The biggest revenue in agriculture may not be on the farms.

[alastantiger]

I have a friend who is into poultry, he said that the work is very tasking but in terms of profit that it is the whole sellers that buys it from them and supplies to the retailers and restaurants that gains the most, they don't put as much work as the farmers but they gain so much more. I also know somebody who is into Cocoa farming, he said that after putting in all the hard labor labor that is is the government approved distributors that buys it from them that makes bulk profit.

It is not the work that makes you money but the leverage you have over others that makes you the most income in every business and agriculture is just one of those business that you can see this play out very well. There are people making money that don't own any farm or livestock meanwhile the real farmers are not being paid fairly, like you said the poultry farmer invests so much into catering for his hen to lay eggs but the people that make the most profit are those supplying this egg to supermarket and restaurants and that is why you have to be involved in all aspect of your business so that you can make the most profit from it.

A businessman that owns the farm should also own the distribution company and also be in charge of distributing the eggs from other farmers that are not interested in joining the distribution business and that way they get to make more money and get the opportunity to open more branches for their farm so to still generate more income from their poultry and they have no middleman to pay.

[LGD2Business]

I didn't quite understand exactly what point you're trying to make here. You're saying there are many middlemen in agriculture. And that you can also make money as one of them. But you're not asking why there are so many middlemen or why people can't access cheaper food.
Perhaps we need to correctly identify the problem and solve it. Why does a product that costs 1 unit at the farm end up costing 8 units by the time it reaches the end consumer? What is the government doing to prevent this? Why should the public pay high prices just so middlemen can get rich? Why is food inflation occurring? I think discussing these issues is far more important than focusing on how middlemen in agriculture make money.

[bhadz]

I didn't quite understand exactly what point you're trying to make here. You're saying there are many middlemen in agriculture. And that you can also make money as one of them. But you're not asking why there are so many middlemen or why people can't access cheaper food.
Perhaps we need to correctly identify the problem and solve it. Why does a product that costs 1 unit at the farm end up costing 8 units by the time it reaches the end consumer? What is the government doing to prevent this? Why should the public pay high prices just so middlemen can get rich? Why is food inflation occurring? I think discussing these issues is far more important than focusing on how middlemen in agriculture make money.

Those questions are exactly needed to be answered and in the situation of our farmers in my country, there are a lot of questions left unanswered. About why the farmers are selling their veggies cheaply and when it reaches the market, it's already tenfold of the prices. It's because there are a lot of middlemen where it goes and with the cost of transportation but, it's not justifiable why the farmers are earning less than these middlemen. The government needs to be the one transporting the goods instead of middlemen so that they can apply subsidy to the logistics which is why the cost rises.