Advice on most profitable crop to plant? Can only use one acre.

[PeterTheGrape]

Not sure what to go with here.

Here are the choices.

Zuchini / $500 profit per year.

Potatoes / $460 profit per year.

Opium / $500,000,000 profit per year.

Nectarines / $720 profit per year.

Peppers / $430 profit per year.

There is an acre of ag land that just opened up, good soil

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-deputies-seize-opium-poppy-plants-worth-500-million-article-1.3193438

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[Holliday]

Depends on your jurisdiction.

[Sithara007]

I don't think that your figures on opium are correct. An average farmer in Afghanistan makes a profit of around $1,000 to $2,000 per hectare (2.47 acres). And there is always the risk of your crop getting confiscated by the authorities.

[Masha Sha]

Depends on your jurisdiction.

And lattitude...



A plant...

Use of the opium poppy predates written history. Images of opium poppies have been found in ancient Sumerian artifacts (circa 4000 BC). The making and use of opium was known to the ancient Minoans.[16] Its sap was later named opion by the ancient Greeks, from whence it gained its modern name of opium.

Opium was used for treating asthma, stomach illnesses, and bad eyesight.

I don't think that your figures on opium are correct. An average farmer in Afghanistan makes a profit of around $1,000 to $2,000 per hectare (2.47 acres). And there is always the risk of your crop getting confiscated by the authorities.

You forget that the reward is proportionnate to the risks, a premiums follow it, meaning they rise and fall according to local risks. And to be honnest what's the rate of zuchinis there? Authority? LoL, they kill them. Ieds, roadside bombs, entire family... watch the sinaloa show on rt. Little traffic cop on power trip against the wrong driver, death squad arrives, wipe the cop, leave.

You lack to understand that the cost of violence is included in the reward.

Maybe this image will help you. The market is like a caterpillar, it can grow in a nice and kind butterfly or morph to a locust.

Anyway for the people holding the state as god, the awakening will be brutal.

The spice trade is a testament to the free will of men against the oppressives forces.

More LoL follow:



He died, they live...

[Sithara007]

OK... apart from opium, the most profitable crop might be tomatoes or salad greens. Some people claim that heirloom tomato varieties bring as much as $600,000 per acre.

https://www.profitableplants.com/how-to-make-40000-growing-heirloom-tomatoes/

[Masha Sha]

OK... apart from opium, the most profitable crop might be tomatoes or salad greens. Some people claim that heirloom tomato varieties bring as much as $600,000 per acre.

https://www.profitableplants.com/how-to-make-40000-growing-heirloom-tomatoes/

Another cash crop...

[scourgette]

You have to put in the factor of your labor. While you don't pay yourself to do this, the time you spend taking care of your crops is a time you could be spending making money some other way. Therefore besides the opium(reason is I don't exactly know if it's legal where you are) from the other options I think potatoes are the best.

They need little care, you plant them easily, then they're underground and you don't have to worry about a hailstorm for example the way you would if you plant say nectarines. Potatoes are survivors, you might have to water them sometimes if there's a drought, but all in all you just bury them and come back a few months later to collect.

Bonus is they are a long lasting product and you don't have to worry about them going bad one week after you took them out of the ground.

[Masha Sha]

You have to put in the factor of your labor. While you don't pay yourself to do this, the time you spend taking care of your crops is a time you could be spending making money some other way. Therefore besides the opium(reason is I don't exactly know if it's legal where you are) from the other options I think potatoes are the best.

They need little care, you plant them easily, then they're underground and you don't have to worry about a hailstorm for example the way you would if you plant say nectarines. Potatoes are survivors, you might have to water them sometimes if there's a drought, but all in all you just bury them and come back a few months later to collect.

Bonus is they are a long lasting product and you don't have to worry about them going bad one week after you took them out of the ground.

Good points! Thanks for sharing!

[Sithara007]

Another cash crop...

This one is crocus, right? This is the plant from which the spice saffron is derived. Kashmir is well known for the cultivation of crocus. Returns will be very high, as saffron is widely regarded as the most expensive spice in the world.

[Masha Sha]

Another cash crop...

This one is crocus, right? This is the plant from which the spice saffron is derived. Kashmir is well known for the cultivation of crocus. Returns will be very high, as saffron is widely regarded as the most expensive spice in the world.

True, but i have no idea of the $yield/acre... it's only the orange part that has value. 3-4 pieces by flower...

Then coca, tea and cannabis. Yep, tea... if you can make the highest quality, price follow fast.

