investícia do pôdy a poľnohospodárstva nie len na Slovensku:
Back in 2004, a group of Danish farmers were approached by
developers offering to buy their land for DKK 200,000 (about
€25,000) per hectare. The EU wheat price is around €250 per
tonne, roughly double where it has been trading for the last ten
years. As such, with high Danish yields of 7 tonnes per
hectare, a farmer can expect to achieve revenue of €1,750.
But even if he was to make respectable margins of 20-30%, it
would be impossible to make a decent cash flow return on the
€25,000 price on offer in the market. The farmers made the
rational decision and sold out.
These gentlemen were now long cash and short land, but still
wanted to continue farming. They settled on Slovakia as the
ideal location. Agricultural land in Slovakia changes hands for
€2,500 per hectare, 10% of the price they received for the land
in Denmark. Upgrading the land, some of which has been
fallow for the last decade, costs another €500 (some of which
can be funded by various EU subsidies and grants). This
makes total capital costs of around €3,000 per hectare.
First Farms will be using half the land for dairy production and
half for grain. One hectare of land in Slovakia should produce 5
tonnes of wheat, yielding revenue at current prices of €1,250.
In dairy, one hectare will support one cow, which should
produce around 10,000 litres of milk or revenue of €2,700.
This gives average revenue of €2,000 per hectare. 20%
operating margins on these revenues would mean profits of
€400. This gives our farmers a very attractive 13% running yield
on the land, with a free option on further increases in crop
prices or land values.