Fig anjeer years to yield early bearing yield per acre fresh dried income price profitability India
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Fig is a relatively quick fruit crop compared with most tree fruits, often giving some yield within a year or two of planting and reaching good bearing in a few years, with the bush staying productive for many years under good management. Yield per acre rises with age, spacing and bahar management, but figures vary widely so treat them as a range and confirm with growers and your KVK in your belt. Income depends on whether you sell fresh fig, which is highly perishable and needs quick local or city sale at a premium, or process into dried anjeer, jam and other products, which stores and travels far better and can earn more per unit. Fresh fig prices can be attractive but crash in a glut or when rain damages fruit, so a mix of fresh sale and processing or value addition reduces risk. Treat any income figure as a range to verify with actual buyers, and line up your market before scaling up.
Ours started giving fruit quite soon after planting, which is nice cash flow compared to mango or other long crops. Fresh fig must be sold fast though, it does not wait. We dry the surplus.
The fresh fruit price is good when supply is short but a glut or rain damage can wipe out the margin. Drying into anjeer is what saves us in a bad fresh market.