Replacing Cotton with Coconut
- Plant Hybrid seedlings in the field and then go with the planting of Cotton crops for up to two years, later go for shade-loving crops like cocoa under coconut after three years.
- Young coconut plants start giving fruits from the fourth year with good management.
- This will provide life long increased income from the same area of planting.
- Cotton price is prone to adverse climatic conditions and untimely rains.
- Coconut farm allows for multiple intercrops, whereas Cotton is a mono-crop with no additional income.
- Pest control, harvesting, loading, handling, and transportation of cotton is very time-consuming and laborious.
Deejay Hybrid Coconut vs Cotton
Details |
Deejay Sampoorna® |
Cotton |
| Year of first Yield | 4th year | Short duration Commercial crop |
| Yield Stabilisation | 6th year | N. A. |
| Annual costs per acre | Rs. 46,000 | Rs. 40,000 |
| Annual Income per acre | Rs. 2,62,500 (17,500 nuts x Rs.15) |
Rs.65,000 (1.3 t X Rs.50,000/t) |
| Net operating revenue per acre | Rs. 2,16,000 | Rs. 25,000 |
- Coconut is a perennial crop giving income round the year, whereas Cotton is a short duration crop with a one-time low income.
- Coconut prices are dictated by demand & supply situation, whereas Cotton price is fixed by domestic market traders.
- Coconut farm allows for multiple intercrops, whereas Cotton is a mono-crop with no additional income.
- Coconut has multiple uses & multiple harvesting opportunities, but cotton is a single harvest and single-use.
- In Cotton cultivation pesticide sprays, several pickings, inter cultivation operations are labor-intensive and widely prone to adverse climatic conditions.
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