Best Crops for Cash.

[hermest]

I am thinking of Buying some farm land which is next to a small river.
Any opinions on what would be the best crop to grow welcome??.

[gotlost]

If the water is year around and as dumb as the government is go for rice. You will get 2 maybe 3 crops per year.

[dundeemk6]

Just give 100k a year to your missus and her crop will be beautifull ... no earnings though, but she will be happy

[urleft]

Heard that poppies have high earnings. 

I was at first was being sarcastic, but there is actually a legal poppy crop for medicine.  I have no idea of the hoops required to make it happen. 

[urleft]

Seriously, I have given some consideration to this, my thinking would be not to limit to one crop.   

There is a market for pigs if you can get into it and develop it.  But make it as self sufficient as possible:


1.  Have area for large pig farm (100 -200).  Have breeder pigs to replunish.

2.  Grow rice, use pig shit as fertilizer.  Sell excess. 

3.  Double crop, when rice is havested, plant something like corn. 

4.  Maximize utilization of land, like between rice fields plant trees for paper.   

5.  Add a rice mill on land, to mill not only your own rice, but others as you can. 

6.  Use river water as irrigation, consider having ducks. 
 
 
Oops, and missed saying use crops as pig feed.


I had been thinking along these lines until I decided it was too much effort.  But if I was serious about trying to make farming profitable here, it is what I would look at. 

[Speros]

Next door to me they seem to be making good money from a type of sweet potato, the GF says they do well out of it....just a thought....

[nookiebear]

English Radish grow well here & fetch a premium price too!

[davu]

Going for Pla nin myself. I can't make pepper corn grow and it doesn't sell too well around here.. ฿300.- Kg. Same thing for prawns.

[Mikeh]

nookie   can you but the seeds for english radishes  locally    I have land around my house and wish to try and grow

[nookiebear]

nookie   can you but the seeds for english radishes  locally    I have land around my house and wish to try and grow

No,you'll need to source your seeds from UK

[mahdam]

English Radish grow well here & fetch a premium price too!

Am keen to give this a go, but wife is skeptical about the market.
Where would you suggest to be the best place to sell?

[Mikeh]

thanks nookie   

[davu]

http://puraorganic.org/
sell radishes so presumably you might get some seeds from them. (Phuket). Alternatively you could buy some (non-hybrid) radishes, replant and collect seeds.
I really don't think that anyone will buy your 'Farang vegetables'.