Software Professionals Turned Farmers

[essa4us]

Dear indians, with income in agri you can also transfer black or extra income of money in white via agri as, agri profit is non taxable.

Means u have 100 rupees black in your hand and if you can show u have sold rice of rupees 100 from your farm you can make that black 100 in white.

Any person want to join agri business kindly revert to p message.

We can start in group means 1 lk of 50 people we will have 50 lak by which we can do big projects and you will be share holders of said agri business.

Thanks

[tamil]

dear friends ,
this is a very intersting topic that not only IT professionals are interested
in this field , those who are leading a stressful,restless,jobs were looking for something which make them busy by physical work and relaxed mentally,
myself i am a doctor but i am very much interested in agriculture,as this is one job which doesnt have a retirement.moreover if our generation is not intersted in agriculture then it will be forgotten in the future,
so my message is friends dont look it as another business but something for our forefathers &for selfsatisfaction,any work with dedication will never go in vain.....
thank u

[arumughams]

Hi All,

Thanks for tons of tips provided by every one. I am trying to summarize the points.

1) Agriculture is not low income business. In Future(in 10-15Years)
it is going to be a best business.

2) Proper Planning is needed. It is advised to take up in small steps.
(Idea like start with contract farming and learn the nitty-gritty
is also proposed)

3) Sincere hard work is needed. Getting 24% returns in Agriculture is
not at all a big thing.

4) Have agriculture as a back plan, while you are into other business.

5) Agriculture is way to convert black money to white money(as agri-income
is not taxable)

6) Don't treat agriculture as a business do it for self-satisfaction and
relaxation (This one is doctor's advice).

One small request. Many of you have said Planning is required. If anyone
take up a casestudy to show how it was planned and implemented, that would be
very helpful for others. We can see many are interested in this noble profession.

Thanks & regards,
Saravanan A

[safla]

hi guys/gals:
i am someone who has taken the leap from working in medical research, owning a IT business to giving it all up and taken to farming. Take it from me, it is hard work, and if you are doing it for the income, forget it! But you should look at it as an investment in your health and mental well being, which cannot be valued in terms of money. My advice is: Work for sometime in IT, save some money, and invest part of it in a manageable size farm. If you can make the farm self sustaining, that should do.
Safla

[arumughams]

Hi Safla,

Yours seems to be best and clear cut answer for the question possed.

Thank you very much,
Saravanan A

[ashypeshy]

SW professionals....wat u mean professional? is Bill Gates a Software professional? so.... who r the professionals then?????

[vny2kor]

Hi Guys,

Interesting posts. Quite willing to learn from the casestudy (and hopefully become a subject in next 3 years )

Meanwhile we have a farmland near Krishnagiri (we live in Bangalore). We are looking at hiring a Farm Manager.

Any suggestions ?

regards
Nilesh and Vinay

[shanmuga06]

Sir,

Its very proud to hear that the IT people are likes agriculture.One thing I want to say that the IT people forefathers are /were belongs to the agriculture families.From the income of their fore fathers they have completed their higher studies like B tech,BE (EC),BE( IT),BCA,MCA,MS.So its indicates they are from basicaly agriculture families.Daily i am getting minimum 10 phone calls from abroad regarding farming and related activities for consultancy.And also its a natural law like crop rotation.For example 20 years back everybody want to study the engineering in all respects .Now 10 years back everybody want to study Medicine and recent past every body wants become as IT professinals.Now what is the position for all studies.But education in any form is powerful weapon for ever.Everybody will know the food for human is essential in the world.Without food any body will not become a professionals in any field.The food for human comes from farmers.I.e agriculture.So this is a turn for agriculture otherwise we will be throw in the hell.So i welcomes all IT proferssionals and other professionals to do agriculture,horticulture,silviculture,apiculture,a quaculture ,viticulture and vermiculture.

with kind regards

A Sivakumar,
Chief Consultant,(Technical&Plantations)
Priya Nursery Garden,
KARAIKUDI-630001.
09843080275
priyagar06@yahoo.co.in

[maheshraots]

Hello there,

Yes, indeed its important and interesting TOPIC we have been sharing our information. I believe strongly that AGRICULTURE is the future and Agriculture is the BASE. Agriculture has HUGH POTENTIAL FUTURE. Problem is pricing of AGRICULTURE commodities. Its not scientific. As a result our FARMER is getting poorer and poorer and majority of farmers are leading life less than a dollar/day.

