Is Oat Farming Profitable? Latest Profit and Prospect Analysis
Oats are a relatively popular coarse grain nowadays, because their nutritional value is gradually being recognized by more and more people, and their range of uses is also becoming broader, such as oatmeal, oat flour, etc. Moreover, oats have no particular requirements for the growing environment and are suitable for cultivation in various regions. In recent years, the oat planting area has also increased somewhat, so is it still profitable to grow oats now? This is also a question in many people's minds. Below, let's take a look at how the editor views this matter.
1. Is it profitable to grow oats in 2018?
Growing oats in 2018 can definitely be profitable, but as for how much can be earned, we still need to analyze it based on specific circumstances. Now the demand for oats is growing, but oat cultivation in our country is still mainly concentrated in the Northeast region, while other regions are still growing other crops, so although the yield is decent, it still cannot fully meet market demand. Secondly, after processing, oats have now become the raw material for various nutritional products and various food ingredients, and the volume imported from our country by foreign countries each year is also increasing year by year, so growing oats in 2018 can be profitable.
2. Market conditions
People nowadays attach great importance to their own health, because the body is the capital of revolution, so they are very particular about health preservation, and oats have high nutritional value and are very suitable for use in health preservation, thus various oat health care products have also been produced and processed, with relatively affordable prices, so sales naturally go without saying. Secondly, there are now more and more non-staple food processing industries that use oats as a raw material, so the demand for oats is also greater, and the market conditions are very good, but the price has never changed much and is basically stable at around four to six yuan per jin.
3. Planting benefits
The planting benefits of oats are actually still decent, mainly because the cost of growing oats is very low while the yield is relatively high. Although the price is not expensive, calculated this way, the profit margin is still quite large. Below, let's settle the accounts: the total cost required to plant one mu of oats is roughly around 1,000 to 1,500, while the average yield of one mu of oats is around 1,000 jin to 2,000 jin. Calculated at the lowest market price of four yuan per jin, one mu of land can yield a benefit of around 4,000 to 8,000, and after deducting costs, the benefit can be around 2,000 to 6,000.
4. Planting prospects
The prospects for oat cultivation are very broad. First, oats can not only be used to produce oats; secondly, oat seedlings are also a superior feed, which can be used for raising sheep, cattle, etc., and the current development of the breeding industry is also very fast, with relatively large demand for feed, so this is also another development direction for oat cultivation. Coupled with the utilization value of oats themselves, growing them now still has very large development prospects, and the potential market is also very large.