Your team is divided on organic product adoption. How can you navigate conflicts effectively?

To resolve the team's split on adopting organic products, initiate a structured discussion where everyone can voice their concerns and insights. Validate all perspectives, stressing that both the financial aspects and long-term benefits are important. Suggest a phased adoption plan: start with a pilot project to test organic products on a small scale. This approach will help manage risks, assess impacts, and build confidence gradually. By doing so, the team can collaboratively move forward, addressing both immediate concerns and future goals.

Introduce demo plots to help the team understand the issue at hand. Also investigate further information on advantages and disadvantages on organic products. However, you need to make the team understand that people buy out of convenience, availability and consideration for health reasons. Understand that as a sales person, you want to have a customer who can always buy from you and they can make money in turn.

Organic farming doesn’t work; at least not for us. Organic food production faces several challenges that has limited its commercial viability for our farm, including higher production costs due to weed control and other expensive inputs, coupled with lower yields compared to conventional farming. While organic products can command higher prices, our farmer partners’ willingness to pay premiums is limited, restricting market size. Additional barriers include costly certification processes, limited market access and competition from cheaper imports. Ultimately, when it was tried (before our time) in our warm and wet climate in the South West of England, the farm ended up with a beautiful crop of weeds, but not enough barley…

Encouraging open dialogue is important for resolving conflicts about adopting organic products. Create a safe space for team members to share their thoughts and concerns openly, perhaps through regular meetings or workshops focused on the benefits and challenges of organic farming. Promote a culture of transparency and respect, where every perspective is valued. This approach helps bridge differences, foster mutual understanding, and work towards a unified consensus on adopting organic products.

As a team we have to establish which market is our client going for. Is it a niche market or something else and how do they perceive the use of organic products. we need to investigate further within the team and customers on how best they can be serviced with consideration to the available product. Also investigate product knowledge of the client.

To make well-informed decisions about adopting organic products, start by gathering data from reliable sources. Look into market trends, consumer demand, and the environmental impact of organic farming. Sharing this objective information will help keep the discussion focused on concrete facts rather than personal opinions. By grounding your decisions in solid data, you can address any biases and ensure that the adoption strategy aligns with the business's best interests

Creating a strategic plan is key to managing conflicts over adopting organic products. This plan should outline your goals, timelines, and the resources required for the transition. It’s important to tackle both immediate challenges and long-term benefits, making sure the plan is practical and aligns with your overall business objectives. A well-thought-out strategy will offer a clear path forward, helping to address concerns and make the transition to organic farming smoother and more manageable.

The best way possible is introduce demo plots within the target farmers. Also establish the lead farmers and influencers in the community. And if successful then roll out to the farming community. Farmers adopt things they have seen work somewhere.

Il y a un temps pour se poser des questions et pour le dialogue et il y a un autre temps pour mettre en oeuvre des convictions qui sont confirmer scientifiquement. Il y a un temps aussi pour agir en conscience et en responsabilité même si cela ne fait pas l'unanimité.