Software to determine the production costs of seasonal crops in the central coastal areas of Peru

Abstract

The main objectives were: to program a software to calculate the costs of seasonal
crop production per hectare; to create a database of inputs, written and verbal
agriculture technical information for the central coastal areas, and to validate the
software surveyed in a user satisfaction tested to students and academic staff involved
into agriculture. It allow users to determine the sowing rate per hectare, number of
fertilizer bags according to NPK formulas, the current input costs, investment costs
and profitability in one cropping hectare. The software considered the income, user
password, initial presentation, general information to register a crop, record of specific
data defined by agriculture tasks, review, correction or adding data from direct and
indirect costs, economic analysis, rate of return, final report in local currency (soles)
or dollars, and printing the sheet production costs per hectare. It was concluded that
98 % of respondents said that the software was friendly and 84 %, it was a successful
program to fill the needs of users engaged in agriculture. The software is friendly, easy
to use and provides adequate support to users