Coconut

Cost Of Cultivation

Cost of cultivation of coconut (One hectare)

Details	Tall (Rs.)	Hybrid (Rs.)
Establishment Cost First Year
Two ploughings with Tractor (Rs.130 x 5 hours)	650	650
Digging pits 3'x3'x3' 175 pits = 175 x 10	1,750	1,750
Transport of sand 6 loads 6 'A' Type/Load 6x60x15 + Transport Rs.600	6,000	6,000
Planting and watering 12 1/2 'A' type	750	750
Cost of seedlings Tall 175 x 20	3,500
Hybrid 175 x 25		4,375
Intercultural operations 2 ploughings (5 hours) 10 x 130	1,300	1,300
Cleaning Basins 10 'A' Type = 10 x 60	600	600
Cost of FYM 2 tons	1,000	1,000
CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS
Urea : 23 kg x 4.60	106	106
Super Phosphate : 35 kg x 3.05	107	107
Muriate of Potash : 35 kg x 4.30	151	151
Plant protection	500	500
Irrigation :	5,500	5,500
Miscellaneous	300	300
	22,214	23,089
Interest @ 14%	3,109	3,232
I st YEAR COST	25,323	26,321
Second Year
2 ploughings with Tractor 10 hours 10 x 130	1,300	1,300
Cleaning Basins 7 'A' Type x 60	420	420
Fertilizer
FYM 20 kg x 175 x 500	1,750	1,750
Urea 0.33 x 175 x 4.60	266	266
Super phosphate 0.50 x 175 x 3.05	267	267
Muriate of Potash 0.50 x 175 x 4.30	376	376
Plant protection	500	500
Irrigation	5,500	5,500
Miscellaneous	300	300
Ist Year Cost	25,323	26,321
Total	36,002	27,000
Interest @ 14%	5,040	5,180
Second year Grand Total	41,042	42,180
Third Year
2 Ploughing with Tractor 130 x 10	1,300	1,300
Cleaning Basins 7 'A' Type 7 x 60	420	420
MANURES AND FERTILIZERS
FYM 30 x 175 x 0.50	2,625	2,625
Urea 0.65x 175 x 4.60	523	523
Super phosphate 1.00 x 175 x 3.05	533	533
Muriate of potash 1.00 x 175 x 4.30	752	752
Plant protection	750	750
Irrigation	5,500	5,500
Miscellaneous	300	300
	12,703	12,703
Cost upto 2nd year	41,042	42,180
	53,745	54,883
Interest @ 14%	7,524	7,683
Total cost up to Third year	61,269	62,566
Fourth Year
2 Ploughing with Tractor 10 x 130	1,300	1,300
Cleaning Basins 10 'A' Type 10 x 60	600	600
FERTILIZERS
FYM 40 x 175 x 0.50	3,500	3,500
Urea 0.90x 175 x 4.60	725	725
Super phosphate 1.50 x 175 x 3.05	801	801
Muriate of potash 1.50 x 175 x 4.30	1,129	1,129
Collection of fronds etc.	3,600	3,600
Irrigation	5,500	5,500
Miscellaneous & Plant Protection	1,000	1,000
	18,155	18,155
Cost upto 3rd year	61,269	62,566
Total	79,424	80,721
Interest @ 14%	11,119	11,301
Total cost up to fourth year	90,543	92,022
Fifth Year
2 Ploughing with Tractor 10 x 130	1,300	1,300
Cleaning Basins 10 'A' Type 7 x 60	600	600
FERTILIZERS
FYM 50 x 175 x 0.50	4,375	4,375
Urea 1.30 x 175 x 4.60	1,047	1,047
Super phosphate 2.00 x 175 x 3.05	1,068	1,068
Muriate of potash 2.00 x 175 x 4.30	1,505	1,505
Collection of fronds etc.	3,600	3,600
Irrigation	5,500	5,500
Miscellaneous	500	500
Plant protection	500	500
Total	19,995	19,995
Cost upto fourth year	90,543	92,022
	1,10,538	1,12,017
Interest @ 14%	15,475	15,682
Total cost up to Fifth year	1,26,013	1,27,699
Sixth Year
Cost as on 5th Year	19,995
Cost upto 5th year	1,26,013
Total	1,46,008
Interest @ 14%	20,441
Cost up to 6th year	1,66,449
Seventh Year
Cost as on 6th year	19,995
Cost up to 6th year	1,66,449
Total	1,86,444
Interest @ 14%	26,102
Total cost upto Seventh year	2,12,546

Maintenance cost

Details	Tall from 8th year	Hybrid from 6th year
2 Ploughing with Tractor 10 x 130	1,300	1,300
Cleaning Basins and weeding	1,000	1,000
FERTILIZERS
FYM 50 x 175 x 0.50	4,375	3,375
Urea 1.30 x 175 x 4.60	1,047	1,047
Super phosphate 2.00 x 175 x 3.05	1,068	1,068
Muriate of potash 2.00 x 175 x 4.30	1,505	1,505
Collection of fronds and spathe etc.	3,600	3,600
Harvesting and transporting charges Rs.4/- tree 4 x 175 x 8	5,600	5,600
Irrigation	5,500	5,500
Plant protection	1,500	2,000
Miscellaneous	1,000	1,000
	27,495	27,995
Interest @ 14%	3,849	3,919
Total	31,344	31,914

Income (One hectare)

Details	Tall from 8th year	Hybrid from 6th year
Nut Yield
Tall 100 nuts/year/tree 100 x 175 x 2.50	43,750
Hybrids 125 nuts/year/tree 125 x 175 x 2.50		54,687
Income from fronds and other materials	2,000	2,000
Total	45,750	56,687

Note

In Hybrids (D x T) the palm yields more nuts from 6th year from planting.
Hence more income can be generated from D x T variety compared to tall variety.

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System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamilnadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.