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Nursery Costs

 

 

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

  • 1.1 Overheads
  • 1.2 Growing Areas
  • 1.3 Types of Propagules
  • 1.3.1 The Cost of Seeds and Sowing
  • 1.3.2 The Cost of Cuttings
  • 1.3.3 The Cost of Micropropagated Propagules
  • 1.4 Stages in Growth
  • 1.5 Containers and Mixes
    • 1.5.1 The Cost of Containers and Mix for Propagules for the Establishment Stage (Stage I)
    • 1.5.2 The Cost of Containers and Mix for Plants for the First Tramsplant Stage (Stage II)
    • 1.5.3 The Cost of Containers and Mix for Plants for the Second Transplant Stage (Stage III)
  • 1.6 Labour
  • 1.7 Losses
  • 1.8 Overview of Methods of Cost Analyses

Chapter 2: Costs in Wholesale Nurseries: Simple-Structured

  • 2.1 Overheads
  • 2.2 Growing Areas
  • 2.3 Components in Cost of Production in the Greenhouse
    • Format for Calculating the Cost of Production of Seed-Propagated Plant
  • 2.4 Constructing a Table of Costs of Production for Stage-III Plants
  • 2.5 Summary

Chapter 3: Determination of Growing Areas and of the Time used and the Distrubution of Overheads

  • 3.1 Overheads, Growing Areas and Occupancy
  • 3.2 Overheads, Growing Areas and Occupancy in a Nursery with a Retail Outlet as Well as a Greenhouse, a Shadhouse and a Field for Wholesale
  • 3.3 Overheads, Growing Areas and Occupancy in a Nursery with Differences within One or More of its Main Sections
  • 3.4 Distinguishing between Direct and Indirect Labour

Chapter 4: The Effect of Various Factors on Cost of Production of Seed-Derived Plants

  • 4.1 Overhead Profile
  • 4.2 The Effect of Inaccuracies in an Overhead Profile
  • 4.3 The Effect of Losses on the Cost of Production
  • 4.4 The Effect of Different Spacings of Containers on the Cost of Production of Plants
  • 4.5 The Effect of Different Container Sized and Spacings on the Cost of Production of Plants

Chapter 5: The Effect of Various Factors on Cost of Production of Cutting-Derived Plants

  • 5.1 Effect of Cost of Cuttings on Production Cost of Plants
  • 5.2 Effect of Losses of Cuttings in the Establishment Stage (Stage-I) on Production Costs of Plants at the End of Stages-I, -II and -III
  • 5.3 What if One of the Growing Stages were Omitted?
  • 5.4 What if twice as many cuttings were placed in each seed-tray, and what if the potting mix costs were halved?
  • 5.5 What if it had been planned to sell plants in 140mm pots after 8 weeks growth in Stage-III but they did not sell until 8 weeks later?
  • 5.6 Calculating the merits of growing plants in smaller pots

Chapter 6: The effect of various factors on cost of production of Micropropagation-derived Plants

  • 6.1 The format for cost of production of plants from Micropropagated material
  • 6.2 The effect of initial cost of cultures on the cost of production of plants
  • 6.3 The effect of losses in the establishment stage on the cost of production of plants at the end of each of Stages-I, -II and -III.
  • 6.4 The effect of dividing cultures either at the time of de-flasking or at the end of the establishment stage or at both times into more than one "Unit" per culture
  • 6.5 The effect of de-flasking rates on cost of production of plants at the end of Stages-I, -II and -III

Chapter 7: Conclusion

  • 7.1 Step-by-Step Procedures in Calculating the Cost of Production of Plants
  • 7.2 Decreasing the Cost of Production of Plants
    • Overheads and Occupancy
    • Plant Losses
    • Container Sizes and Spacings
    • Cost of Propagules
    • Delays in Selling Plants
  • 7.3 Take-Home Lessons