One acre plantation of Heliconia joint venture
1. Fertilizers
Gobber/Bone meal/ rock phosphate/ Glyrecedea /
organic contents 10 000.00 10 000.00
2. Pipe line for irrigation 30 000.00 40 000.00
3. Plantation 1000 Nos. 40 000.00 80 000.00
4. Maintenance and fertilizers 120 000.00 200 000.00
5. Planting material 500 000.00 700 000.00
6. Consultation and technical support 24000.00 724 000.00
Total expenses for first year are 7 lakhs and twenty four thousand rupees per acre.
An amount of 3 75000 rupees will be taken by the company (for the planting material) as part of joint venture.
So the grower has to pay only 349000.00 per acre in the first year.
Maintenance, fertilizers, technical support and marketing expenses will be 144 000.00 rupees every year.
The fertile land with fencing, electricity, motor shed with motor will be the responsibility of the third party. An amount between one lakh to two lakh rupees may be estimated for the same depends on the conditions of the land and location.
No investment is needed for future expansion, after the establishment period, because all the developments can be materialized with the profit from the project in the future. Only land is needed additionally. So a person with 10 or 20 acres land can start the project with 10 to 20 lakhs of rupees in the beginning. He will be able to start in two to three acres of land in the first stage, and can develop to 10 or 20 acres in the future from the profit. He will be able to produce 4 lakhs to 8 lakhs flowers annually with a projected worth of 80 lakhs to 1.6 crore of rupees every year with a onetime investment of only 10 to 20lakhs rupees with land and infrastructure
Profit analysis
The number of flowers from one acre is 40000 big flowers/ 100000 small flowers.
40 000 flowers @10 rupees is 4 lakhs rupees from one acre.
The market rate varies from 10 to 60 rupees in metros depends on the season and species.
So the total profit from one acre may be 24 lakhs of rupees in the future.
More information about heliconia
Heliconia, derived from the Greek word helikonios, is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants native to the tropical Americas and the Pacific Ocean islands west to Indonesia. Many species of Heliconia are found in rainforests or tropical wet forests of these regions.
The Heliconia are a monophyletic genus in the family Heliconiaceae, but was formerly included in the family Musaceae, which includes the bananas (e.g., Musa, Ensete; Judd et. al, 2007).
These herbaceous plants range from 0.5 to nearly 4.5 meters (1.5–15 feet) tall depending on the species (Berry and Kress, 1991). The simple leaves of these plants are 15–300 cm (6 in-10 ft). They are characteristically long, oblong, alternate, or growing opposite one another on non-woody petioles often longer than the leaf, often forming large clumps with age. Their flowers are produced on long, erect or drooping panicles, and consist of brightly colored waxy bracts, with small true flowers peeping out from the bracts. The growth habit of heliconias is similar to Canna, Strelitzia, and bananas, to which they are related.The flowers can be hues of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens, and are subtended by brightly colored bracts.
Heliconias need an abundance of water, sunlight, and soils that are rich in humus in order to grow well. These flowers are grown all over the world as ornamental plants
Different Heliconia species have different flowering seasons.