Yaar my ideas are often crazy and wild (as my family puts it) can you imagine a 20 something pakistani student in a UK uni telling his grandfather/father that it'd be crazy to spend millions of ruppes in fixing the landscape of a tibba (un even) piece of land given to the airfoce officer as a gift, why don't you start logging/timber wood and import rosewood trees(shisham) through our family in india and wait for it to pay. Fortunately that crazy idea was bought now 21 years down the road, during the course of time he purchased two more murabbas (different places) only at the cutting of these tress (half of them) he is looking at over 2 billion ruppees income going all over the place with his "genius idea"
So it is again one of my crazy ideas, our olives are only two years old we have another couple of years for the phase, but I intend to have a study conducted about feasibility, quality and pricing may be 2021.
@Mangus Ortus Novem @Shane @graphican ,
@The Eagle
@Chak Bamu
That my friend is, 4.5 months of crop/vegetable vs 5 years of olive sustainable production or 5-7 years of avocado, 6 years for ginseng, or 21 years for rose wood. Its all about economics and being able to sustains/wait for such a period.
I have run all sorts of cash flow discounting models but no matter what I do there is no way I could find any scenario where an uneven 200 kanals of land give 4 billion worth of income which is about 190 million a year or 85 million for each crop cycle. Friend of mine took my advise and planted eucalyptus trees on their tibba now they have completed one cycle of 9 years each tree sold for Rs.300,000 they are in the mid of second cycle and expanding to another murabba.
This land of ours, my beloved Pakistan, which we have raped for over 70 year our motherland is so loving/caring and giving that little care and it will make you rich beyond your imagination. You can grow any damn thing here, I experimented with raising grapes from seeds of Australian and South African imported grapes, can you imagine they sprouted and are in the second year of their life in my house.
Bhai I was the first one to experiment imported strawberry in our chak shehzad farmhouse, others use their for other activities, then broccoli. Never compromised on quality now we have fixed clients and most of our produce is book in advance, not even for family use.
If you are in Karachi you may try "rambutan" from Thailand/Malaysia mother of all lychees, you can often find them in empress market and Metro cash and carry selling at Rs.2,000 for a pound. It is all about ideas, sustainability and above all "neyat" and overcoming the temptation of short cuts.
