 | Better Farming Series 10 - The Farm Business Survey (FAO - INADES, 1976, 38 p.) |
 |  | Part 2 - The farm business survey |
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How to reckon receipts
The receipts are the money a farmer gets for selling his produce.
Mamadou is a farmer who grows:
0.8 ha of cotton
0.5 ha of
groundnuts
0.6 ha of millet
0.4 ha of rice
He weighs all his harvests.
He has harvested;
640 kg
cotton
450 kg of groundnuts
420 kg of millet
360 kg of rice
He
keeps, to feed his family:
100 kg of groundnuts
360 kg of millet
150
kg of rice
He sells:
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640 kg of cotton at 28 F: 28 x 640 |
= 17 920 l |
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350 kg of groundnuts at 17 F: 17 x 350 |
= 5 950 l |
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60 kg of millet at 15 F: 15 x 60 |
= 900 l |
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210 kg of rice at 20 F: 20 x 210 |
= 4 200 l |
So the farmer's receipts are:
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cotton |
17 920 |
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groundnuts |
5 950 |
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millet |
900 |
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rice4 |
200 |
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28 970 francs |
But the farmer has perhaps sold other things besides his harvests. Perhaps he has sold an ox or a calf, some sheep, chickens, or eggs. Perhaps he sold some okra, pimentoes or tomatoes.
All the other products sold must be added in order to get the farmer's total receipts.
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