When you decide to open your own business, you always need to consider many factors, geographical is no exception. It does not make sense to build a 5-star hotel in a village or to build a ski resort near the sea. The greenhouse business is no exception, it should be developed in the southern regions of the country and after the transportation of products.
It is better to start a greenhouse business after finding buyers for goods, large trading companies or a chain of supermarkets, in winter you need refrigerators to transport goods, large digging machines have such equipment, it’s better to sell in bulk than to incur losses and sell them in retail.
Choosing a direction in the greenhouse business
There are 3 directions for growing flowers, herbs and vegetables. The most profitable business will be the cultivation of flowers, with the same investments, the profit is 5 times more than from vegetables. Growing salads is less profitable than flowers, 4 times better than vegetables. Salads are less whimsical; they don’t need much light and are easier to transport.
Greenhouse technology.
Hydroponics is a technology for greenhouses that helps to overcome nature and helps to get a crop year-round. Everything is calculated and controlled using a computer, full automation of the irrigation process. The plant is planted in a glass of water and gradually according to the schedule, fertilizer is poured through the tube, the plant grows faster than under normal conditions. Greenhouse technologies make it possible to harvest all year round, for flowers and salads this is an ideal option, but not for vegetables. Have you bought tomatoes and cucumbers on the market more than once, brought from Turkey, they have neither taste nor smell, how can it be present? A plant grown on water can give only water and nitrates to which it was watered. If you are counting on local buyers, then soon they will stop buying such a product from you and the business will become unprofitable.
There are advocates of hydroponics, they say that growing greenhouse soils creates an uncontrolled concentration of pesticides in a vegetable. Progress moves forward and there is a middle ground in this debate. Modern greenhouse technology allows you to achieve taste by adding peat and soil to the solution in which the roots are. This technology is called "Mobile Bed", the cost is 3 times higher than hydroponics.
Greenhouse business - the choice of greenhouses.
A glass greenhouse does not scatter light, but concentrates - this can cause a burn in the plant. If you use glass, then you need to take a red-hot technical thickness of 6 mm.
Polyethylene does not let the sun through in glass and in areas where there is little sunlight, plants will not receive it at all. Using polycarbonate and acrylic, you can compensate for the shortcomings of polyethylene.
The greenhouse business is profitable and profitable, only outside the main season of vegetables, the summer period can be used to improve greenhouses and their modernization.
