Outsourcing The Maize Crop For Silage - Is Failure

1. Purchasing of maize crop for silage – is not an organized market. Hence unknowingly you will spend more for less tonnage when you buy from out side.
2. In case you purchase maize crop for silage from out side - cost of transport from purchased site to your farm, labor cost for loading and unloading – all put together – you will be spending some where
   around Rs.50000 extra – for 20 tons of maize crop for silage.
3. If your business module is
   3.1. To experiment.
   3.2. To take up this activity for some other reason – ex. Local integration, to raise money for floating sheep finance schemes, marketing of sheep units etc.,
   3.3. Company has rich data about many business modules of prospects and customers.
   3.4. You should specify your project objective/the reason for out sourcing the maize crop for silage for the first and second times.
   3.5. Company clarifies on these aspects in such PCSC.
   3.6. In such cases the customer has to give an under taking about the same –and then you can buy crop from out side. This is mandatory instruction from the company.
4. Sincerely for the sake of sustainable livelihood, to get more profit in this business – you must not rely on out sourcing of crop.
5. Business module of out sourcing the maize crop for silage is failure.
6. We have lot of customers who were out of business - just for the reason of inability to produce Maize crop – despite of having lot of land.
7. You are advised not to think of this business module – in the early stages of starting this business.
8. Good profits, growth in Zero grazing sheep & goat farming business is totally dependant and revolves around economic production of Maize silage & Lucerne.
9. If TFO –total financial out lay - of the project is minimum Rs. 5 crores INR and above - if you are a professional business man/ woman - customer can pursue contract farming, regional integration
   by out sourcing the crop with company expertise only.
10. Customer should not experiment and waste time and money.
11. Hence – company cautions - the customer repeatedly – not to out source maize crop for silage – if the project is for sustainable livelihood, to get more profit in this business – own land, own cultivation is ideal.