Software Professionals Turned Farmers

[arumughams]

Hi Guys,
I am seeing in some sites that many young Software Professionals in India have become farmers. But I have a basic question in my mind for those IT guys who have turned farmers. The income one earn in these two profession is totally uncomparable. I hope, the average annual income one gets in agriculture will be equal to the average monthly income one gets in IT industry. And also, the income from agriculture will not be regular as it is monthly in IT. How are you guys managing? Please give your tips and techniques on this.

[anil1956]

Dear friend,

You should know the real reason why many IT persons are looking at other avenues for earning. First the life is highly stress full in IT industry, one needs to update himself constantly. Second hire and fire works like anything. If the company completes one project and is not getting a similar project the company simply fires the team/keeps them on bench for some time. This thought itself is stress full. As age advances and people turn 35 the tension increases.

Now I meet many IT, IIM grads seeking consultancy for projects in agri areas. It is possible to make one or two lacs a month in simple business, only thing is hard working entrepreneur is required.

In agri many people fail or suffer because they do not plan. It requires a lot of experience to properly put a project idea in place. Secondly forward and backward linkages establishing is a must for success.

At last I must say hardly 1 per cent of IT guys really take up agriculture as profession and they back out once they study the details of the projects. But please note 24 % return can be achived only in agro based projects. Agro based projects are better than traditional industries in profitability.


anil patil

Originally Posted by arumughams Hi Guys, I am seeing in some sites that many young Software Professionals in India have become farmers. But I have a basic question in my mind for those IT guys who have turned farmers. The income one earn in these two profession is totally uncomparable. I hope, the average annual income one gets in agriculture will be equal to the average monthly income one gets in IT industry. And also, the income from agriculture will not be regular as it is monthly in IT. How are you guys managing? Please give your tips and techniques on this.

[arumughams]

Hi Anil,

Thanks for your reply. You are right IT job is stressful because of
1) One has to constantly take up changes in technology
2) Near Zero error tolerant work environments
3) Above two points, leads to tough competition among Peers
4) Un-ethical and un-logical Hiring-firing Policies of the company

Also you have talked about "Establishing Forward and Backward Linkage".
Can you please bit elaborate on it? It will be helpful to the readers.

I hope, the 24% returns you are saying, should be on some special type
of projects and not on traditional crops. If possible you can just
highlight on that.

Thanks,
Saravanan A

[royal_aromatix]

Agriculture is the future. All you need to do is to carry out everything in a planned way.

[organicagrarian]

Hello,

This is a very interesting thread, which has been started. I'm also an IT professional and very keen in taking up agriculture as a profession.
When you say we need to plan out, what are the points that we need look or plan for?
Is there any training on the same?
Are they any success stories and the references for the same to get a first hand information?

To have these information, would be of great help.

thanks
Vimala

[ulavan]

Hi,
Carefull Planning is needed in the projects you choose and it also differs for each location.You should have Practical knowledge or hire a trusted knowledgeble person to run your project.You can start in small scale and expand it with experience.If you get into agri profession to relive stress and as a hobby then choose your projects with minimun investment and risk.

Regards.

[dairyman]

24% returns is not an issue provided you take up agriculture as seriously as you take software development.

I feel people should take up agricultre as a back up plan. It should be used a a fall back option if something happens to their jobs.

I suggest please take simple pie in some thing have some experience with small level pilot projects in agri and at tright time of in case of some untoward incident you can have your own venture up and runing. I can tell you it will make you more assertive on job and also job will be less stressful. Try out geeks, Its high time we trust our lives in some one's hands. Take charge of your life.

You mau fall down many times but you will learn a lot and move ahead.

Dairyman

[antony_pratap]

Hi All,

Well i'm one such person this phrase suits, I work for BPO and obviously yes get paid one heft check, however i've been getting super stressed that i when i spend my weekend i more likely want to sleep and than spending time with my family, i have been working on starting my agri project, and like said perfect planning is required and a step at a time is best, i first was fascianted with a contractual farming as i found that to be less of risk, however as i have been learning various way of farming and how the monetary flow works here, i have been feed with a lot of ideas, so much so i have been telling my friends agriculture is going to be the best business in the next decade or in a min of 10 -15 yrs from now.

People who have less investment can go for contract farming in live stock to start with, less risk and it give you an idea to farming, however get in only with a flair not thought of making more money than what you getting, obviously u can get there by its takes time to get there.

bye friends,

All the best

Antony

[bhuvanesh]

hi...
i am also looking to start my career in agriculture field...and i have undergone training about an year...so plz inform me if you would like to start a farm...we may discus how we can go about...

Thanks and regards

Bhuvanesh
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[shankara]

Yes what you all are saying is right, Here we need didication and bit hard work to start with. Agro/Agri field is bit different from managing work force. We have to learn managing agriculture labours.
Always better to start with small investment but not to stop there if you come accross loss or find it difficult, you have to learn from failures and expand slowly.

regards
Shankara