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    This document provides a budget for an organic sweet potato farm with the following information: 1) It lists the inputs, costs, yields, and sales for a 37,000 vine sweet potato crop on 30 tonnes per hectare of land. 2) Total costs of $2,120 include labor, fuel, fertilizers, biopesticides, and yields a gross income of $18,000. 3) The net income is calculated to be $15,880. It also notes that the land should not have had chemicals applied for 5 years to avoid residuals.

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    This document provides a budget for an organic sweet potato farm with the following information: 1) It lists the inputs, costs, yields, and sales for a 37,000 vine sweet potato crop on 30 tonnes per hectare of land. 2) Total costs of $2,120 include labor, fuel, fertilizers, biopesticides, and yields a gross income of $18,000. 3) The net income is calculated to be $15,880. It also notes that the land should not have had chemicals applied for 5 years to avoid residuals.

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    Organic Sweet Potato Budget

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    This document provides a budget for an organic sweet potato farm with the following information: 1) It lists the inputs, costs, yields, and sales for a 37,000 vine sweet potato crop on 30 tonnes per hectare of land. 2) Total costs of $2,120 include labor, fuel, fertilizers, biopesticides, and yields a gross income of $18,000. 3) The net income is calculated to be $15,880. It also notes that the land should not have had chemicals applied for 5 years to avoid residuals.

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    Input Quantity Unit cost Total cost Yield/ha Selling price Gross

    description income
    Vines 37000 5 $1850 30 0.60/kg $18 000
    cents/cutting tonnes/ha
    Fertilisers
    Aquafert G $6/ 5 litres $12
    Black gold $10/ 60 litres $20
    Labour
    planting 10 man days $2 $20
    weeding 30 man days $2 $60
    Fertilizer 5 man days $2 $10
    application
    harvesting 30 man days $2 $60

    Fuel 30 litres 0.90 27


    ploughing
    Discing 15 litres 0.90 13.50
    Ridging 10 litres 0.90 9.00

    Bio
    pesticides
    Weevils replenisher $10/250g 20
    control
    Nematodes bionematicide $16/200ml 80

    Grand Total $2120


    Net income $15.880

    Organic sweet potato budget in US$

    Please note that the field you establish your crop should not be have been grown a crop where was
    chemical fertilizer and pesticide were applied for the past 5 years to avoid chemical residual effect
    preferably a virgin land is suitable.

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