An economic evaluation of smallholder farmers' use of the fungicide chlorothalonil (Daconil 2787 W-75) on groundnuts in Lilongwe Agricultural Development Division, Malawi
1989
Mwenda, A.R.E. | Cusack, T.J.
The economic benefits of spraying Chalimbana and Chitembana groundnuts with chlorothalonil were estimated for 11 small-holder farmers during the 1986/87 season. A partial budget analysis showed that only one farmer obtained an acceptable rate of return on investment in the technology and that the yield response to the technology at 1986/87 prices was, on average, insufficient to cover the cost of the technology. These results were then related to other research studies with chlorothalonil on farmers' fields and at Chitedze Research Station over 17 previous seasons, to predict the future viability of the technology at 1987/88 prices, or under other future conditions. The results showed that, averaged over all commercially oriented farmers and over all years, farmers were not able to recover the costs of the technology at 1987/88 prices inspite of the excellent control of foliar fungal diseases achieved by using this fungicide
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