Rs 75000 per acre NET profit - Is this techno-feasible in farming?

[neilkaye]

I want to know from the experts and actual farmers here whether a NET profit of Rs 75,000 per acre is possible from agriculture in Tamil Nadu/southern states?

I see so many rural people leaving agriculture .... yet hear so many agriculture university professors talking about Rs 1 lakh and plus Net profit per acre.

So where is the disconnect between theory and reality?

Becoz if Rs 75,000 per acre Net profit is possible, then an Indian farmer with 2 acres can make a decent middle class living, cant he?

Any thoughts, ideas, comments on this???

 

[mankup]

thanks for such question

Hi Friend,

Sorry that I am a student and cannot help you in your problem, But I am very impressed from you question because I also agree from you, that if a farmer can get that amount of money per acres than it is one of the best thing for him. I was also finding such solution for myself. Like there are some medicinal plants on which we can get Rs 25000 To 60000 per acres, but the investment is also required like about 30000 per acre which is a lot for someone who is from middle class family.

If you get the solution in any way please let me also know, You can send me PM.

I am also waiting for some answers from experts. So that I can also get some direction too.
Thanks in advanced .... Bye bye take care.

 

[manojsinghchandel]

hi

hi

There is huge difference in theory and practical. But if you follow theory than practical could be acheived. Theory has been taught in our Agril. Universities and Res. Institutions for the last many years and also some impact practically has been seen but to a limited extent. There are many variables in agriculture ranging from seed (source), fertilizer, pesticide, monsoon dependence, irrigation, marketing arrangement, demand-supply etc. Controlling all the mentioned factors could lead to good crop production and timely marketing of the produce. But it's not always feasible. Most of the Indian farmers have low level of literacy while most of the agril. res./ univ. taught in English medium though there are Krishi Vigyan Kendras but full impact is yet to realize. Under Indian agril. system , land holding is fragmented due to which economics does'nt worked out properly. What is required is complete knowledge of crop you want to grow beginning from market knowledge to cultivation aspect. Also mixed farming is very imp. in order to make farming lucrative depends upon available resources.

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Regds

 

[naidubk]

Possible agri incomes per acre in southern states

Hi,

I am from Andhrapradesh, and I have some own experience in Agriculture and also some knowledge about the neighboring people.

Generally people here do cultivation like urad daal(minumulu) kind of crops. This crop is once per year, and people invest approx 4-5k per acre including plough/seeds/labor and rental of the land.
If every thing is as expected then people gets a max 4-5 bags(each 100kgs) of produce. However I have been observing the produce since at least 7 years and so far i saw getting 5 bags only once. mostly people get 3 on average.
which they sell @2,500 to 4000/-(only last year we saw the price of 4k).
so taking this calculation people may get approx up to 12000 value of produce if things go well. so you may expect around 6-7k/- of benefit out of it.
If things like heavy rains or no rain causes then you may get 1-2 bags in worst case.

There are other crops like tobacco which is required lot of investment and you need license for this, even the people who is having all these facilities did not get more than 25k-to 30k per acre given the climate supports.

The mostly depended crop is rice, in this the people who has water facility can expect up to 20k profit.
the only place i see the farmer is surviving is that dairy. In my village most of the people has at least 3-4 buffaloes and they sell at least 10-20l of milk and can expect a daily income of 150-200/-. This is what keeping the farmer survive in the villages.
However some people do other crops like sugar cane, mirchi, etc. even these as per my knowledge they get a max of 20k per crop when climate supports.

Getting 70k income from one acre is far far away in these conditions.

 

[saveagriculture]

Please Read

Please Read some articles in pasumai vigdan(Tamil). In that i read an article of getting profit of 75-90ks per acre. Am an engineer and planning to get involved in agriculture in near future. Mixed cropping is the best one and also plan for fish pond etc. it will give continious income

 

[yaji_r]

Very interesting question. Thanks for initiating the same.

Even I am planning to venture into agriculture in very near future. We do understand that costs involved in Fertiliser, Pesticides etc are costing more and eating away the income of a small scale farmer.

Can someone through little more insight into the suppl chain aspect as well?

