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Profitability Analysis for Rice

MINISTRY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

POLICY PLANNING MONITORING AND EVALUATION DIRECTORATE (PPMED)

AGRIBUSINESS UNIT

 
 

AGRO ECOLOGICAL ZONE

SOUTHERN GHANA (SOGAKOPE)

NAME OF COMMODITY

RICE FOR 1 CROPPING SEASON (MAJOR SEASON)

DATE OF COLLECTION OF DATA

OCTOBER, 2020

 

UNIT/MANDAYS/ CONTRACT

UNIT COST (GH¢)

FREQUENCY

TOTAL (GH¢)

A) LAND RENT

1

200.00

1

200.00

B) LABOUR COST

       

I) LAND PREPARATION

       

• Land Clearing

       

√ Manual

4

37.50

1

150.00

√ Chemical (Application)

1

35.00

1

35.00

• Ploughing

1

200.00

1

200.00

• Harrowing

1

100.00

1

100.00

II) PLANTING / SOWING

       

• Lining and Pegging + Sowing (Seeding)

1

350.00

1

350.00

III) WEED CONTROL

       

• Manual

1

100.00

1

100.00

• Chemicals

       

√ Post emergence

1

20.00

1

20.00

IV) FERTILIZER APPLICATION

       

• NPK

1

40.00

1

40.00

• Urea

1

20.00

1

20.00

V) PEST AND DISEASE CONTROL

       

• FAW / Blast

1

20.00

1

20.00

• Others (scaring of birds)

1

5.00

30

150.00

VI) HARVESTING

       

• Harvest

1

200.00

1

200.00

• Gather at central point

1

50.00

1

50.00

VII) POST HARVEST

       

• Threshing

1

200.00

2

400.00

• Drying

1

25.00

3

75.00

• Winnowing

1

80.00

1

80.00

• Bagging

32

2.50

1

80.00

INPUTS

QUANTITY

     

• Weedicides -selective

1

55.00

1

55.00

• Weedicides -non selective

1

16.00

1

16.00

• Pesticides/Fungicides

1

30.00

1

30.00

• Fertilizer

       

√ NPK (50Kg) (Subsidy)

1

84.00

1

84.00

√ Urea (Subsidy)

1

80.00

1

80.00

• Cutlass

1

25.00

1

25.00

• Plastic Sheets/Tarpaulin**

3

5.00

5

75.00

• Sacks

32

2.50

1

80.00

• Rope (Line )

1

10.00

1

10.00

• Knap sack**

1

15.00

5

75.00

• Wellington boots*

1

60.00

1

60.00

• Shovel

2

27.00

1

54.00

• Seed (Subsidy) 30kg+15kg

45

3.00

1

135.00

• Head pan

2

30.00

1

60.00

TOTAL EXPENDITURE

     

3,109.00

REVENUE

       

Number of bags harvested Acre (x)

1

32

1

32.00

Average weight of bag (size 4/84kg)

84kg

     

Price per bag (z)

1

130.00

1

130.00

Total Revenue (x.z )

     

4,160.00

Net Profit (Loss)

     

1,051.00

Return On Investment (R.O.I) (%)

     

33.81

*Depreciated Amount
**Hiring cost per season Crop Enterprise profitability Analysis on Rice for One acre of Farm Land. The data used for the analysis was collected in October 2020. Data was collected from selected rice farmers in the Hohoe Municipal and South Tongu district respectively using set of questionnaires.
*Two teams comprising of staff from the Agribusiness Unit and the Statistics Research and Information Directorate were formed to collect the data from the field.

 

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