Costs in Jatropha Plantation

Employment Generation and Costs in Jatropha Plantation
(Current currency rate 1US$ = Rs. 47.50)

S.No	Item	Cost (Rs.)		Employment in person days
		Year		Year
		Ist	IInd	Ist	IInd
1	Site preparation i.e. cleaning and levelling of field - 10 Man Days	600		10
2	Alignment and staking, 5 Man Days	300
3	Digging of pits (2500 Nos) of 30 Cm³ size @ 30 pits per Man Day, 50 Man Days	3,000		50
4	Cost of Manure (including transport) 2 Kg. per pits during 1st year (2 MT) 1 Kg. per pit during second year onwards @ Rs. 400/MT	2,000		20
5	Cost of fertilizer @ Rs. 6 per kg (50 gm. Per plant during 1st year and 25 gm from 2nd year onward and 2 Man Days for each application.	870	495	2	1
6	Mixing of Manure, insecticides fertilizers and refilling of pits @100 pits per Man Day 25 Man Days	1,500		25
7	Cost of plants (including carriage) 2500 Nos. during first year and 500 Nos. of plants during second year for replanting @ Rs. 4 per plant.	10,000	2,000	100	20
8	Planting and replanting cost 100 plants per Man Day.- 25 Man Days and 5 Man Days, respectively	1,500	300	25	5
9	Irrigation - 3 irrigation during 1st and one irrigation during 2nd year @ Rs. 500/- per irrigation.	1,500	500	5	2
10	Weeding and soil working 10 Man Days. x 2 times for 2 years	1,200	1,200	20	20
11	Plant protection measure	300		1
Sub total		22,770	4,495	263	48
Contingency (approx. 10% of the above)		2,230	505
Grand Total		25,000	5,000	263	48

Economics: Jatropha Fuel Farming

Assumptions For Cost/Benefit Analysis

Though Jatropha starts yielding from very first year, we have taken no yield for 1^st and 2^nd year just to ensure proper pruning and development of the plant
Crop density with 2mx2m pattern shall be 2500 plants per ha
Seeds tonnage per ha has been taken 0, 0, 2.5, 5.0, 6.25, 9.6 for 1, 2,3,4,5, and 6^th year respectively
Intercropping has been presumed for 30% of plantation area
CDM calculation has been taken as minimum for +1000 ha plantation
Sale price of seeds has been taken on lowest side
Rate of interest has been taken as 9% per annum for 5 years

MODEL 1: 20 ha JATROPHA - PLANTATION

*(in 5^th year)

With a 5000 kg seed at 4 year, irrigation and fertilizer investment, ca 1600 USD, yearly operating costs of 300 in year 4 and further, the costs of 1 kg seed are 0.14 USD/kg with project discount of 3 to 12 % (10 , 20 year), which requires the oil to cost 0.61 USD/kg with a extraction project discount factor of 9% (15 yrs)
With 8000 kg seed at 4 year, costs are 0.10 USD/kg seed and oil at 0.45 USD/kg (idem)