12/03/2019
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR TOMATOES-ONE ACRE
Production and Marketing Cost
1. Land rent; 120,000
2. Land Clearing; 100,000
3. Ploughing; 120,000
4. Harrowing; 120,000
5. Seed-Padma F1, 70g per acre, 10g sold at 70,000 Ugx; 490,000
6. Nursery Bed -water, shade, management; 100,000
7. Ridging; 120,000
8. DAP fertilizer; 150,000
9. Transplanting (making holes, planting , watering, mulching, fertilizer application) 200,000
10. Weeding-Two times; 240,000
11. Fungicide-Mancozeb and Metalaxyl-Plus labour application; 98,000
12. Fertilizer-NPK-50kgs-Plus labour for application ( granualr) ; 200,000
13. Insects-Insecticide 2 l x36,000 + labour for application; 122,000
14. Mulching ( grass and labour); 80,000
15. Staking (16,000 plants will require 16,000 sticks and 16,000 strings); 640,000
16. Harvesting; 200,000
17. Transport from garden to store; 200,000
18. Market Search; 250,000
19. Packaging Material-Wooden Boxes-20pcs; 600,000
20. Transport to Market; 300,000
21. Supervision and Administration; 300,000
Total Production and Marketing Costs; 4,750,000
At a Spacing of 60x 60 cm, Number of Tomato plants in an acre=10,000
10% to Pest and Disease=1,000
Healthy and Productive Plants=9,000
Yield (Padma F1 plant can give up to 2 kgs)=18,000
Yield (In Boxes of 100 Kgs)=180
Revenue (Yield in boxes X Market Price-150,000 ugx) =27M
Net profit; 22,250,000
