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The idea is to grow strawberries year-round is not new – the issue was handled by scientists of the Soviet era, however, technology, as usual, was not modified and left in the Western developed countries. In the West it is implemented and successfully used.


This business is a good idea to start your own business as, firstly, does not require special skills and special equipment, and secondly, You will have competitors. This business can be done in your own apartment – planting of strawberries is not occupy a large area – it grows in plastic bags with a special substrate.



Tips for growing strawberries at home

To get started you will need a room for plantations (from several square meters to infinity), where would you year-round to maintain the room temperature.





Plastic bags for growing strawberries welded white polyethylene film with a thickness of 0.2 mm, but you can use another. Diameter 16 cm, length of 200-220 cm, the Bag is filled with substrate (ground + simple fertilizers), all well mixed and poured into the bag.

Along the substrate-filled bag in a checkerboard pattern are made in four vertical rows long 7-8 cm planting holes (incisions), the distance between 22-25 cm Bags are placed directly on the floor. If the bags get a little altitude and conditions permit, you can top over the lower bags to make the second tier. The upper bags are hung on additional support, which must withstand the weight of 30 kg/sq m (the average weight of one sack of hydrated water substrate), the seedlings they planted in a similar way.

Set the bags in rows — an average of 2-3 bag at 1 m (possible to start and 1-2 SAC) on each tier. To supply power constructed a makeshift irrigation system from the drip tubes. To each bag of three rolls: upper, middle and lower parts of the bag — in average 50 cm in height. The upper ends of the droppers are connected to a distribution pipe, which is placed above the bags. The volume of the nutrient solution is calculated in such a way that each bag had around 2 l of solution per day.



Business organization in strawberries

So, You have chosen the venue, decided on the area that are willing to provide for the strawberries. It is time to calculate expenses and income.

Costs:

The arrangement of 1 sq. m. the plantation is $ 5.

Buying seedlings – 5 dollars for 1 sq. m.

Revenues:

Selling strawberries – 30 kg per sq. m every 2 months for 20 UAH/kg. – $ 120.

Total net income for 2 months – $ 110 per square metre.

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