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Table 4. Comparison of levels of inputs and outputs and <strong>the</strong> crop budget for <strong>the</strong> first rice crop<br />

of adopters and nonadopters.<br />

Inputs<br />

seeda<br />

Fertilizer cost<br />

Agrochemical cost 0<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r costs<br />

~abor~<br />

Nursery preparation<br />

Land preparation<br />

Planting<br />

Weeding<br />

Fertilizin:<br />

Pest and disease control<br />

Water management<br />

Hal-\.resting<br />

Hauling to threshing floor<br />

Threshing and wiru~owing<br />

(Total labor)<br />

Yield (kgld<br />

Total cost'<br />

Gross income"<br />

Net income"<br />

Adopter Nonadopter<br />

Physical Values Physical Values<br />

quantitieslha SLRIha quailtitieslha SLRIha<br />

days<br />

8.0<br />

66.3<br />

43.1<br />

31.3<br />

2.8<br />

0.8<br />

25.4<br />

42.7<br />

31.3<br />

25.3<br />

(267.0)<br />

3.860<br />

days<br />

15.4<br />

84.4<br />

44.4<br />

17.3<br />

1.4<br />

0.6<br />

19.6<br />

41.5<br />

23.6<br />

25.4<br />

(276.6)<br />

3,508<br />

"seed price of rice SLR7.18lkg. b~ipnifican<br />

at IOW level "Labor cost SLR6Oiday.<br />

'significant at 15 70 level. 'Co~nputed horn samplc means and not tested for statistical<br />

significance of differences.<br />

*<br />

*Pp<br />

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