The owners of suburban areas, by definitionfew more opportunities to start a home business. You can, for example, not only do gardening or growing fruits and vegetables, but also have pets. Although, of course, many gardeners and start-up entrepreneurs prefer plant growing to animal care. This is not only a less laborious undertaking, the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, moreover, does not require such a large financial investment and constant (daily) control, but it also pays for itself more quickly.
One of the good ideas for business is the cultivation of garlic.
Land plot
Growing garlic on an industrial scalepresupposes the availability of a land plot of about twenty hundred square meters in size (minimum is 10 x 20 meters). Perfect for the organization of a small business suburban area, but in the absence of it, agricultural land can be rented. When searching for a suitable place, preference should be given to sandy soils or lands such as black soil, which are the most fertile and allow you to grow really high-quality crops.
To rent land within the Moscow region,Of course, too expensive for a budding entrepreneur. Thus, the plot (twenty hundred square meters) near the metro station "River Station" will cost 185 thousand rubles a month, i.e. over the year you will have to pay more than two million just for rent. In the Smolensk region, for example, renting a similar area will be only 20 thousand rubles / month, or 240 thousand per year.
Type and grade of garlic
Определившись с земельным участком для посадки, Attention should be paid to the choice of type and grade of garlic and the purchase of planting material. Growing garlic as a business ideally involves the sale of large quantities of product with a long shelf life, in addition, it is desirable to get large onions and cloves - such a product is sold faster. But each type has its own advantages and disadvantages:
Growing spring garlic allows you to get a product with a long shelf life, but the small size of the bulbs and cloves, in addition, you can face a low yield.
Growing winter garlic as a business is more profitable, as it allows to achieve high yields and large bulb sizes, but such garlic is poorly preserved, there is a risk of freezing.
As regards varieties, it is best to consider the following for business organization:
Lyubasha. Differs in unpretentiousness to weather conditions and good keeping quality (storage time), frost-resistant.
Ukrainian purple and white. Garlic is very well preserved, the yield is about two hundred kilograms per one hundred square meters of land.
Saved. The variety is perfectly preserved, resistant to diseases and parasites. The yield of garlic is twenty tons of product per hectare.
Kharkov purple. Frost-resistant and relatively resistant to diseases, the yield of garlic is average - you can get about one hundred and twenty kilograms of the product from a hundred of land.
Gulliver. Medium late variety, which has a high yield, spicy taste and long shelf life (up to eight months).
Benefit. It adapts to various climatic conditions, it is frost-resistant, keeping quality (stored for up to ten months).
Planting material
Growing garlic as a business will require purchaseslot of planting material. To sow twenty hectares will need up to a thousand cloves of garlic. So, with an average weight of one clove at 15-20 grams (Lyubash variety), it is necessary to purchase about twenty kilograms of garlic, which will cost only 2,200 rubles. When calculating, the wholesale price of planting material (110 rubles / kg) was taken into account.
Machinery, equipment and workers
Growing garlic on an industrial scale,Of course, it requires the involvement of agricultural machinery, since it is quite labor-intensive to sow twenty hundred square meters on your own. So, you can rent a tractor is not the period of active work. Acquire the technique for full personal use is not entirely appropriate. In addition, you will need shovels, rakes and watering cans.
Permanent staff of growing garlic as a business does not require. During the period of planting and harvesting, you can attract local retirees, schoolchildren or the unemployed to work for a small fee.
Cultivation technology
Garlic, the methods of cultivation of which are severaldiffer depending on the type, in general, not too picky about care. Spring planting is carried out in April - the first half of May, winter - in late September - early October. The first type must be planted in furrows tight enough: between the teeth should be left about ten centimeters, and between the rows - fifteen - twenty. For winter garlic, the distance should be ten to twelve centimeters between the cloves and about thirty between the rows.
Planting material - garlic (cultivation and carein the open ground for which are described in the review in sufficient detail) - must be disinfected immediately before planting. To do this, prepare two solutions:
Six tablespoons of regular table salt per ten liters of water.
One tablespoon (or three teaspoons) of copper sulfate for the same amount of pure water.
In the first part of the planting material should be lowered for a half to two minutes, in the second - for a minute. After you can start planting, but the garlic does not need to be further washed with clean water.
Care is a periodic weeding beds(if necessary) and timely watering. Winter autumn garlic is better to cover with fir branches, dry leaves or special material. In the spring should remove all unnecessary from the beds. In addition, in the spring, the plants can be fed with urea, from time to time (twice a month), garlic should be fertilized. With the active growth of arrows, it is better to pinch them - so garlic, cultivation and care in the open ground for which does not cause any special problems, grows larger.
Harvesting takes place in mid-July (forwinter) or late August (for spring garlic). After you need to cut the garlic, wash and dry the product in natural conditions (under a light canopy in the open air) at least for a week. Ready-for-sale items should be stored in wooden boxes in a well-ventilated area.
Tips and Tricks
Features of the cultivation of garlic are known to every summer resident who has ever encountered this plant:
garlic does not like excessive moisture, so watering should be dosed;
good effect on the yield of sufficient amount of sunlight;
it is better to plant the plant in the beds where cabbage, pumpkin, and beans grew;
for top dressing it is preferable to use wood ash.
In general, the cultivation of garlic is not such a difficult process. And if you follow the technology, time to fertilize the beds and monitor the plants, you can expect abundant harvests.
Harvest implementation
To organize sales, if the cultivation of garlic is considered as a business, is most profitable for the final consumer, that is, at retail. Wholesale buyers can also be:
catering (in small batches);
pharmaceutical companies;
canneries and meat processing enterprises;
vegetable dealers and retail outlets (small wholesale);
large retail chains.
Promotion and development
Growing garlic as a business involves searchingwholesale customers. So, you can place an ad in local newspapers, gardening magazines, online catalogs. At retail, they often start selling to friends and neighbors, after advertising is built on the principle of “word of mouth”. Promotion of goods on the Internet, which has become an effective method of increasing sales in modern realities, is inappropriate for this business. You can develop the business either by increasing the volume or replacing the product - it is advantageous to grow parsley, onion, strawberries, and other crops.
Start-up capital
So, summarizing all the above, we can say that a small business in the cultivation of garlic for the purpose of further sale of the product does not require significant financial investments. It only takes:
to lease a land plot (twenty hectare area is taken into account), which will cost an average of two hundred forty thousand rubles per year;
buy planting material in the required amount, the cost of which is up to three thousand rubles;
purchase shovels, watering cans, rakes and other equipment and enlist the help of several workers;
pay for the water used for watering the beds, and buy fertilizer, fertilizer.
So, at the beginning it will take from ten to one hundred thousand rubles to organize a business of growing and selling garlic.
Business payback
With twenty hectares of land can collect four tonsgarlic (variety: Ukrainian white and purple) or more - depending on growing conditions, variety and other nuances. With a wholesale price of one hundred and ten rubles per kilogram, the revenue for the entire product will be four hundred forty thousand rubles. It pays for business in just one season.
If we organize retail sales, thenYou can earn even more: from one million two hundred thousand rubles. However, selling four tons of product at retail is not so easy. Thus, a business plan for growing garlic with a reasonable approach from the entrepreneur has all the chances of successful implementation and obtaining high profits.
