A Database for Calculating Cost and Profit of Cropping Systems

Abstract

Cropping systems are crop production systems that allow cultivation of more than one crop on the same land in one year. Major cropping systems include crop sequencing, intercropping, and relay cropping. Farmers can have choices among one or more systems and thos ewho are experienced may be able to calculate cost and profit from individual system. To help Thai farmers; decision making, the Department of Agronomy, Kasetsart University has developed 'A Database for Caluclating Cost and Profit of Cropping Systems', in Thai language menu. The program comprises databases of input cost (bath/rai), crop price (baht/kg), average yield (kg/rai), and cropping duration (day). the calculation and result presentation parts display cost, profit, and cropping duration of the system. The farmer can compare between different cropping systems in terms of either net profit or profit per day.