I have 2.5 acre land , how can i utilise that in farming?

Question

Its not a emty land its having coconut,arecnut,and mango trees.i want utilise that land more effeciently,it has abandand water facility

Answer 1

The first thing you need to do is resurrect that water supply. This will give you the ability To produce on your land year around. Depending on your market, vegetable crops such as tomatoes, peppers, etc. sell at very good prices during the dry season when they are not normally produced. Grow high value, labor intensive crops during the regular growing season such as ground nuts, yams, watermelon, whatever you can find a good market for. Utilize the trees that you have and find shade tolerant crops to grow under them. Maybe establish coffee or cocoa trees in their shade. If you utilize your land in the right way, 2.5 acres can give you a good income. The key is to get a good water supply.

Answer 2

We have about the same acreage. :)

What I did was to create some island(hills) where the "yard" was low. I bought quite an assortment of seeds, and began planting test gardens. I wanted to find out what would be the least intensive thing I could plant - for weather conditions and for pest resistance.

I keep a few horses, and I use their manure.

Some plants were obviously doing better than others, due to season/weather conditions and susceptibility to bugs.

Turns out that the least intensive thing here is watermelon - the tomatoes and eggplant and okra are all looking great, but need a little more water. For some reason the yellow squash is really buggy and I think it would do better in soil that had more organic or clay material - go figure.

You might try going to a market . See which of the things you planted that are doing well have a higher price tag than other plants you have that are also doing well.

Yellow squash is cheap(here), as is zucchini and corn(although it would be nice to plant some corn for personal use, because the newer picked is soooo much better than the store-bought starchy stuff...).

If you have a water facility I would definitely consider aquaculture...!

Answer 3

For the ideas below, considere getting rid of the fruits trees if it takes up too much land for the following ideas. Or you can keep the fuit trees and improvise!



You can:



1) Plant a huge garden, plant tomatoes, potatos, carrots, pumpkin, watermeleon, you get the idea. Leave enough land for a large shed to keep all your machinery and equipment.



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2) You could build a green house where you can grow many plants that can be use to sell to people in the Spring, and Summer. You can plant many beautiful flowers to sell.



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3) You can operate a bee hive business selling fresh sweet honey, you can hire someone to do all the work.



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4) You can operate a tree farm, grow trees and when the get big enough, sell them during christmas time for about $115 per tree.



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5) You can raise livestock for farmers and you can charge per animal per month. Example: $200 per cow per month, or $230 per horse per month, etc. Make up your own price



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6) You can grow crops of one vegetables, such as corn, wheat, barley, potatoes, etc



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7) You can continue planting more fuit-bearing trees and turn the business into a fruit farm, and you can sell at low prices to local market, at farmers market, or let the public come to you to pick their own at an even lower price - considering that this business is only a hobby.



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8) You can daydream until you find the perfect business for farming. Sometimes daydreaming is the answer to reach your decision.

Answer 4

The law doesn't recognize any property as being a farm unless the total property is more than 5 acres or at least that is like that in Oklahoma. But you should go with some small shallow root plants that don't need a lot of sun light like potatoes, grapes,or peppers or something that way the plants wont interfere with your orchid and the trees wont block too much sun from getting to your plants. And plant a lot OK because I like Peppers the hotter the better.

P.S.The sunlight would be blocked too much by your trees for productive "POTatoe" plants anyways.

Answer 5

where is the land located? is there a local open market where you can sell produce? first, concentrate on the coconuts, cut down any that have stopped producing, and have it sawn into lumber. replant the coconuts that you cut down. prune your mangos in order to eliminate any weak limbs which will strengthen the trees. if there are any brushy areas, clear it and plow it under and let it set so that the sod will die. pay close attention to your local market. is there anything that the locals dont produce that people would like? find a crop that will sell and grow it. also, poor a concrete slab with a slope to it, put a good strong fence around it, concrete would be good, and raise pigs in it. you can feed the pigs culled produce that you raise and trade for rice chaffe to feed also. you can sell the pigs to local butchers, or butcher it yourself and sell it in the market. all of this is assuming that you live in a developing country, (i.e. philippeans, central/south america, etc.) you can actually make a liveing like that. my wife has farm land in the philippeans and thats what i'm planning to do when we retire. i truck patch farm in my spare time here in the states. i grow watermellons, sweet corn, okra, tomatos, green beans and garlic. i sell it in a local farmers market.

Answer 6

If there is already coconut, arecnut & mango trees are planted, then your 2.5 acres of land is already being utilised as farming & it is the best option than other type of farming. You do not have to look after or atten frequently in type of farming which you are having presently

Answer 7

Evaluate what you have for crops there already and work with those while getting you water up to snuff. Look at the soil and decide what would be appropriate and see what your market will be and where your interest is. Got a niche market crop idea? If you have a lot of water consider fish, to include ornamentals. You can produce everything you need on a spot like that.

Answer 8

2.5 acres isn't a large farm, actually it's more like a huge yard. If you want to get the most bang for you buck, plant marjiuana or maybe convert an out building into a meth lab.



LOL - kidding, I'm only kidding



It would be a shame to cut down your trees. Pineapples?



Good Luck

Answer 9

concentrate on coconut.



start small duration crops, means vegitables - prefarably tapioca, sweet potato, banana plantains, karela, sooran and of cource a long term sub crop like pepper etc; these crops regularly give money as they have good market.



also u will have a constant work and a good money inflow.



avoid using chemicals and fetilizers. use natural menures. have dairy, preferebly with cows of desi breeds. this will help u by giving milk and gober - a good bio menure. u can have a bio gas (gober gas) also. a gober gas, which uses a single cow's cowdung can generate gas for cooking, which can feed for a family of 5 people more than 300 days in a year.



also grow a hi-breed grass called napier grass for u r cattles.

Answer 10

You should sell the land for money and buy a space ship and fly to the moon.

Answer 11

you might consider planting cottonwood trees. they grow rapidly and you cut them down to ten inh blocks to ship to japan for their slippers. It is very profitable, but you should research it on the net.

Answer 12

Plant things!

Answer 13

till up some grass

dump cow manure into it

plant away !



cow manure sounds gross but is a great fertilizer

Answer 14

Rotate the crops.

Answer 15

well, i why don't you build some apartment and rent them.