How many of you consciously/unconsciously thought farming as a choice because you hate your job?
Remember those discussions with friends, want to purchase land and continue with farming even if as a side activity. In my discussion with what ever crowd I have had, farming and agriculture has always come in the discussion as something everyone wants to do at some moment in their life. Have you also considered the same EVER? Paise kamake zameen karidenge aur kheti karenge!!!!
Lol, people complain about a 6 hour job and wanna become farmers. Good luck finding meaning and motivation in fetching water 2 hours away walking from your house
Wannabe farmers, spend one entire day shadowing a farmer.
Your goals will quickly change to running a cafe / homestay in the mountains / beaches.
Talk to someone who has run a homestay / cafe, bled away their investments and realise corporate slavery is best for you.
Repeat every 4 years when someone you know gets promoted over you / you get a new boss that you don't like.
Being a farmer was considered an insult earlier. My dad you used to say, "Padhega nahi to Gaon mein kheti karega, gai charaega".
Look how the tables have turned, people coming back from Umrikka to do organic farming and shit
No table has turned, these are just online farmers. People don’t become farmers by sleeping in bed on weekends.
Farming as an occupation is very tough in India. Those who have witnessed it in their family can testify it. No doubt it is satisfactory but to earn profits out of it is altogether different. Also one can not earn anything by just managing people doing work for him. One needs to get into the fields.
Ended up doing it... Absolutely terrible idea😅
Elaborate experience plz
Setup a hydroponic farm in 2018 - almost went out of business multiple times - got saved by the pandemic... Scaled up.. it's really a logistics business... The last person in the fruit and vegetable supply chain keeps 50% of the revenue
I am the first generation in our family to have a proper corporate job. My father, forefathers were all farmers and agriculture people. I have seen the hardships that comes with farming. It is tough to do farming but I think you are really living a well-balanced perfect masculine work as a farmer and at the end of the day you are content with your work. You wake up early, spend time in nature while doing the job. You get proper sleep. Very less digital consumption. I think overall it makes you much happier than a corporate job
I come from a hilly region so no doubt everyone does some kind of farming here even to this day we eat mostly homegrown organic vegetables
I think they mean it as a side hobby like look I grew a bunch of oranges ain't that cool instead of manuring the soil and growing wheat or worse.. rice.
An Orange tree takes atleast 5 years from seed to fruit.
The average techbro is already on his third job by then.
I spent the last 3 years at my Village. Agri lands are pretty expensive. If you own 3 acres of irrigated land you can earn as much as a entry level software engineer but you will have to do all the work. You cannot hire anybody as that will impact profits.
If you own 10 acres of irrigated land, then you can earn as much as a mid level software engineer who works at TCS/infy. But if you want to buy land and then get into farming then ROI is very poor for short to immediate term.
Dynamics of unirrigated land are slightly different.
Unpopular opinion, a "poor farmers" are a myth in India. Only rented farmers struggle both the ones who own the land.
Not the ones who own the land** not both.
Terrible idea. We have ancestral farming land but now we just do it for the heck of it (rice, wheat and some vegetables for self consumption and distribution to relatives & local villagers) as it’s vv difficult to make any money from it.
Self consumption is still good though. At least you know what you're growing and how you're growing it instead of being at the mercy of markets. Pretty helpful against inflation in prices.
Lmao this is probably the most misunderstood comment section in grapevine.
"Doing farming" need not mean getting into the farm and doing physical labour. It just means your primary income comes from farming.
Whenever some IT guy says he wants to do farming, it doesn't mean he aspires to become farm labour. What he means is he wants to own farmland and generate income from agriculture.
You can still phucially do labour just for satisfaction, but income generation will still be done by the farm labour you employ, not by yourself.
It is actually well understood, but as others have commented, if you need to want to be able to make corporate salary level incomes, you'll need to put in a huge investment and it will be low ROI.