[Xester]

Not sure what to go with here.

Here are the choices.

Zuchini / $500 profit per year.

Potatoes / $460 profit per year.

Opium / $500,000,000 profit per year.

Nectarines / $720 profit per year.

Peppers / $430 profit per year.

There is an acre of ag land that just opened up, good soil

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-deputies-seize-opium-poppy-plants-worth-500-million-article-1.3193438

If you are talking about what kind of crops you are going to plant there are many things to consider. First you must check where are you planting, what is the elevation, the temperature, what kind of soil do you have. After checking those things you must check the soil and climate suitability of the plants that you mentioned. If the plants that you mentioned are compatible with your location then you can plant. But before planting make sure to check also the market, if it is in demand then you should plant it.

[matuson]

Another cash crop...

This one is crocus, right? This is the plant from which the spice saffron is derived. Kashmir is well known for the cultivation of crocus. Returns will be very high, as saffron is widely regarded as the most expensive spice in the world.

It differs from the Crocus snowdrops? Outwardly look the same. How do you distinguish them? Now it is very promising to grow oil crops. As all countries are reducing the use of oil will increase demand for biofuels.

[merchantofzeny]

Not sure what to go with here.

Here are the choices.

Zuchini / $500 profit per year.

Potatoes / $460 profit per year.

Opium / $500,000,000 profit per year.

Nectarines / $720 profit per year.

Peppers / $430 profit per year.

There is an acre of ag land that just opened up, good soil

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/n-deputies-seize-opium-poppy-plants-worth-500-million-article-1.3193438

Ah the Chinese, enterprising as always. Many of the meth made in my country are made by Chinese nationals. Rather than the police spending 2 hours taking all the plants, they should have made him pull out his crops. That would have been the sweetest way of saying "look mofo, you fucked up real bad".

Anyway, nectarines are peaches, right? That would take years for them to bear fruit...

Another cash crop...

This one is crocus, right? This is the plant from which the spice saffron is derived. Kashmir is well known for the cultivation of crocus. Returns will be very high, as saffron is widely regarded as the most expensive spice in the world.

True, but i have no idea of the $yield/acre... it's only the orange part that has value. 3-4 pieces by flower...

Then coca, tea and cannabis. Yep, tea... if you can make the highest quality, price follow fast.

I doubt one acre is enough to earn from tea, considering many countries grow them better and cheaper. Has anyone considered dye plants for natural dye in "organic" fabrics hipsters love? Would indigo grow there? Although I suppose indigo can also be just imported. Maybe dye the fabrics right then and there for the authentic "old-school" quality?

[iv4n]

I don't think that your figures on opium are correct. An average farmer in Afghanistan makes a profit of around $1,000 to $2,000 per hectare (2.47 acres). And there is always the risk of your crop getting confiscated by the authorities.

Opium / $500,000,000 profit per year is not accurate, this is the the money from all circles from farmer to the user in the end. I watched some documentary about farmers that are making cocaine, they do it because only that is valuable for selling, from everything else they just have loses. In that documentary farmers reveled that they earn 200 $ for one kilogram!!! And that is a clean stone, they cut it many times until it gets to the end so 1 kg become 5 kg or more, and price grows more then 100 times. I also think that farmers in the Afghanistan don`t earn this much, they risk a lot but in the end others earn much.
I think you should add weed on this list,(depends in which country you live in) you can grow it inside, outside, if you get permits from government you can export it, make oils from it.

[BitcoinPicasso]

If you live in the US then move to a cannabis friendly state and get a license. With one acre you could probably grow a million dollars worth. Of course you will need a very large wall around the place.

[bryant.coleman]

Then coca, tea and cannabis. Yep, tea... if you can make the highest quality, price follow fast.

Tea is OK... but what about coca and cannabis? Both these products are banned in most of the countries. Even in the few countries where the cultivation of coca is legal, it is not allowed to produce cocaine from it. And without the latter byproduct, the profits will be very low. And coming to tea... it is a very labor intensive plant. From where you will source the cheap labor?

[tobs]

I've read somewhere about some kind of fast growing trees that are ready to sell for wood in like two, three years and regrow like three times. People claim that they are making money even planting few of them in their gardens or backyards. There are some companies selling the seedlings and they are willing to guarantee that they will buy these trees from you after growth. It seems like a new type of thing. I've read some posts and article of professional people with their own lands willing to give it a try on bigger scale but I guess it will take few years for anyone to be able to say if it's really a legit and profitable way.

