Table 1.
Average Farm Budget Structure among Smallholder Rice Farmers (in TZS per acre).
| AMCOS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budget Items | Kapunga | Madibira | UWAWAKUDA | Overall |
| Income from paddy | 1120821.32 | 1109510.64 | 1247351.80 | 1142378.71 |
| Income from milled rice | 238519.13 | 244498.25 | 118901.13 | 215252.03 |
| Income from rice bran | 0.00 | 33.76 | 0.00 | 20.68 |
| Income from broken rice | 1892.45 | 3524.36 | 527.13 | 2584.73 |
| Total Revenue(TR) | 1361232.90 | 1357567.02 | 1366780.07 | 1360236.15 |
| Ploughing cost | 54790.32 | 61064.10 | 45011.63 | 56431.94 |
| Harrowing cost | 56516.13 | 59645.30 | 42976.74 | 55384.82 |
| Cost of borrowing land | 81225.81 | 99572.65 | 0.00 | 74178.01 |
| Cost of seeds | 38915.32 | 43162.45 | 39413.36 | 41629.09 |
| Cost of Planting fertilizer | 61426.08 | 25594.53 | 65517.44 | 40398.00 |
| Cost of topdressing fertilizer | 97125.84 | 106429.16 | 79477.91 | 98851.64 |
| Cost of Insecticides | 3088.71 | 137.18 | 6216.28 | 1984.82 |
| Cost of Herbicides | 16445.48 | 13563.95 | 16118.60 | 14606.76 |
| Cost of pesticides | 4125.16 | 845.64 | 4953.49 | 2302.72 |
| Harvesting | 130451.61 | 131854.70 | 74534.88 | 118722.51 |
| Transport | 49653.23 | 59215.81 | 47372.09 | 54997.38 |
| Storage | 36911.29 | 17128.21 | 26831.40 | 22523.56 |
| Cost of Sacks | 25567.42 | 23333.85 | 22050.00 | 23407.33 |
| Total Intermediate Costs (TIC) | 656242.40 | 641547.53 | 470473.83 | 605418.58 |
| Nursery preparation | 13951.61 | 11345.30 | 20546.51 | 13839.79 |
| Transplanting | 70496.77 | 84318.80 | 101279.07 | 85893.72 |
| Planting Fertilizer application | 4474.19 | 2034.19 | 5825.58 | 3283.77 |
| Top Dressing application | 6277.42 | 6239.32 | 5488.37 | 6076.44 |
| Herbicide application | 5370.97 | 5989.32 | 5372.09 | 5750.00 |
| Pesticide application | 2903.23 | 641.03 | 2744.19 | 1481.68 |
| Insecticide application | 1000.00 | 123.93 | 1872.09 | 659.69 |
| Weeding | 47677.42 | 43585.47 | 47406.98 | 45109.95 |
| Bird scaring | 967.74 | 45017.09 | 88081.40 | 47562.83 |
| Irrigation labor | 548.39 | 504.27 | 1744.19 | 790.58 |
| Loading and offloading | 14483.87 | 14497.86 | 12936.05 | 14143.98 |
| Drying labor | 15941.94 | 22793.59 | 17867.44 | 20572.51 |
| Levelling labor | 4774.19 | 9307.69 | 0.00 | 6476.44 |
| Total Labor Costs (TLC) | 256879.03 | 250581.20 | 253889.53 | 252348.17 |
| Total Variable Cost (TVC) | 913121.44 | 892128.72 | 724363.36 | 857766.75 |
| Gross Margin (GM) | 448111.47 | 465438.30 | 642416.72 | 502469.40 |
| Cost of renting land | 0.00 | 70000.00 | 50000.00 | 54136.13 |
| Irrigation cost | 34000.00 | 78800.00 | 68000.00 | 69097.38 |
| Total Fixed Costs (TFC) | 34000.00 | 148800.00 | 118000.00 | 123233.51 |
| Total Costs (TC) | 947121.43 | 1040928.72 | 842363.36 | 981000.26 |
| Net Profit (NP) | 414111.47 | 316638.29 | 524416.71 | 379235.89 |
| Profit Margin (PM) % | 27.18 | 19.23 | 35.21 | 24.12 |
| Raturn On Investment (ROI) | 0.47 | 0.33 | 0.64 | 0.42 |
| Operating Expenses Ratio (OER) | 0.70 | 0.69 | 0.56 | 0.66 |
| Benefit To Cost Ratio (BCR) | 1.47 | 1.33 | 1.64 | 1.42 |
| Break-even yield | 1990.54 | 2248.52 | 1513.05 | 2035.91 |
| Break-even price | 354.61 | 378.17 | 364.65 | 371.31 |