This depends on the scale of the aquaponics system, although an averagely successful commercial venture can expect to make around $50,000 a year. While aquaponics is an exciting and rapidly growing horizon in agriculture, it has yet to find its particular niche in the worldwide system of food production. Some farmers have trouble finding a market for smaller batches of greens and fish, especially when competing with long-established and cheaply sourced competetors. Although, establishments with the money for and interest in healthy, tasty, organic food can develop very powerful symbiotic relationships with local aquaponics farmers.
There are many ways to maximize the profitability of your aquaponic's venture. Because this form of agriculture doesn't need vast amounts of fertile soil, your system can be built pretty much anywhere that's reasonably safe and clean and has access to energy. Major savings can be found by utilizing properties that can't be used for much of anything else, making them much cheaper than a piece of prime growing real estate. Access to alternative energy-sources, like solar, or wind, can help make major savings on energy costs, and makes your system even more sustainable and self-reliant.
