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Crop losses and their economic implications due to growing of Eucalyptus on field bunds — a pilot study

Crop losses and their economic implications due to growing of Eucalyptus on field bunds — a pilot... The paper presents evidence, collected mainly through interviews with farmers in north-west India, regarding crop losses suffered by the farmers planting Eucalyptus on farm bunds. Farmers experienced that the crop remained weak in a width of strip measuring 2 to 10 metres next to the tree line. These losses drastically reduced the profits farmers were expecting from the sale of trees. The average B-C Ratio at 15% discount rate would have been 9.2 without these losses, but came down to just about 2, when crop losses were taken into account. The reduced profit margin was not perceived to be sufficiently high to cover risk of production and of fluctuating output prices, and therefore none of the farmers replanted Eucalyptus after sale. Many even uprooted the coppice roots and went back to annual cropping. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agroforestry Systems Springer Journals

Crop losses and their economic implications due to growing of Eucalyptus on field bunds — a pilot study

Agroforestry Systems , Volume 16 (3) – May 18, 2004

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
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Subject
Life Sciences; Forestry; Agriculture
ISSN
0167-4366
eISSN
1572-9680
DOI
10.1007/BF00119320
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Abstract

The paper presents evidence, collected mainly through interviews with farmers in north-west India, regarding crop losses suffered by the farmers planting Eucalyptus on farm bunds. Farmers experienced that the crop remained weak in a width of strip measuring 2 to 10 metres next to the tree line. These losses drastically reduced the profits farmers were expecting from the sale of trees. The average B-C Ratio at 15% discount rate would have been 9.2 without these losses, but came down to just about 2, when crop losses were taken into account. The reduced profit margin was not perceived to be sufficiently high to cover risk of production and of fluctuating output prices, and therefore none of the farmers replanted Eucalyptus after sale. Many even uprooted the coppice roots and went back to annual cropping.

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Agroforestry SystemsSpringer Journals

Published: May 18, 2004

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