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• Have you the necessary experience to run or manage a farm?
• Can you risk losing big money while trying to create the farm of your dream, without the necessary knowledge for a specific fruit tree/plant and lacking of technical knowhow?
• Have you any sufficient idea on financial planning for proper farm management?
• Have you secure any buyer if you want to make farming commercially viable?
• Would your farm produce as per your ideal output?
• Would you be able to get back the desire return on your investment?
• Do you know what to look for and who to hire for your farming team?
• Do you know what are the tell-tale signs of a tiring and lackluster farming business?
• Do you know the landownership’s laws and regulations before putting up your ideal farmland?

Preplanning and laying the necessary groundwork, with informative inputs from experienced growers would help ease half these worries. Assessment of soil suitability for the particular crops, the type of crops that are suitable for this climate, seasonal climate change, water source and its availability, pump station and its control, manpower and skilled labor, land preparation methods, suitable equipment and tools used, conservation of energy, efficient farm design and planning, day-to-day farm management to market demand, local and regional.

These are all causes of concern for successful modern day farming.

Like Sun Tzu puts it “knowing your weakness and that of your enemies, position your strategy in the given environments. Be prepared to change tactically, you already won half the battle.” The ‘Art of War’ certainly makes business sense and help to develop managerial strategies.