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Growing organic vegetables on small plots of land in South Texas can be profitable, according to a feasibility study recently concluded at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Weslaco.

Until now, there had been no studies on the economic feasibility of small-scale production, according to Luis Ribera, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service agricultural economist who helped conduct the study.

“We’ve always had all kinds of data on large-scale, commercial production of crops here, but until now we just didn’t have any numbers to offer people wanting to know how much money they could make on a 1- or 2-acre plot,” Ribera said.