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I had an issue with this as well. There are way more costs involved, like farm equipment, fuel, maintenance, fertilizer, pest control, labor, storage, marketing, transportation, packaging, etc.,
On the other hand, with economies of scale, cost of production per carrot is likely to be much less than $2