The concept of “agricultural enterprise” covers the widest range of activities of commercial, agrarian, livestock, processing directions. Often an agricultural producer combines several of them in one enterprise, for example, livestock breeding and processing of meat, wool, milk; production of fish and production of semi-finished products, canned food; plant growing and breeding of animals on their own feed.
The final products may have the form of raw materials (raw meat, furs, fresh fish, vegetables, fruits) or include a stage of processing (canning, pasteurization, cleaning, vacuum packing, deep freezing, and others). The scale of agricultural enterprises are also different from small farms, which employs 5-10 people, to multi-stage agricultural complex with a staff of over 1000 people.
Thus, to open an agricultural enterprise and untwist this business, you need to decide on the direction of activity, stages of production and types of end products. Consider a more complex scheme of business, including raw material and processing production. For example, let’s take a small farm, which can be organized without huge financial investments – growing vegetables, fruits, herbs with a processing plant.
Step by step instructions
Determined with the direction of activity (in this case it is cultivation and processing of agricultural products), you need to rent or purchase land and register your business. Then you can proceed to the arrangement of the area. On the territory of such an agricultural enterprise should be:
A field for growing vegetables.
An orchard.
Greenhouses for greens and sprouts.
Warehouse of raw materials.
Warehouse of finished products.
Shop for canning.
Garage for machinery.
The administrative block.
The latter can be part of the canning shop and occupy 1-2 rooms. An office must be located there, where there will be a computer and documentation relating to the business. Location of facilities must be carefully thought out so that it was convenient to transport products from one to another. The warehouse of finished products is better placed near the canning shop, close to the exit outside the territory. It is more rational to place greenhouses next to the field, and so on.
In the canning shop you need a bay with an automatic bottling line, a room for juicing and primary processing of fruits and vegetables, separation for cleaning, cutting, cooking. You will also need a container storage area for the finished product: glass and tin cans, juice boxes and bottles, bags for freezing and dried fruit, and other packaging materials. Despite the extensive number of zones, each of them can be allocated from 15 to 40 meters, depending on the chosen type of processing. After the construction and finishing of the premises, equipment is brought in, crops are purchased and workers are hired.
To work at the considered agricultural enterprise will need to hire: workers in the agricultural sector, auto technician, technologist, employees for the processing shop, driver, agronomist, security guards.