SWAMY1807]

Dear Both,
Unless a person think that agriculture is mother of all jobs, no one can survive with casual efforts to earn bread.
First of all one should closely understand the nature and its powers to create one,s own kingdom in agriculture.
Then know 4 stages of life for any one
Stage-1-Farmer
Stage-2 Middlemen.
Stage-3 Retailer.
Stage-4 Consumer.
An Agriculturist should cross stage 3 to taste the better returns for his product.

Stage 1-Creater i.e. Farmer:- Normally all farmers thinks that their work ends at their field and marketing belongs to businessmen, therefore they are backing behind for getting profits.

Stage-2 Middle Men- These people invest their money and mind for 24 to 48 hours and will get about 10 to 20% profit for their investment and they do not know all problems facing by a Farmer and hence their returns and profits are sure.

Stage-3 Retailer- These retailers are the final profit gainers with good returns even after certain waste of produce.

Stage-4 Consumers- These are the sufferers who are making more comforts to those who are at Stage 2 &3 by paying what ever they(2&3) fixes.

In order to survive and to get success, Farmers should not restrict only to grow and sell at 2nd stage. But take responsibility to cross even 3d stage and catch the consumer directly for mutual benefiting by both Farmer and consumer. Manufacturers are winning through their own marketing strategies. Unless and until a farmers becoming businessmen, they cannot survive in the market gamble.

So be ready to have knowledge at all stages for getting success otherwise farmers life can become miserable.
Regards,

 

[hort my heart]

Alternative method!!

People!!!! you should aware of various value added products of coconut!! if you sell raw coconut, price will be low., at the same time if add some value to your product, it will more economical. and there are some by-products can get from coconut farming.

 

[editorialteam]

People!!!! you should aware of various value added products of coconut!! if you sell raw coconut, price will be low., at the same time if add some value to your product, it will more economical. and there are some by-products can get from coconut farming.

Dear Hort My Heart,

What you told is cent percent correct. It would nice if you can give more insight to the coconut farmers as how they could probably add value to the raw coconuts enabling them to get better returns.

Regards,
Shweta

 

[padmanabhan_ganesan]

Hi all,
Just read on the times of India that farmers in Madurai are protesting for the low price they receive per coconut (Receive only 1Re. 50 paise for a coconut)
Is this true ?? And if yes, does it make sense to grow coconuts if the buying price is so low ?? I understand that the middlemen take most of the profit and finally coconut costs 20-30 rs, but the Rs 1.50 price is ridiculous. Can people harvesting coconuts in other parts of country quote the price they receive for their goods ?

Hi paragdere,

Instead of losing heart, please look for other options:-

1. As suggested by "hort by heart", you can look for value addition. The one thing that comes to my mind is Kerala is full of coconuts and they do value addition like Ropes out of coirpit, Coirpit Bricks used for export etc.

2. Also, you can go for inter-cropping in your coconut farm and maximize returns.
Option 1: Cocoa Plantation-you should be able to get in touch with Cadburys Cocoa Plantation Team and have a buy-back arrangement.
Option 2: You can have Fish Farming in your coconut farm. You should get a hold of Pasumai Vikatan previous editions and get to know how to go about.
Option 3: You can fence the entire Coconut Farm upto 4-6 feet with thick barded fences or live fence so that you can have Country Chickens and you can make profit with less feed cost.

I am sure there are many other options but only thing is you have to look for it.

Regards
Padmanabhan Ganesan

 

[agrogreens]

Coconut

I can help. Ask the farmers to make whole dry edible grade kopra from the coconut and i can purchase on regular price from them in delhi. Let me see the offer and pics if they agree.


You can get my details from the net as it is not allowed to be posted on this forum.

Manish koshal
agro greens
new delhi
india.

 

[k1jatrophaoils]

I can help. Ask the farmers to make whole dry edible grade kopra from the coconut and i can purchase on regular price from them in delhi. Let me see the offer and pics if they agree.


You can get my details from the net as it is not allowed to be posted on this forum.

Manish koshal
agro greens
new delhi
india.

Copra and coconut trade is closely monitered by Coconut development Board and NAFED.
There is no need to sell a product knowingly for loss without this basic business knowledge.
There is a RMC and certain markets for the sale of coconuts.

By and large in the market coconuts are procured on kg basis by various users.
The MSP factor is there for coconut kernel and no need to be panic on the plantation part as long as we are in the right path of selling.
The price of copra went up to Rs70 two years back and still it may happpen if there is a support price for oil and cake.
Its unfortuunate that the oil price is hanging below Rs70/kg.
The fact is none of the growers in India ever use Coconut oil as a cooking medium and unless we stop using Palm kernal oil and palmolein, the support base for coconut oil will be worse than what we see now.

Mind you!
Its what all about oil trade is!
Rightly so. the implications fall on coconuts and the growing farmers in southern india.

Bhadrinath.

 

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