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Table 2. Comparison of investment costs, yield, income and profit for plant and first ratoon cane in sugarcane IPM and farmers' plots at
Suphanburi and Cholburi, 1985/1986.
Suphanburi
Plant cane
Cholburi
1 st. rateci cane Plant cane
(var. Chinat
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1)
st. ratoon cane
y(var. T140) (var. F156)
IPM plot
(var. F140)
Farmer's plot IPM plot Farmer's plot IPM plot Farmer's plot IPM plot Farmer's plot
Costs (USS/ha)
Insecticide ­ 33.41 5.77 78.36 44.95
Disease controla
38.46
128.36 _
- - 137.26 -
Herbicide 35.34 17.55 -<
Weeding 29.33 33.17 7.93 4.81
Fertilizer
57.69 57.69
74.52 54.81
84.13
65.14
84.13
35.58 126.44
Other
75.00 86.06 57.69
b
705.29 625.24 361.78 312.50 847.35 773.08 312.74 255.77
Total costs 972.84 730.77 468.26 358.66 1247.10
Yield (tons/ha)
950.72
85.69
521.39
63.75
397.59
66.31
>
55.12
61.87
IncomeF
53.81
(USS)
41.69
1219.37
30.94
907.16 943.59 784.36 880.41
Profit
765.72
(USS)
593.25
245.53
440.28
176.39
7.
475.33
aCosts included
425.70
fungidide triadimefon
-366.69
and hot water
-185.00
treatment;
71.86
bCosts for land
42.69
rent, land preparation, seed pieces, cutting, planting, pesticide
application, general labor, harvesting, loading and trucking; c Value of the yield at a price of USS 14.23/ton.
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