[gollygosh]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_Reaper
DON'T EAT ONE UNLESS YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH
BUT PEOPLE DO BUY EM

[PeterTheGrape]

I don't think that your figures on opium are correct. An average farmer in Afghanistan makes a profit of around $1,000 to $2,000 per hectare (2.47 acres). And there is always the risk of your crop getting confiscated by the authorities.

Opium / $500,000,000 profit per year is not accurate, this is the the money from all circles from farmer to the user in the end. I watched some documentary about farmers that are making cocaine, they do it because only that is valuable for selling, from everything else they just have loses. In that documentary farmers reveled that they earn 200 $ for one kilogram!!! And that is a clean stone, they cut it many times until it gets to the end so 1 kg become 5 kg or more, and price grows more then 100 times. I also think that farmers in the Afghanistan don`t earn this much, they risk a lot but in the end others earn much.
I think you should add weed on this list,(depends in which country you live in) you can grow it inside, outside, if you get permits from government you can export it, make oils from it.

In the U.S., what is available is pills like oxys that give a very poor quality high, and heroin, if you like opiates. In other words those products are very poor quality, but extremely expensive.

People are dying left and right from these toxic lab opiates, other synthetics etc.

And the prices of these drugs, in dollars, is very high. Yesterday two separate drug counselors od's separately and died at the same rehab. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/25/drug-counselors-overdose-die-pennsylvania-addiction-facility/344982001/

With natural opium, if you sell a comparable amount, at a comparable price, $500,000,000 for an acre might be not so much exageration.

Especially if you add the selling point "Natural opium smoking is not fatal". If the U.S. legalized opium there would be less use by kids because they would learn facts not fictions, less deaths because you don't die from smoking opium, plus, if being an addict is your trip, opium is a better high than the manufactured opiates.

Next step is to convince the drug companies that the switch to legal opium is good

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/12/19/pharma-execs-arrested-conspiracy-create-opioid-addicts-profit/http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/12/19/pharma-execs-arrested-conspiracy-create-opioid-addicts-profit/

Earlier this month, federal prosecutors in the State of Massachusetts announced the arrest of six former pharmaceutical executives of Insys Therapeutics, Inc., manufacturer of a fentanyl based pain medication called ‘Subsys.’ Their nefarious scheme was a well-organized plot to have doctors overprescribe this medicine and ensure that pill shoppers were well-supplied.

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html
In 2014, almost 2 million Americans abused or were dependent on prescription opioids.
As many as 1 in 4 people who receive prescription opioids long term for noncancer pain in primary care settings struggles with addiction.7
Every day, over 1,000 people are treated in emergency departments for misusing prescription opioids.

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/hookedrx/pharmaceutical-industry-az-opioid-epidemic/

From 1999 to 2014, overdose deaths involving prescription pills quadrupled. In that 15-year period, more than 165,000 people died from an opioid overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Big Pharma” companies exert their influence in many ways. They spend billions to promote their products to doctors. They drop millions lobbying Congress and state legislators to curry favor with policymakers. And they flood television and magazines with direct-to-consumer ads to hawk their drugs.

In terms of prescription pain medication, the tactics have worked. The U.S. makes up less than 5 percent of the world’s population, yet it consumes 99 percent of all global hydrocodone and 80 percent of the world’s opioids, according to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

http://naturalnews.com/2017-01-31-pharma-company-raised-the-price-of-opioid-overdose-antidote-six-fold-to-profit-from-epidemic.html

Pharma company raised the price of Opioid overdose “antidote” six-fold to profit from epidemic
As the number of Americans overdosing on Big Pharma’s golden ticket — the opioid painkiller — continues to increase, it seems that one pharma company has taken it upon themselves to increase the cost of the antidote by more than six-fold.
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The device, called Evzio, is used to administer naloxone — the antidote used to treat opioid overdoses. It’s been estimated that over the course of 2015 alone, more than 33,000 people died from opioid overdoses. Deaths continued to skyrocket in 2016, as well.

In 2014, a twin-pack of Evzio was priced at an expensive $690. Now, that price has reached an astronomical $4,500 for the very same duo.

[bryant.coleman]

^^^^ Now I need to ask what is the difference between prescription drugs such as Oxycodone, and banned substances such as Methamphetamine? The first group seems to be causing much more harm in the United States, when compared to the second group. The pharma cartels are profiting from the prescription drugs, while the drug cartels are profiting from the banned soft/hard drugs.