If all the EDUCATED people get involve in agriculture as one of their profession, then agriculture will improve, our food production will also improve.

I am too an IT professional and am from agriculture family background. I am very much interested in agriculture and I love farming and I do farming.

Here in this topic we have been discussing about the AGRI PROJECTS. I am not able to get what is AGRI PROJECTS and please name few as an example of AGRI PROJECT.

I wish, pray in God that all lives of our farmer improves and we put scientific method and newest technologies for safe food production.

Regards,

Mahesh Rao

[dvenkat77]

Hi Guys!
Really interesting Thread. Well, Let me introduce myself first. I am Venkatesh working as Senior project Manager in Infosys. As you know everyday client call, project meeting, delivery schedule etc. I am just 33 and almost i have all problems in my body because of this stress. So i decided one year back that we need to do some business. So i selected Agri is my prime business. because i am seeing lot of potential area for the next 20 years.

For the same first i brought 8 acres of land in outskirt of chennai. Do you know how much struggle i faced

1) cleaning the area,
2) did fencing
3) made a hut
4) applied for electricity
5) digg bore
6) pipeline conenction etc etc.....

To get into the shape i spend moeny like anything , i can say lakhs and lakhs. Then only i relaised why farmers doing sucide... For each and everything i paid money for every department like VO, AD, Register etc.

Finally my land is ready for farming. So i decided to go with organice farming. I did a complete planning.

I went to agriculture department and brought a drum seeding machine - Hand move.

Very first time, i spreaded the seeds using this drum seeding machine and waited for 10 days... everything come properly but ... if paddy stawr grows for 2 inch... the cross is growing 5 inch. afetr 10 days.. i can't able to find out which one straw and which one paddy. So total floop.

Waitied for next season, now this time i went with regular method. This time i have put sufficient vitamins for my land. All my paddy straw grown well. I can say almost in arround 15 kms from my land.. my paddy straw was too good and grown well. every one in the town talking about my paddy starw. i did everything on time. i have taken care of medicine on time. So grown well. finally after 90 days i am seeing lots and lots of paddy grains in the straw.

I was so Happy that my project is success. i have to wait for another 20 days to do harvest. One fine day rain started. it was continues 4 days rain and all my paddy straw floating in the rain water. Inside i was crying liek anything. Not only because of money... money i can get that if i go one more time onsite. But the amount of hard work which i put in that was totally lost. so all the yellow grains are changed to black grains. finally i got some money.

As per my calculations i suppose to get 10k in one acre land. but i end up with 10k loss per acre plus my effort.

That's it i stopepd that day.. now it is more than 9 months i didn't do anything.. i am still thinking whether i should start a dairy cow farm in that land or goat form or thinking of cultivating casurina..

i have complete idea about all these things, but affriad to start. But surely i will start by next 3 to 3 months.

So what i want to convey here for the "Software Professionals" are Don't think that it is a easy business.

1) getting labour is a big problem. That too, if they think that you have money that's it they will suck you rblood liek anything.
2) You can't do pilot project or POC before doing this business.
3) on the field you have to jump and you have to learn, There is no NIIT,CSC or Aptech is there an doffcourse No Google is there to help you. You have to help yourself always.
4) On top of that you have to have Luck & god blessings.

5) To my understanding, i don't know how come they derived 24% ROI. The margin is less so if you decided to put your effort put it in the large size so that you will get very good amount.

Example.
1) In one cycle if eevrything goes fine minimum 5000 maximum 10000 you will get per acre.
IF you do it for 100 acres which is 5 lacs to 10 lacs per cycle. Per cycle meas end to end 4 to 5 months.

So what ever you are earning in IT , you can get the same in Agri too provided if you do it large size.

Always Poor agri man,
Venki.