Improving Kenya's Domestic Horticultural Production and Marketing
Improving Kenya's Domestic Horticultural Production and Marketing
Improving Kenya's Domestic Horticultural Production and Marketing
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Table C.2 : Onion Budgets (Per One Acre) for Oloitoktok in Kenya<br />
<strong>Production</strong> Items Specifications Actual costs (in % Cost of TVC<br />
Kshs)<br />
Number of basins per acre 300<br />
L<strong>and</strong><br />
Nursery operations<br />
Own l<strong>and</strong> 0<br />
Ploughing <strong>and</strong> preparation 30 basins@30 900 2.09<br />
Seed 2.5kg @2500 6250 14.50<br />
Polytrin 2 litres@1600 3200 7.42<br />
spraying labour<br />
Main field<br />
100 per spray; 4 times 400 0.93<br />
Ploughing Once @2000 2000 4.64<br />
Making of basins & furrows 300 @ 6 per basin 1800 4.18<br />
Lines for seed placement 2 per basin * 300 600 1.39<br />
Planting 6 per basin *300 1800 4.18<br />
Chemicals<br />
Polytrin 1400 3.25<br />
Fungicide 2100 4.87<br />
Foliar feed 750 1.74<br />
Spraying labour 600 ; 4 times 2400 5.57<br />
Fertilizer<br />
CAN 4 bags @1200 4800 11.14<br />
SA 3 bags @1100 3300 7.66<br />
Weeding 3 times @6/basin 5400 12.53<br />
Harvesting<br />
Uprooting @ 10/basin 3000 6.96<br />
Cutting @ 10/basin 3000 6.96<br />
Total variable cost 43100 100.00<br />
Yield (bags) 85<br />
Price/bag 1447<br />
Gross output 122995<br />
Gross Margin/acre 79895<br />
Cost per bag 507.06<br />
Gross Margin/bag<br />
Source: Authors’ Computation<br />
939.94<br />
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