Is Foil Tunnel Farming Worth it?

Plant production is profitable. People are becoming more open to “natural” foods provided by the land, because health is more and more the focus of attention. If you want to grow plants and earn money with it, we recommend that you explore the topic thoroughly.

It is worth choosing a type of farming that is based on circumspection and quality, as well as technology, because excellent raw materials and technology will help you. In the long run, it pays off if your infrastructure and assets are of impeccable quality. We can’t rely on intuition and the “luck” popular in agriculture. We are at the mercy of the whims of nature, and it is worth starting from this, namely it is worth focusing only on those points in our farming that clearly depend on us. If you want to boost income and profit, you need to review what supports you in plant production.

Most people avoid business opportunities in agriculture because they are afraid of the difficulties of environmental and economic sustainability, as well as legal environment. The main drawbacks are high investment costs and possibly insufficient financial stability for financing. There is also a lack of expertise, which can be easily overcome by acquiring knowledge and involving experts.

The so-called precision farming works by optimizing processes and involving technology, and is therefore efficient.

With foil tunnel solution and some technological investment, it is much easier to generate income and you can easily increase it. The “smarter” a site is, the higher the probability of profitable operation. Foil tunnel solutions can be used in the vast majority of cases because they have low installation and operating costs. Profit is essentially based on the optimum use of opportunities and potential through increased yields, but in addition to this, our coordinated and optimized systems can save us a lot of costs, energy and labour.

When thinking in terms of data, benchmarking is also a key factor, namely looking at what others have done well or not, what crops are in demand, to whom others are selling and why. And once you’ve got the hang of it, you ideally collect data on your own activities so that you can later draw conclusions and have a vision for the future. Once you are in your own agribusiness, it is worth looking at all the different aspects of your business to see what you can do more efficiently and optimally.

Have a list of what to do, why and how to do it. Let’s start as if we had an in-house inspector of our own activities, who are actually ourselves, and see what we could do better. What is causing a loss or where is the money flowing out? We can easily do this by analysing data. What can we automate? What more advanced processing procedures can we apply? We can also consider real-time management systems.

With a foil tunnel, you are much less vulnerable to the whims of nature, you can grow more plants in a shorter time, but you also have a longer growing season, so you can sell more products and earn more. Using excellent raw materials and infrastructure, foil tunnels almost artificially create the most optimal conditions for our plants. Literally, the results will start to skyrocket, and we can sell continuously, without having to wait months. Increasing the production capacity also depends on the size of the foil tunnel, but you can have more foil tunnels as well.

If you are wondering if growing crops in foil tunnels is actually worth it, then the response is that in Poland alone it constitutes the income for thousands of farmers, so the answer is: yes, definitely.

Success depends on thorough knowledge, high-quality raw materials and continuous optimisation of our activities.

That is, as already mentioned: what could make farming even better and where can we save money. This is where technology can help us. Initial costs in a nutshell include land, material and structure of the foil, irrigation and heating solutions, seeds, your own time, your energy, fertilizers, pesticides, electricity. Before you get started, work out your expected costs and, as described above, consider in advance where the money could leak and what the sales price of the plant you are offering is.

The lion must be killed in our mind first, the rest is mere formality. Profitability depends on preparedness!!

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