Magic Farmer Dara

Farming is great, thought a graduate of the Faculty of History - State University. While Dara was preparing a thesis project, he studied many books on the history of agriculture and cooking. Old recipes from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Finding a job after graduation was an incredibly difficult task. Those jobs that he could find on the Internet on job search sites required at least 5 years of work experience and work experience. He did not have this. And those who did not require this, there the salary was very small. I would hardly have had enough to travel by public transport and a very modest lunch but what about the payment of the apartment? Utility costs, not to mention the purchase of new technology? Take a loan? With such a salary, they will not give him a loan! Yes, and work for pennies, Dara did not want.

Therefore, after graduating from university, Dara decided to become a farmer. The blessing on the local television every day painted a great experience, become a farmer and earn money. Get a bank loan, under your cottage and ... get rich!

A young student at the age of 22 had a lot of energy, enthusiasm, a burning eye and hopes for the future! Having read the business of books how to become an entrepreneur, Dara plunged into a new world of business. He thought he could easily do agribusiness.

Dara had two plots, one in two hectares, he was empty, and next to him, through a small river, the second one - a summer cottage. In the 40 a ( 0.4 hectars) with a two-storey wooden prefab house. This is left from his grandmother's inheritance.

The land was located near the city, 40 km away. The landscape was foothill, the altitude above sea level was a little more than 550 meters, a flowing river flowed alongside it.

The dacha plot was equipped with both drinking and technical water for irrigation.

For water, you had to pay the meter with an advance payment of three months in advance.

Before starting to draw up documents - Dara should have become familiar with the laws on farm management, on entrepreneurship, what taxes he will need to pay. This is not a manga, where the farmer is one-two and starts to sell his products without paying any taxes or fees. This is real life.

Dara was a graduate, but not an agrarian university, but a historical one. Something he knew about agriculture, but not at the level of an agronomist or a full-fledged farmer. No, he just helped his Grandmother, while she was alive, to take care of her garden of 40 acres.

On it, he grew potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelons and melons. They handed out a part of the harvest to neighbors and friends, and a part of them were sold on the city market, near the Grandmother's house.

Therefore, Dara, thought that if he took more land, he would be able to get more profit! Youth, thirst for adventure, the realization of their dreams, plans, quickly make money, starting their own business, their business. Activate! Show yourself! Show yourself and people around what it costs!

At the same time, Dara knew the basics of business. As his neighbor, he did not immediately succumb to advertising on TV and did not run to take loans on the security of a summer cottage, buy seeds and start growing potatoes and tomatoes.

Dara decided to first draw up a business plan, learn more about what he would do, how, how much would it cost him, and how much profit would he get? Will he be able to recapture the loan amount and interest on it for one year at once or not for this you need to count and look at everything.

Payment for registration in order to become a private entrepreneur, payment of all taxes for the year ahead, payment of water, fuel and lubricants, depreciation costs, purchase of a mini tractor, the choice of its type, can be worth taking multifunctional, with attached equipment.

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 ...