 

[tnagrikumaran]

I think we can get atleast 50k to 70k if we go for organic way.Initially this would give low turn over later on you will get more income . recently i am reading many articles about organic farming using available metirals. Integrating with mini diary farm with agricultue will provide all needs of natuaral manure. Now a day most of the spendings happens in perticide and fertilizers. Also we need to follow up water management.. Pls go through pasumai vikatan for latest news about organic farming and real stories.

Reg.
agrikumaran

 

[tnagrikumaran]

continue to my last note i would like to add some methods which will give more benefit for cattle/goat rearing ..e.g preparing silage, growing asola would give good benefit for milking cows and fish growers even for poultry. get in touch with the persons from Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University. also some free nominal fee training will be given if you read pasumai vikadan. I will send some other info on next note soon.

tnagrikumaran

 

[neilkaye]

Good thoughts ....

Nice to see many replies. The reality, it seems is that it is difficult to make even say Rs 25,000 per acre per annum on a consistent basis, let alone Rs 75,000 per acre per annum.

It appears that the typical Indian farming of two crops per year with some animal husbandry and a bit of mixed farming does not go very far.

Then why do the agri universities and agro-specialist talk abut laks per acre return? Are the demostration plots laid out so well in agri universities so disconnected from reality? For eg. SRI method of rice is proven in agri univ's and other countries as superior in method, inputs and yield compared to traditional methods ..... but why has it not taken off in India? Corporates are investing in agriculture now, but they seem to be careful to restrict themselves to trading and distribution, not cultivation .... why?

Would the experts and/or actual practitioners again care to weigh in on this with real world knowledge?

 

[mehta10]

Earnings Per Acre...

Having read the 'root' question I can convincingly tell you from 'my own' first hand experience that farming is ONLY profitable if you have access to a marketing channel. No trader ever commits suicide only farmers are dying. Why? Because traders make a killing (old news) right and farmers get a fractional amount of what the end consumer pays for the crop.
This is the reason why reliance and other big business houses are into distribution and marketing and not actual farming operations.
The market is not regulated for cash crops such as veggies and fruits and the traders are making a killing.
The vagaries of nature and the rural challenges in India make life very very difficult for a farmer.
The government is spending a considerable amount on colleges and universities for research but not much gets down to the farmer. Why? Because extension activities are weak and the follow up is even weaker. Believe me in india we have everything to a superpower but somehow we are not professional and thorough. That's sad.

Gaurav Mehta
(Agro entrepreneur)

 

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[narayan1969]

yes you can do it

I want to know from the experts and actual farmers here whether a NET profit of Rs 75,000 per acre is possible from agriculture in Tamil Nadu/southern states?

I see so many rural people leaving agriculture .... yet hear so many agriculture university professors talking about Rs 1 lakh and plus Net profit per acre.

So where is the disconnect between theory and reality?

Becoz if Rs 75,000 per acre Net profit is possible, then an Indian farmer with 2 acres can make a decent middle class living, cant he?

Any thoughts, ideas, comments on this???

yes you can do it if properly planned and taken care but you have to wait for 9 months and you get more than that continously for every two months or so
or even evey month

mail me further details

 

[ramling]

Interesting question, forum needs such questions often. I'm not actual farmer but am very closely associated with farmers, come from the farming background and have my own agriculture land.
Is Rs 75000 per acre net profit possible? yes, it is. I have know quite a few farmers who earn much more than that. My cousin who owns grape farm earns more than 1 lac/acre since last few years. Some of my relatives from Kolhapur who grow sugarcane are earning similar profits for last 3-4 years due to good prices of sugarcane.
But very few farmers can do this. This is because there are so many factors which affect the farm profit
1. Irrigation - With ample amount of water available, farmer can grow cash crops all the year without any dependency on the rain.
2. Crop - Cash crops like Sugarcane, Grapes give more returns
3. Climate - Bad weather supersedes everything and noone can stop it.
4. Farmer Skills - Smart farmers treat agriculture like business and overcome most of the problems and so earn more profits consistently. My uncle has made losses in grapes farming as against my consin's lacs of profits.
5. Market - Some crops like Onions, tomatos, vegetables have volatile prices. when the prices are down farmer doesn't even take the produce to market.
6. Farmer's investment capcity - a skilled farmer who has land near mine didn't have money to invest in drip irrigation. Banks did not give him any loan. This affected his profits for years.
7. Crop disease- In my village in Satara district so many villagers earned upwards of 4 lacs/acre in Pomogranate. But due to a disease called 'telya' they had to remove their trees. There is no remedy for this disease.

