The Agriculture community, are you looking for new creative and innovative tips you can apply to your farming business? Welcome aboard, as we have some few just for you!
1.Identify which agriculture is more profitable
Everything in life needs a filter to gauge what’s always working and what’s not. Which type of agriculture can earn you more money during the pandemic? Is it small-diary or vegetable farming? You choose
2. Grow high demand crops
Mushrooms are some of the crops that most people don’t consider farming yet their demand lately is enormous. Are you looking to earn some extra income to survive pandemic hostilities? Mushrooms have a quick growing cycle and their harvest is usually huge on the pocket.
3. Embrace tech devices to attend webinars with agricultural trainings
Like other sectors, the web has many trainings and tutorials s on agricultural knowledge. Want to stand out and offer something new during the pandemic, consider crawling to the internet to further your skills and learn about changing agricultural trends
4. Keep up with new crops
Heard of Microgreens? Microgreens are the stage a plant goes through after they’re a sprout, but before they become a baby green and start to grow into a full-sized vegetable. They only take a couple of weeks to grow and they’re packed full of nutrition and flavor. One of the ways people keep healthy is by eating healthy foods like veggies, research about trending vegetables you can sell to your customers to keep them healthy during the pandemic.
5. Sell your crops online
Are you part of any online selling points yet? If not, it’s still early for you to join. The pandemic has transitioned consumer purchases to more online now. Start a selling portal on the web and make sure to give your customers a great experience with fresh products.
6. Challenge yourself to try out something new
Raising animals requires a lot of knowledge. You’ll need to learn all about animal health, well-being, nutrition, reproduction and more. So, most of the time it’s safer to farm the way one is used to, right? Well, extraordinary things happen when we step out of our comfort zones. The pandemic happened, what are you doing to challenge it?
7. Pass on knowledge and talk to other farmers
The world is full of different perspectives with the same answer. During the pandemic, mentor someone about agriculture, but be receptive to knowledge of others as well on how to survive the pandemic as a farmer.
8. Grow Herbs
We are living in unpredictable times, yet who says that the COVID-19 cure should only be developed by physicists? You can start a herb farm to cure coronavirus symptoms for instance.
9. Occasion farming
Christmases are always a celebration; have you ever consider Christmas tree farming? If you’ve got extra land on your small farm that you aren’t using, why not plant some firs, pines and spruces and start your own Christmas tree farm? It’s a pandemic; why not consider healthy foods farming?
10. Start a petting zoo
Do you have many domestic animals around your home? Consider starting a petting display on weekends for instance for people to come and have a look. During this pandemic, folks are for anything that reduces stress and anxiety, help them with that.
