Papaya

Economics

Cost of production of papaya fruits and papain per hectare for a period of 2 1/2 years

Raising Nursery	Rs
Raising Nursery	Rs
Cost of seed at 500 g per ha	1,000
Cost of polybags 10 kg per ha at Rs. 85 per kg	850
Cost of pot mixture 3250 polybags at 2 kg per bag and at Rs. 100 per tonne	750
Cost of filling and dibbling the seed 10 B type labourers	450
Watering charges for 30 days at Rs. 15/- per day	450
Preparatory cultivation
Ploughing the land thrice	1,875
Cost of pitting (3000 pits 45 cm cube, 100 A type labourers)	5,400
Filling the pits with sand, red earth and FYM 25 tonnes (Rs. 400) + 25 A type labourers + 25 B type labourers	10,000 1,350 1,125
Farming beds and channels and planting the seedlings - 25 A type labourers	1,350
After cultivation
Cost of weedings during the first six months and four earthings up during the next two years (125 B type and 200 A type labourers)	10,800 5,625
Irrigation
Pot watering for one month once in three days (25 B type labourers) and surface irrigations at 10 days intervals (excluding 8 rainy months) during the rest of 21 months (5 A types labourers per irrigation for 60 irrigations)	1,125 16,200
Cost of water including energy charges	1,875
Manures and manuring
Cost of fertilizers of NPK 300:300:300 g per tree (for the total crop period) to be given in six split applications (1942.5 kg of urea) (5635.0 kg of urea, of super phosphate and 1495.0 kg of muriate of potash)	6,798 16,905 22,425
Application charges (5A + 13B type labourers) per application for six applications)	270 585
Plant protection
Soil depending with copper oxy chloride 3 times during the crop period (11.25 kg fungicide @ Rs. 200 per kg)	2,250
Labour charges (15 B type labourers per application) Totally (45 B type)	2,430
Tapping papain
Lancing fruits (100 fruits per B type labourer in half-a-day) collection and drying of latex 1250 B type labourers for the crop duration)	56,250
Harvesting
Harvesting fruits from 10th month onwards for the next 20 months at 10 B type labourers per harvest for an average of 30 harvests and transporting the fruits to store	13,500
Sundrying
Charges towards thinning of male trees, cost of papain, collection of trays/containers and other sundrying	2,000
Total expenditure on cultivation	1,83,638
Receipts For production of fruits and papain
a. Revenue from sale of papain of 625 kg @ Rs. 300/kg	1,87,500
b. Income from sale of lanced fruits 200 tonnes @ Rs. 1500/tonne	3,00,000
Total income	4,87,500
Total expenditure	1,83,638
Net profit	3,03,862
Cost benefit ratio	1:2.65

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Papaya

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Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

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.