Agriculture and Environment Statistics Division
Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka.
 

Cost of Production of coconut per 1,000 nuts, 2001/02 to 2006/07

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Item   2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07
(i) General charges              

(a) Salaries, wages and allowances of superintendents, kanganies and watchers, etc

  1,268.18 1,460.13 1,530.03 1,745.20 1,939.29 1,839.49
               
(ii) Building and equipments              

(a) Up-keep and maintenance

  118.70 151.15 248.43 169.84 188.02 314.75

(b) Maintainance of tools and implements

  16.96 30.04 74.87 19.20 34.13 70.19
               
(iii) Transport-up-keep of vehicles, carts and bulls   140.02 167.53 226.07 173.82 174.00 256.27
               
(iv) Services and charges              

(a) Medical aid, maternity benefits, gratuities and holiday pay to labours

  32.33 47.82 42.41 61.29 47.25 17.96

(b) Other (insurance, local taxes, etc.)

  46.13 71.21 69.60 117.62 114.43 89.88

(c) Contributions to e.p.f. (national)

  270.15 299.59 127.53 282.95 364.84 209.70
               
(v) Up-keep and maintenance              

(a) Clearing boundaries, weeding and removal of palms and other field work

  365.52 416.23 388.77 479.18 691.74 718.81

(b) Control of pests and diseases and clearing of ant-hills

  15.75 42.60 46.02 39.47 29.61 40.73

(c) Drains and draining

  11.10 30.78 30.79 36.15 38.62 66.08

(d) Other

  18.43 31.36 26.29 22.99 38.18 30.13
               
(vi) Cultivation              

(a) Artificial manuring (cost of manure and application)

  681.99 827.26 1,217.37 972.34 1,118.75 1,643.26

(b) Cattle manuring

  2.61 5.51 14.17 26.31 16.80 25.04

(c) Other (ploughing and harrowing)

  11.22 19.15 97.65 23.04 26.60 73.88
               
(vii) Crop works              

(a) Plucking-wages and allowances to labourers

  345.64 290.08 326.88 366.24 356.94 413.37

(b) Collecting, transporting and counting-wages and allowances to labourers.

  239.50 244.23 307.40 334.16 256.63 314.17
               
Cost of production per 1,000 nuts
  3,584.23 4,134.67 4,774.28 4,869.80 5,435.83 6,123.71
               
  Agriculture and Environmental Statistics Division
Department of Census and Statistics, Colombo, Sri Lanka.