Agronomy journal, Vol. 69 No. 3, 2007.
Conference paper
MECHANIZATION COSTS IN FRUIT PRODUCTION
Z. Grgić
Branka Šakić Bobić
Vesna Očić
Abstract
The modern fruit-growing production requires investments in specialized mechanization varying from 327,000 to 397,000 kn, which makes from 33.65 to 39.12 % of total investments in recommended, economy sustainable models of fruit-growing production in our conditions (3-5 ha). Mechanization share in total work cost is from 10.70 to 16.29 %, and in the total working hours from 8.17 to 14.23 %. The prices of working hour for mechanization in 1 ha orchards are from 300.54 to 399.76 kn, while the same prices for the 5 ha orchards are from 101.04 to 120.89 kn. The total mechanization cost for 1 ha orchard is from 24,784 to 37,289 kn, while the cost for the 5 ha orchard is from 18,719 t0 26,835 kn. With increasing orchard size the mechanization costs decrease, and mechanization partial economy coefficient increases more than 3 times (from 3.5 to 3.8 times) for the 5 ha orchard in comparison with 1 ha orchard size. Work efficiency indicators are from 10.2 to 17.6 % higher for bigger areas.
Keywords
orchard; mechanization; costs; investments
Hrčak ID:
18197
URI
Publication date:
20.6.2007.
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