Question

What complicates the analysis of an enterprise budget for planting and harvesting a crop that extends beyond one growing season

Answer 1

The plants and crops that extend beyond one growing season may be cultivated in Hoop houses which are High tunnels, made to condition the commercial vegetables, fruits and crops, to structures that are solar-heated so that efforts are taken to yield them in a better manner, retaining their basic nutrients and water elements during the growth.

The analysis of an enterprise budget for planting and harvesting a crop that extends beyond one growing season gets complicated because there could be succession planting of crops in the same place, or the same crop could be planted in different intervals or owing to the crop variants, the same crop could mature at different times. Moreover, there could be intercropping undertaken as well wherein fast-growing crop is planted between the slow-growing ones because the slow-growing ones would be ideally maturing at a later date. The irrigation and maintenance cost vary for single-season growing crops and the crops that extend beyond one growing season. Accordingly, the annual returns on the crops may also vary thus over the costs so incurred in total. Moreover, post-harvest complications also arise when such a crop extends beyond one growing season.