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Biointensive Agriculture Coop

Submitted by: isthatagoodidea
Created: Jun 17, 2007, 9:20 am

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For entrepreneurs who want to find environmentally ways to make money in agriculture the biointensive agriculture coop is a business practice that cuts operating expenses, fossil fuel use, soil depletion, and pollution. Unlike chemical intensive monoculture or organic monoculture our product is productive, energy efficient, and minimally polluting.

The Idea

Farmers should combine their crops into large collections of mixed plots containing grains, legumes, trees of various sorts, and some livestock. Perhaps there could be several hundred plots the size of tennis courts with five or six food crops mixed up in each one.

Combining efforts like this could solve several problems:

1. The budget required for pesticides and fertilizers - supposedly mixed plots require fewer chemical inputs

2. Fuel and vehicle maintenance - the many small plots of land could be tended and harvested with less equipment.

3. Marketing - selling many crops in small quantities may not be economically viable for the average farmer

The actual product is...consulting on marketing and design

I thought of this idea when I was...

hmm, my memory fails me but as far as I know there are no such operations in existence

Comments Posted

vanhees Posted: June 18, 2007, 3:05 am

I don't see the environmentally part yet
Tommy

Fitzpatrick Posted: June 20, 2007, 11:36 am

I agree with vanhees on this one. You need to elaborate on how you plan to help the environment. You have done a good job explaining the other part, though! =]

SolarRental Posted: June 20, 2007, 1:41 pm

Tell us more :-)

Brenden Posted: June 20, 2007, 3:15 pm

similar to corporate farming or factory farming

Patrick_Jones Posted: June 21, 2007, 1:21 am

a little more?

saigon Posted: June 21, 2007, 3:26 am

NOt so great...

jill Posted: June 21, 2007, 8:41 pm

Well, there is a whole permaculture movement devoted to basically this philosophy, and it is not the only system out there with these objectives.

Your sentiment is great but your idea needs to be significantly more focused to take it further as a business.

But thanks for keeping it green around here ;-)

Croaky Posted: June 22, 2007, 4:06 am

I didn't understand this.

Hello!

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