Business management in rice farms using hand tractors

Date

1966

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

College

College of Agriculture and Food Science (CAFS)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Quintana, Emilio U.

Co-adviser

Deomampo, Narciso R.

Committee Member

Mariano, Eusebio P.

Abstract

Fifty lowland rice farmers, 25 from the Bay-Calauanarea (34 hand tractors) and 25 from the Sta. Cruz area (26 hand tractors) were operated under share-crop tenancy. Average farm size was 4.7 hectares. Rate of production was 65 cavans per hectare. For the wet reason, FB76 reported the highest average yield of 78 cavans while for the dry season, Intan reported the highest average yield of 82 cavans. Capital investment per hectare amounted to P8,918.00 seventy percent of which was owned by the landowner. Man-labor utilization average 72 days per hectare mostly supplied by hired labor. Higher labor requirement was observed to be concentrated in transplanting, weeding, harvesting and threshing operations. Cost of production amounted to P1,021 per hectare and P15 per cavan. Value of palay produces averaged P1,140 per hectare and P17 per cavan. Net gain per cavan was P2. Peak months of tractor use were June and November while farmers in the Sta. Cruz area had more use for the machine in May and Septemeber. Rotovating. Plowing and harrowing were the operations where the tractors were used. Expenditures for operating the tractor were P1,426 for Bay-Calauan farm and P953 for the Sta. Cruz farm. Likewise, returns per tractor were also highest in Sta. Cruz with a reported gross of P1,749 as compared to the other municipalities which reported a gross earning of P1,226. Partial budget for the use of hand tractors instead of carabao had an estimated gain of P514.19. There was an increase in the rate of production per hectare from 52 cavans in carabao-cultivated farms to 65 cavans from hand tractor-cultivated farms. Direct relationship existed between net income per hectare and farm size and the size of the tractor used. This relationships suggest that mechanization of larger farms will generate more profit and cost of operating the tractor can be lowered per hectare. The average price of hand tractors directly with the horsepower. The range in the increase in price of tractor from cash to instalment basis, within the size of tractor was 11 to 30 percent. Area served by the tractor varied directly with the size of the tractor. Tractors with an average size of below ? 3.5 horsepower served an area of 17 hectares while tractors of 3.6 ? 4.5 served 21 hectares. The area served increased further to 27 hectares for tractors of 4.6 horsepower and above. The area served by the tractor on the operator?s farm was only one-fifth of the area served off-farm.

Language

English

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

Call Number

LG 993.5 1966 A14 A38

Document Type

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