1. Proper business planning, when formulated ahead of time helps you focus better on your farming growth and success, to execute projects and fulfill your vision.
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2. If you take the time to set action-orientated goals, you are more likely to achieve those business goals in a timely fashion.
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3. When planning ahead, you can assess risks and opportunities. Identifying any associated risks prepares you to weigh and categorise them, prioritise and create an effective response plan, thus changing risks to opportunities.
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4. Many farmers, during hard times might not succeed because they haven’t anticipated the risks and created a plan to cope with them. It is essential to anticipate risks before they happen, so that you know how to cope with them should they arise.
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5.Farming business planning helps you to become more proactive. Without proper planning, you may not be ready to respond to outside challenges.
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This is where our business planning services come to the fore. By creating business plans you become proactive, allowing yourself to comfortably take the right action in the face of challenge and adversity.
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6. Improving performance of your farm. Through intelligent planning and preparation, you will gain tremendous performance. You can measure the level of preparation against the level of performance and you will see there is a direct correlation.
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7. The most effective business plans are revised and updated regularly as this is an effective way to keep you on track.
8. By planning ahead, you will be planning for success both short term and long term.
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Propagation: waterMelons can be direct seeded, or propagated to a seedling and later Transplanted.
For the direct seeded, the planting depth is about 1cm to 2cm and between row spacing is 1.5-2m, while the intra-plant spacing is 40cm-60cm.
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Fertilizer application.
At planting, we start with Phosphorus fertilizer eg Yara power, NPK 23:23:0 or DAP
This is to enable the young seedlings form a good roots network a healthy stem and leaves.
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Before getting into farming do a good market survey. 1. Check market trend for the last 5 months.
2.Check the current trend, in term of prices and quantities consumed. 3. Read between the line and connect with the market for the next 5 months.
Farm inputs
After choosing the crop of your choice.
-Do a good research on inputs, especially seeds.From the market you can also get the varieties of their choice.
-Visit few farmers and get to know the best fertilzer and agrochemicals they are using.