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- Title
A COMPARISON OF ENGINEERING ECONOMY OF POPLAR PLANTATION WITH CULTIVATION OF SOME AGRICULTURAL CROPS.
- Authors
Kashkoli, A. Bayat; Bahrami, S.
- Abstract
Wood and paper industries needed to plantation timbers including poplar timbers even in countries with forest resources. Discouragement of planate poplar distinguishes by the comparison of engineering economy of poplar plantation with cultivation of some agricultural crops. The main question is whether; do poplar cultivation is economic in compared to with some agricultural crops? The methodology of research was analytical and approximate. The research question was tested by forecasting and engineering economy techniques. The results of the research indicate that the error percent of forecast for equaling the cash flow is insignificant. During the whole period of the study, agricultural crops have risked and their cultivation suffered loss for minimum one year. Approximately, select of poplar plantation is similar to farming of some crops economically. But the present worth and equal uniform cash flow (loss or benefit account) of poplar plantation was more than other crops. The rate of return (27.2% in price break even point for 15 years) profound effected by undervalue price and volume unreal estimate of poplar timber profound effect and the reason of discouragement of poplar plantation. Poplar plantation in the case of short period (12 years) is economic. Also it will be economic in longer periods if the purchase price becomes fair. But farmers have problem of earning his annual livelihood in short term yield period. Engineering economy assessment indicates that poplar plantation can be a replace for cultivation of some agricultural crops in typical regions and also it can not be a replace in other regions.
- Subjects
POPLAR industry; WOOD; PAPER industry; TIMBER; CROPS; ECONOMIC forecasting; ENGINEERING economy; NATURAL resources; FOREST economics; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2010, Vol 8, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
1312-1723
- Publication type
Article