Comparative study on return on investment of pineapple plantation | เธเธฒเธฃเธจเธถเธเธฉเธฒเนเธเธฃเธตเธขเธเนเธเธตเธขเธเธเธฅเธเธญเธเนเธเธเธเธฒเธเธเธฒเธฃเธฅเธเธเธธเธเธเธฅเธนเธเธชเธฑเธเธเธฐเธฃเธ
2007
Surached Limkanjanawat(Kasetsart University. Bangkhen Campus, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agro-Industry. Dept of Agro-Industry Technology Management) E-mail:[email protected] | Parthana Parthanadee(Kasetsart University. Bangkhen Campus, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agro-Industry. Dept. of Agro-Industry Technology Management) | Ravipim Chaveesuk(Kasetsart University. Bangkhen Campus, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agro-Industry. Dept. of Agro-Industry Technology Management) | Thananya Wasusri(King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok (Thailand). Graduate School of Management and Innovation. Logistics Management Programme) | Charoenchai Khompatraporn(King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Engineering. Department of Industrial Engineering)
Thailand is the world's leader in canned pineapple production and exporting, amongst several competitors. It is therefore crucial for our country to improve our production performance in both quantity and quality aspects, in order to remain competitive in the world's market. From our research study, we found that one of the major problems in Thai pineapple production is the investment in plantation, which can be classified into two patterns. In the eastern part of the country, the farmers would plant and harvest the pineapples every crop year, whereas the farmers in the western part and the southern part would plant the pineapple suckers once and then harvest the fruits for three years. Herein, we were interested in conducting a study to derive the costs of pineapple production and compare the return on investment from three patterns of pineapple harvesting, including one crop-year harvesting, two crop-year harvesting and three crop-year harvesting, based on the net present values (NPV) obtained from six-year production. In this study, we collected data from seventy-eight farmers in Prachuap Khiri Khan, the province with the largest pineapple planting area. The study result revealed that the average pineapple production cost was 3.66 baht per kilogram. The highest portions of the costs were from suckers and fertilizers. Furthermore, we found that the one crop-year harvesting would provide the highest return of 28,392.86 baht per Rai (or 1,600 square meters), on the NPV basis.
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