 

[ramu1970]

Annual income Rs.75,000 possible from an acre of land!

Hi,

Rs.75,000 per acre possible or impossible?

Possible for genius and professional farmers and impossible for those who are incompetent and not update in agriculture industry.

Agriculture is no more a loss making industry in spite of few odds..

Just think...

1.choose high value crop
2.follow latest and hi-tech cultivation practices
3.Locate a right market and right buyer

Things will work in your favour..

1.One acre brinjal yield around 100 MT / acre -gross income Rs.5 lac in 9 months. Less than a year time..this has happened in Tamilnadu since 2004.

2. One acre tomato yielded Rs.2.75 lac in 7 months...

3.one acre watermelon yielded Rs.1.05 lac

like wise Banana, sugarcane, hybrid red lady papaya etc has given extraodinary income from a single acre of land..


Farm Income depends on the individual capacity and knowledge, fartility status of soil, water etc..

Of course some parts of india are in semi arid and dry area where only subsistence farming can be practiced ..no commercial farming is possible...say Akola, vidarbha ...

This discussion holds good when all the factors of production are normal ...

This principle applies not only for agriculture but in every other profession too..

1. Not all students studying in school secure same high marks

2. Not all software engineers working for IT industries are drawing Rs.75,000 per month

There are degree of variation in evry thing every where. As for as agriculture is concerned, if anybody ask " Rs.75,000 farm income per acre is possible"

One should definitely say yes ...if capable..

Others need not say" yes or no.."

Because some one might have tried and incurred loss for want of complete farming knowledge ..for that one should not blame farming itself as a loss making industry..

However I wish all farming enthusiast earn more than Rs.75,000 per acre per year and celebrate the" year 2013 " as a YEAR OF INDIAN FARMERS

 

[agri1972]

Provided with sufficient irrigation water it is very easy to get 75K profit. With adequate irrigation facility the farmer can grow 3 crops in a year like maize-greengram/blackgram-cotton or cotton-rice-gram. Cotton and maize are commercial crops giving good profit, and gram will give little profit but improves soil physical properties.
Not limited to above crops, ground nut, onion are giving good profit in 120 days. Other crops like turmeric is annual crop gives good profit when intercropped with onion, tubers etc.


The reason for so many rural people leaving agriculture is they don't have irrigation water facility, so they grow only one crop during monsoon.
Second when the farmer rotates the total farm income for personal use like family festival or medical use, he gets money from brokers with high rate of interest and the brokers purchase the farm produce with minimal price. in this case the farmer forced to the vicious cycle of poverty and leaves village at the end.

 

[spsrivastava]

To get answer of this ambitious question, one has to make multi-product model of agriculture and also regular investments are required.
for 10 acre land, I think 1 acre should be allocated to long term income like teak/eucalyptus trees (return in >10 years) and 1 acre for poultry for country chicken (better price in market), Remaining 50% (4 acre) should be used for vegetables and 4 acre for medicinal plants.
with above, from 1st year onwards, 50K/acre income seems to be possible with big returns on 10th year.

 

[sirishkundavaram]

YES IT IS VERY MUCH POSSIBLE. BUT THE SAME TECHNO FINANCIALS CANNOT BE APPLIED TO ALL THE LAND UNDER CULTIVATION. WE ARE PRODUCING GHERKINS IN 5 ACRES OF LAND WITH RED SOIL AND AN INITIAL INVESTMENT OF RS.2,70,000/- PER ACRE. OUR AVERAGE YIELD IS 30 TONNES PER ACRE OVER 3 MONTHS CROP PERIOD AND EACH TONNE IS SOLD AT RS.7000/-, i.e., RS. 70000/- PER ACRE PER MONTH. RS.40,000/- IS TOWARDS OVERALL EXPENDITURES AND RS.30,000/- IS NET PROFIT. OVER A YEAR, ITS RS.3,60,000/- PER ACRE.