These two things are not really different, what is quoted is potential income, he does not earn so much, so it is not his practical experience which is spoken there. When i said, it is potential income, i did not really mean it would be his income in the future. I would always want to believe, farmers earn more, but then, in practice, there is difference between theory and practice, though in theory, these are same.
I did not see the potential in his farm, incomes that is talked about, for pepper, ginger, coco, musambi etc are not there or i would say, he does not harvest these and get it the income for it. Only thing that would fetch him money is coconut, arecanut and banana.
In that message i also wrote “When asked about the yield, he did not really answer the question, in turn he asked the people to count the number of canes and their approx weight and apply it to the whole area ( smart ?). And as always people counted high number.”
I being a farmer (really?), and seen farming over the years do not count any of those fancy numbers. If you want to be very specific and need word to word comparison, i could do, but that is not the idea. Just for test you see the mention of 5 acres in the video, whereas, he said it is little less then a acre.
Important thing i wanted to convey to all those people who want to start farming is that please do not go by these figures, my intention is not to discourage anyone from farming, be realistic. I am yet to come across any person who earns 6 lakhs on a acre of land, only with farming, specifically only with these crops.
