AAPRESID INTERNATIONAL & INTA BALCARCE AGREEMENT

ONLINE ECONOMIC CALCULATOR FOR THE APPLICATION OF TREATMENTS IN CROPS - AFRICAN VERSION

P.E. Abbate (INTA Balcarce, Argentina; abbate.pablo@gmail.com)
J.P. Edwards Molina (INTA Balcarce, Argentina; edwardsmolina@gmail.com)
N. Bronzovich (AAPRESID Internacional, Argentina; nbronzovich@hotmail.com)



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This website was developed within the framework of the agreement between INTA Balcarce (National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Balcarce Agricultural Experimental Station; Buenos Aires, Argentine) and the International Program of AAPRESID (Argentine No-till Farmers Association) with the goal of promoting conservation agriculture in Africa.

The website allows you to simultaneously calculate the cost of crop treatments that include up to four product applications. The range of treatments that can be evaluated with this website is very wide, including sanitary treatments for the control of weeds, diseases and insects (such as Spodoptera frugiperda, the fall armyworm), the application of fertilizers, growth regulators and stimulators or other products. A description of this website can be found at Abbate, Edwards Molina, Bronzovich (2022).

The calculation considers the variable expenses, the cost of each applied product, the cost of each application and the eventual loss of yield due to crop damage in each application. The initial data is just an example calculation.

This website uses the International System of Units. To use other units please see the "Notes on units".







If the calculated total cost (expressed in $/ha, kg/ha or in the units chosen when entering the data) exceeds the expected increase in income (expressed in the same units as the total cost), the treatment is not economically convenient.