Organic cultivation of short duration crops is also feasible and profitable for fast growing vegetables.
profitable with short duration vegetable crops as you would get higher price for organic vegetables.
If your soil is rich in organic matter then organic cultivation may give a better result for short duration crop as well. But if your field is not organic and you are doing it for the first time, its quite difficult to get a commercial yield in the first season.
With short duration crops, of course, you will have more profits, and likewise with vegetables in your farm. My answer is feasible and profitable, but be cautious and attentive to it. Thank you.
Yes its feasible with careful management of the soil and timely application of other agronomic practices (e.g weeding, pest and disease control etc)
Certainly is feasible and profitable. In addition it is naturally cultivated with little or no pollution of inorganic materials.
Yes, it is a high-value product. There is a need for some good marketing and management.
In organic cultivation rather then short duration if you say pulses grown in this which is better otherwise if organic or inorganic cultivation of short duration crop Alway profitable
Yes, it is profitable. Now a number of people are very much concious for health. As a result, demand of organic Vegetables, fruits are increasing day by day.
In Short duration it was found profitable DOI -10.1007/s40003-016-0218-6
It is all about the demand and supply!
If few people are doing it, it is always profitable.
It is difficult to assess the likelihood of success in organic agriculture. Several concerns need to be born in mind when evaluating the feasibility of organic agriculture in a given environment. These factors include:
parameters reflecting greater "sustainability" do not necessarily imply organic practices;
in practice, it will often be difficult to differentiate between the effect of different factors on a farming system, as the introduction of organic management could be not the only change at the time (for example, a number of years with very (un)favourable weather conditions);
some parameters (such as yield) need to be averaged over a number of years, as factors other than the management system influence variability between years (for example, weather);
benchmark figures, which indicate the conditions before a change occurs in a system, are not always available. In such cases, they must be obtained before organic management is adopted but this is not always possible (especially when resources are scarce);
many of the changes may be observable only in the long-term, such as changes in yield or soil;
because organic agriculture is such an under-researched area, conditions which initially seem difficult may be easy to cope with after some experience has been gained, and vice versa; and
those who have no experience in thinking within the context of organic agriculture are not likely to be able to judge possibilities in organic agriculture accurately.
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Success in organic agriculture also depends greatly on local conditions. Organic agriculture is a production system which tries to create conditions such that problems with soil fertility and pest management are prevented, in order to optimize present and future output. One of the main characteristics of organic agriculture is the use of local resources to achieve this aim (including on-farm biological processes such as availability of pest predators or soil fungi which make nutrients more accessible to the plant). In Box 1 several individual techniques are listed but these can obviously be combined in many ways, with different weights on individual techniques. As potential agricultural problems, and availability of resources to cope with those problems, can differ greatly from location to location, the practicalities of organic agriculture can also vary considerably. For example, in areas with an abundance of organic material and labour, using compost as a way to maintain soil fertility may be more logical than using green manure in the rotation. This means that constraints can also differ greatly between localities. Determinations of the suitability of organic agriculture must include agro-ecological, economic, and social and institutional considerations
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Agro-ecological considerations
availability of natural resources: such as land, soil quality, vegetation, access to material which can be used in compost and mulch, availability of other materials such as rock dust;
evaluation of other resources needed, such as machinery and tools;
suitability of enterprises, that is, crops to be grown or livestock to be raised, given the availability of natural and other resources;
problems to be expected: which pests are common, what is the cause, what can be done to avoid them within available resources? For example, a primary pest may be avoided by planting at a time when the insect cannot complete its life cycle, even though that results in a certain decrease in yield due to non-optimal conditions in other aspects such as heat; a secondary pest could stop after abandoning the use of pesticides and natural predators return;
total production of all enterprises, not only of the main enterprise; yield difference in good and bad years (that is, yield variability).
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Economic considerations
labour requirements (quantity and timing of labour);
total net return, that is, income (or use) from main crop and other crops and livestock, minus the cost of the inputs used for the production;
long-term productivity: the effect of present production on the soil and implications for future yields;
marketing possibilities: in times when consumers are willing to pay a premium, improved marketing possibilities should be taken into account when production decisions are made.
Suitability of a system (such as organic agriculture) depends on its profitability, if that concept includes all aspects which affect the farmer's welfare. For example, low return of a marketable crop as compared with another farming system may mean very little if inputs are also low, or if the farmer can harvest other products which can be grown simultaneously in the one system, but not in the other (such as fish with irrigated rice when no pesticides are used). In addition, relative incomes can change drastically with changing input or output prices. A pest problem may be managed easily in one area where a predator is present, and be a major problem in a different area where no such solution is available (such as changing planting dates). One opinion is that organic agriculture is only possible where the soil is high in organic content, yet successful organic farms can be found on all kinds of soils, including infertile soils. In other words, although it is likely that some conditions are easier for organic farmers to handle than others, at present it is not clear what exactly those conditions are which make it inadvisable for farmers to adopt an organic management system. http://www.fao.org/3/AC116E/ac116e05.htm
Yes, it's very profitable business, because there is huge demand of vegetables in the markets especially in the urban areas.
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