posted 2 hours ago
I am looking to start a farm design consulting company in a rural poor country. I have multiple yrs of gardening experience and found the work rewarding while having a full time night time job. The country lacks proper crop selection, organic fertilizer production like compost or worm tea, lacks more effective food forest principles and stacking of functions and many young people are leaving for the city. The farm town sits on a river and there are old Canals some rudimentary ditch like Canals to flood irrigate. I wanted to have a farm and do an intense food forest with dates, mangos, Coconuts, rice potentially, ducks and fish is possible. But the cost of land is high and the added cost of security, people selling land that is not theirs or lying after they took your money. I thought that providing cheap services to farmers and potentially build a farmers union or organization would be sufficient for my monthly needs for food and housing plus I can hit the ground running sooner than later.
Anything wrong with that, any ideas on the pricing and the services ladder from just a survival garden design and guidance for the 3 to 6 month until harvest to more mainframe design and addition of water harvesting and coppice woodland tree species selection and delivery and planting of the woodland. The country is tropical, with regular and harsh droughts. 100 dollars per month is more sufficient for one person to live comfortably off. I am thinking 10 clients a month per 10 dollars and then 5 dollars per month for calls and further consultation for the beginning and once I get more customer demand, I charge more.
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